Agreeing Breaking Moon Curse with Icy Surprise
"You see, our symptoms began around the same time the moon fell under an evil spell." Moka started explaining.
"What kind of spell?" Lucy asked.
"Since ancient times, this island has absorbed the light of the moon 'causing it to glow almost as beautifully as the moon itself. However, several years ago, the moon's color began to change. And an eerie purple glow was cast upon the island." Moka explained about the island.
"So, the moon turned purple? How does that even work?" Natsu wondered.
"I don't know, but I think we're about to find out." Nine looked up at the sky seeing the clouds drifting away, slowing showing the purple moon until it's in full view.
"Oh my…" Juvia was shocked to see an actual purple moon.
"Oh wow, it really is purple." Lucy said.
"Man, that's creepy looking." Gray commented, not like the looks of it one bit.
"It's the curse… Stand back. The change is about to begin." Moka warned them as he and his people are showing deep fear on their faces and then comes the screams when they start changing from their human forms into more demonic looking figures.
"AAAAAAHHHHH?! WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" Juvia screamed in shock and quickly hid behind Natsu.
"They're becoming demons, this looks even worse than what Bobo showed me back on the boat." Nine compared what they saw back then to how it's looking now.
"Why is this happening to them?" Natsu asked.
"(I don't know what is going on here, but it looks like we're seeing the major issue on this island.)" Nine thought was determined to help them.
A few seconds later, their transformation has finally stopped showing the Fairy Tail group their full demonic appearance.
"I'm sorry if our appearance frightens you." Moka said. Now becoming a bald Demon with long silver sideburns running from the length of his face down to his hips. He has purple skin and has dark violet spots all over his body. He has blue clawed hands and feet. He wears a necklace made of what appear to be large animal teeth centered by a skull and a dark blue cape that drapes down from his shoulders to the back of his knees and features a crescent moon symbol. He also wears a white tribal-like kilt that features a red ringed circle and two green stripes encircling near the trimmings of the kilt, which is also cut decoratively. He has gold rings on both of his legs and his left arm.
"It's okay, I'm just completely confused." Gray said, while he was a little bit scared of the transformation, this just left with more questions than answers.
"You poor people." Lucy said.
"Juvia is sorry that you all have to suffer through such ordeals." Juvia looked sad for the villagers.
"Natsu, I know you may think these people are cool from how they transformed and look right now but be mindful that they won't want to be demons." Nine scolded her foster son/lover, knowing full well what he was about to say in a situation like this.
"Got it." Natsu nodded.
"Hold on, does he really think we're cool?" One male demon asked.
"No one has ever thought like that about us before." One female demon said.
"Anyway, as you've witnessed, whenever the purple moon shows its face in the sky, everyone in the village takes on a horrific demon form. If it isn't a curse, then what else could it possibly be?" Moka asked.
Nine and the others look at some of the villagers seeing them crying in pain because they have to suffer through this every single night for years.
"We'll return to normal once the morning comes and the sun has risen. However, there are some poor souls who can no longer switch back to their human forms for they have lost their minds." Moka explained.
"How sad." Lucy said.
"What did you do with those people, if you don't mind Juvia asking." Juvia asked.
"The fate for them, these unfortunate souls in the grip of madness… we've no choice, but to put them to death." Moka revealed, causing the Fairy Tail group to gasp.
"But they might change back to normal someday." Natsu stated.
"I'm afraid waiting is not the answer here, that would just leave the monsters to kill them and even capturing them wouldn't work because they would also break free." Nine figured that much out.
"You are correct." Moka nodded and took out a photo of someone he once knew long ago.
"It's no use… Once it takes hold, there's no way to save them. I should know, I was forced to kill my very own son." Moka sobbed, his hand goes down for the group to see the photo.
But they became completely show to see the photo of Moka's son who turned out to be the very same guy who was on the boat with them.
"That's the guy from the boat." Lucy mentioned, but Nine quickly shush her to keep quiet about seeing this man.
"Now it makes sense about his disappearance on us last night. He was a ghost, a soul who couldn't rest in peace until the island is free from this curse." Nine stated.
"(A ghost?)" Lucy and Juvia thought were shocked.
"Please lift the evil curse from our island. If this goes on much longer, we may all fall victim to it. We'll die." Moka feared for the worse of this village, that there won't be a village left should all of them perish from this curse.
"We're not gonna let that happen. We can fix this. I promise you." Natsu was determined to help these people.
