With Morrigan
Morrigan was smoking as she walked on the town road to the mermaid heel guildhall. She actually had never been to the place before but she knew that Marella was a part of it and that it was an all-girl's guild. When she first heard of her friend's plan, she could help but laugh at the irony. She reached the guildhall and hummed at the structure and it was near the sea and had an outside beach resort of sorts.
"Morrigan-senpai!" She heard a familiar voice call out to her. She turned and saw Marella sitting on one of the benches waving at her.
She was wearing a blue sundress, sunglasses and a sunhat. Her hair was freely flowing rather than her usual pony-tail style with a shoulder bag hanging on her chair. She saw a lot of men and some women staring at her.
"Marella nice outfit I thought disciplined warriors like yourself wear 24/7." She greeted her friend and sat beside her.
"Good to see you Morrigan-sempai. And for my choice in clothing it's a little hot today." She looked up and down to her friends and raised her eyebrow.
"What?"
"How long do you keep using that look?"
"What my hair, I think the people at the salon did a great job." Morrigan patted her afro pony tailed hair.
"You know that's not what I meant senpai." Marella shook her head.
"Let's not talk about Marella." Morrigan shook her head, blew smoke and then smirked. "Let's talk about your promotion to being a wizard saint in the next few months."
"Yes, it truly is an honour for me to be bestowed such a title."
"Hm so what do your people think of this?"
"Well mixed receptions." Marella sighed at how her family reacted when she told them the news.
"Hm well I can only imagine." Morrigan puffed out another smoke.
"Senpai please stop doing that because it's bad for your health." She lightly scolded the other woman.
"First of all, stop calling me that we're not in the eastern continents you know and second of all my magic lets me heal my body remember." Morrigan rolled her eyes a little.
"Well, senpai remember phrases from the eastern continent are universal nowadays. Plus, even if your magic heals you, I am sure there's a limit even for you."
"I thought you called me here to party, get wasted and laid not therapy me." Morrigan made a comedically annoyed face.
"Well actually there is something else I wanted to talk about senpai." Marella said seriously.
"Of course there's something else. Why didn't you tell me earlier through the communication lacrima?" Morrigan rolled her eyes. "So, queen of the sea, what's the problem?" Morrigan shifted to a serious tone.
Noticing that Morrigan was actually in a serious mood now Marella dug into her file and took out a file and gave it to her. Morrigan saw a creature she had never seen and it was a monstrous three headed dog. But it wasn't like the scenario was different for her thanks to Salem.
"That monsters have really been the talk of the council here in Fiore for a little while now but that's not the crazy thing."
"Oh, don't keep me in suspense now~."
"For one, that creature is so strong that multiple s-class rank wizards couldn't defeat it. When I was called in with Jura to deal with it the creature was incredibly strong having abilities to use fire, lightning and poison magic though I have to say it felt more demonic. It was a bad match for me though with the help of wizard saint Jermaine we managed to secure a victory. Though that's not the end of it, after we defeated it the beast glowed purple and disappeared."
"Purple you say." Immediately Morrigan thought of the strange monsters Salem hunts down.
"Yes, and after a few months it came back seemingly stronger but when we and Jura fought it once more and barely pulled off the victory it had another ability we weren't ready for." She paused and sipped her drink. "It opened a hole in space and with its demonic nature I really hope it's not coming and going where I think it is."
"The underworld." Morrigan hummed. "You're afraid it's opening holes to and from the underworld right?" Marella nodded at that. "I see the reason why you called me because I told you about my recent adventures. Am I right?"
"Yes, that's correct you told me that something like that normally happens to the creatures your boy battles frequently right so you must have a way to permanently beat this dog."
"So, you fighting that thing is why you were elected to wizard saint status huh. Though why don't you call one of those devil slayers since this is out of your job description with you being a god slayer and all."
"Morrigan-senpai you I can't just contact them plus I feel they will have the same problem despite their magic."
"What's in it for me and my kid?".
