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Disclaimer: Look at this. Chapter 20! I think this calls for a celebration. Erza is bringing a cake, Gray made ice cream, Cana said she'd bring drinks, Lucy promised to bake something, I smell smoke coming from the kitchen so Natsu must be helping out, and the Beast said it's bringing the meat, but added "No questions asked. Is special meat. Slayer will like." I...I think I'll be a vegetarian for this party.

Chapter 20

Justice to Vengeance

Makarov growled at the report Levy gave him. "What! Five dead?"

"I'm afraid so," she pouted, understanding his outrage. "There was a body found in a hotel. They...they think it was a woman. There wasn't much left," she mumbled, looking sick as she remembered visiting the crime scene to talk to the investigators and seeing the bloody carnage left behind. "There was a cellphone near the body, and the last call went to a lady who said the victim's name was Kylie. She was having an affair with another one of the victims, middle-aged man. His blood was found at the scene of the hotel, but his body was discovered at home. He and his family had been slain, including two children."

"Children, now," Makarov grimaced, stroking his mustache. "This is going beyond justice."

Levy tilted her head in confusion. "Justice?"

"Up until now, the victims have all been...sinners, I suppose would be the best term," he said, looking like he hated to use such a word to describe this horrifying situation. "The first two victims were an adulterous man and his lover. The next one was a man who had just robbed a store. There was also a prostitute and those three rapists."

"Then what about Lucy?" Levy cried out. "Lucy isn't a sinner...well, not a bad one. Maybe minor things, but not like robbery and rape."

Makarov hummed as he considered this dilemma. It was true that the attack on Lucy did not match with the normal pattern of attacks so far.

"The night Lucy was attacked," the Master said slowly, trying to think this out, "she and Loke went on a date. She was drunk and a bit rowdy in public. It could be that more happened between the two than Loke would admit. If the beast only saw a drunk woman acting inappropriately toward a man in public, it might have assumed Lucy was always that way, and that was why she got attacked. According to the few eye witnesses and survivors, the beast attacks people it calls bad. So then, why a whole family? Why kill children?"

"The man had divorce papers on him," Levy recalled. "It seems he planned to break up with his wife and get together with the mistress."

"Not justice, then. Vengeance. It probably killed the children first and made the man watch, feel a sense of guilt, before ending his life as well. This means the beast's purpose for killing is changing."

Gajeel stomped into the room where the two were discussing the issue in private. "It's getting ready for a final attack," he explained.

"Gajeel," Levy cried out, smiling at seeing him again. "I thought you were investigating something."

"I was. That's why I'm here." Gajeel roughly took a seat at the table beside Makarov and Levy and leaned back with a leg crossed over his knee. He looked hard at the master. "The hunt is no longer fun. The beast will stop listening to the human side, to the sense of morality and justice held on by the dragon slayer. It'll act on its own desires, even if it goes against the will of the slayer. It's probably already decided to slaughter everyone, and it's just waiting for the slayer within to fall into such a deep sleep that he won't know it even happened. That poor kid probably has no clue that he's killed hundreds of villagers over who knows how many months."

"Sadly, that's probably the case," Makarov realized with a deep, troubled frown. "Although he has murdered countless people, the boy within has no control and no memory of these deeds. Still, the Magic Council doesn't care about those things. He'll still be executed, memory loss or not, especially if there's no cure, no way to stop him. Did you find anything, Gajeel?"

"Yeah. I looked up on this Balaur Blackstone kid. He's damn young for a dragon slayer. Never been in a guild. He was two years old when his dragon left, probably doesn't know much about magic at all. Some farmers found him and took him in, but the family realized he was...different. Apparently, they didn't treat him very well. It was probably a living hell for the poor boy, being an outcast in his own home."

"That's terrible," Levy frowned in sympathy.

"Then, a year ago, the family died in what was called a massive, localized earthquake. Ground just opened up and swallowed them. Only a sister survived. I found her, and she told me it was Balaur who did it, except...according to her, it wasn't totally him. Consciously, he only knows how to do a breath attack, but she said his earth magic went out of control that day. He was completely unconscious as he did it, and when it was over, he firmly believed it was nothing more than an earthquake. That was probably the first time the beast took over. He was still more or less sane for three months, but people around them began to die. Then a dark guild tried to move in on the village and slaughtered a third of the townsfolk. Balaur fought them, got badly injured, and suddenly went berserk. He killed all the enemies, but not before his out-of-control behavior killed half the surviving villagers. Balaur realized then that he was dangerous, so he ran away. He's been on the run ever since." Gajeel glanced at both the Master and the Solid Script mage. "It's a story that would make Shrimpy here sob, but the fact remains: this kid is dangerous. He needs to be stopped."

