Fairy Tail: Eien no bōken o kakinaosu
Chapter 2: Fire Dragon, Cat, Monkey, and Bull
Update 2024: Changing up the story a bit, adding more detail than before. Introducing Setsuko, Shiro, and Aspen.
"Lucy's POV"
While Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Lisanna were heading to the Fairy Tail Guild, in the town on Era, a large town, (built around a high, rocky mountain). The mountain nested the headquarters of the highest authority in the world of magic, the Magic Council. The rocky mountain was in the heart of the city and features a jagged pathway that encircles the mountain's circumference as an entrance into the Council headquarters. The town is surrounded by forestry and snow-peaked mountains, which can be seen from the Magic Council headquarters' meeting room. The building's appearance is that of an imposing palace, composed of both pure white stone and light blue bricks, with large, elongated windows with arched tops being placed over its walls, some complete with glass, others hollow. The front part is a large facade, dominated in its center by the entrance, consisting of a double door topped by a pyramid-shaped roof, adorned by a bas-relief portraying a naked male figure taking the hand of a naked female figure, with a large shell being placed behind them. The roof is sustained by two massive, rectangular structures, plus a smaller pair of columns directly at the door's sides. Leading to the door was a staircase, split in two by a concave part in its center. At the entrance's sides, linking it to a pair of simple, rectangular towers, were two colonnades. Towering above the entrance were three balconies, with their lower parts partially hidden by the entrance itself; the central one was topped by a roof similar to the one topping the entrance, similarly adorned by a bas-relief, this one portraying the Council's ankh-like symbol, while the side ones were less imposing, consisting just of large, rectangular windows complete with light blue curtains. Sitting at the outer balconies' sides were two imposing, rectangular towers covered in hollow windows, with pitched roofs consisting of light blue tiles, and sections protruding outwards in the central part of each of them. Two more, similar towers were visible on the backsides of the building. In the building's center, surrounded by those four towers, was a round one, with its conical, tiled roof topped by a high, slender, golden decorative structure, extending several meters up in the air, and having curved protrusions jutting outwards from it.
Inside one of the rooms, the members of the Magic Council were discussing the events of yesterday. They each stood from one another, on top of a large light blue magic circle with their own magic circles they stood on top of.
"Those idiots from Fairy Tal have gone and done it again." spoke one of the seven members, a short old man with brown hair and a mustache. His tufts of hair resemble ears and a light-yellow tail gives him a cat-like appearance. Like the others around him, he wore a layered robe that belonged to the Magic Council. "This time they've destroyed an entire port!"
"What is the matter with them?" another member, a tall middle-aged man, who always wears small, round, dark shaded glasses, wears a white and blue Magic Council cloak, and has it with the hood up asked in response to the first member. He also has large thin lips and tan skin. He has black hair and huge sideburns that almost hit his lips. On his chin are small chin hairs. He also has small eyebrows that always point down.
"I'm actually quite fond of those dimwits and their crazy fair attitude." said a third member with his arms folded, eyes closed, and spoke in a calm cool tone. He dressed himself in elegant yet simple robes; consisting of a long white tunic with black stripes across the edges and on the upper part of the arms, a decorated collar, large straps connected to decorated buckles closing the inducement on the front over a dark shirt, and matching pants and shoes. He also sported a ring on his right hand's middle finger, and had a medallion hidden under his collar.
Beside him, a fourth member, a small old man with thick flesh-colored eyebrows and a small toothbrush mustache that reaches halfway to his mouth groaned with his arms folded before adding on. His clothes were different unlike the other members, consisting of a brown long-sleeved shirt with black vertical stripes and a black three-spiked hat, "They may behave like fools, but we mustn't forget that they're an extremely capable lot."
On his left stood one of two lone female members of the council, a pale-skinned woman with dark purple hair and brown eyes. She wore a white kimono with a short skirt and a yellow bow tied around her waist. This young woman had a voluptuous figure and had her hand to her hip in a bored expression.
"Yes, that's true they presence quite the quantity." spoke up another member in the outmost top, a tall old man with a large gray beard and mustache. He has pointy ears and only opens one eye. On his head is a small bat-like creature.
"I think we should leave them be." remarked the blue haired young man in response to the others while smiling, "After all if it wasn't for those fools, think how boring this world will be."
After escaping the military's Rune Knights, we reluctantly returned to Magnolia Town, home to the Fairy Tail Guild. Lucy walked beside us; her luggage in one hand, excitement dawned on her face.
Still walking as, they walked through town; Lucy had a big smile on her face walking with sprint in her step. Lisanna looks at her. It was easy to figure out the blond-haired Wizard was excited as ever to make it to Fairy Tail. Both girls were out of their dresses from yesterday, Lisanna holding her hands behind her while staying in toe with Natsu, Lucy and Happy. Her cheerfulness was very bright
"You seem excited as yesterday," Lisanna pointed out.
"I am I cannot wait to get to the Fairy Tail guild. I am so excited!" Lucy said, thrilled in her voice getting the wizard haired wizard to not stop eyeing her.
Lisanna chuckled, keeping her hands held behind her back. "Well, we will be there in a few minutes. So, if you have any questions, feel free to ask."
"Okay. I never ask for your full names. What are they?" Lucy asked.
"Natsu Dragneel, Lisanna's last name is Strauss." Natsu explained pointing to himself, and Lisanna as Lucy's brown eyes widened with happiness hearing one of those names before.
"You mean you are Mirajane's sister?! I knew that white hair was familiar," Lucy gasped.
Lisanna tugged at one of her bangs, "Yeah, I'm Mira's younger sister." she added, her cheery smile did not fade as her blue eyes still gazed at the Celestial Spirit Wizard. "Okay, any more questions?"
"What you have to do to join Fairy Tail?" Lucy asked.
"Don't worry; you won't have to do anything." Lisanna assured her but thought, 'nothing embarrassing if that's what you are thinking,' "If someone really wants to join, we let them."
"That is great! You and Natsu seem to be close." Lucy said, referring to their friendship.
"Natsu is my closest friend, we go back to when we were little. Happy was with us too." Lisanna replied with Happy agreeing.
"We made it," informed Natsu as the four stood in front of the Fairy Tail guild house. It was the most impressive place Lucy had ever seen. It was an imposing building consisting of three floors and incorporating several architectonic styles: it took on a shape reminiscent of a pagoda, with each floor being smaller than the one below it and sitting on the latter's roof. The roofs also bore great resemblance to those of real pagoda, consisting of extremely long, arched tiles lined up one after the other and possessing simple curved protrusions jutting upwards on the building's angles. On the highest roof, topping the summit of the building, sat a simple, round and pointed dome, highly reminiscent of those seen on Arabian buildings, which bore a flag on its point. The roof below the one with the dome, the middle one, housed a large banner with Fairy Tail's symbol on it, held up by a pair of vertical poles. The building's large entrance was again Arabian in design, with its shape being reminiscent of that of the dome on the summit, and above it was the guild's name, topped by a protruding, stylized heart shape, and flanked by a pair of carved fairies. Stylized heart shapes were also visible on the frames of the numerous, large pentagonal windows located on each floor, with the top floor housing smaller, arched windows partially covered by banners.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail!" Lisanna and Happy said excitedly introducing the guild to the Celestial Spirit Wizard.
Lucy smiled up wide at the big building, her left hand to her luggage as the boys and Lisanna came to the doors. Natsu took his left foot and kicked them opening, announcing their entrance to the guild.
"We've made it back alive!" he roared to the guild.
"We're home!" Lisanna and Happy yelled with smiles on their faces.
The inside of the guild was like a large lunch hall, and consisted of wood, possessing a parquet floor and a mezzanine held up by wood beams overlooking it. Several long benches and the related tables stretched across its length with a bar at the end. Many members greeted the Dragon Slayer and Takeover Wizards with calls of 'Welcome back Natsu!' and calls Happy and Lisanna too.
On one of the benches, were two young men of the same age. The one of the backs, a slim young man of average height with orange hair, kept jutting backwards at the sides of his head. He has a sharp face, a prominent, flat, and defined nose pointing downwards, and distinctive teeth, with a protruding, sharp, triangular-shaped upper molar complemented by a chipped portion on the lower row, something which allows him to close his teeth completely despite such peculiar irregularity. He donned an open, light-brown coat with yellowish fur trimmings on its edges and sleeves, which reached down below his elbows. Below it was a high-collared purple shirt, with its collar mostly left open, which was sometimes seen left hanging over the checkered belt below it, with a rectangular buckle, and others tucked inside the buggy dark pants covering his legs, in turn tucked inside dark boots. He was sometimes shown with a bracelet composed of thin ropes around his right wrist, and a watch around his left. The most distinctive piece of his attire is the fancy, extremely high hat matching his coat, with a large brim and fur trimmings over its entire length, at regular intervals, plus a large furry ball on its top.
The one he was facing, a tall, slim young man with black hair kept in an unusual, distinctive hairstyle, with a tuft of hair on top of his head jutting upwards and then curving frontwards, being reminiscent of a plant's stem. His hair extends in a rounded form on his forehead, and was cut on both sides of his head, dark eyes and thin dark eyebrows pointing downwards at their outer edges; his rectangular-shaped face sported sharp features, with prominent cheekbones. His attire consisted of a simple white shirt, green checkered pants, and dark shoes with lighter soles. He also sported a pair of distinctive belts crossing his chest, each passing over one of his shoulders. These belts were reminiscent of bandoliers, sporting rectangular cases on them.
Another person was sitting and talking with members of the guild, a tall man sporting curly, light orange hair. His outfit consisted of a large, white shirt fitting his chests size, with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, dark pants, dark, pointed shoes adorned by light crescent moon-like motifs on the inner sides, and a distinctive dark hat, with a large brim, a curved point hanging down on his left and a light orange band around it, highly reminiscent of those worn by fictional sorcerers.
Another member facing the returned group, a man of average height distinguished by his brown hair, which is kept in a pompadour-like style that protrudes frontwards from the top of his head in a large, curly, and fluffy tuft. His eyes were closed, but he had light-colored eyes. His physique is peculiar in the fact that, despite having quite a large belly, his abdominal and pectorals above it are well-defined. His outfit consists of a loose, light green shirt decorated by many motifs of stylized dark-colored flowers with five petals; a pair of pants cut down below his knees and held up by a light belt adorned by many black stars partially hidden by his shirt, and sandals held up by striped bands.