Marella noticed the 'my kid' and sighed at this behaviour. Morrigan wasn't really the type to perform acts out of the goodness of her heart and often expected something in return.
"The council will pay you handsomely for your services, senpai I will assure you of that." She said seriously.
"That's what I want to hear. I'll speak to the kid." She put out her cigar. "Now who do I have to screw to get a drink around her~." Morrigan sang and Marella just shook her head.
"Oh, speaking of which this Salem child you're traveling with seemed to have had an adventure with two of my guild members."
"Oh~ I only left him for two days and he's already getting himself lucky. I don't know whether I should happy or sad that his growing up~." Morrigan acted all over dramatic and Marella just chuckled.
In a forest
Salem Pov
I was so just in a forest called Lycan forest according to the map on my phone, near a river just sitting by a tree taking in the fresh air and nature and multitasking by making a schedule as well as practising my magic flow. It has been two days since I got two new transformations and was deciding on ways I could train with them.
Now I was making a training schedule for both transformations to properly divide my time between both transformations. Both had innate properties in using some elemental magic: one earth and one water. I was used to using wind(somewhat), fire and lighting, so this was brand new territory for me.
I also need to get strong enough to full control my Quetzalcoatl form and not just use it in short bursts like now. Every time I used it, I felt like it was fighting back against me. I guess it does make sense though even if it's not the actual Quetzalcoatl it was still very powerful and had some incredible skills which would be really useful not just for fighting like crafting as it did build that whole temple by itself.
"I should really look more into the creatures of Earthland. I can't just say I'll rely mostly on the anomalies I find interesting plus I really don't want to take-over something I have zero knowledge on." I thought of buying those gale-reading glasses and cramming through books containing the creatures and animals of Earthland.
'Know that I think about it, those scientists I met from back then said that they taught it as a course at Hercules university. Maybe they have some info on some really good stuff but I can't just barge in the number one school in Pergende.' I thought about looking at my phone. 'I should start using the communication lacrima part of this thing.'
"Beast Soul: Ankylosaurus!" I transformed into my new form and the appearance is that of a humanoid Ankylosaurus and I was a little taller.
"Man, it feels awesome being a freaking dinosaur!" I said really giddy and my voice was a lot deeper, similar to my other breast forms. My tail beat the ground mirroring my excitement but I accidently made multiple rock pillars. "Oops."
I looked at my hands/claws and clenched them then stomped on the ground making a huge crack in the ground and making a huge splash in the river. I then tried that spike missile attack it had done but even after 40 minutes of trying in different poses the most I could make out were four spikes.
After about an hour and half of training in my new form I ran out of magic and transformed back to normal to take a breather. It took out my phone and typed down the amount of time it requires me to use a transformation. It helps as a good reminder and of course I update it every two months or do.
I couldn't really properly train in these woods due to it being a tad bit smaller plus Morrigan told me to intensify my training so I'll go to mount Hokabe before going after the behemoth and Teostra.
After an hour I sat by a campfire in a different location of the forest while still next to the river. I was cooking up some fish I caught as my lunch. As I was eating my thoughts went to the elder dragon which was in the volcanic area of Fiore.
'I wonder if that thing has gotten any special attention.' I thought about people like Zeref, Achnologia, the magic council, the protagonist himself Natsu Dragneel or was Lucy the actual protagonist . I always get confused in that regard.
"Anyway, I should hurry and take care of them before another situation like the one last year. God forbid if Zeref got his hands on something like Bahumat or even worse an op dark souls' boss than it's over man." I shivered at the thought.
"But speaking of other worlds, I wonder if I can translate principles or techniques of other worlds to the make system of Ethernano." I never truly tried this because I first wanted to at least get a good grasp of the magic system of this world before I started experimenting.
I thought about magical anime like black clover which have stuff like mana skin and mana zone. Then there's the Fate series which houses the reality marble and now that I thought about it the reality marble and domain expansion from JJK are a little similar.
