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Beta Reader: volfwildman

Cover Art by KegiSpringfield

(3rd Person Battle POV)

To say that Natsu was regretting questioning the weird owlman would be an understatement.

"Will you stop trying to ram me!?" Shouted the Dragon Slayer as he once more dodged a ram attempt from Fukuro.

After Natsu had asked his opponent a few upsetting questions Fukuro decided he really wanted to hurt the Fire mage. Said method of hurting apparently included cautiously trying to ram into the Dragon Slayer with his jetpack. So far he has had little to no success. That just made the owlman try harder.

"Ram Ho Ho Hou"

With those words said Fukuro once more attempted to ram Natsu. Despite the attack name though he wasn't actually using magic. The Assassin did use Jet Magic but this wasn't magic. This was just him using a jetpack to slam into his opponent. Sure the jetpack was powered by magic but that had its own source of magic. No spells involved, just the physics of what happens when a speeding object hits a stationary object.

"Ok, I've had enough of this!" With that said the Fairy Tail mage decided to stand his ground as he took a deep breath while channeling magic through his lungs and prepared for the speeding person about to crash into him.

"Fire Dragon's Roar"

A mass of flames erupted from Natsu's mouth as it flowed toward Fukuro. The owlman and the roar of flames crashed into each other but despite the power behind the fire, it gave way as the man on the jetpack continued to rocket towards the Fire mage. The Dragon Slayer's eyes widened just before the giant of a man slammed into him and sent him tumbling along the floor.

Natsu soon came to a stop as sat on the floor while rubbing his bruised chest. Fukuro rolled through the air before dramatically landing his feet on the ground while posing with his fist on his hips. "Ho ho ho nice try villain but a warrior of good like myself could never be harmed from flames like that."

The Fairy Tail mage couldn't help the blank look he gave his opponent as he looked at the burn marks all over the top of the man's body. However, despite the bad burns, Fukuro showed no signs of pain as he laughed at his foe. For whatever reason, maybe it was his rather unique body or his rather thick skull, the Assassin took the damage in stride.

Natsu narrowed his eyes as he got to his feet and started to channel magic to his lower body. Whatever his opponent was, the Fire mage knew that it was going to take a good bit of force to take him out if he could tank his roar. With that in mind, the Fire Dragon Slayer's feet were set on fire as he used his magic.

"Fire Dragon's Claws"

Twin jets of flames shot out from the bottom of Natus's feet as he was swiftly propelled towards his enemy. Fukuro was caught off guard at his opponent's rapid movement and as a result, did nothing as the Fire mage repaid him in kind with a ram of his own.

With a loud crash, Natsu slammed into the Assassin as the two bodies rocketed towards the nearby wall. At the last second, the Dragon Slayer twisted his body around so that his feet were now facing Fukuro. Said man soon found himself not only crashing into the wall but being bathed in the flames that were firing out of the Fairy Tail mage's feet.

With a bit of flair, Natsu cut off the jet of flames from his feet and landed on the ground. He didn't have much time to relax though has with a loud roar Fukuro charged out of the crater he had made in the wall, completely ignoring the fire patches that were still burning on his body. The owlman moved surprisingly fast for a person with such a big body as he was soon next to his foe with a raised fist.

Natsu in turn pulled his fist back as he poured magic into it. Just as Fukuro threw his punch so did his opponent.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist"

The two punches meet each other, one on fire while the other wasn't. Despite the lack of flames on his fist Fukuro was able to match Natsu's strength as the two pushed at each other. This was until Fukuro opened his fist and grabbed the Fire mage's fist while also grabbing hold of his shoulder.

Before Natsu could react his opponent's jetpack activated and the two soon found themselves rapidly flying up towards the rather high up ceiling. Just as the two were about to crash Fukuro lifted his foe's body in front of him as the two crashed into the ceiling with Natsu taking the full brunt of the crash.

Afterward, the jetpack man flew back as he started to finally use his magic while watching Natsu start to fall back towards the ground. With his magic primed and ready Fukuro thrust his glowing fist towards the falling body of his opponent.