Lucy smiled brightly, stepping into the guild as someone spoke to the Fire Dragon Slayer.
"So, I heard you and Lisanna went all out in Hargeon, have to go on starting trouble…" said a slim man of average height with dark hair pointing upwards, bushy eyebrows, and very prominent upper central teeth, reminiscent of a rodent. He wore a light, zipped sweatshirt with a high collar and dark lines running down the sleeves' upper parts, bearing the letter "J" on the left part of the chest. He was also wearing light pants and shoes. His eyes widen as Natsu took his foot and kick the man in the face, sending him flying.
"Why'd you do that for?!" she asked, panic stricken in her face, holding her hands up and brown eyes wide in shock. She did not understand. Out of nowhere Natsu attacked someone a few minutes after they arrived.
Natsu stood near the broken mess of chairs and a few tables where the Wizard was as Sting said his teeth clenched, "Krov, you lied about that tip about Salamander, I'm going to kill you!"
Krov emerged from the wreckage, yelling at the Dragon Slayer.
"Do not get mad at me, I am not the one to blame here! I was just passing a rumor I heard!" As Lucy stood dumbfounded at the display, Lisanna stood a little mad too. Someone else was sitting on one of the benches, a slim, young man of average height with long brown hair, which he keeps tied in a ponytail at the back of his head, and has two long, curved shoulder-length bangs and black eyes. His initial outfit was a dark, close-fitting dancing suit that covered his body aside from his head. The suit comes with small, outlined round areas over the shoulders, elbows, and knees, linked together by thin, metal-colored stripes.
"All we got from it was some creep using Salamander and not only trying to tarnish Fairy Tail's name but use girls from the town as merchandise. So, while we did stop him, it was a wild goose." Lisanna added, walking near Natsu.
"What did you say?!" Natsu snapped at the Wizard, ignoring Lisanna's explanation.
"You want to fight?!" Krov yelled to the pink haired Dragon Slayer. "Let's go!"
Natsu then sent the buck tooth Wizard flying across the guild, making several off the table and its occupants flying into the air. Happy waved his paws calmly.
"Now, now, Natsu, you need to calm…" but the feline were hit by one of the members screaming, "Down!" and were bouncing around the tables like a ball and hit the wall.
Many of the guild members started to fight, contents of drink, broken tables, and scratches on their faces as they started fighting with one another. Lucy was smiling, despite the fighting that was going on.
"Oh wow!" she said, standing with Lisanna. "I'm actually standing in the Fairy Tail guild hall."
One of the wizards who watched another Wizard flying down to the ground, turned attention to where he heard the names of Natsu and Lisanna. He had spiky, black-colored hair and dark blue eyes, his body very toned and muscular. A Blue Fairy Tail emblem was on his right pectoral and wore a necklace, which resembles a sword with a stone in it and a metal bracelet.
"So Natsu and Lisanna finally made it back, huh?!" he asked, getting Lucy's attention to see the young man was half naked, wearing a pair of dark blue boxers. Lucy screamed and jumped in fright, seeing the half-naked Wizard. While Lucy was terrified, Lisanna greeted the wizard with a calming smile while the raven-haired man had his teeth gritted in anger.
That is Gray Fullbuster, a powerful Wizard who occasionally has the urge to well… Strip. Why he does this, I do not know.
Gray stomped his way to the huge brawl that in front of the girl deciding, "It's time we settle things once and for all Dragneel!"
"Gray, your clothes!" a young woman at the bar said. She is a tall, slim, young woman with an ample bust. She had long, brown hair, which reached down to the middle of her back. Two long strands of hair frame her face which reaches down below her shoulders, with the left one starting from a prominent, high fringe in which it appears thicker and waverer. She possesses a very voluptuous figure, with large breasts and curvy hips. Her black Fairy Tail emblem was located on the lower left part of her abdomen, right above her hips. Her shapely upper body is usually left exposed, with most of her attire being distinctively scanty. Her standard outfit consists of a light blue bikini top which features a camouflage pattern, a pair of calf-length brown pants, with two bands hanging from each leg and a light belt covered in heart motifs loosely tied around the waist, and high-heeled sandals. She also had a pair of metal bracelets adorning her biceps, bearing an incision composed of many 'A's,' and three simple, round metal bracelets on her right wrist.
"I don't have time for that!" he retorted to the young woman at the bar, turning back to her. The girls look to the young woman at the bar who was holding a wine glass in her right hand and sitting with her legs crossed.
That is Cana Alberona; she holds the title of Fairy Tail's heaviest drinker.
Cana sighed, looking away from the fighting, "You see, I don't date the men here because they have no class." she commented but immediately started drinking from a wine barrel, leaving Lucy wide eyed and slack jawed.
Back with Gray and Natsu, the raven-haired Wizard was stomping to the blond-haired Dragon Slayer holding Krov in a headlock demanding, "Come here and fight me, Natsu!" kicking something out of his path to the Fire Dragon Slayer as the two Wizards were a mere few feet from one another.
"Not until you put some clothes on!" Natsu retorted, looking back to Gray while still holding onto the buck tooth Wizard.
A pair of wooden-soled sandals was hitting the wood floors as a young, proud, and bold voice spoke, coming his or her way to the commotion.
"It's only noon and you boys are already whining like spoiled babies," spoke a young man, getting the two girls' attention to him while he folded his arms in a serious manner. He was a large, muscular man with tan colored skin, whose height causes him to tower over the girls. His long white hair like Lisanna's was kept styled upwards in long, wavy spikes, and his dark eyes possess no visible eyebrows, and his rectangular, elongated face had a stitched scar running down its right side, crossing his right eye. His black Fairy Tail emblem is located on the left part of his neck. His outfit resembled that worn by fictional, Japanese high-school hooligans: it consists of a dark blue jacket with purplish blue inners, held closed on the front by a line of large buttons, with similar buttons on the sleeves' back and the zip located on the high collar left open. The back of his jacket is adorned by large, light kanjis, which read 'The greatest' and the jacket itself was worn over a light red shirt. His outfit is completed by loose pants matching his jacket, held up by a simple belt, and traditional Japanese geta sandals, and held in place by bands colored the same as his jacket's inners. Lisanna greeted the tall male with a smile and her own greeting.
"Good afternoon, Elf-Nii." She said in unison.
This is Elfman, my older brother by one year. He is a muscled bound Wizard who believes the alone means to solve any problem are two strong fists. Even I don't know what that means.
"I'm a real man!" the older white-haired wizard said proudly to Natsu and Gray, his left fist held up in the air, "You want me to prove it to you?"
"I can't believe he's encouraging them." Lucy said while smiling in a look of disbelief.
Natsu and Gray turned around, teeth gritted in anger. Without even thinking on the consequences (on Natsu's behalf since he has no issues with Elfman), the two wizards while standing on a broken table punched Elfman with a cry of, "Get lost!" and the white-haired Wizard was sent flying into the mess of the fighting people and objects.
"He got beaten that easily?!" she asked in disbelief as a smooth male's voice caught her attention next.
"Jeez, it is so noise around here."
Lucy turned her head to see a young man sitting on a bench seat with two girls in his arms. Lisanna merely waved to the young man when they turned to see him. He was a handsome young man of average height, distinguished by his delicate facial features and his orange hair kept in a mildly short, spiky cut, with spiky strands covering his forehead, and other, longer ones jutting upwards from the top of his head. His hazel eyes are covered by a pair of azure-tinted sunglasses with a thin frame. His left ear is adorned by three earrings: initially, he bore a stud and two rings. He wore a green coat with a wide collar, complete with prominent, spiky, brownish white fur trimming lining the hood, over a light red shirt covered in many flower-like motifs, black pants, and whitish sneakers, each adorned by a pair of light green stripes.
"Good afternoon Loke, still having your girlfriends around I see," Lisanna commented looking towards him.
"It is a good afternoon to you too, Lisanna. Good to see you come back from Hargeon." Loke greeted Lisanna back.
That's Loke; he is ranked one of most eligible bachelors in Fiore. I've known him for three years since he joined Fairy Tail.
As the orange haired wizard sat with the two girls in his arms, a random bottle hit him on the head, sending him backwards to the table as his girls asked, "Are you alright?" while looked extremely annoyed with a bruised on his forehead.
Loke rose up and faced the girls while the scuffle was still going on behind him. Lucy, however, had a magazine in one hand and a marker in the one. Her left hand was directed to his picture d a picture of a blue haired young man. Loke said to the girls, his calm and cool nature still showing as he smiled.
"I'm going to fight, but only to protect you two."
"Good luck Loke!" the two said in unison.
Lucy took the black marker and crossed out his picture remarking coolly, "He's definitely off my list." And turned away with a blank look of disbelief, seeing the fighting going on and forgetting Lisanna was still standing by her, "What the heck is wrong with everyone, there's not a sane person in this place."
Lisanna's face was white as Natsu's scarf as she was really offended by that remark, standing with mouth open wide like fish. "I'm sane, that's low."
"Hello, are you new here?" A young woman's voice, sweet and angelic, spoke to Lucy as Lucy and Lisanna turned to see her. She was a slim young woman of below average height with long, white hair which curls slightly at the ends, with two bangs framing her face and reaching down to her chest; her hairstyle's most distinctive trait is a short, upward ponytail obtained by gathering and tying the hair covering her forehead. She had large blue eyes and a curvy, voluptuous body, with large breasts. Her clothes consist of a sleeveless, ankle-length maroon dress with a pleated skirt. The chest is adorned by a large, pink bow, and similarly colored trimmings frame the ample neckline, acting as straps, and circle around the waist. She also wore high-heeled shoes that match her dress and accessories with a small chain necklace with a blue oval gem attached to it, and a bracelet made of white flowers circling her right wrist. Upon seeing her, while she carried a tray of mugs, Lucy's brown eyes were wide like saucer plates, hearts in her eyes and steam coming out of her nostrils as she squealed like a fan girl.
"It's Mirajane, in the flesh!"