'For mana skin and zone, I could be able to remix without much of a problem. Well skin but zone will be a different case. Now for reality marbles. I already have my personal dimension aka my space but I know there's a much more complicated concept to it.' I thought as the fish finished cooking up and I dug in.
After I was finished, I decided to rest for a bit to fully recover my magic rather than hit the road. But as I leaned by the tree closed my eyes. As I was sleeping, I felt a brief pulse in magic nearby which got me to raise my guard and quickly transformed my ear into my owl form and heard something coming, being the tree fast so I quickly rolled out of the way. I saw five needles phase past the tree then I felt a pulse of magic again as they pierced the ground.
"The fuck phasing magic?" I questioned as I looked around trying to find the culprit. Before I could switch to smell to track this person down, I heard other objects coming towards me as I dodged and saw it was more needles. My magic wasn't really fully recharged so I I had to be careful if I am going to use my heavy hitters.
I continued doing this for like four minutes then it hit me that this person was just trying to tire me out till he gets a good shot in. Though if he was trying to kill me why use needles. I bent backwards avoiding some others and flipped kicked one away. I wasn't going to wait around for this guy to unleash a whole barrage so I splintered fast into deeper into the woods.
I saw a cannonball coming my way so I easily smacked kicked into the sky then it exploded. Then metal wires wrapped around my arms and legs. Then multiple needles came flying at me.
'Animal soul: Glacier wolf!' In a brief second I turned into my demi wolf form freezing the wires and needles, easily crumbling them.
'Beast soul: Werecheetah!" I quickly smelt the air and found my target some good metres away. So, I zoomed across the forest and reached him. But as I threw a drop kick, I went past him much to my surprise but I easily got my bearings and skidded across the round on all fours and came to a stop.
I took a better look at the guy and he was tall and dressed in combat pants, a hooded military jacket with a black mask covering his face.
"Wow you managed to dodge all those. Guess this hunt won't be so boring." He spoke but his voice seemed to be amplified and sounded like he was speaking from a speaker.
"Who the fuck are you and why are you attack me!" I growled at him demanding answers.
"Sorry kid can't tell ya." he denied. "Hm Take-over magic and a werecheetah you don't see that a lot."
I was about to comment but then I used my tail to catch an incoming knife for my back. That wasn't the end of it though metal spikes came out of the ground but I jumped high avoiding it. I sped around the trap and tried to claw the man again but my hand just went through him. So, he delivered a strong knee to my stomach but I quickly grabbed his leg while it was still on my gut and tried to twist it but he phased it though I took the chance to try and went past his head.
'Okay so he's not limited to one body part at a time.' I thought.
The man was going for quick jabs to my face but I dodged them though he quickly got to the ground and made a shift attack but I backed off and threw a powerful air fist at him. But as expected it phased through him but instead of phasing, he actually dodged it.
I sent fast air slashed with my claws to test it out. The man continued to skillfully dodge my attacks but the ground and trees around weren't so lucky.
'If this guy's other magic really was phasing then why would he dodge my air related attacks only.' I questioned myself.
He put his hands together in a maker magic stance.
"Iron make: Judgement hands" He made about seven giant arms and began attacking me by trying to squash me but I quickly dodged them, then requiped my magic gun and fired power blasts at them destroying them. I knew the gun would be useless when it came to attacking my opponent so I sent it away.
"Iron make: Alloy Javelins!" He made about 20 long metal javelins and they came at me fast.
I dodged almost all of it but when I was about to kick one away it phased past my leg and stabbed the left side of my gut.
"FUCK!!" I cursed and scolded myself for getting caught off guard as I quickly removed the spear and more blood gushed out.
The man in front of me is about to strike with his knife. But I quickly morphed into an ant shrinking in size dodging the attack. And not a second later I was behind him in my rabbit form and used my strong legs to shoot an air pressure double kick knocking him back smashing through several trees.
I flinched at the pain from my wound and turned back to normal.
