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Chapter Start:
Floating in the darkness Naruto could not figure out which way to go to get out of the void.
"NARUTO!"
Turning around in the direction of the noise he could only sigh. 'That voice, where have I heard it before?'
Abruptly an image of a blonde girl could be seen in front of him. Tears were cascading down her face and he could faintly remember her name. Reaching towards the girl, he felt his hand go through her before like glass the image broke apart. Pulling his hand back towards his chest he felt a single tear fall from his cheek. Hugging himself Naruto whispered out into the open space. "Somebody….Anybody…..save me."
As soon as the final words left his lips a myriad of images flashed before his eyes. Images of his smiling face among others. An image of a building with what looked like the image of a fairy on the front. The images kept coming some lasting longer than others until finally the image of a redhead appeared before his eyes. Her arm was held out towards him and a comforting smile was on her face. Her mouth was moving but no words were being spoken, still the sight of the women brought a smile to his face as well as an aching in his heart.
Like the rest though the image eventually disappeared only to be left in the sea of images moving before his eyes until at last an image of a white haired girl appeared in his mind. She couldn't be older than five and was slowly rocking a miniature version of himself in her arms. The girl was humming a lullaby however once she reached the end she slowly leaned down and placed a kiss on his forehead. Unable to stop himself Naruto touched the part where she had kissed and felt a warm sensation overcome him. "I will always protect you little brother."
Her name came back to him in a flash and with it came the conviction needed to banish the memories assaulting him until only one remained. It was a simple memories of him standing in front of Lisanna's grave the day he found out about her death. Unhibbiden the words he had spoken that day came rushing back to him.
"It's too late to save you, I know that but I promise ill look after Mirajane and Elfman for you. You don't have to worry about them anymore, just rest easy Lisanna."
Clenching his hands together Naruto stared up at the image of his sister's grave. Remembering the promise he had made to her he knew what had to be done. Willing his magic to focus on the part of the body that had been stabbed. He carefully healed the afflicted area being careful to not use to much magic and risk one of his tailed beasts taking over.
Glancing up at the image once more he whispered. "I just hope I won't be too late this time."
-X-
A sense of horror overcame the young priestess's face. Watching the man she had come to see as her friend fall lifelessly to the ground from an attack that had been meant for her. Overcome with grief she didn't notice the sliver of energy that originated from her bell that she had snuck onto Naruto's clothing slowly leaking into the wound he had sustained. The only thing that finally managed to break her out of her shock was when the scythe wielding mage kicked the body of the man who had saved her.
Erigor was having the time of his life, he had just taken down an S-class mage of Fairy Tail in one blow. "Not so hot now are you Tailed Beast! HAHAHAHA!"
Unbidden a white hot rage boiled into her being. Her anger only growing with each laugh out of the pathetic excuse of a man standing in front of her who had dared to laugh at her grief. She could feel her magic pulsating like a coiled animal, ready to pounce on her unsuspecting foe. Just when she thought it would burst the words she needed to release it came to her mind. Standing up slowly Shion whispered the words her mother had taught her so long ago.
"Angel Soul: Archangel"
When the words left her lips, her form was suddenly engulfed in a bright light. The light managed to catch Erigor's attention who stared at it in amusement. Once the light had disappeared Shion stood standing there, however her appearance had drastically changed. Her hair had turned pink and was levitating in her head with part of it going upwards and some going diagonally. A hallo could be seen floating above her head. Her clothing had also gone through a drastic change. No longer did she have her coat and long pants on. Now she wore a simple bikini top that barely held in her sizeable chest and a bikini bottom both done up in an intricate fashion. The biggest change however was the ever present glow surrounding her body.
Basking in her new power Shion faced the man who had dared to kill the man that she now realized was her destined partner. Pushing her hands outwards Shion started an attack that her mother had told her about, while hoping she'd be able to accomplish it. Light formed in her hands and with a single thought she fired it at the mage. The attack moved so fast that the man barely had enough time to put up his scythe as a defense. Even so however the beam of light broke through the weapon and traveled through him until it eventually died away.
Turning away from the soon to be dead man if the hole in his stomach was any indication Shion ran to her savior's side being careful to watch out for Moryu. When she reached Naruto's side however and opened up his shirt to analyze the wound she was in for an astonishing discovery. The once fatal wound had disappeared entirely and in its place was normal skin. No hints of a scar to be seen at all.