"Good afternoon, Mira-nee," Lisanna greeted her as well while her older sister smiled sweetly at the two.
This is my older sister Mirajane; she is well known for her bikini clad pictures in Sorcerer Weekly and both an employee and S-Class Wizard of Fairy Tail. But do not let the sweet smile fool you; she can be scary if you anger her.
"Uh, don't you think you should try and stop them or something?" Lucy asked, pointing to the dust cloud of fighting that was going, but Mira turned her head still smiling.
"It's always like this around here, I just let them be." She stated to the blonde-haired Celestial Wizard before turning back to her, "Besides…" she added, unaware her brother coming her way and falling onto her shocking Lucy. The white-haired Wizard laid on the wood floor with Elfman on top of her as she responded weakly but still smiling, "It's kind of fun, don't you think?" before passing out from the intense pain. Suddenly, what looks to be her soul flying out her body, appeared making the blonde-haired Celestial Wizard waving her arms in a panic stance.
"Ah, don't die Mirajane-san!"
"Don't worry, she's not dead." Lisanna assured Lucy a smile like her sisters. "Now if you excuse me, I have to pull my brother off my sister…" she paused for a second and just shrugged off what she said. "Yeah, that's about right," and walked away to help her two older siblings. Lucy still looked at them, but Gray came knocking into her as she fell to the ground. Natsu smiled with triumph, holding onto Gray's boxers, and twirling them in his hands like a baton. Gray realized finally, getting up to see the pink haired Dragon Slayer with his underwear.
"Give me back my underwear, you jerk!" Gray spat, his voice lowered in anger, not realizing he was still naked in front of Lucy and Lisanna. Lisanna was busy tending to her siblings to notice, but Lucy was seeing too much for them to handle. Lucy screamed, trying to cover her eyes (although still peeking through her fingers) and was blushing madly. Gray's angry scowl turned to a narrowed eyed frown, turning his attention to the blond-haired girl standing near a pillar. He came up to her in a causal kind attitude, making her jump in fright.
"Excuse me miss, but could I borrow your underwear?" he asked nonchalantly to the girl.
"As if!" Lucy responded by taking a white two-by-four and striking him away from her as Loke appeared taking her into his arms as he smiled at her while she was startled.
"These guys can be so insensitive; a woman has needs," he said but was then punched off by Elfman.
"Real men speak with their fists, Loke!" he roared.
Only was then kicked by Natsu who said, "I told you to butt out!" until finally, Happy popped up too.
"Aye…" she said weakly
Back at the bar, Cana sat with annoyed look on her face as more fighting, Lucy trying to help Mirajane as Lisanna was fanning her sister awake, and several of the members of the guild were wrestling with one another when the brunette-haired Wizard said sighing.
"So much for having a drink to relax," turning around with her dark eyes slightly annoyed, she held out a blue and white card in her hand over face as it slightly glowed announcing to the fighting guild members, "That's enough you guys, I suggest that you knock it off," and a light blue magic circle appeared in front of the brunette.
Gray (with his underwear back on) placed his left fist to his right palm, charging a white mist of energy in his hands as a light blue magic circle appeared from his hands, "Oh yeah, says who?!" he exclaimed, demanding a fight.
Elfman roared his left arm raised in the air along with a purple magic circle as stone began to form around his arms, creating an arm of stone. Loke took his right hand to his left, his fingers to a ring, "You punks can be such a pain." he remarked coolly, and a light green magic circle appeared from it too.
Natsu's hands started to wrap themselves in red-orange flames as he announced proudly with a smile on his face, "I'm ready for you!"
"They always fight like this?" Lucy asked, holding Happy up in front of her like a shield in fear yet the blue cat smiled.
"Uh huh!" Happy replied with a smile on his face, his usual calm and chipper self never missing.
"You don't seem worried?" she asked, feeling tears fall from her eyes in panic. But Natsu, Loke, Cana, Elfman, and Gray did not get a chance to attack one another as a loud sound of a foot crashing onto the ground, the source speaking in a deep voice.
Cue Fairy Law—Fairy Tail Soundtrack Volume one)
"Would you fools stop bickering like children?!" the source, a large dark-skinned beast said with a booming voice. Lucy looked up in shock, her mouth opens wide along with her wide eyes.
"He's huge!" she described it in shock. She had never seen someone this big before in her life, and this was a first.
Many of the guild members who were fighting stopped at once, either holding individuals in headlocks for over their heads. It was completely silent, a mist of dust all over the ground while Lucy looked onwards. A single cough was heard in the guild, but Mirajane spoke to the large beast with smile
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were still here master." The beast who Mira referred to as master merely growled in response, making Lucy turning around quickly in shock,
"Did you say master?!"
Natsu started to laugh at everyone now completely quiet, the Fire Dragon Slayer smiling happily, "Everyone got scared. The fight is my victory!"
But the large titan landed his foot onto Natsu, crashing the pink haired dragon slayer to the ground. Lucy made a quick squeak of fright. The titan finally spotted Lucy standing near the two sisters; still it spoke with a booming deep voice.
"It seems we have ourselves a new recruit, huh?"
"Y-Yes!" she said in shock at the titan speaking directly at her.
"Yeah, I met her in Hargeon where Natsu destroyed half the town." Lisanna then added sheepishly, "Sorry about the port, we really overdid it."
The beast's body surged with power as a rush of wind was made too. The large beast started to shrink, the beast's growls turning into sounds of an old man. While still taken aback, freaked out, and scared, Lucy looked on dumbfounded as the beast was changing. Still dumbfounded, she looked to see that the beast was replaced by a short old man. He is an extremely short, elderly man. He has black eyes and is growing bald with only the outer rims of his head containing white hair. He also has a thick white mustache. He was dressed in casual manners which consisted of a white shirt with a black Fairy Tail emblem in the middle which was covered by an orange hoodie. His attire was complete with matching orange shorts and an orange and blue stripes designed jester hat. In his right hand were several papers, but he held out his left to Lucy with a smile.
"Please to meet you." He greeted his hand out at the blonde.
"He's tiny, this little guy's really in charge here?!" she asked, completely flabbergasted that someone so short was the guild master.
"Oh, course he is!" Mirajane said cheerfully in response to Lucy, "Allow me to introduce the Fairy Tail Guild Master Makarov."
"Well, I guess, nice to meet you sir." Lucy greeted him, a little nervous but happy to meet him.
"It is nice to meet a new fresh face around here. And Lisanna, try and keep Natsu out of trouble next time, especially in Hargeon." He said, putting his hands behind his back.
"I'll try Master, but what will I do with him?" Lisanna said with a smile as the two laughed. Makarov turned around and jumped high to the banister of the second-floor railing. He cleared his throat and spoke to the guild members.
"You guys have done it again." Makarov said, holding out a stack of papers to the guild, "Look at these documents I have received from the Council! They are all complaints!"
The Council is the organization that holds together all the Wizard guilds. And for as long as I knew, the council has had their fair share of problems from us.
"Gray." He called the Ice Wizard.
"Huh?" Gray responded in confusion.
"Good job on sweeping out the smuggling organization." Makarov said but added, "But you walked around naked in town afterwards and ran away after stealing underwear that was being dried."
Gray trembled in fear, but asked, "But… Wouldn't be worse if I were naked?" sweating going down his cheeks.
"Then don't be naked in the first place," Elfman remarked in response to his fellow comrades' bad choice.
The master riffled through the documents before calling out again, "Elfman!" he announced to the white-haired Wizard who scratched his chin. "You had a mission to escort a VIP but assaulted him during the mission. He said, 'Men are all about education,' so…" but went on to the next document while the Wizard looked sweating too. Lisanna sighed, wishing she and Mira would teach him more.
"Cana Alberona!" Makarov called to the brunette who frowned, "Drinking fifteen barrels of alcohol, and charging it to the council."
"They found out…" Cana muttered in a hush voice, sweating in panic.
"Loke…" Makarov addressed reading the document about the orange haired Wizard, "Flirting with Council member Leiji's granddaughter. A certain Talent Agency charged us for Wizard compensation, too., He finished, making the Wizard sweat nervously too.
"And Lisanna Strauss and Natsu Dragneel…" Makarov said before sighing, knowing this was the big one and the most trouble. Both Wizards looked up at the master as he read out the trouble the two caused during their missions either doing jobs or looking for Igneel with him. "You destroyed the Devon thief family, but also destroyed seven other houses that belong to the townspeople… leveling a historical clock tower in Tully Village, burning down a church in Freesia, damaging parts of Lupinus Castle, Nazuna ravine observatory collapsed and thus its operations, and destroying Hargeon's port."
'Most of the articles covered in the magazine were done by Lisanna and Natsu, huh…' Lucy thought wide eyed.
"Alzack… Levy… Krov… Reedus… Warren… Bisca… etc…" Makarov announced to the next group of people who looked worried.
First one that was called, Alzack Connell, was a young man of average height with long black hair, which has a shade of dark purple to it and covers the right part of his face. His eyes are black as well, and the right one is obscured by his hair. Alzack's attire mirrors that of fictional cowboys, minus their signature hats. His outfit consists of a long brown coat, similar to a poncho, with thin strips hanging from the edges, covering most of his body, together with a shirt, with its sleeves rolled up, torn pants with strips similar to the ones on his coat hanging from their edges, held up by a studded belt with a skull-shaped buckle, and simple shoes, or boots. He has a case on his right hip, attached to a belt, in which he usually keeps one of his guns, and he also sports an ornament circling his left leg, consisting of a large leather belt, decorated by concentric circles in its widest part.
Next that was called was Levy McGarden, a young, teenage girl with a slender build and stands at a height below average for her age. She sports blue hair, with the top cut short and the bottom longer, normally tied up with a colorful bandana around her head. She was wearing a blue open vest that exposed a yellow tank top with white shorts. Unlike most of the girls, her bust was insignificant compared to the others.