"Animal arm: Glacier wolf." My right arm morphed into my wolf's claw and used the ice magic to clot my wound. It hurt like hell and wasn't the best way to cover a wound but it was the best I got for now. Please I was getting more winded.
Metal wires quickly wrapped around me and tied hard on a tree. They were very thin so they were really digging in and slightly slicing my skin drawing blood but also felt they were draining my magic. The man was in the air slowly floating down as he seemed to be checking for something.
I would theorise that he also knew gravity, wind, or floating magic but with the fact every time I tried to hit him it felt was like slightly like air instead of nothing and to the fact, he seemed to just didge my air attacks instead of letting them phase through him than my best bet was on density magic for now.
"Hm not bad kid you're a pretty decent mage. I can see why that woman was slightly interested in you though I was half expecting you to have something ready but guess not." He said, flipping his knife around.
'This is bad, my magic is being sucked up fast and guess it's time for reckless moves.' I gritted my teeth. He was too close so if I tried to use any sudden moves, he might strike fast. Too bad I could actually fully use my heavy hitter right now.
He was about to chop my neck but I shot out a fire breath attack from my mouth hitting him dead centre. Magic or not, fire must obey a form of physics meaning it's still less dense than air.
But I also quickly transformed my hand into my glacier wolf form and froze the tree and broke it apart letting the wires fall. I collapsed to the ground out of breath and almost completely out of magic. If I didn't tire myself out during training it would have been different.
I coughed violently as that fire attack really burned my mouth and through as I didn't fully transform those parts but just enough to not cause permanent damage. Though my magic reserves are really low right now, if I divided it properly, I had one better spell than a getaway from this bastard. So, my white hair grew a little and spiked up a tad bit.
The man got up, his shirt burned revealing his brown, the second degree burn I gave him and so was part of his mask revealing his mouth and dark eyes.
"You're a crafty little shit aren't you." He gave me a smirk. He then zipped in front of me kicking me across the woods hard slamming into a tree but I still kept focus.
Suddenly I felt his knife stab my stomach making me groan in pain and cough blood. I opened my eyes and saw his uncaring face.
"No hard feelings kid, it's just business and Rico here has a reputation to keep." He shrugged. "Iron mak-…AAAHH!!!" He screamed as finally unleashed a huge burst of lighting thanks to the Zinogre hair. Since he couldn't actually use one magic while using the other.
My opponent let go of me and fell to the ground squirming. I didn't waste any time and turned into an owl and flew out of there as fast as I could though my gut was still dripping blood. My only focus was to escape with the little magic I had left at the moment. I was sure the electrical surprise attack really damaged him enough.
Good thing he was in the medial of casting another spell otherwise if he was still phasing things would have been a lot different. I quickly transformed into my full owl form and flew away as fast as I could. Luckily next to the ant and rabbit transformation this one spends very very little amounts of magic to use.
My vision was getting blurry and I felt my magic almost at zero and the nearest town wasn't so far away but I won't be able to make it in time. So, before I was completely out, I pushed myself to fly high to the nearby mountains and found a cave.
I forced myself to transform my finger to that of my glacier wolf's and sealed up my other gut wound and the cave entrance. I wondered if I flew far away enough from that Rico guy. I didn't have enough strength to even requip my painkillers.
'Really I wish I had a form which had healing abilities right now!' I thought as I than collapsed on the ground.
A while later
I opened my eyes and saw I was still in the cave a little to my relief but the pain from the previous fights was still very much present but not as bad now. Luckily mages heal a lot faster than regular humans but I still need to get this looked at.
After I requiped and took in some painkillers to ease the pain I walked over to the cave entrance which was still clotted by my ice. I easily broke it with a kick and dragged outside and saw it was close to getting dark. I looked at my phone and saw that the nearest settlement was actually a village simply called the river village, so I transformed into an owl and flew there fast.
A few minutes later
I reached the river village and so some of the citizens were on the move but I didn't worry about that as I asked around where I could see a doctor. After I got the directions, I arrived at a little hospital or clinic.