"Justice Ho Ho Hou"

A blast of jet Magic raced towards Natsu who could do nothing as he fell in the air. However, just before the blast of energy hit him a blue blur rocketed towards the Fire mage and quickly snathed him up and out of the way of the attack. After getting over his initial disorientation the Dragon Slayer looked behind him to find that he was being held in the air by none other than his cat friend Happy.

"Got you just in time Natsu!" Said Happy as he flared his wings a little to keep balance in the air. The blue talking cat's natural Flight magic was currently a good send. However, Natsu was thinking of other things right now.

"And where the hell were you when he was trying to ram me!?" Natsu somewhat shouted.

Happy looked surprised for a moment before diverting his eyes away from Natsu's face as he let out a nervous chuckle. "Well...I kinda didn't want to be turning into roadkill by the weird owlman but when I saw you falling I knew I couldn't stay on the sidelines any longer."

The little anger that Natsu felt melted away at the smile his friend gave him. The Dragon Slayer could never truly stay made at his friend, they had been through too much together for that. S with a smile of his own he spoke, "Well better late than never. Why don't we show this guy what we can do. Just like we did back during the last S-class trials?"

Happy eagerly nodded as the Fire mage started to flair up his magic. As for Fukuro, he took a few seconds to make sure that he was in fact seeing a flying cat before preparing some magic of his own.

"Jet Ho Ho Hou"

With a simple plus of magic towards his magic jet, Fukuro rocketed forward toward Natus with his fist stretched out in front of him. Sadly for the Assassin though the Dragon Slayer and his cat had a spell of their own to use right now.

"Flying Fire Dragon Blitz"

A red magic circle appeared behind Natsu before a jet of flames erupted from behind him as Happy's Flight magic mixed with it to allow them to fly at rapid but controlled speeds. The two flying men crashed into each other but that didn't stop them as the owlman and the mage with a flying cat flew all over the large room.

Both tried to crash and ram into each other as they flew from one side of the room to another. One time Fukuro was able to clip his opponent and send him flying out of control for a few seconds, another time Natsu was able to crash into his enemy's lower body and cause the man to do a dozen flips before he was able to regain control. Neither of them was able to permanently take down the other but that didn't discourage them from trying again and again.

It was during the next near hit when Fukuro almost hit the Fire mage did Natsu get an idea. With his idea in mind, the Dragon Slayer counted to fight his opponent in mid-air. It was when the next near hit happened that the pink-haired man unleashed some magic he hand poured into his right arm.

"Fire Dragon's Wing Attack"

Flames erupted from Natsu's right arm and formed a large wing that slammed into the owlman. Fukuro gritted his beak as the spell sent him racing towards a nearby wall before he was able to regain control of his flight. He didn't have much time to think through as he was forced to fly to the right to avoid a ram from Natsu he refused to let up his assault

Even with the swift attacks though Fukuro was able to gain some distance from his opponent as he prepared for a spell of his own. Soon both of his fists glowed yellow with Jest magic as he pointed them towards his foe and unleashed the magic within them.

"Justice Ho Ho Hou"

Two blasts of Jet magic shot towards Natsu who was able to dodge them easily, the second pair of blasts almost got him to due to not expecting a second pair now a third for that matter. Fukuro was rapidly firing the spell from his fist as his opponent flew all around the room trying to dodge them.

At first, it seemed like Fukuro was firing at random to the Dragon Slayer but after a minute he realized there had been a pattern to the owlman's attacks. He realized this mainly because he found himself in one of the room's corners unable to move from the incoming blasts.

"Fuc-" Natsu didn't get to finish the word as his body was bombarded with the masses of magic energy. Happy was frantically looking for a way out as his friend took the full brunt of the attack. After a few seconds, he realized the only way out was forward, and with a mumbled apology he shot forward with the Fire mage.

Just as the two were about to leave the stream of magic blast one of them hit Happy's wing and with a cry of pain both of them started falling to the ground. Luckily Natsu was able to catch his cat friend mid-air and start blasting streams of flames downward to slow them down. This ended up working as by the time he hit the ground he barely felt it.

