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'Thoughts'
"Speech"
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"EHHHHH! You mean that this is the only magic shop in town?" a blonde cried out to an old shopkeeper.
She had round chocolate brown eyes, blonde hair put into a side ponytail, she was wearing a sleeveless top that was white with a blue stripe going down and under her generous bust. She had a leather key pouch on her hip, along with a whip that ended with an arrow point on the end(A/N:Is that right?).
"Yes, I'm afraid so. This town is just a small port town, so mages are really rare here." this seemed to destroy the blonde's mood even further, and her head drooped down in depression. "Ah, but don't fret, I still sell many magical items."
The woman looked down at the clear glass counter she was leaning on to see if she could get anything that wouldn't make this trip a waste. She looked over the items, but stopped on a silver key. She looked at it for a second or two, before her eyes widened in realization.
"It's the white doggy! I've been looking for this one!." she exclaimed in excitement. The old man looked down to where she was pointing.
"That's a pretty weak Celestial Spirit, ma'am, are you sure you want it?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I've been looking for it anyway! Now, how much is it?" the blonde asked smiling widely, tilting her head to the side and closing her eyes.
"20,000 jewels." the shopkeeper said flatly.
The blonde was silent for a few moments before asking again, her head in the same position and expression the same. "How much again?"
"20,000 jewels." he said with a deadpan expression and tone of voice.
The woman leaned down on the counter pressing her bust on the glass, putting pressure against the zipper, making it go down to reveal some cleavage, and put on a cute smile. "How much is it really, dandy mister?"
The old man was silent for a bit before speaking out.
The blonde was stomping through the street, seething in anger. "Only 1,000 measly jewels? My sex appeal is only worth 1,000 jewels, that's just a bunch of bullcrap." she muttered, a tic-mark pulsing on her forehead.
"KYAAAAAA! SALAMANDER-SAMA!"
"YOU'RE SO AMAZING, BURN ME!"
"Salamander? Wait, isn't that the mage who has fire magic not sold in stores?" the blonde asked herself excitedly, before rushing off in the direction of the fangirl crowd.
Once she got to the innermost ring of the crowd, she saw a man that had spiky indigo hair and a cape over his shoulders. 'Salamander' looked over at the woman and winked at her.
The blonde's heartbeat started speeding up and her cheeks heated up. 'What's going on with me? Why's my heart beating so fast, and my face, why is it so hot?' she clutched at her chest with a flushed face and hearts showed up in her eyes.
She started to scoot closer to 'Salamander'. 'Is this love at first sight? Is it because he's a famous mage? Is i-.' Her train of thought and sudden obsession was interrupted by a voice nearby.
"Nix! Where the hell are you?!" A man with spiky pink hair, an eyepatch over his left eye, a silver pendant that looked like a dragon skull was hanging on a skinny chain holding loosely off of his neck. He was wearing a long sleeved black jacket with a black glove on his right hand, white cargo pants and black military boots.
When the man pushed his way through the crowd blocking his path, he saw 'Salamander' standing there in all of his snobbish glory.
He adopted a deadpan look on his face and asked blandly. "Who the fuck are you?"
(20 minutes earlier)
"I hate riding trains." a salmon-haired man groaned out, leaning against a stone pillar in the train station with one hand on his forehead.
"You should just be glad that you only get small migraines now, Natsu." a girlish voice spoke from next to Natsu.
"Doesn't matter Nix, migraines hurt just as much, you're lucky you barely feel anything. Now let's just try to find that Bora guy and get the reward." Natsu grumbled, pushing himself off the pillar with a small grunt of exertion.
Nix was a teenage girl of average height that had light blue hair that reached down to her shoulder blades with a small hair clip that held her hair in a ponytail, her eyes a bright blue color, a blue t-shirt that hugged her body. She was wearing a pair of skinny jeans that reached down to her calves with a pair of gladiator style sandals adorning her feet.(If you can't tell, she likes blue, so do I.)
"Now, come on, we need to find this guy before he leaves with a batch of new hypnotized women on his ship and leaves behind a town of people with missing memories." Natsu said, walking out of the train station.
"How do you know that the girls were brainwashed before being kidnapped?" Nix asked curiously with a tilt to her head.
"The supposed 'witnesses' don't even remember seeing the guy, all they remember was that all the women were following him and praising him like he was a god." At Nix's raised eyebrow, he elaborated. "It's pretty obvious that the women were under some sort of charm spell and were tricked on to this guys boat, and any witnesses were charmed into forgetting the whole thing happened." Natsu explained, now getting a look of clarification on Nix's face.