"Hello anybody around?" I asked, clutching my abdomen as the wounds were opening again.
"Yes, can I help you?" I heard a female voice and so a pretty woman came out the door. She had long brown hair, green eyes, average height, and looked to be in her mid-twenties. She wore a typical fem doctor outfit.
"Yo, I got like two stab wounds I need treating." I told her lifting my shirt showing my injuries.
"WHAT!" She looked horrified. "You have more than just stab wounds. Please follow me, I have to treat you quickly." She frantically said as she guided me to a room.
After she told me to remove my shirt and lay on the bed her hand turned green not long, she sighed. Her hand then turned blue and I could feel my body getting better.
"You're quite toned for someone your age." She complimented.
"Thanks." I mean she was really hot but I wasn't going to say it out loud.
"May I please know your name?" She asked me.
"Oh Salem Shupiwe."
"It's nice to meet you Salem-san my name is Dr. Ryan but you can call me Melissa if it's not too much trouble. Can you please tell me who did this to you because I recognize the knife wound?" She gently asked me.
"Oh, I ran into a dark mage." I simply said but I wasn't sure if he was actually a dark mage or a mercenary, judging from the way he spoke.
"Well, I can sense you're a mage which is really lucky for you since we tend to heal faster thanks to the Ethernano we take. Salem-san you shouldn't use your ice magic to clot your wounds. It might stop the bleeding but I advise you not to use that on life threatening injuries." She lectured me.
"Yeah, I'll remember that." I mumbled. "So, Melissa, why are people a little frantic in this village?"
"Oh, we felt the aftermath of a mage battle in the Lycan forest nearby. Just a few hours age we saw a huge lighting blast visible from here so we thought the fight would reach here so people evacuated but when they saw it didn't reach village they quickly came back and now ever one it hurrying to see everything they left is still in check." She finished explaining the story. "You wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you Salem-san?
"Nope." I lied but she just giggled.
"Don't worry I can tell you don't want to cause harm and there was no damage done." She reassured me. "They're all done." She said moving her hand away.
I got up and flexed my arm and nodded and I didn't feel any pain but the two stab wounds seemed to have left scars. I did a backflip and stood on my hands and proceeded to do handstand standups.
"Salem-san please stop that you'll I might have healed you but you still need to rest first." She instructed.
"Yeah, I got it thanks for the help doc. How much do I owe you anyway?" I flipped back to my feet asking her for the bill.
After she said the bill, I paid her the jewels and put on my shirt. And was about to leave but the young doctor stopped me.
"What is it?" I asked her.
"I just wanted to remind you to rest a little. I just healed your body but not your stamina and magic so please take it easy." She advised me.
"Sure, thanks doc byeii~." Waved and went off.
I stretched my body and strolled along the village and it was small and peaceful. My stomach growled and I went to a little restaurant to get something to eat. After I was done, I left the restaurant using a toothpick on my sharp teeth.
'I wonder if that dude is still around the woods though I should really get some info on why he was hunting me.' I thought the doctor was right, though I should get some proper rest first. If I do go investigate, I might be met up with even more surprises and at least I should face them at top condition.
I wasn't going to pay for a room as I had to be careful with my spending recently as I've mostly been living on that royal reward. I scratched my head and transformed into a cat and ran up a building and decided this while be my resting place for tonight and gathered Ethernano into my body. Over time I've become so proficient with my less costly transformations like ant, rabbit, snake, owl and cat that they barely consume magic so I can even recharge while in their true forms.
I laid on the ground and the full moon shining on me providing an excellent night light.
Next day
I yawned still in my feline form and stretched my body and grumbled at the sunlight hitting my face. I shook my body and checked my magic reserves. They were all filled once again. My stomach growled and I sighed.
"Maybe I should become a full-blown mercenary to pay for my expenses? Now that I think about it, are people from guilds technically mercenaries?" I questioned. I ran down to the streets and saw the residents of the village going about their days.