"Then why haven't we been able to capture him?" demanded Makarov.

"We've come damn close. It's like sometimes he wants to be found, and suddenly he desperately doesn't."

Levy nodded eagerly. "It's likely that the side of him that is still human wants to have someone stop him, but the beast won't allow it."

"Exactly," Gajeel agreed. "If he's caught, he's dead. He knows that already. Gildarts said the boy is aware of his condition, including being beyond any chance of curing him. He begged to die, yet when Gildarts asked if that truly was his wish, Balaur admitted it wasn't. He might think death is the only option, but his inner desire is to live. That desire is what the beast will feed upon. The beast is a creature of instinct. Even if the moral side of Balaur wants to end the destruction, his true desire is to live, and his deeper instincts will be about self-preservation. He won't allow himself to be caught, and those instincts will do everything it can to stay one step ahead of us."

"Catch him, Gajeel," Makarov ordered sternly. "I don't care what it takes, what you have to do, if you tear apart half the town to find him. I don't ever want to hear another report of children being murdered in this town. Take as many guild members as you need."

Max suddenly ran into the room panting heavily and sweating. "Master, bad news!"

"Not another killing," Makarov frowned.

"No. The feral dragon slayer is leaving town. Warren just made contact, and there were reports of it in the northern woods."

"Leaving?" Makarov shouted. "Gajeel, I thought you said it wouldn't leave until it killed everyone."

"Normally, that's true," Gajeel muttered, "unless...fuck!" He stood up quickly and stomped toward the door.

"Gajeel!" Levy cried out.

"Tell us what's wrong," Makarov demanded.

"It seeks the strongest prey," Gajeel shouted back to them as he stomped into the main hall with Makarov and Levy following on his heels. "Normally, it would see the entire town as a prey. The only reason it would abandon prey is to go after something even stronger, something of greater interest...something more like itself, another creature threatening to move in on its territory."

"Natsu," Makarov realized with worry.

"They're probably close to town now. If that fire-breathing idiot gets exposed to the full pheromone effects of the feral beast in his unstable condition, he'll change completely and there'd be no way we could save him." Gajeel looked back to Levy. "Shrimp, you're with me."

She blushed and eagerly smiled. "Ah! Right! I'm coming." Levy hurried eagerly after him.

"Juvia, I could use you, too," Gajeel called out. "Old man," he yelled to Gildarts. "Can you fight again?"

Cana slammed down her beer barrel. "Obviously he can't!"

Gildarts rose and adjusted his cloak over the mechanical arm he lost in his fight with Laxus. "Obviously I will," he smirked. "If someone like Gajeel realizes he needs this many people, he must be expecting a hell of a fight."

"You could say that," glowered the iron dragon slayer. "If that beast catches Salamander and the others, not only would it make that idiot change, but it could force Wendy into transforming, too. That would really be a bad situation."

Levy looked worried. "But she's just a little kid. She wouldn't be that dangerous, right?"

Gajeel glared down at the small blunette. "Do you know about the bites of baby rattlesnakes?"

Levy paused in worry as she recalled something she had read. Baby snakes lack the ability to hold back venom. Although they might be tiny without the massive fangs of adult snakes, if baby rattlesnakes strike, they will sink their fangs in and inject all the poison in their body rather than portioning it out in tiny doses. Because of this lack of experience in how to hold back, baby rattlesnake bites can be far more dangerous than bites from adult snakes.

Then Levy thought about Wendy. Older mages like Natsu and Laxus learned over many years how to portion out their magic power in order to last a long time in a fight. Wendy had only minimal battle experience. Especially if driven by pure instinct, she might put everything she had into a single, highly destructive attack that would not only be potentially fatal to everyone nearby, but dangerous for her own well-being.

Gajeel saw that Levy understood. "Yeah, it could be bad, so stay close to me, Shrimp." He patted her head with a heavy hand, and Levy glared up at him while blushing. "We need to hurry. If someone like Gildarts had a hell of a time fighting just Laxus on his first transformation, those people will barely stand a chance against the feral dragon slayer, Natsu, and Wendy combined. We need strong fighters, and preferably, we need to reach the beast before it gets close enough to affect Salamander."

The small group nodded with determination and headed out into the street, hurrying as they raced a creature with wings on its back and blood on its mind.

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