"Since when did you get so smart?" She lightly teased with a small smirk on her face.
"Since I've had you to tutor me." Natsu said with a grin on his face which turned into a smirk when he saw a slight blush on the girl's face. "Is the great and powerful Nix blushing?" Natsu teased.
"No, you're just delusional." Nix retorted, turning her head away.
"You know I'm only teasing. Let's go find a place to eat and maybe a hotel, we might be here awhile." Natsu suggested.
"Yeah, let's- *sniff* *sniff* ooh, that smells good." Nix said, but trailed off as she smelled something and followed her nose to a different direction, unnoticed by Natsu.
After a few minutes, Natsu noticed the lack of noise from his usually talkative partner and looked behind him only to notice she wasn't there. "Nix? Where are you?" A few moments without a response was all he needed. "She must've gotten distracted again." He grumbled under his breath before he started walking through the streets, calling out his friend's name, hoping to find her.
As he was walking, he didn't notice that he walked into a group of screaming fangirls until he nearly bumped into a very snobbish looking man in a cloak.
"Who the fuck are you?"
It was an honest question, he was kind of annoyed with Nix's absence, and this guy looked like he deserved some rude treatment.
"I guess it makes sense that you would be so ignorant to me, young mage, but I will have you know that I am Salamander." The man said, as if boasting but stopped when he noticed the salmon-haired mage walking away without a care in the world. "Leaving already?!"
Natsu was going to continue his search when he was ambushed by the fangirls, pummeling him to the ground.
"HOW DISRESPECTFUL!"
"HOW CAN YOU BE SO RUDE TO SALAMANDER-SAMA!?"
"Please girls, leave him be, he is just ignorant of me, that is all." At this, all of the girls instantly calmed down and stopped hitting Natsu.
'The hell is with these women?' Natsu thought but saw their glazed over eyes. 'Charm magic. This guy must be Bora, but I don't have proof yet.' Natsu thought, narrowing his eye at 'Salamander', who had flown off on a stream of reddish-violet flames, leaving a verbal invitation to his yacht party at night.
"Whatever, I'll worry about this later, for now I need to find Nix and get some food." Natsu said to himself as a buxom blonde teen tapped him on his shoulder, garnering his attention. "Hm?"
"Um, hi. I just wanted to say thanks for breaking that charm spell he had." The woman said with a smile on her face.
Natsu was silent for a moment and looking at her with a critical eye before speaking. "So you are either resistant to charm magic or enough of a mage to have a small resistance to that type of magic." Natsu said after studying her for a few moments and noticing her key pouch on her hip.
"How'd you know I was a mage?" The blonde asked kind of shocked at Natsu's slight deduction.
"Well I do now, I just guessed that you were a mage because of those spirit keys on your hip." Natsu said, looking around for Nix, getting kind of worried.
"Who are you looking for?" The girl asked curiously.
"My friend, have you seen her? She has blue hair, blue shirt." Natsu explained, giving a brief description of Nix.
"Is that her?" The blonde said, pointing to said woman, who was trying to barter with a shop vendor.
"Yeah, that's her. I never got your name." Natsu said, signalling her to share her name.
"It's Lucy, nice to meet you...?" Lucy trailed off, asking for Natsu's name.
"Natsu." Natsu responded. "Nix, get over here!" he exclaimed, an arm above his head in a wave.
Nix looked over and saw Natsu waving her over with a blonde girl standing next to him looking in her direction with a curious expression.
"Natsu! I've been looking all over for you!" Nix exclaimed with a cheerful expression on her face as she jogged to Natsu.
"It looked more like you were haggling for a better deal from that salesman." Natsu said dryly, causing Nix to frown indignantly.
"I wasn't haggling him, I was actually looking for you." she argued, then looked at Lucy with a curious eyebrow raised. "Who's this?"
"This is Lucy, saved her from some Charm Spell I guess." Natsu said offhandedly.
"Oh yeah! About that, could I interest you in a meal for saving me from it?" Lucy asked Natsu politely.
Natsu blinked in surprise at the somewhat sudden invitation but accepted nonetheless, Nix agreeing as well, obviously.
(scene skip)
"So you're lookin' to join a guild?" Natsu asked curiously through his closed mouth as he chewed his food.
"Yes actually." Lucy responded happily. "There are a lot of popular guilds out there, but I want to only join the number one guild of them all, Fairy Tail! I really hope they allow me to join, I must have to go through a bunch of tests or get an interview." Lucy rambled on with a grin on her face and Natsu swore he saw her eyes sparkling a bit.
"She talks a lot." Nix mumbled enough for only Natsu to hear.