"WOW MOMMY DID YOU SEE WHAT THAT CAT DID!!" A little girl with brown hair excitedly yelled at her mom.
"Sup." I waved at them. The mother jumped and was surprised , grabbing her daughter who just stared at me with star eyes. "Later" I chuckled and ran off.
I turned back to normal and got myself some cheap breakfast. Arter I was done I stretched and got ready to fly back to the woods.
I jumped and turned into an owl and flew off. As I was flying to the previous battle site, I thought about getting myself a new flying transformation as while all my transformations were impressive, I still need to expand my arsenal as everyone which I want to get has a roll to fill.
I landed in the area of my battle yesterday and saw my last attack really did a number on this place. The lightning attack spread over, scaring a lot of trees and the ground. I went back to normal and there were literally no traces of the man, not that I was expecting to see him there in the first place as he seemed to be a strong and experienced mage. I was hoping to get some cloth or metal left by him so I could track him down and ask him some questions.
All I know for now was that someone hired him but the question is who and what did they want with me.
'Okay I should get to the original plan. Train like a madman and go after two other anomalies.' I thought as I looked at the map on my phone but the Cerberus one acted strange as it's marked moved around a lot and disappeared from time to time.
I sensed someone coming this way and looked in their direction and got ready for anything. But it was just Laxus in his wanderer get up walking over to me with a very large fish on his shoulders
"Sup Laxus." I waved at him.
"Salem." He greeted me back and looked around and whistled. "What the hell happened here kid?"
"I got in a fight with another mage yesterday." I answered. "But I didn't expect to meet with you again. How's the soul searching coming along~?"
"It's going fine." He breathed heavily. "So, besides the fight with the dark mage, why are you here and where's your sister or mom?" He asked.
"Morrigan and I aren't related and I was just here to do a little training."
"Training you say. Interesting." He hummed. "What are you training for?"
"Why do you care?" I asked him.
"Just curiosity, that's all. Most who bothered to train in fairy tail usually had some reason or goal in mind."
"Let me guys, is their goals something like 'I want to be strong enough to protect my friends and family' or something cheesy like that?" I mimicked the typical protagonist speech.
"Something like that. They're all a bunch of idiots but that's what makes them all special." He chuckled and smiled fondly looking into the sky.
"Ayo if you have some sort of flashback or happy memories about your guild right now then I have to tell you the position you're in is really weird." I said while giving him a deadpanned look.
"Have you gotten over your break up yet~?" I asked dodging a lightning bolt. "DUDE!!"
"Keep making jokes like that and there will be more?" He said menacingly.
"So why are you still wandering around these parts?" I asked.
"It's complicated, kid. I did a terrible thing back at home. Now I can't go back and forests help clear my thoughts." He said with so much guilt on his face.
"Oh well it's not my business." I shrugged. "By the way, you know Phoenix Mountain, right?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Did you hear anything strange going on there during your little soul-searching adventure?" I asked him.
"I did hear that there have been strange activities happening in the volcanic areas for some months now so time now a good thing it's far away from any human settlement but those who've tried to investigate haven't come back from what I heard." He told me and hummed.
It looked like the Teostra was actually causing trouble which got me thinking. Now that I think about it, I should take care of it fast while it hasn't gotten attention from Zeref on loli wife's island I think and or worse , Acnologia. I really don't want that mess.
"Wait, why do you care what's going on there?" Laxus asked me as he sat on a tree stump and laid the fish on another stump.
"I was thinking of going there to take care of the problem." I told him.
"Oh, do you know what's happening there?"
"Yeah, you can say that." I answered.
"Mind sharing some kid information because I was actually thinking of going up there to take a look at the situation as well."
I thought about it and Laxus was a dragon slayer and a pretty powerful one in that matter so I could use this to my advantage. The Teostra was a high s-class monster but with Laxus lightning dragon slayer magic and my water magic thanks to my new form it could perhaps work.
