While Natsu was gone, some major things had happened at Fairy Tail. Apparently, the Guild Hall had been destroyed by another Guild called Phantom Lord. But Fairy Tail refused to retaliate as they didn't hurt any of their members. But because of this three mages, Levy, Jet and Droy were attacked, this was when the Master declared war on Phantom Lord.
However, when Fairy Tail attacked, the Master was tricked by Jose with an illusion and the Element 4 Aria sneaked up on him and drained his magic. This was only minutes before Natsu arrived. But, he did managed to hear two mages talking about how they captured Lucy.
So he dragged one of their members out by the leg.
"Where have you taken Lucy?" Natsu growled.
"I swear I don't know! They don't tell this stuff!" The low class mage wailed.
"Tell me now!" Natsu said lighting his fist on fire.
"She's probably at Headquarters!"
"That wasn't so hard now was it?" Natsu said as he knocked at the man and left him on the side of the road and took after Lucy.
Natsu arrived just in time to see Lucy falling out of a window. Reacting on instincts, he used his fire to burst forward and caught Lucy, wrapped his arms around her and used his back to take the impact of the wall.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Natsu whispered as he held her.
"I knew someone would come save me" Lucy said back.
"I WILL FIND YOU!" Came Jose's roar from the headquarters.
"Let's go Lucy" Natsu said throwing her on his back and took off towards the Guild.
At the Guild
"I can't believe they got the Master" Gray said in disappointment.
"Has anyone seen Lucy?" Erza asked but as she did the Guild doors opened to see Lucy Standing beside Natsu.
"I'm here" Lucy said as she walked up to Erza and Gray while Natsu went to go to Mira.
"Where were you?" Mira whispered.
"Long story, but I'm gone for less than a day and this happens" He whispered back.
"I'm just glad to see that you are safe" Mira said as she hugged him.
"So am I" He said as he hugged her back.
"What are you two doing?" Came a voice which immediately made Mira and Natsu go tense.
They had gone into the storage room but it seems someone had followed them, and it just happened to be Erza.
"Nothing!" Mira yelped as she immediately let go of Natsu.
"Since when were you two so friendly with each other?" Erza asked but it was more of a demand.
"Who said we were close?" Natsu said quite harshly.
"From the looks of it you are, and I wonder what you when you walk to the Guild in the morning together" Erza said as she rubbed her chin.
"What do we do?" Mira whispered.
"Just don't tell her" Natsu simply said.
"Well?" Erza asked as she put her hand on her hip expecting an answer.
"None of your concern" Natsu said as he walked straight past her and out of the room.
"I was hoping that since that jailbreak he would at least tell me some things but looks like he doesn't trust me" Erza said with a bit of a frown.
"I mean you and the rest of the Guild do treat him quite badly though" Mira butted in.
"It is his own fault" Erza said then also left the storage.
"I know you do it to protect them Natsu but when will you give it up an make some friends" Mira muttered.
It was true. If word got out about Natsu's strength or people saw him use his strength. People would get suspicious. This wouldn't be too bad if Natsu didn't have so many enemies. As the Black Dragon, the council were looking for him for two reasons, control him and make him a Saint, or arrest him for destroying so much property, pretty much every Dark Guild were looking for him as he has took down more than several of them. If word got out he was in Fairy Tail, then it would likely lead to war.
Then there were his magics. If people found out about his curses or more difficult magics then it was likely people would want to experiment on him or it would give the Council even more of a reason to look for him. His Guild mates would probably become more scared of him then than now.
Mira was cut out of her thoughts when the ground began to shake and a voice echoed throughout the town.
"Fairy Tail, hand over Lucy Heartfilia!" Jose's voice came from a huge walking robot from outside the Guild.
Everybody immediately rushed outside and were shocked to see the Guild Hall of Phantom walking.
"Hand over Lucy Heartfillia otherwise Magnolia will be destroyed by the Jupiter Cannon!" Jose announced.
"He's planning to use that!" Erza yelled.
"Half of Magnolia will be destroyed!" Canna yelled.
"We will never hand of Lucy!"
"We would never turn out back on a friend!"
"We won't hand her over to the likes of you!" Came various shouts from the Guild members.
"FIRE!" Jose yelled as the Cannon prepared to fire.
"EVERYBODY BEHIND ME!" Erza yelled requpping into her strongest armor, the Adamantium Armor which consisted of silver plating and a huge shield.
The cannon fired a giant ball of a mix of colors straight towards where Erza was standing.
She prepared for the blast digging her feet into the ground.
Natsu on the other hand had different ideas. If Erza blocked this, she wouldn't be able to fight but if Natsu managed to get the ball away, she could still fight.
Natsu propelled himself from the side of the Guild where he could not be seen using all this strength. He used his fire magic to create a blast in front of Erza's shield giving him a smoke screen. As the ball was about to hit Erza's shield, his palm collided with the side of the ball, and with the momentum he had he managed to push the ball to side. He focused his Chaos Dragon Slayer Magic on to his hand.
"Chaos Dragon's Iron Fist" He punched the ball and with a spark of blue light the ball was flown into far into the sky and it exploded but at the distance Natsu punched it, the Guild couldn't here it and the smoke didn't let them see it.
All that Erza saw was a blue flash, the same one from Eisenwald when it took down all the mages. Natsu used the smoke to swiftly get away.
When the smoke cleared, everybody cheered expect for Erza as they thought she blocked the attack.
'That definitely wasn; t me. But who intervened?' Erza wondered.
Short chapter but I can probably finish the Phantom Arc with the next chapter [it will be longer]