The next one called is Warren Rocko, a slim man of average height with black, straight hair, which was initially styled in an undercut-like fashion, with most of it being kept quite short aside from a prominent wisp on the right part of his face. Warren has black eyes and a mildly prominent nose, with his most distinctive facial feature being his long and thick lips. He donned a high-collared red jacket, with striped, brown padding over the shoulders and neck areas, with part of it protruding downwards on the chest, following the zip closing the jacket. Each of its light-colored cuffs bore a line on the back edge, and the jacket was closed around Warren's waist by a light belt with a round buckle, somehow shaped like a mechanical device, with a small, dark capsized pyramid on it. He also wore a pair of light-colored pants tucked inside boots, with the parts covering his feet being black, and the ones coming down from his elbows being reminiscent of light, loose shin-guards made of cloth.
And lastly was called is Bisca Mulan, a young woman with long, straight green hair reaching down to her lower back, with a pair of long bangs framing her face. She has brownish purple eyes and is always seen wearing red lipstick. Bisca's attire mirrors that of a fictional cowgirl, with a Western-style hat always visible on her head, a light, polka-dotted neck scarf, and a pair of reddish-brown boots. Her body is covered by a short, strapless one-piece dress decorated by spiraling motifs with darker, striped edges.
"Me too…?" Warren asked nervously.
"You guys…" Makarov said to the guild members, trembling in anger, "The council members are angry at me all the time…"
Lucy clenched her teeth in panic, feeling the sweat pouring from her face as the stillness of the room was mostly filled with many of the guild members looking ashamed of each other as the master was still trembling in anger. She was panicking more, was he going to yell at them more? But once the master spoke again, it was calmer and more serious than fury.
"But…" with his right hand still on the documents, they immediately were ignited by flames as he added, "I say to hell with the council."
"Eh?" Lucy responded with confusion on her face.
With the snap of his wrist, he tosses the burning flames of the once documents away as it landed near Natsu who leaped up and ate the flames. Lucy gasped as Makarov spoke up to the members again, each wondering what he said.
(Cue Fairy Tail main theme-Slow Version-Fairy Tail volume one soundtrack)
"Now listen up." He said to the guild aloud, "The power to overcome reasoning is born from reasoning." Lisanna still stomped on the flames as the master spoke on as Gray and Alzack look on, "When the 'spirit' flow within us…" while Cana frown while she listened too with her face still facing the bar, "And the 'spirit' flow in nature connects, they will form an embodiment for the first time." Elfman listened in with stern look on his face as Makarov' continued while Lucy looked on with her mouth slightly open, "You will need a strong mentality and a lot of concentration for that. I mean, pouring all your soul into whatever you do is the magic." He held up his left hand up and added grinning with his teeth shown, "If you keep worrying about the watchful eyes of the higher ups, your magic will not improve. Do not fear the fools of the council." And finishes his speech before raising his left hand up into the air, his index finger, and a thumbs up, "Do whatever you think is right! That is the way of the Fairy Tail Wizards!"
On cue, the whole guild roared in agreement as pointed their fingers up into the air too, everyone smiling and cheering too. Happy, Lisanna, and Natsu all joined in the cheering and smiling, but the one who was the happiest was Lucy herself. Those words, that speech, were the feeling and reason she wanted to join Fairy Tail in the first place, why she looked up to them.
After the speech was over and the mess cleared, Lucy was then given her official Fairy Tail emblem by Mirajane. Although, she never explained why she picked pink or why the back of her hand to Mirajane. It is really complicated to explain, but Natsu, Happy, and Lisanna were not the first Fairy Tail members she met. Six years ago, when she was eleven, the carriage she was riding in was out of control and a girl from Fairy Tail saved her. She never saw her face, but the mark on her hand was all she needed, that was when she got interested in Fairy Tail and wanted to join when she got old enough to use her spirits.
"There. You are now a member of Fairy Tail!" Mirajane said happily as Lucy eyed her new mark. She squealed with delight and came up to Natsu and Lisanna. Natsu had his eyes set on the board he was facing while Lisanna turned around to see her.
"Look, Natsu, Lisanna, Mira-san gave me the Fairy Tail mark, now I'm a member just like you!" the blond Celestial Wizard said happily.
"Yeah, that's nice Luigi." Natsu said at once, paying no mind.
"The Name's Lucy!" she snapped. Lisanna giggled, trying not to laugh too hard before looking at her.
"Well, I am glad, now you are a real member. Congrats." Lisanna replied.
"Thanks Lisanna. At least you are happy for me." Lucy said, calming back down. She waved back to the three as she made her way back to the bar where Mirajane was, Lisanna waving at her too. Lisanna turned back around and faced the Request board with Natsu.
"Choose a good paying one, okay?" Happy interjected happily eyeing the many jobs available.
"Whoa, 160,000 Jewel just take out some thieves?" Natsu asked, holding one of the flyers in his hands as the small group was near one of the members, an extremely tall, heavily muscular, and massive young man, towering over his guild mates. His straight dark hair was styled in a bob cut, with a light-colored band circling it near the top, and two curved bangs emerging from under it, framing the upper part of his face, which has a rectangular shape. He had prominent thick lips, and a pair of wide, horizontal white stripes, each covering one of his cheeks, somehow reminiscent of tribal war paint. His right shoulder is adorned by a white tattoo consisting of several circles, with a larger one in the center being surrounded by smaller ones, in a shape resembling a stylized sun. His appearance was that of a somehow tribal look to his clothing. His clothes were reminiscent of those worn by fictional Norse warriors: it consisted of a dark, open vest, with its edges decorated by green and red triangles, and a fur loincloth held up by a belt adorned by many rings. His forearms and lower legs were covered in armor plates held up by ropes, and he also carried around small, round skulls on his person, many of them held together by cords, circling his neck and waist. This fellow's name was Nab Lasaro. His arms were folded while he stood by the board.
"That sounds good to me!" Happy chimed in agreement.
"How come my dad hasn't come back yet?" a young boy's voice asked, the master stop drinking to address the voice. Natsu, Lisanna, and Happy look to the bar where the master was. He sat on the bar, looking down at the young boy. He was a slim young boy with straight dark hair. The bangs of his hair are particularly prominent, covering part of his forehead, with some smaller strands jutting outwards from the top of his head. He has large eyes and a small, mildly round nose. His outfit consists of a dark T-shirt adorned on the front by a drawing of Nakajima, lighter-colored pleated shorts with two large pockets on the back, and simple sandals, each held up by two bands joined by a round button.
"You're starting to work my nerves Romeo, you're a Wizard's son, so have faith in your father and wait patiently for him." he told the young boy.
"But sir, he told me he'd be back in three days," Romeo replied but raising his voice a little higher, "and he's been gone for over a week now!"
Lucy looked at the conversation going on with Romeo and Makarov. Lisanna sat beside Lucy, her two partners getting their mission. But the pink haired Dragon Slayer was listening too, along with Mirajane who just kept cleaning the plate she was holding.
"If I remember correctly, He took the job to Mt. Hakobe." Makarov said, still holding his mug.
"That's right and it's not too far from here, so why aren't you looking for him?!" Romeo demanded his fists to rise.
"Listen kid, your old man's a wizard, and like every other wizard in this guild, he can take care of himself!" Makarov yelled to the boy below, as he added, still getting not only Natsu's attention, but still Lucy, Lisanna, and Mira, who was wiping a dish. Happy was watching too, but the boy had his arms folded still staring at the board. "Now go home, have some milk and cookies, and wait!"
"Jerk!" Romeo screamed, taking his left hand, and punching the master who was startled as he fell to the ground. Romeo started to run from the bar out the door, screaming with tears in his eyes," I hate you all!"
"That's got to be tough," Lucy said softly, seeing the little boy run from the guild.
"I know it sounds like the master doesn't care, but he really is worried." Mirajane assured Lucy as a loud sound startled Lucy, Lisanna, and Elfman, turning to see a dent in the request board shaped oddly like a fist. The first was punched at the Request board and it was from Natsu himself. The pink haired Dragon Slayer walked away from it, one of the members standing by the Request board calling him back.
"What do you think you're doing, you almost broke the board, Natsu." asked Nab, seeing the damage the young Wizard made. He did not reply, or looked back, but made his way out the guild, Happy following suit with bag on his back. Nab, who was near the board when Natsu punched it spoke to Makarov when he came to the bar.
"I do not know about this, master. He is going to try and find Macao." Nab suggested.
"He really needs to grow up," Krov remarked, referring to Natsu who left to find him.
"Who knows, but running after Macao isn't going to do anything but hurt his pride." Nab replied, rubbing the back of his head.
Makarov opened his left eye, a bandage on his nose, "Remember Nab, we cannot choose a person's path. Just leave them be."
Elfman, Lisanna, and Lucy still looked on at where Natsu and Happy were leaving.
"Why did Natsu get so upset?" The blond-haired celestial Wizard asked.
"Because Natsu sees himself in Romeo-kun, or better yet he knows what he's feeling now," Mira said which made Lucy spin around to face Mirajane's back. "That's why he left; they have so much in common with him." Lucy's brown eyes shook slightly hearing this as her face was frozen in astonishment. Outside the guild, Romeo walked away from the guild while the sun was ready to set, wiping the tears from his eyes as Mira's words continued, "Just because we're members of Fairy Tail, it doesn't mean we don't care for one another…" As a hand ruffled Romeo's head as he looked up to see the serious look on Natsu's face as Happy followed him, Mirajane added tonelessly, "We all had our fair share of suffering, scars, pain, and lost."
"I know the feeling…" Lisanna said to herself in a hush voice. She took one hand to her right arm and gripped it tightly. She held back a tear that she wanted to shed, but she only kept her hand to her arm.
It is hard to believe it has been two years, when me, sis, Big brother… Natsu… got involve in a mission that got me almost killed and Natsu too. I thought everything will be all right, that we come home with happy faces… but then, Elfman…
My naive self, thinking everything with be okay… Now my sister suffered that she could not protect us. I blamed myself for being reckless; Natsu got hurt because of me. Now I have 'scars' that will never heal.
"Mira-nee… Elf-niichan… If it is all right with you, can I go help Natsu find Macao?" Lisanna asked softly.
The two siblings heard their sister speak, but it was not the cheerful tone she has, it was her 'serious' tone. Lucy remembered Lisanna speaking in a tone like that on the boat the other day. It was surprising to see a non-cheerful Lisanna, but her siblings seem to not be phased by this. Their eyes met her eyes, and they knew this was her decision.