"Hey yeah I'll share some information but only after one condition." I spoke.
"What's that?"
"We only go after it after a couple of days."
"And why is that?"
"Ah~. Ah~. Ah. Do you accept the deal~?" I asked him and gave me a hard glare which didn't affect me.
"Alright, fine , I accept the deal." He accepted.
"Excellent." I Cheered as transformed my head into a wyvern and shot it to his fire wood lilting it up. "The one causing the mess is a dragon." I told him and he gave me a bemused look.
"Not another one." I heard him mumble. "Kid I hate to break it to you but dragons don't exist anymore."
"Oh, you won't prove that it's a dragon then look at this." I took out my phone. "And before you ask what this device is, it's a custom lacrima for communication, taking and storing pictures, videos and so much more." I summarised my phone before he could ask what it was.
"Amazingly, I never heard that such a device had been invented." Laxus looked at my phone, impressed.
"Now here's the dragon I was talking about." I showed him the picture of the elder dragon and Laxus just looked at it in surprise.
"I-Is that really a dragon is this some sort of joke!?" He tried to stay cool.
"I'm not joking, my guy. And it's not edited either." I told him. "The best part is I know it's exact location so trust me on this." I wouldn't blame him if he didn't believe me, I mean I wouldn't believe me.
"What kind of dragon is it?"
"It's a fire dragon called Teostra." I told him and I saw the guy was deep in thought. Probably contemplating everything I just told him.
"Alright so why do you want to wait a week to go after it?"
"Well one of its weaknesses is water magic and I recently had a transformation which specialises in that but I need to train in it more to get used to it."
"Well, I'm a man of my word so how about I stick around and help you a little with the training section." He offered.
I wondered why Laxus just easily accepted everything and was willing to help me train. Sure, this was the new Laxus and all but I know he wasn't this mellow but I shouldn't complain I mean he was willing to help me so I should take it.
End of pov
One week later.
BOOM!!
BOOM!!
The sounds of multiple explosions were in a random mountain of Fiore as two combatants fought, destroying everything around them. It was Laxus and Salem in his hybrid Zingore form duking it out.
"Lighting dragon's breakdown fist!" Laxus threwhrow a lightning long range attack in the shape of a fist.
"Giga volt spear!" Salem threw a lightning attack spear like attack and the attacks hit each other making an explosion.
Laxus zipped behind him before Salem could properly react and was hit by a strong kick sending him flying and smashing in the mountain side making a large dent. Laxus ran to him and was to deliver a strong punch but Salem dodged by jumping in the air. He shifted in his demi- rabbit and delivered a strong foot dive which Laxus blocked but the ground beneath Laxus got really destroyed.
The two engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Laxus mostly using his fists and Salem using his feet and smaller structure to his advantage. Laxus got the upper hand and was about to deliver a lightning dragon's iron fist but Salem dodged by transforming by a cat rather than a werecheetah and gave him a powerful axe kick sending him crushing to a boulder.
Suddenly Laxus jumped up from his position and charged at Salem faster than before but thanks to his higher speed and reflexes in his were-cheetah form they began zooming around the mountain clashing sending shockwaves. Salem then briefly blocked a kick from Laxus and in that brief moment he shifted to his glacier wolf form and froze his leg.
"Lightning Dragon's Roar!" Laxus's attack hit Salem directly and caused an explosion.
Salem took a good amount of damage from the attack. Laxus broke the ice of his leg but slipped on the ice Salem secretly placed under him, almost making him fall but it covered his leg entirely and went to his whole body.
'Animal soul: Sea Serpent!' The second Laxus destroyed the ice. "Water slicer!" He threw the sharp razor water attack which Laxus dodged but it cut through a large pile of rubble.
"Raging bolt!" Laxus threw the large ball of lightning but Salem dodged the attack but Laxus came behind him using his lightning body.
"Lightning dragons iron fist!" Laxus' attack landed, sending Salem crashing down. "Lightning Dragon's shocking talon!" He didn't give Salem any room to breathe as hit him with a hard lighting kick sending smashing through multiple rock pillars.
