Back again! And, like I said, answer time!
The most asked question was about the Celestial magic I had Nashi pull out of her ass in the last chapter, so here's what I got for you guys: The reason Nashi was able to use it as oppose to before is due to the immense magical growth she's experienced in the past few months, far surpassing where she was last time she tried. This is only a one time thing, so it really doesn't matter if the contracts extend or not.
Enjoy!
Natsu drew a complete blank as the leader of the Celestial Spirits appeared in front of him. Loke grinned.
"Natsu." He greeted.
"...What?" Natsu finally asked. From what Lucy had told him, Nashi couldn't use Celestial Spirit magic. So how the hell...?
"I can see you're confused." Natsu looked up as Nashi spoke, a triumphant smirk on her face. "Did you honestly think I spent the week of preparation for this doing nothing?"
"Ah, I get it now." Natsu said, crossing his arms. "You learned. You're quite good at doing that spontaneously."
"I know." Nashi agreed, still grinning.
"Although I think you've failed to realize something."
"Which is?" Natsu grinned as fire and lightning crackled around him again.
"Loke isn't enough to stand up to me." Nashi giggled, only confusing Natsu further.
"I know, that isn't the plan." Nashi looked at Loke determinedly. "You know what to do Loke!"
"Of course Princess." Loke replied, Regulus shining in his hands. The light grew to the point where Natsu couldn't see, and he flinched as the light burned his eyes, even closed. Natsu growled angrily, sensing Nashi's presence somewhere in front of him.
"Damn it, I'm ending this!" Natsu took aim as best he could with his eyes shut, and swung his fire coated fist. He managed to open his eyes as soon as he did sop, seeing quite the scene.
Nashi was staring at him with the biggest puppy dog eyes he'd ever seen in his entire life, making him stop cold right before his fist made contact.
"You wouldn't hurt me, right Daddy?" Nashi asked weakly, eyes seemingly so innocent.
"Ah..."
"I'm your baby girl, after all. Aren't I exempted from getting punched in the face?"
"Um..."
"Daddy?"
"Y-Yeah?" Natsu asked, and a grin spread across her face.
"I love you." Natsu had absolutely no idea what he was supposed to do, Nashi was throwing him all sorts of off. Did he give up? Attack? Say something? Anything? Luckily, he got his answer shortly, as he felt a pair of hands constrict around his waist.
From behind.
Natsu gasped in surprise as black flames licked around him, burning him. He was thrown backwards into the wall, and coughed as rocks and debris fell everywhere.
"What the hell...?" He asked, looking up as Nashi laughed.
"I got you Dad/Daddy!" Natsu's vision cleared after a few seconds, granting him a view of what was happening. Sure enough, Nashi stood where she had been when he'd been attacked, but what confused him was what was next to her.
Another Nashi.
It took Natsu a moment to realize what was going on but once he did, he got up and chuckled.
"Good to see you too, Gemini." he said, referring to the Celestial Spirit. The Nashi that had tricked him smiled.
"You too, Daddy!" She replied.
"So," Natsu said, crossing his arms. "Your plan was to use Loke to blind me, giving you the chance to summon and swap places with Gemini for a sneak attack. Your certainly my daughter, only a Dragneel could come up with something like that."
"..Thanks, I think..." Nashi on the right replied. "Now, can we continue or not?"
"Sure, come and lose." Natsu replied with a grin. "Another of you doesn't make a difference."
"Now now don't be like that." Gemini and Nashi looked at each other, nodded, and rushed forward as one, going at Natsu with everything they had. Natsu waited and blocked the first blow from Gemini, and it quickly turned into a one on one. "Didn't make a difference, huh?" Natsu's eyes widened as attacks began hitting him in the back, the combined black fire from both of them actually hurting a little. He quickly realized he couldn't defend against them both, as blocking ones advances only gave the other an opening. Gemini moved and attacked like Nashi perfectly, only confusing Natsu further as he couldn't discern who was really attacking him. Both slammed a fiery fist into him and he stumbled backwards, growling.
"Mavis." he hissed. "I may actually break a sweat." Just as he was about to charge forward, he felt his legs give out underneath him. Looking around in confusion, Natsu found the source. "Virgo?!"
"Hello Natsu." the pink haired maid said, deadpanning at him. "I'm sorry about this, Nashi told me to do it."
"...Hah?" Natsu looked over at the sound of feet leaving the ground. Both Gemini and Nashi had jumped high into the chamber, and began to fall, Natsu watching in disbelief.
Two Gates open at once...
"Dragon-God Slayer Secret Art!"
Accessing God Slayer magic she consumed...
"Dragon-God Slayer Secret Art!"
Using Gemini to double her power...
Natsu watched as the pair charged up the blast, a grin settling down on his face.
"Marvelous, kid. Simply marvelous."
"OBSIDIAN LOTUS SUPERNOVA!"
When the lacrima vision lost the feed from Natsu and Nashi's fight, the guild waited in tense silence as Damien fiddled with the remote. He chuckled weakly.
"It would appear we lost the transmitter in the chamber." he reported, causing everyone to whisper among themselves. "I guess we'll see who came out on top later. I'll just swap the feed now." Lucy shook her head at the news. Leave it to those two to cause such a commotion that the feed was lost without any chance of getting it back.
"Where the hell did she learn to do that, Luce?" Gray asked, breaking Lucy out of her daze from the fight. "I don't recall her knowing how to do that."
"What do you think we worked on during her week of training?" Lucy asked. "Since she'd grown so exponentially during these past few months, I saw no harm in trying to teach her again. Not only that, but she excelled quickly, with the two gates as you saw."