"You have your reasons," Mirajane understood nodding to her.
Elfman placed a hand to her hair, ruffling it slightly. "Just get back safety, okay?"
"I will," Lisanna replied and ran out the guild to follow Natsu and Happy. Lucy was curious, so she tuned back to ask more about Natsu.
"So, tell me more about Natsu, did he have family?" Lucy asked, kicking her feet from the bar stool, and facing the white-haired wizard.
"Hmm, well I knew Natsu for the longest, so I remember his story." Mirajane said before handing Lucy a glass of strawberry milkshake before turning away to tend to the shelves, "A few years ago, Natsu's father left and never came back." She added to the blonde-haired wizard who frowned listening in but gasped hearing the realization, "Well technically, he wasn't his real father, but the ones who raised him; Igneel, he was actually a dragon," she added with a sweet smile facing back to Lucy.
An image of a fire breathing dragon appeared in Lucy's mind, making her look panicked. "Raised by what?!" she asked, teeth chattering before calming down to know more, her hands on the bar as she stood up, "Natsu was actually raised by a dragon?"
Mirajane sighed, closing her eyes before continuing her tale. "When he was a boy, a dragon found him wandering the forest." A memory of a dragon appeared in Mira's head, Natsu's foster father Igneel. Igneel was a gigantic dragon whose body was covered with dark, red scales. Igneel's lower body, specifically his belly, the inner portions of his long tail, and legs, is beige in color. Igneel also has noticeable scars on his belly and neck, with the largest one, which is X-shaped, located around the center of his body. His back has numerous black spikes, reaching down from the back to the end of his tail. Igneel has a triangular head with horns, a pair of large, round eyes with yellow sclera (which are usually seen as glowing, obscuring his dark, round pupils) and a sharp horn pointing upwards just above his nose. Igneel also sports very sharp canine teeth and has claws with long red sharp nails. Igneel's large bony wings are akin to a bat's, with rippled tips. Additionally, Igneel had four hind legs.
He was with a much younger Natsu, around five-six being taught everything the dragon knew and the young Natsu was hugging Igneel with a smile on their faces. "He took him in, and taught him all about language, culture, and magic." But the memory changed to a slightly older Natsu of ten years old, standing with his upper body bare except for his scarf given to him by Igneel. He was wearing black shorts and stood staring in the middle of the forest all alone. Natsu clutched his foster father's scarf holding back tears along with his brother until flash to a much older Natsu of now. "But one day, Igneel disappeared, and never returned."
"So Natsu was looking for was Igneel." Lucy realized, remembering their conversation the other day, and now understanding why he and Happy were looking for a dragon. It all started to make sense, was he looking for his foster father?
"Natsu looks forward to the day he sees Igneel again. It is cute, don't you think?" Mira asked her to smile sweetly.
"It does," Lucy said in realization now. She understood a little more, but a gut feeling made her step off the bar stool and added to Mirajane, "I will go help them find Macao. They will need the help."
"Thank you, Lucy, we'll be appreciated," Mirajane said with a smile as Lucy left the Guild Hall to follow the two wizards and Happy. Outside, it did not take long to catch Natsu and Lisanna, the first already leaving with a serious determined look and Lisanna coming up to touch Romeo's head too, her face just serious as Natsu's.
"Don't worry; we'll bring Macao back, no need for tears."
Romeo sniffled and continued to wipe away more tears, looking up at Lisanna, his eyes still shaky. "You will?"
"Promise..." Lisanna replied smiling at Romeo with a sweet smile like her sister's.
"Lisanna!" called Lucy's voice.
The blond-haired Celestial Wizards had finally caught up with the white-haired Wizard. Lisanna was astonished that Lucy made it there to follow her. Lucy skidded to a stop in front of Lisanna, panting slightly, trying to catch her breath. Finally, she caught her breath and looked at Lisanna a hand to her chest. "Finally, I caught with you."
"What is it Lucy, you want to help us?" Lisanna asked curiously.
"Yeah, that Macao person needs to be found right and you'll need the extra hand or two." Lucy explained.
"Thanks Lucy. Come on or we will miss Natsu." Lisanna instructed with a smile glad for the help to find her fellow friend.
The blond-haired Celestial Wizard nodded and followed the white-haired Wizard to where Natsu was heading.
"Why are you here?" Natsu asked sickly at once, his voice just as weak and his face turning pale. The group of Natsu, Lisanna, and Happy were heading to the mountains in search for Macao by carriage, but they were not alone in the carriage. Lucy had decided to tag along with them, but unfortunately for Natsu, he was forced into traveling by transportation yet again. The pink haired Dragon Slayer sat on one side of the carriage while the girls and Happy sat on the other.
"I thought maybe I could help." Lucy replied cheerfully, sitting with Lisanna, "Wow you really do have serious case of motion sickness." She remarked to the sickly Dragon Slayer who was sitting face down on his end. She turned from the pink haired Dragon Slayer and placed her hands to her cheeks and shook her from side to side, "It's just another reason to feel sorry for you."
The pink haired Dragon Slayer snapped into focus, hearing what Lucy said to him, narrowing his eyes at him despite still sick. "What's that supposed to mean, Lucy?" he retorted sickly.
"Oh nothing, forget I said anything." She replied shrugging it off but thought back to Mira's story. For a moment, she could feel how Natsu felt, not having a parent, but for him, he still was looking for him. She felt more like she understood him better, not understanding the pink haired boy as much as before. She may not have known Natsu long, but she felt like she could relate to him more now. She smiled at him lightly, holding a sincere blush.
'I guess I'm not the only one who misses a parent.' Lucy thought.
"Do not be that way, Natsu. She is giving us a hand. I am worried for Macao too you know." Lisanna reminded him. "The three of us can't do it alone, we might need her."
Natsu said nothing, either ignoring Lisanna's words or still feeling too sick to talk anymore. Suddenly while Lucy still looked at Natsu, the carriage slightly shook before stopping; Natsu's face no longer looking like he wanted to throw up anymore.
"Huh?" the girls asked, realizing the carriage was no longer anymore. On cue, Natsu had rose up from his stomach and cheered looking completely fine than before, "It stopped!"
"We're here?" asked Lucy in confusion.
"I'm sorry." spoke the driver of the carriage from outside, "This is as far as I can take you."
Not understanding what the driver said, the group opened the back of the carriage and was not greeted by the warm sun they were in but the sheer cold of their destination. Their hair and clothes whipped from the frigid wind as Happy and were holding on to the door for dear life. Natsu and Lisanna stood with their arms folded while Lucy was sitting seeing where they were.
"Where are we guys? It is a frozen wasteland!" Lucy exclaimed, her blond hair whipping in the blizzard. They had made it to Mt. Hakobe. It was time to find Macao on foot. They hopped off the carriage and set off on foot, feeling the blizzard whip their hair and clothes as they started their search. Their feet trudged through the snow below them, hearing Lucy from behind them.
"Why is it so cold? I know we are on a mountain, but its summer, there should not be a blizzard out here anyway!" Lucy said, shivering from behind the two Wizards and Happy. Happy sat on top of Lisanna's white hair, while Lisanna walked on Natsu's left.
"That's what you get for wearing such light clothing." Natsu remarked nonchalantly, seeing the blonde Celestial Wizard choice of clothing in the coldness of the mountain wind.
"Oh please, you and Lisanna-chan aren't dressed for it!" Lucy retorted, trying to grab at the blanket on Natsu's bag adding in anger, "Now hand over that blanket!"
"She just keeps on talking, huh?" Natsu asked Lisanna still walking with her and Lucy not trying to sound annoyed.
"I don't know she's not that bad," Lisanna replied smiling with Happy chiming in.
"Aye."
"Oh, I know!" Lucy decided, releasing herself from Natsu's bag and took from her belt a silver key with a black clock face on the base. With a twirl of the key, she called out, "Open, gate of the Clock Constellation! Horologium!" and a blue magic circle appeared in front of Lucy as pieces of a clock flew from the ground and magic circle as it then formed into a spirit. It was a tall brown grandfather clock with long, black arms, a glass case, a Roman numeral clock at the center and a small face at the top with slit eyes and a thin, twirly, mustache-like mouth. Once its arms were pulled out, it said, "Tick-Tock!" before twisting it around after being summoned. The three Wizards were amazed seeing the spirit, their first spirit minus Aquarius right in front of them.
"A clock?" asked Lisanna and Natsu in complete shock.
"Cool!" said Happy excitedly, his black eyes wide.
Lucy was inside the glass case, seeming to be shivering inside as she spoke. But they could not hear her from the outside. Lisanna cocked her head in confusion seeing her speaking, not even Natsu or Happy could hear her.
"Umm Lucy-san, we can't hear you." Lisanna said to the blonde-haired girl.
"She says 'I am staying right here, and I am not coming out'," the clock spirit translated. Lisanna sighed, shaking her head in disgust as Natsu crossed his arms in annoyance of the blonde celestial Spirit Wizard.
"Then why did you tag along in the first place?" Natsu asked her with a scowl on his face.
Lucy, do not tell me you summoned your spirit for this?
"'What kind of crazy job would force Macao to a place like this?' she inquires." The spirit translated again.
"You should have asked that before going with us." Natsu replied before adding, "But if you want to know, he came to slay a Vulcan, it's a monster that lives in these parts."
Once hearing what was up here, the blonde Celestial Wizard felt more like she wanted to sweat than to shiver. She pleaded with the three Wizards.
"'I want to go back to the guild,' she proclaims." While the others continued the path.
"Go ahead and be my guest, I say back." Natsu retorted coolly to the girl, feeling she was wasting their time. He did not want to abandon her, but Macao was important to find, and Lucy would feel like a dead weight getting in his way.
"We'll see you later, I say as well." Lisanna replied calmly, following too. She did not want to leave Lucy, but Macao was important to find, and if she felt guilty, she might come back to get her.
"Aye!" responded Happy as they left Lucy behind along with her spirit. Once a few feet from her, the two wizards stood near a cliff; their hands to their faces as they looked around the blizzard for their friend.
"Macao, where are you?!" Natsu called through the blizzard.