"That's right, Fairy Tail always get the job done even when we do go extreme about it at times. But know this, we won't stop until we find the source of this curse and put an end to it once and for all!" Nine promised.
Moka was moved by the words of those two wizards and can tell the others with them feel the same way, maybe there is a way for this island to live in peace.
"There's only one way this wretched curse can be lifted." Moka said.
"And that is?" Nine asked.
"The moon. The moon must be wiped from the sky." Moka answered.
Yeah, that was something the Fairy Tail weren't expecting to do like destroying the moon.
The group decided to rest up for the night and were given a cabin by the village.
"I never knew the moon could be so creepy." Happy looked up at the purple moon.
"Happy, please hurry and close the window for we must stay out of the moonlight, so we don't become demons!" Juvia said worry.
"You may not care, but we don't want to risk turning into some freaky-looking monsters." Lucy agreed with Juvia there.
"I don't know, we were already expose to the purple moonlight and yet we're completely. I even checked after we came in." Nine informed.
"I'm not so sure about this job, guys." Natsu said.
"Do these people really think we can destroy the moon?" Gray asked, not sure if that's really the answer.
"I wonder how many punches it'll take? You think I can handle it?" Natsu asked, definitely thinking stupid that he could actually destroy the moon.
"Are you kidding me as shit?!" Gray gasped.
"Hold your fist for a moment, Natsu. I don't think we need to destroy the moon itself, there's something more to it than that." Nine believed.
"What makes you say that?" Natsu asked.
"The village said the moon used to be normal to them before it became purple, but outside the island like back home its completely moon meaning that something must happened on this island to make the moon look purple here. Probably something done by someone." Nine deduced on what she thought of.
"Are you saying that someone is using a powerful spell that changes the moon purple that only affect this island?" Lucy asked.
"It's most definitely the case." Nine nodded.
"Well, I'm sure we'll have plenty of time thinking about it once we get some sleep." Juvia suggested.
"Good idea, I need some shut eye." Gray agreed while taking off most of his clothes, leaving only his underwear.
"Then it settle, we'll do our investigation of the island in the morning." Nine declared.
"Great! I'm hitting the sack!" Natsu jumped onto his futon.
"Sounds like a plan to me." Gray fell onto his own futon as well.
"Hear, let me put in some noise-cancelling spell in your ears. They can be noisy with their snoring at night." Nine offered which the girls are thankful to her for.
The five wizards and the blue cat fell sleep around the same time, though the girls are all cuddling up onto Natsu giving him some sweet dreams.
(Morning)
"It's so early." Natsu yawned.
"Yeah, I'm never up at this time." Gray groaned a little.
"We have to start our investigation this soon if we want to find out what is causing the moon to turn purple and why the people are turning into demons." Nine explained as they move out.
"Then I'll be extra prepared." Lucy said.
"Open, Gate of the Clock Constellation. Horologium!" Lucy summoned a spirit.
Horologium is a tall brown grandfather clock with long black arms, a glass case, a Roman-numerical clock at the center and a small face at the top with slit eyes and a thin, twirly, mustache-like mouth.
"(A clock?)" Nine thought was confused in why Lucy summoned a spirt like that. But she needs to focus more on the moon curse, so she'll let that slide.
Team Flaming Phantom marches through the woods trying to see if they could find something that could tell them a little bit more about the curse.
"You really think we'll be able to find another way to lift the curse?" Natsu asked.
"We have to. Everything outside of the island is perfectly fine with the moon, but it's only purple here for some reason, and I'm betting my hat that it could be an outside source." Nine believed.
"Better than the first option. Destroying it might really mess things up." Gray stated.
"You're right. If we didn't have the moon, the tides would get all shit crazy. And at night, the sky would be pitch black." Natsu realized this.
"Without it, salmon could go extinct. And they're my favorite fish." Happy shared his thoughts.
"Would you guys keep it down! We don't know what's lurking out here, so we shouldn't draw any attention." The lady demands impatiently." Horologium relied what Lucy is saying inside of him.
"Oh dear, it would seem the thought of the curse has really scared her a lot." Juvia pointed out.
"Shame, but it's true." Lucy admittedly." Horologium said for Lucy.
"It's natural for people to be scared, but there are times when you can use that fear to make yourself bolder and face it head on." Nine said.
"Not only that, but you got me having your back. I promise, nothing bad is going to happen to you as long as you're with me." Natsu promised her with his usual grin and a fiery fist.