"Yeah." Natsu responded just as quietly. "What type of mage are you anyway?" he asked, breaking Lucy's, somehow still, rambling.
"I'm a Seirei Madoshi [Celestial Spirit Mage]." Lucy responded cheerfully.
"Thought so." Natsu said with a smile on his face. At Lucy's perplexed face, he elaborated. "Well it was either you had a lot of doors that needed unlocking with very expensive keys, or you were a Seirei Madoshi [Celestial Spirit Mage]."
"Are you two mages or part of a guild?" Lucy asked curiously.
"We're guild mages." Nix answered before Natsu could retort.
"Seriously!? What guild are you part of?" Lucy asked excitedly.
"Fairy Tail." the bluenette answered shortly, ignoring the looks of slight annoyance from her pink-haired friend.
"Really?" the blonde asked again in even more excitement, leaning onto the table and closer to Natsu and Nix.
"Yeah. We can take you there when we finish an assignment here, shouldn't take too long." Natsu offered, finishing his food and drink.
"Seriously!? Oh my god, thank you thank you thank you!" Lucy exclaimed giddily, grabbing Natsu's hand and shaking it rapidly. "I'll need to be going now, I need to finish some shopping then I'll meet up with you later."
With that, Lucy left the restaurant leaving a slightly bemused bluenette and a perplexed pinkette at the table of empty plates.
(time skip)
It was now night time and the two mages were walking near a railing that overlooked the pier, where 'Slamander's' yacht was docked.
"She's so weird." Natsu said to Nix, stopping to lean against the railing.
"I think she's amusing." she replied with a small smile on her face and a slight bounce in her step.
"What's got you so happy all of a sudden?" Natsu asked with a quirked brow.
"We may very well get a new member, that's what." Nix said cheerfully, leaning onto the railing next to Natsu.
"Oh yeah, you've always loved getting new members." Natsu mused to himself.
"Hey, isn't that Salamander's yacht?" a teenage girl asked her friend, breaking Natsu's train of thought.
"Yeah, I really wanted to go to his party." her friend responded enviously.
"I heard he was a member of Fairy Tail, so he must be super strong." this caught Natsu's attention as his eye narrowed in anger at the slowly departing yacht.
"Nix." Natsu called out calmly.
"Yeah, I know." Nix replied just as calmly.
"This asshole is gonna get a beating that he won't forget." Natsu muttered to himself, clenching his hand around the railing tighter for a second then letting go, leaving a patch of frozen metal in his hand's place.
Natsu jumped over the railing and ran over to the dock, stopping at the edge, Nix following him close behind.
Seeing where the yacht was, he mentally sighed in relief. 'Good, still close enough.'
"Nix, I need you to get the yacht onto shore as fast as possible, I'll give you a signal through telepathy. If anything is important, I'll tell you." Natsu ordered, Nix nodding in response as she dived into the ocean with barely a sound.
Natsu then stepped off of the dock and on to the ocean, creating a small ice floe to stay afloat.
"Alright, let's go." He said to himself, kicking off of the ice floe and launching towards the yacht at breakneck speeds, a thin trail of ice rapidly freezing the ocean behind him.
When he got to the boat, he heard a disgusted voice shout from within.
"You're a disgrace to wizards everywhere!" Natsu immediately recognized the voice as the girl from earlier.
'The hell was her name again? Bah, I'll figure it out later.' Natsu thought as he launched from his frozen spot in the ocean high above the ship and started plummeting downwards, soon crashing through the roof of the yacht into a room of surprised and shocked slavers and a blonde teenage girl whom Natsu vaguely recognized.
Said blonde girl gasped in surprise at the sight of Natsu. "Natsu!? What are you doing here?"
"Nix, I found the girl from earlier here, I'll get her to you shortly." Natsu said to Nix.
"I found what looks like her key pouch down here, you want me to grab it?" Nix asked curiously.
"Yeah, grab her keys, She'll be down in a minute." Natsu said.
"..." Nix only gave silence in response
"What?" Natsu asked accusingly.
"Did you seriously forget her name?" was Nix's incredulous response.
"..." the salmon-haired man decided to stay silent as he felt Nix's voice leave his head.
Natsu glanced over the group of people, noticing one out of them all. "Salamander, huh?" A smirk crossed Natsu's lips as he narrowed his eye at Bora. "Or should I say, Bora?"
Bora's eyes narrowed into a glare when Natsu said his name. "I don't care who you are, brat, but now I'll have to kill you." He said menacingly, calling purple flames into his hand.
Looking at the flames, Natsu smirked. "Is that supposed to be intimidating?" he asked, enraging Bora.