Looking at her saviors face Shion unconsciously blushed at the handsome face. Moments later however her chosen one's eyes opened and sapphire blue eyes locked onto her violet ones. Smiling at the man Shion barely managed to whisper her next words, and somehow he still heard them.
"How are you feeling?"
Feeling a sudden stiffness in his body Naruto slowly rose to his feet with Shion's help. In the corner of his eye he could see the slowly dying body of Erigor on the ground, the reason for which was painfully obvious. "I'll live, which is more than I can say about Erigor. Good job on that by the way. Though I am curious to where Moryo went."
The sound of clapping suddenly assaulted his ears and turning in the direction it originated from he saw Moryo standing there looking as dark as ever. He idly noticed Shion also looking at the man and without thinking stepped in front of her.
If Moryo noticed this action he didn't react instead he simply pointed his hand at the corpse of Erigor. "Scum like you who can't even do as their told deserves to rot in hell. Now disappear." A black beam of energy left his hand and traveled to the unmoving body. As soon as it touched Erigor's body the man's eyes bulged out and his mouth opened in a silent scream. The body was slowly swallowed up into the darkness and by the time it ended Erigor was no more.
Turning to face the two that had dared to defy him Moryo encased his body in darkness and asked "Which one of you wishes to die first?"
Channeling his magic once more a magic seal appeared underneath him. "Tailed Beast Soul: Shukaku" His form once more changed to his one tailed form, however instead of stopping there a second magic seal formed underneath him. This seal was blue and once it appeared his body once more started to glow.
"Tailed Beast Soul: Matatabi"
As soon as he said it his body was instantly engulfed in a blue flame. This flame traveled up his body until it formed two blue cat ears atop his head. Behind him were two distinct tails, one made of blue flames and the other made of sand. Blues lines could be seen under his eyes. With a thought Naruto extinqued the flames along his body and in their place was his normal attire.
Rushing forward in a surprising bout of speed Naruto reached his opponent and launched a flaming kick at the demon's head. The kick passed through his opponent's body. Immediately after his failed attack Naruto was forced to jump away from the black energy that his opponent had launched at him. The shadow seemed to be following him at least until one of Shion's light attacks seemed to dissipate it. Turning towards his partner Naruto suddenly was struck with an idea.
"Shion when I tell you to, I want you to aim at Moryo. Do you understand?"
Utterly confused why he would want her to play such an aggressive role, but still willing to help. Shion gave a hesitant nod.
Smirking at Moryo, Naruto gathered his magic into both of his arms. His left arm glowed with the translucent blue flames, however his right appeared to be covered in sand. Throwing his left arm forward Naruto unleashed a raging inferno towards his opponent.
Instead of running from the flames or trying to counteract them Moryo instead allowed them to pass through him. Once all the fire had successfully passed through him Moryo formed two magic circles in front and shot each at one of his opponents.
Seeing the shadow approaching him Naruto quickly threw both arms forward and launched a combined fire and sand blast. Successfully cancelling the attack out. His eyes however remained the entire time on Shion who as he suspected dealt with the attack easily. It appeared as if the shadows refused to be anywhere near the light.
Having proved his theory correct, Naruto turned to Shion. "You've done a good job and because of you I finally figured out how were going to defeat this guy." Turning away from the girl Naruto faced Moryo. "This battle has gone on long enough. What do you say I end it?"
Unable to contain himself Moryo started laughing hysterically. "You, finish this battle? Just like that?! HAHAHAHAHA. Boy you are a hundred years too young to even think about challenging me in battle. What makes you think you could possibly beat me? As you've noticed you haven't touched me and you won't! There is no way you can kill me."
Smiling at the demon Naruto whispered his next words. "Watch me." Once saying this a yellow magic circle appeared in front of him and sand gushed out of the magic circle. Taking control of it Naruto forced it to form a dome around all three of them.
Looking around himself Moryo couldn't help but wonder just what this brats plan was. He of all people should know that a sand dome wasn't going to help them at all. He was however shocked when his opponent grabbed the girl and quickly ran out of the dome thanks to a hole he had formed, just big enough to fit the two of them. Starring at the spot his opponent had retreated from Moryo couldn't help but be curious to what this mage had planned. 'It doesn't matter whatever your plan is, it won't be able to kill me. I'll just faze right through it."
Once reaching the outside of the dome Naruto waited no time in channeling all his magic and forming a giant blue magic seal underneath the dome. Not a second later blue flames erupted from the seal and went directly into the dome, cooking anybody that remained inside.