"Happy you ok !?" At Natsu's shout, Happy nodded his head before trying to fly once more. This didn't last long as after a painful shock he was quickly on the floor holding his wing in his arms.

"I'm sorry Natsu but I can't fly right now. The bird guy clipped my wing and I can't fly without it hurting. I don't even want to know how painful it would be to hold you while flying." Natsu nodded his head sympathetically to his friend before glaring over at the flying Fukuro who was taking the time to laugh and pose.

"Don't worry about it Happy. Just stand back while I fry this bird." Happy did just that as Natsu walked forward with his hands on fire. While doing this he was trying to think of a way to bring Fukuro down. The main problem was that his only ranged spell was his roar.

After a few seconds, Natsu snarled as he looked towards the still posing Fukuro. The Dragon Slayer thought back to the spell that brought him and Happy down before a figurative light bulb went off in his head. With a grin, he glanced at his flaming fist before pouring magic into them as he prepared to freestyle a spell.

"Fire Dragon's Raging Embers"

Natsu cocked a fist back before throwing a punch. From his fist, a small fireball was launched right towards Fukuro. Despite his posing the owlman had in fact been keeping an eye on his opponent, content to have some fun while he was out of attack range, so when the fireball was shot he was able to drift to the right to avoid the flames.

The Dragon Slayer grinned at the result of the spell. It was sloppy but he could work on refining it later, for now, it was what he needed to burn some wings. With eagerness Natsu started to rapidly throw punches, each one shooting a small fireball towards Fukuro.

Said owlman started to try his best at dodging the flaming projectiles but was finding that he wasn't having much luck. Natsu was putting his all in the attack and it showed with the rather large amount of fireballs that were being thrown all over the room. That combined with Fukuro's rather large figure and he was constantly getting hit by the flames. At first, it wasn't so bad, the Assassin was naturally durable and the spell didn't have power as it could be thanks to it being a new unrefined spell but the hits were building up.

So with a narrowed eye, Fukuro powered through the fireballs and launched himself towards the Dragon Slayer hoping to land a ram. Just as the owlman was about to hit his target Nastu stopped his spell and jumped to the right. As his opponent passed the Fire mage acted out of instinct hone over years of fighting and pooled magic into his right arm for a spell.

"Fire Dragon's Flame Elbow"

A single stream of fire erupted from Natsu's right elbow and swiftly propelled him towards the passing Fukuro. The Assassin found himself clotheslined by his opponent's right arm and sent crashing toward the nearby wall. With a loud crash, Fukuro made contact with the wall as Natsu regained his balance after stopping the stream of flames once he hit his foe.

Fukuro didn't take down for long as he got up with a grunt of pain. His opponent was proving far more troublesome than he thought the Dragon Slayer would be. The Assassin decided that he should start trying to end this soon. So the owlman bent his waist as he pointed the top of his body toward Nastu before speaking out. "You have done well for a dastardly villain! But as a Hero of Justice, I will be ending this fight with your death!"

"Missile Ho Ho Hou"

Fukuro's jetpack once more started up but this time instead of the owlman flying forward only the machine did. Natsu's eyes widened as he dunked under the incoming jetpack and upon turning his head to keep an eye on the unmanned machine a large fist slammed into the back of his head and sent him to the ground.

Natsu let out a curse as he quickly picked himself up from the ground in time to see Fukuro attempting another strike. The Dragon Slayer rolled to the right to avoid the punch before rushing his opponent. While the Assassin was both durable and strong he did lack speed and this was rather apparent when he was too slow to defend from the Fire mage slamming his fist into said man's stomach.

It didn't take Fukuro long to recover from the hit as the owlman swept his giant right arm towards Natsu who jumped back to avoid it. Just before the Dragon Slayer could rush back in though the jetpack made another attack and rammed into his back. The strike sent the Summer Fairy flying toward Fukuro who promptly punched him in mid-air and sent him tumbling along the ground.