"That's very sweet of you to say, Natsu. I feel a little better already." She said smiling at you." Horologium said.
"Cool, now hold about you come out of there and—WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" Natsu screamed in shock.
The reason for Natsu screaming like that is because there appears to be a giant beast monster that has just showed itself and being taller than the trees.
"Juvia does not like the looks of that!" Juvia exclaimed.
"Gray, make us a shield. We'll need to gauge how strong that thing is." Nine ordered which Gray comply.
"Ice Make: Shield!" Gray created a big icy shield, ready for whatever attack that giant monster thing is gonna throw at them.
The giant barfs out a gas-like attack from its mouth, and it smells very stinky once they caught a whiff of that strange stuff.
"Oh no, what's wrong? Did you seriously just sneak inside here?"" Lucy asked Happy who is inside the clock spirit.
"Aye." Answers the little blue cat." Horologium said before being overtaken by the stink and was forced back to the Spirit World.
"Stinky?!" Lucy and Happy exclaimed.
"Look! The beast is revealing itself!" Juvia pointed at the giant beast.
"What the shit… Is that a giant rat?" Nine was shocked to see what kind of beast this is, and it turns out to be a giant rat.
This giant rat and it appears to be wearing a black corset-style top with pink frilly edges which is tied up the front with black strings. Completing her outfit is a white lace headband and a red ribbon tied across her chest. She also has turquoise fur and a huge tail that propels.
"Come on, Natsu, get up, man." Gray yelled at Natsu for being down for some reason.
"The smell knocked him out." Happy pointed out.
"Let see if it does the same when it's use against it!" Nine conjured a strong Wind Magic and uses it on the stinky smell that giant rat unleashes it again, and the wind blows the stinky air around the head of the giant rat and snapped her fingers to cause a little spark of fire to exploding maing the rat pass out.
"Looks like it couldn't handle its own morning breath." Nine smirked.
"Nice work!" Lucy smiled.
"Come on, we should keep moving." Nine said.
But soon enough, the group now found themselves in what looked like a building, a temple that was known as the Temple of the Moon.
"This place is massive." Lucy commented.
"Yeah, and it's falling apart." Natsu pointed that out.
"If I had to guess how old this place is, I would say thousands of years, maybe tens of thousands." Nine guessed as she looks around.
"Goodness, it's amazing to think such a place would last this long. And there are symbols of the moon here too." Juvia pointed at the moon symbols.
"The symbol makes sense. Galuna used to be called the Island of the Moon." Gray remembered what he heard about this island.
"A moon island, and a moon curse, and weird moon symbols, you really got to wonder what all of it means." Lucy said, feeling like there's could be more of this island than meets the eye.
But then Nine started to feel something off about this temple though it wasn't coming this temple exactly, it felt more like under it.
"How strange." Nine gently knocked on the floor.
"What are you doing, Nine?" Gray asked.
"Guys, I think there's something else in the temple, or should I say below it." Nine said.
"Below? Like what?" Happy asked.
"That's what I'm gonna find out." Nine used her magic to make her party group float in the air before blasting a big hole in the floor then floating down into the hole to find an underground cave.
"No way! A secret cave! This is so cool!" Natsu was excited.
"What makes you think we'll find anything down here, Miss Nine?" Juvia asked.
"I don't know exactly, I just felt something off when we went inside the temple though it was faint, but I could definitely feel something." Nine walked into a path, feeling where the faint magic energy is coming from.
"Oh man, I bet we're going to find a secret item that could be anything!" Natsu giggled with excitement.
"You mean like increasing one's magical power or a new magic power?" Juvia became curious with Natsu.
"Juvia, don't go too deep into this." Gray advised.
Suddenly the group stop when they saw a giant chunk of ice with apparently a very dangerous monster inside, and Gray is the one reacting to this the most with his eyes shaking with fear and a certain memory flooding back in.
"What the… That's impossible!" Gray said.
"It's a demon." Nine recognized the kind of creature this thing is.
"It's Deliora!" Gray said the name of this demon.
"Big brother, you know of this demon?" Juvia asked.
"But how—how could this happen? Why is it here? What the Hell is it doing on Galuna Island?!" Gray demanded in both anger and fear of this mighty demon.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Team Flaming Phantom has begun their investigation into what is going on with the island and that weird moon curse, but now they have found something else, and Gray seems to already know what that monster inside the giant ice is as it seems to have history with the Ice Mage.
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