The whole time this was going on Shion was staring at the man in shock. "How could you possibly think cooking him would kill him? That kind of attack is nothing to him."
Instead of contradicting her Naruto only offered her a grin. "I'm well aware that this won't kill him. This is simply setting up the show for you to kill him."
Instead of responding to the mage Shion simply watched the flaming dome in front of her. The heat coming off of it was extraordinary and she was finding it slightly hard to breathe. Still though Naruto obviously had a plan and from the amounts of magic he was pouring into his flames the plan must be a damn good one.
It wasn't too long until the sand that made up the dome started changing grain by grain until finally the once imposing dome of sand was now a dome of glass. The flames soon retreated and left behind the superheated dome of pure reflective glass.
Smiling at the dome Naruto instantly fell to one knee. 'It would seem I used up too much of my magic.' His form reverted back to his human form. Turning to Shion, Naruto said. "Now Shion its time for you to do your part. I want you to fire as much of your power into the dome as you can."
Sparing the mage, a concerned look, Shion quickly loaded her magic into what she was starting to think of as her 'light beams' and fired it into the hole that they had made upon their escape. She was expecting a lot of things. The most prevalent was for Moryo to come out laughing at their idiocy and tell them how they had been doomed from the beginning. She however was not expecting the entire dome to light up as if it was a giant light bulb. She was also not expecting to hear the unearthly screams that came from the dome.
Once the light died down Naruto used the last of his energy limp into the opening created from their escape and to see the results of his and Shion's attack. Just like he had expected Moryo was laying on the ground with his head facing the ceiling. His form was slowly breaking apart and it didn't look like the once powerful demon had much time left in this world. Walking until he was standing in front of the demon Naruto simply waited for the conformation of what was to come.
"How did you do it?"
Staring down at the dying figure below him and seeing the curious priestess whose form had reverted to normal Naruto figured it couldn't hurt to reveal what had happened. "It's simple really whenever you became intangible in order to defend from an attack you never moved, not even when it would be in your best interest. You instead waited for the attack to be over if you were going to launch an attack while intangible. You did however make sure to never let Shion's light touch you. A good idea I suppose considering how much of an effect it had on your shadows. Using this information, I correctly deduced that since your body is pretty much made up of the shadows that you attack with, Shion should be able to kill you. The only problem was you were never going to allow her a chance to hit you. It didn't help that she was so inexperienced in that form that I couldn't count on her hitting you, or at least betting my life on the possibility."
By now Shion was looking at her savior in awe, unable to believe the deductions he made and how quickly he made them. Moryo however was analyzing what he heard a mile a minute.
"Using this information I knew I had to create an environment where you couldn't actually dodge her attack. In order to do this, I created a sand dome and had it surround all of us. Making sure to watch you using my sand as its being built in order to make sure you didn't try to escape. Once this was done I ran out as fast as I could and used my blue flames to cook the dome making sure to also have my sand detecting if you were attempting to leave the dome. I heated my sand up to the temperature at which it would turn to glass. In the end as long as you were in that dome when Shion launched her attack you were as good as done."
Nodding at his opponent's words Moryo simply starred at the top of the dome, satisfied with his loss. "You were indeed a worthy opponent Tailed Beast." His body simply faded away into etherno soon after the words left his lips, thus ending the life of the demon known as Moryo.
Sighing in relief Naruto allowed himself to fall backwards onto his back, glad that battle was finally over and with it, this mission was nearly over as well. Now he would soon be able to return home and be able to see all his friends.
The priestess was quickly at his side checking him over for injuries. Her face was so scared that he could not help but chuckle. "Relax Shion, I just used up a ton of magic power. I also maintained our shelter last night. I will be fine once I have rested for a while.
The priestess did not look convinced but thankfully, she seemed to realize it was a losing battle to try to fight him on it. So instead, the two just lapsed in the silence.
Closing his eyes, Naruto's thoughts immediately turned to a certain redhead. 'I wonder if I have gotten strong enough to protect you as well Erza.' A smile graced his face at the thought of the blush that would bring to her face.
"Hey Naruto?"
Turning in the direction of the voice, he wasn't surprised to see Shion starring at him the conflicted expression on her face was worrying though.
"Yeah?"
It appeared like a great internal struggle was happening, until finally her resolve seemed to settle and she closed her eyes before screaming.
"Marry me!"