"Macao!" Lisanna and Happy called as well through the blizzard.
As the group was calling for their fellow Wizard, something was coming their way from above. They look up from behind them as something large was coming their way. Lisanna jumped back as the large unknown object came crashing down. They quickly evaded it, the snow picking up where it landed as Happy screamed. Once the past snow revealed what it was, Happy immediately identified the creature. It was a large, anthropomorphic monster that resembled a primate. It possesses distinctive facial features, elongated chis, prolonged ears, and a pointed head that resemble a single horn on top of its head. It had huge arms and a large hand attached to its muscular torso. In comparison to its upper body, it possesses a pair of smaller-scaled legs that feature a long tail connected to the bottom of its torso. The fur on its arms forms a decorative pattern unique to each of the creature's species. It looks at them with a silly look as they gasped.
"It's a Vulcan!" Happy said in shock.
"You think it might have something to do with Macao? It was the thing he was after." Lisanna asked the group, hearing Natsu's scarf flapping in the blizzard beside her.
The Vulcan turned away from the group, smelling something that caught his interest. He ran from the party and to Where Lucy and Horologium were. Lucy was asleep in the red blanket she covered herself up she heard a tapping at the glass case she was in. She opened her eyes, but she gasped as she was not greeted by her comrades, but to the face of a large monkey like beast who looked at her with love in his eyes.
"Me like human woman," he said, speaking Neanderthal-like to the blonde-haired girl holding the clock spirit to look at her.
Natsu punched his fists together, saying seriously but assuring with a smile, "So it can talk, huh?" But he did not realize until it was too late as the Vulcan was carrying Lucy and her spirit away and out of sight. Lucy called to the three wizards.
"'Do not just stand there, go, and save me,' she yells furiously," Horologium translating
"Whoops…" the three said in unison, realizing Lucy was in trouble and they did not stop the Vulcan in time. They nodded to one another and hurried after the Vulcan to rescue Lucy, their clothes still flapping in the wind.
The Fairy Tail guild was fixing up the mess Romeo and Natsu left since they left, the board fixed up and the some of the damage Romeo made punching Makarov to the ground. Elfman sat at the bar after Lisanna, Natsu, Lucy, and Happy left, drinking alcohol while Mira was cleaning several mugs and keeping her eyes on the doors waiting for Natsu's group to return. Makarov stood a sip of alcohol and saw the guild doors open wide and someone or a few people stepping inside. For a moment they thought it was Natsu, Lisanna, or Lucy, but it wasn't, it was someone else standing by the foot of the door.
The first was a young girl with a very petite-looking body. She had light blue hair that reached the base of her neck with strains of her hair covering her right eyebrow and light purple eyes. Her clothes were a mixture of traditional Japanese clothes and Fiore clothes. On the outside, she wore a light blue and white kimono that reached her calves decorated with ice crystals on the hem and ends of her short sleeves with a white sash that split the outfit in the middle. Her footwear was brown low-heeled sandals and white socks. Underneath the kimono was a light blue top and a matching skirt of the same color. She wore ice shaped earrings in both her ears and one ring on her right index finger and on her right hip is a silver blade katana in a black sheath. Her left arm was behind her back looking very calm and polite, beside her was a small white and blue cat with a light blue sundress and a blue bow in her left ear.
The second person was an average-height young woman, average height with an athletic build and normal figure, lightly tanned skin, and shoulder-length mahogany brown hair in a messy ponytail with reddish eyes. She wore a short-sleeved gray blue shirt with an open white button down on the top, her sleeves rolled to the elbow, slightly faded capris, and gray running shoes.
The two girls and the small cat walked up closer to the bar, the brunette-haired girl seem to look the most nervous coming in than the light blue-haired girl and the light blue and white furred cat. The brunette-haired girl seemed too scared to speak, but her light blue haired companion gave her an encouraging look.
"Go on, you can do it, Aspen," she said nicely to her touching her shoulder.
"Okay." The girl named Aspen said looking to the small master, Mirajane and Elfman eyeing the two girls as well. Aspen opened her mouth, her voice quivering in fear. "I-I-I, I like to join the Fairy Tail Wizard Guild, if you don't mind."
"Oh, my goodness, first Lucy joins, now we have another three who want to join, sure is one lucky day today." Mirajane admitted happily placing a few glasses up onto the shelves.
"So, what magic do you two use, I take it your cat friend uses Area magic like our friend Happy, does she?" Makarov asked kindly and the light blue haired girl spoke up next in turn.
"I can use Ice Dragon Slaying Magic." She said happily and the guild fell silent, hearing the girl's choice of words carefully, still unsure if they heard right. All eyes were on the pair and the cats, the girl a bit confused on why the guild felt silent after hearing what magic she was using. The light blue and white cat then hopped onto the girl's head, still just as confused as she was. Aspen looked at her companion and then at the master, still she looked nervous at him. She did not understand the silence, when she did not seem to mind it at all. Makarov hopped off the bar and stood in front of the two girls.
"I see, well sorry for everyone's expressions. We had one Dragon Slayer just leave looking for a fellow member of ours. We never thought we be meeting another one so soon." The guild master said and the two were surprised. They knew of the rumored Dragon Slayer that joined on the year x777, getting the idea to join said Guild. The brunette-haired girl looked to the light blue haired girl and then back to Makarov, still looking nervous.
"Um, well my magic is Weather Magic," Aspen said and Makarov's eyebrows raised ever so slowly.
"I see, a rare magic like that, and you're how old my dear?" he asked fatherly to her.
"Seventeen mister," She replied. "But I don't think my magic's that strong." And the two elder siblings of Lisanna and Makarov were stunned; never hearing any Wizard doubting their magical abilities before in their lives. Her friend placed her hand towards her comrade's shoulder and sighed, shaking her head at her incompetence.
"Forgive me, I am trying to help her break out her shell of her doubt, that's why I'm with her." she explained, releasing her hand from her shoulder, "but she has a power she's got inside and just needs to unleash t."
"It's understandable, even the most powerful wizards don't know the power that have inside." Makarov said and shook Aspen's hand, trying to make her feel better and welcome her into the guild. "You don't know the potential you have inside, you must believe in yourself."
Aspen looked around at Makarov, Mirajane, and her friends and saw them smile at her. She took her hand to her chest and gripped it tightly in thought. Makarov had a point, she had to believe in her magic a little more. Her friend placed a hand to her shoulder in a reassuring way, still smiling at her as she thought hard. She had always felt her magic was not special, having others call her weak and her taking those insults to heart. But it was meeting Setsuko, traveling with her these months, that gave her a bit of courage, courage she needs. With a sigh and a light smile, she gazed up at the tiny guild master.
"Okay sir, I'll believe in myself more." She finally said, making Makarov, Elfman, and Mirajane smile at her. Setsuko and the blue and white cat all cheered, the Ice Dragon Slayer hugging her.
"Excellent. Now then, we just need to give you your Guild crest as a sign you are an official member of our guild. Aspen, and what is your names, my dear?" Makarov asked, looking at Setsuko and her cat.
"Setsuko Koori, and this is my cat Shiro." She introduced herself as Shiro then cling to her back.
"Setsuko, Shiro, and Aspen, I got it. Since you are new here, we will leave you in Natsu and Lisanna's care. As reckless as that pair can be, they are good people." Makarov said before eyeing Mirajane behind the bar, "Mira, give them their guild crest, would you?"
"Oh course!" Mira replied, grabbing something from the bar and Makarov took a sip of his drink, his thoughts on Natsu and Lisanna and wondered how they were doing.
"Hope you too are okay out there…"
Deep in the mountain, the Celestial Spirit mage and Horologium were taken to a cave on the summit of Mt. Hakobe. The blonde-haired girl was crying tearfully, feeling her life was in danger in the hands of the Vulcan. The Vulcan was dancing around the cave as the clock spirit translated what Lucy said referring to what she was watching.
"'How did I get myself into this mess? And what is with this giant monkey, why is he cheerful?' she asks tearfully."
The Vulcan faced the girl in the clock, a faint blush now on his silly face as she uttered to the terrified girl, "Woman!" as steam came from his nostrils.
Lucy whimpered, feeling the chills down her spine just looking at him. The Vulcan stared at Lucy in silence, as Lucy was more scared than before. Just then, a golden light formed around Horologium as he then vanished from the spot, leaving Lucy without any protection from the monkey.
Lucy gasped, still covered by the blanket, "Huh, w-wait Horologium! Don't disappear on me!" she called to the spirit as the monkey like beast was looming over her.
"I'm sorry my time is up, farewell." The clock spirit said as he returned to the celestial spirit world.
"Extension, give me an extension!" she screamed, flailing her legs.
"Hey, you monkey!" a voice called getting the two's attention. Natsu was running into the cave followed by Lisanna, his hands covered in flames, "Leave the girl alone and tell us where Macao is!"
Natsu leap into the air and with his left hand still wrapped in white energy exclaimed, "Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" and collides his fist into the Vulcan's large arm as it guards itself from the mage's attack. The Vulcan was pushed back from Lucy while its feet slid on the ice. Natsu landed back to the ground; his knees bent down to the ground before rising back up. He turned to Lucy, she runningup to him.
"Thank goodness you found me!" Lucy said grateful, getting from the ground, "But how'd you find me?"
"I followed your scent up here. There might be a blizzard out there, but I have a keen nose and follow the smell." Natsu explained before rubbing the back of his pink hair, "While you smell of vanilla, another scent you had smelled… weird."
Lucy went pale in confusion at Natsu's remark, "I don't know if I should be grateful or offended?"
Natsu turned to the large monkey demanding with his left hand pointed at him, "Alright you big ape, I am looking for someone. Have you seen a friend of mine, his name is Macao, a human man?" he said.
"A man?" the Vulcan asked, scratching his chin in confusion.
"That's right now where is he?!" the Fire Dragon Slayer demanded hand still pointing at the beast.
'Come to think of it, Macao went on the mission to deal with this thing… Does that mean this Macao person is…?" Lucy paused, clapping her hands over her mouth, gasping in realization of her words.
The Vulcan, while smiling pointed his hand to another side of the cave. Natsu looks at his friends.