"Do you think she won?" Levy asked. "That was a pretty huge explosion."
"If the Salamander loses to that he's lost his edge with age." Gajeel said gruffly. Lucy couldn't help but agree with that. If Nashi did somehow win, Natsu had given it to her out of pity, or perhaps she'd earn it in time.
"I guess we have to wait to find out." She tld them with a small smile. "they both tried so hard we can't see the rest of it." just as Lucy finished her sentence, Damien laughed in triumph.
"I got it!" he shouted. "back to Ultear vs. Asuka!"
Asuka knew only two people could procure such explosive power, both had pink hair. The entire mountainside was getting rocked by the explosive power the Dragneel's were giving off. That however, was not her current problem. That was the S-Class wizard standing in front of her, stopping her from advancing. Ultear was playing with Asuka at this point, allowing the bullets to enter her body while it was liquefied and pass through some other part, usually staying inside for a little bit. Or she did her weird white magic and they disintegrated before they even got close, either way there was no openings Asuka could take. Ultear chuckled as more bullets passed through her harmlessly.
"If this is all you've got, you may as well concede defeat." She was informed. "You've tried everything." Admitting that wasn't on Asuka's to do list, but she knew it was true. If bullets didn't work on the girl, Asuka didn't have much she could do. Asuka was a gun mage, after all. The girl did a mental count of her skills and knew she had to come up with something soon or she was screwed. She hadn't worked her way up from nothing to lose to a kid whom had surpassed her.
"There has to be something I haven't tried yet, come on..." Asuka thought long and hard, before a light came on in her head, causing her to smirk. "Gun Magic: Electrifying burst!" Firing off five shots from her rifle, she smiled as the bullets passed into Ultear's body harmlessly.
"I already said that won't work." Ultear said with a sigh.
"That wasn't what I was going for?"
"Huh?" Asuka snapped her fingers, and the bullets, which had previously not been electrified, started to spark within the liquid mass of Ul's body, causing her to pale.
"Basic science, Ul." Asuka replied. "Water conducts electricity." After another snap of the fingers the bullets released their charge, causing Ultear to shriek in pain. The shocking lasted several seconds before Ultear collapsed, her body looking slightly crispier than before. "Ul?"
"..." No response at first, before her body convulsed a few times, and she coughed. "Ow...Shit, that hurt. I've been electrocuted before, but that was an all new level of pain."
"Because you were in water form." Asuka replied. "it conducted for longer."
"Should've thought of that, but I got to ahead of myself..." Ultear coughed again as she sat up. "Well, go on, get out of here. You win, I feel like I wouldn't survive another one of those." Asuka nodded with a small chuckle, walking towards the chambers exit. "One thing, Asuka."
"Yeah?"
"Coming from someone who beat it, it doesn't get any easier" Asuka nodded as Ultear turned to face her. "I'm betting money that Drake, Elise and Nashi are going to make it too. I can guarantee, that with how you fought me, they will thrash you."
"You so sure?" Asuka asked, earning a nod she wasn't looking for.
"Yes. I've seen the three of them fight, and they've pulled a lot of stuff out of no where. If you aren't prepared to fight any one of them, you've lost." Asuka knew the thee were powerful, but she didn't want to think three people she'd babysat at some point were more powerful than her.
"I'll keep an eye out for it..." She replied. Leaving down the tunnel that was the exit, pondering the younger girls words. She knew a head on fight with any of Dragon Slayers would result in a loss, no matter how you looked at it.
I just hope I lose spectacularly...
Nashi panted weakly as the result of her attack continued to smolder. She and Gemini had hit her father dead on, and couple that with God flames and two times the power, Nashi liked her chances. So far she couldn't sense any movement from within, which she liked.
"Dad?" She called weakly, not getting a response. Waiting a few more seconds, Nashi smiled. "Did I...?"
"Wow, unimpressed." Nashi drained of color at the voice, and the smoke whipped around violently. After a few seconds it faded, and her father stood there, completely unharmed. "I figured that would've hurt more than it did."
"...H-How..." Nashi asked, almost dropping to her knees.
"Stop underestimating me, Nashi." he replied. When she tried to stand up straighter, he frowned. "Just stop, this isn't worth it."
"No!" She shouted back, mind drifting off to what Rocky would taunt her about if she lost. "I'll make it past you, God damn it! I don't care how long it takes."
"This is one fight where spirit will get you nowhere." he retorted simply. "Just accept it."
"No! If you're so confident you can off me, stop holding back!" Nashi knew her anger was making her say things she didn't mean, but she wanted to win, damn it. If for nothing else, to shut Rocky up. "Why are you so afraid of hurting me?!" he frowned, one that was laced with anger.
"My full power?" he asked. "You don't know how dangerous that request is, Nashi. For either of us."
"...?" Nashi didn't know what to say to that, it wasn't the response she'd been expecting.
"..However, if a lesson has to be taught..." Nashi was about to ask what he meant when the whole chamber began to shake violently. Bright red magic outlined her fathers figure as the shaking intensified.
"What the...!" Nashi was thrown back as her father erupted, a column of fire exploding through the roof. Looking up weakly, Nashi noted something that terrified her.
Despite the amount of flames in the chamber, the aura her father exuded was deathly cold.
Well shit Natsu, the fuck man? Anyways, questions!
One that caught my eyes was: What is Nashi and Drake's relationship?
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Well, they're best friends, the bestest.(Not a word, but who cares...). Obviously due to Nashi's childhood they share a bond deeper than the rest of the group, as Drake was always there for her...( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Anyways, another question, not story related, was how many chapters do I plan to post a week? As you've seen it's pretty sporadic, but maybe, like three.
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try and get five!