Thus was the time that a simple priestess knocked out an S-class mage of Fairy Tail.
Immediately Shion rushed to his side to try to revive her 'fiance' however every time she uttered the word it seemed as if his condition only got worse.
In his head, however there was only one thought going through it. 'Mira's gonna kill me if she ever finds out.'
While Naruto's fight had ended, another fight was just beginning. This one however had the potential to destroy everything that he had ever known.
-X-
In the dead of night, a figure lurked in the shadows above the Fairy Tail guild building. Jumping into the air the figure extended his arm towards the guild and with a shout of "Iron Dragons Lance" Giant Iron poles broke off from his arms and into the Fairy Tail guild building. The guild building itself was empty something the dragon slayer made sure of before attacking the place. The dragon slayer continued his attack until there were seventeen metal poles sticking out of the building.
Walking out of the guildhall Gajeel let out a humorless laugh. "Hahaha as funny as that is let's make sure we really make them pissed off."
Walking off Gajeel mentally went through all of the Fairy Tail mages he had seen today in order to determine which one would be the best for his little demonstration.
'The sexy barmaid would be an option, but she's an S-class mage. Her brother is also an S-class mage who is away right now. I would prefer not to piss him off enough to the point where he comes back and helps Fairy Tail fight us. Still though there was that blue haired girl.' The more he thought about it the more he decided it would be a great idea. Besides, it would be fun to humiliate those two bozos who seemed to always hang out with her.
Smiling to himself Gajeel found a safe place to rest tonight. Tomorrow Fairy Tail would know that there days were numbered and it was all because they had dared to challenge Phantom Lord for the title of strongest guild.
-X-
"What do you mean were not going to do anything about this gramps? Phantom Lord destroyed our guild and were just going to let them get away with it."
It would appear that Natsu, Erza, Gray, Lucy and Happy had just returned from a recent mission and were standing in front of Master Makarov and Mirajane.
Waving off Natsu's concerns Makarov once more chugged his beer. "There's no point in attacking cowards who are so afraid that they have to attack an empty guild."
Erza's head swiveled in the Masters direction after that tidbit. "They attacked the guild when no one was here."
Mirajane confirmed the Masters words. "Yes, the guild was attacked at night when everybody had already left."
Shrugging his shoulders Makarov looked to the group. "See there's no point in starting a fight over that. Until upstairs is fixed we'll just handle all our quests down here."
Instantly a fist slammed into the table, splitting it into two and causing wood chips to go flying. Everybody turned to see Natsu standing there a look of righteous fury on his face. "We can't just let them get away with this Gramps. They destroyed our guild."
Ignoring the boy Makarov instead turned to Mirajane. "We will not be retaliating but just to be on the safe side, alert all of our S-class wizards to return at once." Seeing the girl nod Makarov turned to the rest of the guild who were all eagerly watching him and waiting for his decision. "Fairy Tail will not be attacking Phantom Lord as of this moment, however to be on the safe side I want all of you to buddy up with somebody and not be by yourself." Smiling cheerfully at everybody Makarov jumped off his seat and started walking off.
Watching the old man retreat Natsu yelled after him. "Where are you going gramps?"
"Nature calls."
While everybody else was distracted, Mirajane excused herself from the guild while carrying a communication lacrima. If she had to contact the S-class mages, she might as well start now. This way she could see how her little brother was doing and alleviate some of her worry.
Sitting it down on a table Mirajane poured some magic into it and said clearly. "Show me Naruto Strauss."
Slowly an image appeared however, the image was not one that she ever wanted to see. Her brother was out cold in a hospital of some kind and some blonde girl was behind him in a nurse's outfit. Hesitantly Mirajane whispered her next words. "Um hello there."
Instantly turning around the nurse smiled at her. "Hello there you must be my new sister-in-law."
Thus concluded the day that the priestess known as Shion knocked out not one, but two of Fairy Tails S-class wizards.
Chapter end
Wow, well that concludes chapter 5 of Tailed Beast Takeover Mage. Sorry it took so long to get this out. I hope you all enjoyed it, and I can finally decide on who the pairing is. I wonder if any of you can figure it out. Anyway I already know how the stories going to go and have always known. I will say do not expect anything to be exactly as it is in canon, there will be some major changes. I'm sure all of you will enjoy it. I have also been toying with the idea of having Naruto get away from Tenrou Island and bringing the girl he is paired with and them having a child while everyone else is trapped. Could be a fun thing to do.