"Good he understands. I will go loo,." he said to the girls he walked to the area where the Vulcan pointed at, an opening of the cave, out into the blizzard. Sting look out the opening calling out, "Macao, where are you?!" unaware the Vulcan appearing behind him and taking its foot and booting the pink haired mage out the cave as he screamed, "I'll get you, you damn dirty ape!" and fell into the chasm below.
"Natsu!" Lisanna and Lucy cried seeing him being booted out and falling to his death while the girls stood in front of the opening.
"No like man, me like woman!" the Vulcan cheered, dancing from behind the girls.
"This is bad news; he can't survive out there, Natsu!" Lucy called in to the blistering winds of the blizzard. From behind the girls, the Vulcan was grinding his fists together, still chanting woman over and over. Lisanna was pissed, her blue eyes flashing in anger. If Natsu was dead, this monkey would pay. Lucy removed the blanket from her body and said to the Vulcan in a mocking voice.
"Woman! Woman! You pervert monkey. What are you going to do if Natsu gets hurt?" She took from her belt a gold gate key with picture of a symbol of a bull on its base, "You're going down!" Twirling it in her right hand, she exclaimed, "Open, Gate of the Golden Bull! Taurus!" and a blue magic circle appeared as someone emerged from the ground, ready to fight.
It was an extremely tall humanoid resembling a bull. His body is covered in a black-and white pattern and the upper part of it, from the waist up, seems for massive then lower one. His head is bovine shaped, with small, elongated ears jetting outwards from the sides of his head, and a pair of horns, sitting on top of it. He had black eyes, and his flat nose bears a large golden ring in it. His muscular chest bears six udders, two on his pectorals and four on his upper abdominals. The tail sprouting from his back, ending in a dark tuft, is quite small, compared to his massive body. His massive body was mostly bare: wearing indumenta, similar to a pair of swim briefs, held up by a red, studded belt, with a circular, thin, golden metal buckle, with a pair of curved protrusions jutting outwards from it in its upper part. He also wore simple dark boots with lighter upper edges, consisting of three lines circling his legs, and has a red belt circling his neck, to which a golden cowbell is attached. His forearms are covered in bandages and wore brown fingerless gloves. Crossing his chest diagonally and passing over his right shoulder is a large, plain dark belt closed by a simple buckle, which carried a large battle ax.
"Cow?" the Vulcan asked in confusion of the large spirit.
"I should warn you monkey boy; Taurus is one of the strongest Celestial spirits I have a contract with." Lucy said the spirit standing with Lisanna.
"Wow Miss Lucy, I almost forgot what a nice figure you have. Why don't you come over here and give me a smooch?" The Golden Bull asked, facing Lucy with his arms folded across his chest with hearts in his eyes.
Lucy paled in response to the Bull's perverted remark, placing a hand to her face as Lisanna giggled, "I forgot, he's a pervert too."
"Don't touch my woman!" the Vulcan warned, eyes glaring at the bull.
"Your woman?" Taurus repeated in response to the Vulcan were blew steam from his nostrils, "Them is fighting' words, you monkey!" Taurus took from behind his back his double-bladed ax and held it at the ready.
"Let's do this…" Lisanna said, spreading her legs apart ready to fight, "Takeover Animal Soul: Tigress!" Lisanna exclaimed a gold magic circle appearing under her feet as her body was glowing as well. When the light finally faded, Lisanna was now in a brand-new form. In the new form, her appearance was mostly humanoid, with longer hair, much longer than what it normally looked like. Concentrated striped patterns appear around her forearms, feline-like pads on the surface of her palms and sharp claws at her fingertips. She also sports tigress' ears, whiskers, a small feline nose, and a long tail, but otherwise retains her human features. In this state, her attire changes as well: Lisanna is garbed in a tiger-skin, 2-piece bikini.
"Whoa, she looks like a cat!" Lucy realized, "But what's that form going to do to that monkey?"
"Just watch. This monkey is going to pay for what happened to Natsu," She replied darkly.
"Okay," Lucy replied while nodding, "Go get him, guys!" she ordered the three.
"Got it!" Lisanna exclaimed as Taurus made the first move.
(Cue Invoke Magic-Fairy Tail Volume one Soundtrack)
Taurus jumped into the air and swung his axe wildly. He subsequently lowers the axe on the ground with both of his arms, generating an earthquake on contact, which moves in a straight line towards the Vulcan, splitting the ground and blasting rocks in the air. The Vulcan immediately evaded the attack.
"He's fast!" Lucy gasped, and the Vulcan ran its way to the girls.
"So am I!" Lisanna exclaimed, dashing her way to the Vulcan, her paws and feet running the ice floor like a real tiger. The gray and white furred monkey saw the tiger-like girl coming his way and ready to attack him. He brought his fist at the girl, but Lisanna jumped and started to somersault over the monkey's head before finally exiting it while airborne. Lisanna extended her arms out and brought her claws into the Vulcan's head, scratching the horn on its head before landing behind it. The White-haired Takeover mage then crouches down to deliver a low sweep under the Vulcan's legs. The Vulcan realized this, leaping into the air, and brought his long arms crashing down to Lisanna. She then dodged the attack, the ice where the Vulcan hit started to break apart.
"This thing's not that bad, I'll admit this Vulcan's strong," Lianna said softly. "But something's odd about this thing, why does it feel human for some reason?" but then gasped in thought, realizing she was still distracted from her train of thought as the Vulcan loomed over her as she screamed. The Vulcan's large arms were ready to crush her. She gasped before closing her eyes, waiting for the attack, but nothing came to hit her.
Lisanna opened her eyes and looked up to see an axe in front of her. She gasped to see Taurus' double-bladed ax in front of it and she exclaimed with glee.
"Taurus!" she exclaimed delightfully with glee.
"No one will harm Miss Lucy's friend while I'm still moving!" Taurus mooed, hurling the Vulcan away from Lisanna as it went flying away before landing on its feet. Taurus held his axe tightly in his hands, Lisanna standing with the Bull spirit.
"This thing's strong, no denying it." Lisanna said, panting a little, "We're going to need more help, there's no way we can beat it. If only…" she added as a voice spoke behind them, coming from the opening the Dragon Slayer in question fell from.
"How dare you push me off a cliff?" the voice asked seriously, his footsteps echoing the cave.
Lucy gasped, seeing the individual in front of her and smiling excitedly to see him, "Natsu, you're safe!"
The Fire Dragon Slayer then dusted off the snow from his clothes, his eyes showing their usual seriousness. He then looks to the creature standing with Lisanna and puts two and two together before looking back to Lucy.
"He's yours?" he asked curiously.
"Yup, he's one of my spirits." Lucy nodded happily but realized, "But, how'd you survive?"
Natsu responded to her question with a grin, "Happy came to save me." He added calmly, looks up to see Happy floating in the air addressing him, "That's little buddy!"
"Aye!" Happy said with a smile on his face.
"So, you can't handle any mode of transportation, but flying on Happy is not an issue?" Lucy asked, crossing her arms,
"What are you saying?" Natsu asked, his face now in disbelief of the fellow blonde's remark and felt put off from it, "Happy is not transportation, he's my friend… I mean duh."
"Right, it's not my better judgment to compare the two." Lucy replied that she was sweating, feeling she might have offended Natsu that way.
The Vulcan's eyes narrowed in anger seeing Sting, yelling as he leaped to attack him, "My woman!" and proceed to strike him.
(Cue Natsu's theme—Fairy Tail Volume one Soundtrack)
Natsu turned to him and guarded with his elbow, the wright of the monkey cracking the ice below him as the Fire Dragon Slayer said to the monkey, "Listen up, everyone in Fairy Tail I consider my family!" before delivering swift kick with his right leg, sending the Vulcan flying back from him and sliding his feet to the ground. His arms shielded his face as he spoke again.
"Whether its gramps or Mira, or even those jerks Elfman and Gray..." He continued seriously.
Lucy gasped a little, shocked by Natsu's words as the Vulcan came rushing over to him. Sting remained still, his body now charging with white energy along with a red-orange magic circle underneath.
"Happy, Lisanna, and Lucy too, they're all my friends…" he added as well, making Lucy gasp once more. Natsu really referred to her as a friend too?
"That's why…" Natsu continued, the Vulcan jumping his way at Sting punched the Vulcan directly in the stomach, his foot wrapped in flames as he exclaimed, "We're not leaving without Macao!" and the flames around Natsu's fire punch covered the monkey in white energy as it was send crashing into the ceiling with a loud boom before coming back down on all fours. Many icicles fell from the ceiling and crashed to the ground in front of the Vulcan. The Vulcan then roared before clapping his hands loudly, creating a shockwave, sending the icicles and mist flying at the Dragon Slayer as he shields himself. His clothes whipped from the ice and mist flying as Lucy screamed, flying about before being grabbed by Taurus. When the ice and mist cleared, the Vulcan stood with his knuckles to the ice waiting for the wizards to attack again.
"This guy just won't quit," Natsu said, realizing this Vulcan was not going down easy.
"You are telling me. But if we can beat him, we can find Macao," Lisanna replied when an idea popped into her head, "I have an idea but Natsu, just follow my lead."
"Okay," Natsu nodded.
"Taurus, help Natsu and Lisanna out." Lucy ordered Taurus to turn to his owner and gave him a thumbs up.
"Get ready, he's about to attack!" Lisanna announced, seeing the Vulcan coming their way. Natsu and Taurus stood ready to attack when the Vulcan started to charge at them.
(Cue Salamander—Fairy Tail Volume One Soundtrack)
"Takeover Animal Soul: Armadillo!" Lisanna exclaimed. Her Tigress body glowed golden before shrinking down to the ground. When the golden light faded, she was now an Armadillo the size of two cats. Her body was covered in a red armor-like shell with dark pink paws and a tail. She started to curl up into a ball and started to build up momentum from spinning rapidly in her place. Finally, she dashed off to the Vulcan and collided squarely with its chest, making the monkey lose its breath and was sent bouncing off the ice wall before going straight into the air. She stopped rolling on a dime, before glowing again and taking another form. Her Phoenix Soul took flight into the air. Her talon feet hit the top of the ceiling, flames shooting from her feet and propeller downwards to the Vulcan, sending it crashing into the icy floor. The Vulcan was angry, his large arms trying to grab her from its head before jumping off and sliding her feet to the ice.