"You little brat!" the slaver shouted, launching the flames at Natsu.
Natsu's smirk simply widened before he vanished in a burst of speed and appeared next to Lucy, who yelped in shock. "Dive into the ocean, your keys are down there with my friend." he whispered, giving her a light shove towards an open door.
Getting the idea, Lucy hurried out of the door and dived into the ocean, leaving Natsu with the slavers, who looked confused at the empty space in which Natsu was supposedly standing.
"You guys are rather boring, but my friend will make things interesting in a few moments." he said with a grin, causing the men to round on him and look at him with shock.
(down below)
Lucy gasped for air as she resurfaced with Nix, her keys strapped back on to her waist. Looking over at the yacht, Lucy pulled out one of her golden keys and stabbed it into the ocean with a shout.
"Open! Gate of the Water Bearer: Aquarius!" a golden magic circle appeared on the ocean's surface with a brilliant glow.
Out of the magic circle, a mermaid with aqua blue hair and tail with a blue bikini top and golden bands on her wrists and upper arms rose with a silver vase in her hands.
When the magic circle disappeared, the mermaid looked and glared at Lucy. "If you ever lose my key again, you'll be in serious pain and wish for death, understood?" she questioned in a dark tone.
"Y-yes, ma'am." Lucy stuttered, sweating bullets before snapping out of her fear and pointing at the yacht. "Aquarius, I need you to launch that yacht towards the port!" she exclaimed, gaining a 'tch' from the celestial spirit.
"Wow, you get a lot of respect from your spirits." Nix said sarcastically, gaining a glare from Lucy.
"Alright, I'll do it, just so that I can get back to my boyfriend." Aquarius said with an annoyed tone, holding her vase on her shoulder.
With a loud battle cry, Aquarius launched out a jet of high-pressured water at the yacht, catching Nix, who was caught by surprise, and Lucy in the crossfire, that launched it and the humans towards the port at high speeds.
"Natsu's not gonna be happy." Nix muttered to herself when they landed on the shore.
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked with a nervous tone, a small bead of sweat dripping down her face at the implications.
"You'll see." the bluenette responded.
"Aquarius, you caught me and Nix in the crossfire!" Lucy exclaimed with a scolding tone.
Looking ashamed and disappointed in herself, Aquarius placed her hand on her head. "You're right, I accidentally hit the yacht as well." she said with a small shake of her head.
"You mean you were aiming for us?!" Lucy exclaimed in shock.
"That doesn't matter, what does is that you shouldn't call for me this week because I'll be out with my boyfriend," Aquarius said as she began to fade back to the Spirit World but not before one last thing, "my boyfriend." she reiterated with a bragging tone and a glance at the blonde celestial wizard before completely disappearing.
"Ugh! She gets on my very last nerve sometimes!" Lucy exclaimed in annoyance, her fists in the sky.
"I know you want to vent and whatever, but if you continue to do so, you're going to miss the fight." Nix said, motioning to the wrecked naval vessel with bodies scattered around it.
"Oh yeah, Natsu! We've gotta help him!" Lucy exclaimed, her hand reaching to her hip.
"You won't need to." the bluenette said, getting a curious look from Lucy. "He's plenty pissed off now, so Bora won't be any problem for him." she said offhandedly.
"What was that?" Bora groaned in confusion, getting up out of the rubble with his lackeys.
"Is it true that you're from Fairy Tail?" Natsu asked, slowly standing from the rubble, a serious look trained on Bora.
"And what if I am, pinky?" he asked back rudely.
His eyebrow twitching, Natsu calmly spoke out. "Then let me get a good look at your face." he said, narrowing his eye.
"Men, attack him!" Bora shouted, two of his lackeys stupidly following his orders.
As the idiots got closer to Natsu, he brought his left arm up to his opposite shoulder, clenching his fist, his eye still focused on Bora. "If you're from Fairy Tail," he said with a menacing tone, swiping his arm, knocking out the two lackeys in an instant, his calm gaze turning angry, "then why haven't I seen you before?" he asked in a quiet tone, somehow still being heard through the pier.
Suddenly, one of Bora's underlings, gasped in fear and realization. "B-Bora, I know who this guy is!" he shouted with a tremble in his voice. "His eyepatch, his necklace and that sword! It's really him!"
Lucy's hand's rose to her mouth in shock at the realization that dawned on her. "He's..."
"He's Natsu Iceclaw, the Hiryū ōji [Ice Dragon Prince] of Fairy Tail!"
"Seriously!?" Lucy shouted in shock, looking to Nix for confirmation, who only nodded.