Natsu wasn't able to get up before Fukuro was on him with a hammer fist strike. The Fire mage was just able to roll to the right and avoid the floor cracking blow. He was once more forced to do this with another strike from the owlman but before he could move again a hand slammed it into his chest and upon looking up the Summer Fairy saw the Assassin's fist raised to deliver a hard blow to the head. The Dragon Slayer panicked as he flooded his body with magic and swiftly and sloppily released a spell just as the fist started to descend.

"Fire Dragon's Roasting Bath"

Within a millisecond Natsu's entire body was engulfed in flames as they erupted from every single part of his skin. Fukuro abandoned his strike and stepped back from the flames, trying his best to keep his already burned body from burning anymore. Sadly for him, though things didn't turn out that way as the Dragon Slayer quickly got up and rammed into his opponent.

Fukuro frantically gained some distance from his opponent as he recovered from the ram. Natsu himself gave a grin as the flames that surrounded his board faded away. Before the Summer Fairy could make a move though he heard a sound from behind him get louder and at the last second ducked under the jetpack as it tried to hit him. Unfortunately though just as the jetpack pasted overheard a mechanical claw swiftly reached out and grabbed its target.

Natsu let out a loud yell as the jetpack carried him through the air. The Dragon Slayer tried to get away from the machine but soon found a feeling of sickness overwhelming him as his motion sickness kicked in. In the end, the Summer Fairy could do nothing as the jetpack made a hard right turn before it hit a wall and promptly released its passenger into said wall.

The jetpack stayed close by as Fukuro gazed at the dust in the air surrounding his opponent's impact site. The owlman was ready to rush in and fight again if his foe was still up and running but what he wasn't expecting was an explosion of fire to erupt from the dust. Out from the explosion rocked Natsu causing the Assassin to prepare for an attack. This never came however as to the owlman's horror his enemy wasn't aiming for him.

"Fire Dragon's Crushing Fang"

Natsu's right arm was alight with an intense flame as he flew toward the Assassin's jet pack. Fukuro could do little more than watch as the Dragon Slayer clawed fingers slammed into his beloved jet pack. A loud shattering sound echoed through the room as the magic machine was broken into two by the Fairy Tail mage's attack.

Seconds after the strike Natsu landed on the ground with a stratified smile on his face as he watched the remains of the hellish device fall to the ground. The smile didn't last long though as he heard a yell of rage and turned to see Fukuro rushing towards him with an intense look in his eye.

The Fire Dragon Slayer jumped to the right as a large fist attempted to strike him and soon found himself making more jumps or dodges as his opponent unleashed an onslaught of punches. Despite the attack, Natsu couldn't help the grin on his face as he mocked his opponent. "That all you can do bird brain!? Now that I broke you dumb machine you can't use your magic!"

Fukuro paused for a second as he heard his foe's words before his beak widened into a scary smile. Before Natsu could even wonder why his opponent smiled said man put his hands together and brought them down to the ground. The impact was enough to leave a small crater in the floor as the Summer Fairy lost his balance from the small quack that followed.

Before he could regain his balance Natsu found two large hands grab his sides and pinning his arms as well while he was lifted up into the air. As the Dragon Slayer struggled against the hold Fukuro brought him up towards his face as he continued to give his opponent a scary smile before quietly speaking. "Jet magic isn't the only magic I can do."

"Capture"

Natsu's eyes widened as Fukuro's mouth did them the same. The owlman's mouth was more than a foot long at this point. The Fire mage's stare was broken though when he was brought above his opponent and found himself being pulled toward the giant mouth. The Dragon Slayer snapped out of his stupor just in time to place his feet on his opponent's beak and stopped himself from being eaten.

However, before he could use his magic the Summer Fairy let out a gasp of pain as the two hands holding him increased their grip to painful levels. Natsu found his strength failing him as he desperately tried to keep his feet in place and keep himself out of Fukuro's mouth. Just as it seemed he was about to be eaten though a blue blur rocketed towards the two.