"Natsu!" Lisanna called out, holding out a hand as she slid backwards as Natsu ran towards her. Grabbing her hand, Natsu and her making their way to each other. Natsu grabbed her arm, the pair now starting to spin in place with Natsu's other hand ignited with flames. Giving Natsu a toss, Lisanna sent him flying towards the Vulcan, the Vulcan seeing Natsu coming it is way.
"Eat this! Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" he exclaimed, his fist colliding with the Vulcan and sending him flying. The Vulcan recovered, his feet, digging into the icy ground and heading his wa to Natsu and Lisanna. But the two jumped away and Taurus grabbed it in his tracks. The monkey-like creature struggled as the Bull Spirit had him in his strong arms, smiling as he had the Vulcan ready to toss him. With a toss, the Vulcan was sent flying up into air, and Lisanna jumped high into the air and her leg ignited with fire.
"See you later!" Lisanna exclaimed, delivering the final blow to the Vulcan, sending it flying into the ice cave wall, creating an explosion from the outside. When the mist cleared inside the cave, the Vulcan was revealed to have been finally beaten, its body now stuck in the ice in silly position with its legs were dangling over its torso. Its eyes were white from shock along with scratch marks all over its body. with a smile on her face, Lisanna reverted to normal, she looked at the defeated Vulcan, Natsu standing with her. Taurus smiled confidently and Happy cheered beside Lucy.
"We beat him!" Happy cheered, the group standing with one another facing the defeated Vulcan.
"I'm glad and all, but weren't you going to ask this monkey where Macao-san was?" Lucy asked to the pair,.
"Crap, guess we overdid it." Lisanna replied sheepishly, rubbing the back of her head. "He's completely out of it, no way he's talking now."
"So what do we do?" Natsu asked, placing his hands to his pants pockets.
Lucy kneeled down to the Vulcan but was startled to see it glowing as she jumped in shock. The Vulcan's body began to glow a golden light as the light surrounded the body as the four mages shield their eyes from the brightness. When the light faded, they look to where the Vulcan was and gasped… There was no Vulcan laying there.
"No way, it can't be…" Lisanna gasped along with Natsu
In place of the Vulcan was a slim, mildly muscular man of average height with short, straight, slicked back dark blue hair. He has linear dark eyebrows, dark eyes, and a prominent nose with a flat, rectangular front. The lower part of his face is covered in some sparse stubble, including a thin mustache. His clothes consists of a long, open white jacket reaching down below his knees, with a wide, dark purple collar and matching edges, its sleeves rolled up to his elbows. The sleeves of his simple, dark shirt he wears below this jacket are visible sprouting from the latter's own sleeves, and reach down below his elbows. He dons brown, pinstriped pants held up by a lighter-colored belt bearing a snake-like pattern, with a simple, square-shaped buckle, partially obscured by his shirt, and a very distinctive pair of shoes, covered by a leopard pattern. Around his neck is a large metal chain which held up a similarly large pendant with a serpentine form, shaped like the letter "S". Like the Vulcan, body was all beat up.
"The Vulcan became Macao!" Natsu and Lisanna said in unison.
"Eh?" Lucy asked in confusion.
"He must have been taken over." Happy explained, realizing the magic used.
"Taken over?" Lucy repeated still confused.
"Body possession spell, it's the magic my siblings specialize. It's when we take the form of creatures and when we use their magic, it increases ours." Lisanna explained before stepping near to Macao, her head hung low and her voice hoarse, "But there are times like this, where the creature takes over you…" an image of a looming beast and Lisanna holding her arms out to it with a smile appeared in her head. Natsu held out a hand to his friend but stopped when he saw a tear roll down her cheek. She gripped her arm, Lucy seeing her hold it to an armband.
"Damn you Macao, Damn you… We are worried for you, why would you go and end up like Elf-niichan?" she said softly, holding back the many tears she wanted to shed.
"Hey, Lisanna, Are you okay?" Lucy asked. Lisanna got up, turing to Lucy, and rubbed her eyes. She looked to the Celestial Spirit Wizard, faking smile.
"It's nothing." she replied, not trying to look sad to Lucy, "Anway, we should make sure Macao is patched up. Natsu, Get the first aid kit." she ordered, taking their gaze to Macao. Everyone catered around the wizardas they proceed to treat his injures. They removed his coat and shirt to find his body all scratched up and bleeding. That immediately bandaged his torso, arms and chest to stop the bleeding. They had placed his body on the red blanket Natsu was carrying that Lucy wrapped around her body. The group circled the Wizard, Natsu and Lisanna on one side and Lucy and Happy on the other. Lucy had her hand to the First Aid kit as Happy explained the situation to the others.
"It looks like he put up an intense fight before he was taken over." Happy explained, "I'll admit, I forget how strong Macao is." and Lisanna grunted in anger.
"Macao, don't die!" Lisanna yelled at the man, fists balled up.
"Not going to happen, Romeo was worried for him, there's no he's going to die!" Natsu retorted to the white- and black-haired wizard.
Macao's face moved slightly as his eyes slowly opened to see the blurred outlines of Lisanna and Natsu. His vision was clearing up, now seeing a blond-haired girl and Happy.
"Natsu… Lisanna…" Macao said slowly, his voice low.
"Macao!" The pair gasped excitedly as Lucy smiled brightly too. Happy was excited too when the older Wizard continued speaking.
"I'm pathetic… I defeated 19 of them…" he said slowly. Lucy gasped in shock when he continued his story. "…but the 20th took over me… I am mad at myself. Damn, I cannot face Romeo now…" but Lisanna and Natsu were not going to let him beat himself up like that..
"Don't say that!" the two interjected in unison.
"Defeating that many is impressive enough." Natsu assured him, impressed more than his defeat but one. Lisanna nodded in agreement but Lucy was in disbelief mouth ajar,
'No way, there are more of those apes and he took on that job by himself?!'
Lisanna and Natsu both held out a solemn hand to the wizard, "Don't let one Vulcan taking over you get you down. Don't dwell and feel you are pathetic." Natsu said to him.
"We know you're a strong wizard. Macao and Fairy Tail think so too," Lisann added in agreement.
Macao's frown of disappointment turned into a smile as he took the hands of Lisanna, and Natsu's hands and the three joined hands. They smiled cheerfully at Macao.
"So how about we take you home, your little boy's waiting," and both had a cheerful smile, giving their fellow guild member the strength to see his son again.
Macao smiled even more as he rose from his back as the four mages held his hand. Lucy watched on at the scene, a soft smile on her face from watching the touching moment with Lisanna, Natsu, and Macao. Watching how brave and willing Natsu and Lisanna were, and even were to save Macao made her feel happy,
'Amazing… I am really… No match for them.' She thought to herself, smiling softly.
"What are you smiling for Lucy?" asked Happy curiously.
"Oh." She responded, blushing slightly, "It's nothing."
Back in Magnolia, Romeo sat sadly on the steps where he was remembering what the kids in town said to him about Fairy Tail, his dad's guild. In his hands was a book as the sun was setting while he thought back to the teasing and the reason his father went on the job in the first place.
'What's so great about Fairy Tail's mages?' One boy asked with a sneer in his voice to Romeo. "
'They're a bunch of drunken cowards.' Another boy sneered.
'They're not!' Romeo retorted to the boys in anger.
'I'm going to be a knight when I grow up." The third boy said to his friends and Romeo.
'Wizards stink like booze.' The second boy scoffed in agreement with the others.
Upset over the boys' remarks of his father's guild, Romeo spoke to his father about this, about taking a job. The bullying was unbearable, he wanted it to end. Tears were stinging his face when he spoke to his father.
'Dad! Take a job! I cannot take it anymore!' Romeo shouted tearfully.
Macao smiled and looked at his son, seeing his tears, he made simple response to the young boy. 'Alight.'
Romeo wiped the tears from his eyes after the memory faded from his thoughts, remembering that it was what he told his father was the reason he left for a job. He hated being picked on by the boys in town so that in the end he forced his father to go on a dangerous request and never return. He spent the week checking up on Macao at the guild every day, but nothing from then. He should not have hit Makarov; the master had faith in his father and Fairy Tail as well. He continued wiping his tears when three voices announced themselves to him.
"Romeo!"
Romeo looked up to see Natsu, Lisanna, Happy, Lucy, and his father walking to where he was. The older Wizard had his arms on Natsu and Lisanna for support, Lucy right behind them as Romeo gasped. They stopped and smiled widely at the young boy as tears began to drip from his eyes. But these weren't tears of sadness, but tears of joy. Romeo then jumped and tackled his father as the two fell to the ground with Romeo crying,
"Dad!"
Macao, despite his mending injuries, embraced his son back as the two kneeled to the ground.
"Dad! I am sorry!" Romeo continued tearfully.
"I made you worry, I'm sorry." Macao said softly to his tearful son.
"It's okay." Romeo said tears still stinging his face, "I'm a wizard's son."
"When those brats tease you next time, ask them," he replied to his son, releasing him, and smiled, "If their old man can defeat nineteen monsters by himself! Okay?"
Romeo smiled cheerfully as he turned to see the group walk back to the guild. He called out to them, his hands to his face.
"Natsu-Nii, Lisanna-nee, Happy, thanks!" he called them.
"We're happy to help!" Lisanna replied back, her and Natsu waving back.
"Aye!" said Happy who waved his paws back.
"And…" Romeo added, "Thank you too, Lucy-Nii!"
The blond-haired Celestial Wizards turned back around and waved back at Romeo happily. The three friends and Happy returned to the Fairy Tail Guild with smiles of excitement on their faces and everyone waiting for them. They even found three unknown faces there, but it was not time to ask, as Natsu and Lisanna went home, and Lucy did as well. A smile was on her face as she thought about what happened that day.
July 4th, Sunny followed by a blizzard, then Sunny again. Fairy Tail is reckless and outrageous guild, but it is also fun, heartwarming, and kind. I am still a newcomer wizard, but I think I will enjoy being a part of this guild.
To be continued in chapter three: Infiltrate the Everlue Mansion.