"Now then Bora, I think it's time I get this over with and beat your ass for your bounty." Natsu said with a smirk as the temperature around him dropped rapidly and he started walking forward, the moisture on the pieces of rubble frosting over and the rubble under his feet freezing. "Not only did you kidnap girls and sell them into slavery, but you also tarnished the name of Fairy Tail with your shitty act, and by doing that, you've supremely pissed me off." Natsu said with a scowl and a glare.
"You think you can take me on you brat?!" Bora shouted before spreading his arms out and a purple magic circle appearing before him. "Prominence Typhoon!" he shouted out, a large violet fire ball shooting out of the magic circle and hurtling at high speeds towards Natsu.
"Natsu!" Lucy exclaimed in worry as the fireball sped towards Natsu.
"Stop your worryin', Natsu isn't an S-class mage for nothing." Nix said with a carefree tone, her hand on the blonde's shoulder.
Lucy was going to retort but stopped when the flame was snuffed out before it even reached Natsu.
"Wha-?" Bora exclaimed in confusion and shock at seeing his spell dissipated with minimal effort.
"Just as I thought, these flames are too weak to do anything." Natsu said, still walking forward, unhindered by the attack before stopping and dropping to a stance. "Now I'm gonna freeze you to the bone!" he exclaimed as he took a deep breath and leaned his head back.
With Nix and Lucy, the bluenette sighed. "He better not go overboard this time." she grumbled.
"Hiryū no... [Ice Dragon's…]," Natsu said before snapping his head at Bora and co., "HŌKŌ! [ROAR!]" he shouted, releasing a beam of condensed ice at the slavers, the frigid air around the roar, freezing the ground and debris.
The roar crashed into the slavers with a deafening crash, the bandits being frozen in their spots. while Bora managed to keep himself suspended long enough for the roar to die down before the flames died out.
As Bora was falling to the ground, he noticed Natsu running in his direction with an icy blue aura surrounding his right hand and a smirk on his face.
"Hiryū no…[Ice Dragon's...]," Natsu pulled his fist back and threw it forward, crashing it into Bora's face, feeling his bones fracture and break under his fist. With one final push forward, he launched the slaver through the air, "...Hyōga ken![Glacial Fist!]" he shouted as Bora crashed into the ground and continued travelling through the ground, creating a cratered path as he skid across the earth, a large area of frostbite in the shape of a fist on his right cheek.
Lucy watched on, amazed at how easily and rapidly Natsu dealt with the slavers, but her attention was brought on to the frozen area and was soon aware of the intense temperature that had her shivering and her teeth chattering.
"I-i-i-it's so c-c-cold." Lucy stuttered, rubbing her arms in a vain attempt to get warm. She looked to her left and balked in shock as she saw that Nix didn't even seem bothered by the cold temperature, let alone noticed it at all.
Natsu let out a breath of slight disappointment, looking at the trail carved in the ground, shaking his head. "I really hoped that a guy worth over 100,000 jewels would be stronger," Natsu said before walking back towards Nix and Lucy, "turns out even the danger his bounty showed was false as well."
"Maybe the fact that he was a slaver and from a dark guild spiked up the price." Nix suggested with a thoughtful tone.
"I guess, but I should still get the full reward, I didn't do any damage to the area." Natsu said as he began to walk off before being stopped by a poke on his shoulder, he turned his head and saw Lucy pointing at the pier area.
"You probably went a little overboard." she said, mentioning all of the wreckage in the area.
"Like I said," Natsu started, starting to walk off again, "I didn't cause any damage, but you did, Serei Madoshi [Celestial Spirit Mage]." he said nonchalantly. Before Lucy could snap back a retort, Natsu held up his hand, silencing her. "Before we argue about it, we should probably leave before the military arrives." Natsu said, grabbing Lucy by her arm and sprinting through the streets with Nix next to him.
"Wha-what the hell are you doing?!" Lucy shouted in surprise and confusion.
"Well we said that we'd bring you to Fairy Tail after we finished our job here, right?" he asked her, looking over his shoulder at her.
"Well yeah, but-" she said, Natsu cutting her off.
"That's where we're going, so plant your feet and keep up, we've got a day and a half of travel ahead of us." Natsu said, looking back ahead and releasing her arm as Lucy did as told and ran with them, a large, excited smile on her face.
Boom! Hope you enjoyed the first chapter that I have neglected and even forgot about, which I deeply apologize for. *single tear of shame*
Anyway! There will be more to come from me in the near future, and I thank you guys a bunch for being so patient with negligence of my stories, I owe you all a bunch.
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