"Max Speed Attack"

Despite his previous injury upon seeing his friend about to be eaten caused Happy to disregard the pain as he activated his magic. The blue cat painfully slammed into Fukuro's stomach and caused the owlman to lose his grip on his prey. As Natsu dropped to the ground the Assassin grabbed Happy and after crushing him in his grip for a second threw him to the ground. He took a second to glare at the fallen flying cat before looking towards his opponent only to find him on his feet with an angry expression on his face as he held out his hands.

"Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame"

Fukuro could only watch as an explosion of fire erupted from Natsu's hands and a mass of flames slammed into the owlman. The flames swiftly carried its victim towards the nearby wall as and upon making contact with the building exploded.

Natsu let out a sigh before remembering his blue friend and rushing toward him. "HAPPY! Please tell me your alright buddy!"

Upon getting to his friend he held Happy in his hands. The cat winced a bit at the contact before looking towards his best friend and giving him a shaky thumbs-up. The two smiled at each other before Happy's smile quickly disappeared as he looked behind Natsu.

Before the cat could speak Natsu found a pair of giant hands once more grabbing his sides. Upon being turned around he was face to face with a horribly burned and damaged Fukuro. But despite the rather severe injuries that the owlman had taken he refused to stay down as he once more tried to end the fight.

"Capture"

Once more Fukuro's mouth widened to large potations as he tried to shove his prey into his stomach. This time Natsu was able to use both his feet and his arms to keep himself from being swallowed but struggled as the Assassin put his whole might into punching his victim into himself. Has the Dragon Slayer struggled he stared down his opponent's throat before an idea came to him.

"If you want to eat something so badly then I'll give you something to eat!" Upon shouting those words Natsu took a large breath as he focused his magic into his lungs. Fukuro's eyes widened as he realized what was happening and squeezed his prey painfully. Unfortunately for the Assassin though his captive was more than prepared for the pain and forced himself to continue the spell as his mouth filled his mouth.

"Fire Dragon's Roar"

A massive stream of fire rushed out of Natsu's mouth and into Fukuro's. Tears welled up in the owlman's eyes as the fire was forced into his sensitive insides. It wasn't long before the spell was over and Fukuro fell onto his back, completely knocked out from the pain having swallowed a metric ton of fire.

"Next time you should watch what you eat! Goddamn, I feel unclean right now. Like I was a part of some sicko's fetish or something." The Dragon Slayer shivered at his words before going over to check on Happy.

The blue cat had passed out at this point so the Fire mage lifted him up into his left arm before using his right to search his pocket. He quickly brought out a blank card and after a second of thought spoke the name Erza into it.

As the card was overtaken by a pointing arrow Natsu smiled. "I guess my witch of a sister is good for something. Ok Erza hold on your bro is coming to help you."

Before I move toward the AN I just wanted to thank all of you guys. Currently, this story as almost over 2000 followers and might even have that when I post this. I Kinda can't believe that this story has gotten so popular. I remember when I start this story I jokingly said "Maybe I get more the Child of Heaven.". Child of Heaven is the first big SI story for Fairy Tail and now at this point, I have actually passed it. Still not the biggest SI story though, got two more stories that have more followers but the fact that I have this many followers is still amazing to me. I can't thank you guys enough.

AN: But shorter of a chapter then what I've been putting out recently, Fukuro is so weird a character that I have no real idea what to do with him. Either way at this point he's been defeated and another person starts looking for Erza. And just to let you guys know, yes next chapter in the fight between Bishop and Ikaruga. I'm both looking forward to and dreading it at the same time.

volfwildman couldn't actually Beta this chapter as his laptop is no longer working and he needed a new one. This weekly shout out goes to ExBlazE for all his reviews that he has left on this story. They really help me when I had covid and was struggling to work on the story.

...You know what I'm in the mood for right now? Mexican food. I just love the stuff, it helps that my town has a really good Mexican place. That said has anyone ever really thought about the food that comes from those places? I love it but I can't help but feel things like Burritos Chimichangas and Enchiladas are mostly the same food. Stuff wrapped in a wheat fold. I guess it helps that the pace I talked about has an option to deep fry the chimis...Oh shit, I was supposed to talk about reviewing wasn't I...ummmmmm review if you like Mexican food I guess.

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