"Lighting dragon's Roaring Thunder!" Laxus throw a stronger version of his breath attack which hit the pillar Salem was on making a large explosion.
Laxus finished his attack and looked at the smoke as the ground beneath him split but he didn't fall in and 6 spikes came flying at him but he easily destroyed them. Salem came out of the dust his hybrid Ankylosaurus form took heavy damage from the last attack.
"Not a bad kid." Laxus complimented. "You actually made me try a bit." He cockily said.
"Yeah thanks." Salem remarked sarcastically.
Laxus then fleshed in front of him with his lightning body. Salem could barely track him but the Ankylosaurus form was too slow to react to it and if he could switch transformations, it would be too late.
"Lightning Dragon's Jaw!" Laxus cast the attack directly but thanks to his hard skin helped him tank the attack but Laxus put in more power in the attack causing a massive explosion. Salem was knocked out of his form and kneeling on the ground and tried to get up again but fell to the ground but still conscious standing impressing Laxus.
Over the past week the two had travelled together and Laxus sparred with Salem as a form of training. Laxus noticed the boy's lightning-based transformation and decided to give him some pointers on lighting magic. He was impressed on how strong the kid was and he could say he was much stronger than a curtain she devil was at his age. They also took on some monsters.
Laxus was still finding it hard to believe it was a dragon till Salem showed him a picture of the past anomalies he faced. Laxus never seen any of those creatures and told him stories about them. So he began to believe what Salem was saying a little.
Though he won't admit it, the Strauss siblings are the reason he was doing this in the first place. Salem reminded him of the take-over family so much it gave him flashbacks of his family he pushed away at fairy tail, so him helping the kid was a form of small redemption for himself as he remembered as when the Mira got too cocky for her own good and took a dangerous S-class mission and her youngest sibling got killed. Salem reminded him of Mira a little from back than as if it truly was a dragon or a dangerous monster than he was in over his head.
After sometime the two mages were on a fire cooking some meat from a giant wildebeest. They were done with their training for today.
"Got to admit kid your sure can take a hit."
"Geez thanks but Morrigan was way rougher on me so you can say I built the durability." Salem sheepishly said.
"Damn is she that bad." Laxus raised his eyebrow.
"You have no idea." Salem sighed. "So, what about you what type of training did you go through to get this strong"
"It was hell kid. I trained like a mad man ever since I got my magic. I trained till I dropped, bleed and bones broke day in and day out to prove my strength." Laxus clenched his fist.
"Damn man Must have been really hellish training." Salem hummed. "So ready to go kill a dragon?"
"Don't have to ask me twice kid." Laxus smirked. "Well, what are you waiting for?" Laxus folded his arms.
"Do I look like your private transportation?" Salem gave him a deadpan look.
"If you think we're using a train to get there then you can forget it and besides, didn't you take-over a giant falcon two days ago."
"Yeah, it wasn't for you." Salem argued back. Salem just wanted to add another flyer in his arsenal.
Sometime later
Salem in his giant falcon form with Laxus riding on his back with his arms crossed enjoying his ride. He was glad his motion sickness didn't kick in.
"Hey Laxus, look down there." Salem said getting Laxus's attention and he saw a forest fire and it being put out by a large sum of water obviously made by a water mage.
"Hmm interesting, well what are you waiting for fly down there to check it out." Laxus ordered a little much to Salem's annoyance so he flipped over making Laxus fall to the ground. "YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!" He screamed and Salem laughed.
Laxus landed on his feet and Salem flew down and transformed back to normal landing next to him. They spotted a beautiful blue haired short blue woman who Salem could tell was Juvia Lockser putting out the last of the fires. She than noticed the two males.
"L-Laxus!" Juvia said in utter surprise.
"Well, this is unexpected." Laxus said calmly.
'Hm didn't see this coming.' Salem thought as he was meeting another major character.