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Chapter 29
A Dangerous Interruption
With the coming of morning, the fog burned away, leaving sticky moistness in the air. Birds were just beginning to sing when Gajeel stomped into the guild followed by Pantherlily. Makarov was there early, as was Erza and Mira. Sting looked sleepy and was trying to wake himself with some strong tea, but Rogue looked the same as always. Happy had come for this, and he sat with Frosh and Lector off to the side. Their usual teasing had no affect on the blue cat this morning. Happy was worried for his best friend.
Today, Gajeel would begin the week-long ceremony to bring Natsu back to his senses and make him a fully matured dragon slayer.
"We'll get started on Natsu immediately," Makarov stated to the early morning group. "However, I've decided that until the feral is caught, we'll postpone Laxus' and Wendy's ceremonies. Rogue and Sting will help to protect the town and hunt the feral slayer. As soon as it's caught, we'll start on the others immediately."
"How are they?" Erza asked in grave concern for her fellow nakama.
"Stable for now," Makarov assured her. "I think getting them out of a pheromone-rich environment was important to making the progression slow down."
Rogue explained further, "Laxus changed only once, so you caught him right at the start. He should be fine for a few weeks. Wendy believes she might have changed a few times without realizing it, and she changed yesterday. She's shaken, but since she was triggered prematurely by the feral's pheromones, and later by the pheromones Natsu has begun to product, getting her out of that smell will keep her normal, probably until she reaches maturity. However, it wouldn't hurt to do the ceremony on her now, since she has experienced a little of the awakening beast within. Sting will perform it on her, that way if he fails, she's young enough so that she should be fine even if the schism in personality can't be mended right away."
The blond glared over at his fellow Sabertooth guildmate. "If I fail, huh?"
Mira dropped her voice as she spoke to Rogue. "Kinana said you were worried for Lucy."
"A possible danger for her, yes," the Shadow Dragon Slayer nodded.
"Danger?" Erza asked in an overly-protective jolt. "What danger?"
"It's my assumption that the feral will use Lucy to get Natsu to come and fight. We should get her later. I honestly had thought she would be here this morning," he said, looking troubled as he glanced to the door.
"Didn't she stay the night with Natsu?" asked Erza. "They were together until after midnight. I assumed she slept with him."
"Well, she did," Mira tittered. "She woke up later and went home."
"Then she's in danger," Erza said loudly, instinctively reaching to her sword.
The white-haired mage quickly assured her, "Lucy still has the emergency calling card I gave her when she went down to the dungeon. I had forgotten to ask for it back."
Erza reached to her side and picked up a corresponding calling card. It was still normal. "She would alert to us if she's in trouble. Then she should be fine." She relaxed again and stowed the emergency calling card away. "Still, I'm disappointed that she isn't here."
Sting held back a sleepy laugh. "She's probably worn out and sore from last night. Considering how much that dungeon smells like pussy, it'd be a miracle if she can walk for a week." Rogue smacked him over the head for being crude.
Mira sadly realized, "She probably just doesn't want to upset Natsu if she starts to cry. She looked rather emotional last night when she was leaving."
"I see," Erza muttered. She knew how much it hurt to see someone you love taken away, especially if you feared for their life.
Gajeel huffed at all the drama. "Screw her! Bring Salamander up here before the idiot loses to himself."
Mira went down to the dungeon and came up a few minutes later with a very tired-looking Natsu.
"He's worn out and sore, too," Sting muttered, and this time he blocked Rogue before the Shadow Dragon Slayer could whack him.
Natsu squinted in the bright sunlight and glanced around the room. "Where's Lucy?"
"At home, probably sleeping," Erza assured him calmly.
"She said she'd be here this morning," he frowned. "Lucy doesn't break her promises."
Gajeel took a deep sniff of him. "Sting is right, you reek of pussy. Ya must've fucked her a few times to smell that bad. If she's too worn out to wake up, that's your own fault."
Natsu blushed and looked aside, not wanting to admit that the strong smell was from Lucy's panties tucked away in his scarf to keep him calm.
"We have a room set up," Makarov explained. "It's soundproof, but Gajeel will have an emergency calling card in case there is trouble. Food and water for a week are stored inside, as are toilets and beds. Gajeel said you'll sleep a lot between sessions. It's reinforced just in case you...well..." He did not want to say in case this doesn't work and you transform fully into a mindless killer. Still, success in this was not guaranteed.
"We should wait for Lucy," Natsu insisted.
"Idiot," Gajeel grumbled. "You can't wait. We shouldn't have waited even one night."
"I'll tell Lucy any message you want," Erza offered to him.
The message he wanted to give to Lucy was not one he could speak aloud. It was not even words he wanted. He simply wanted to be with her one more time, to give her one more kiss, hold her, smell her, taste her lips, touch her soft body, hear her voice, and see her smile. He wanted to assure her he would be fine, and in doing so reassure himself.
"Tell her...about what we talked about last night, I wasn't joking. I meant it, and I want her to think on it. Because I really wanna..." His words cut off in embarrassment. He could not say in front of everyone that he wanted Lucy as his wife. "I wanna be with her...always. To court her properly, to take her to nice restaurants... Oh, tell her to pick a restaurant for when I get out, because I'm gonna take her on a date right away. And...and I...I wanna..." He shrank down bashfully, smiling cutely to himself.
Erza and Mira shared a stunned look. He was really serious about this, wasn't he?
"...I wanna be there for her all the time, protect her, and hold her, and...and...I want..."
Just then, the doors of the guild burst open and a body collapsed in, wheezing harshly. They saw the orange hair amidst a torn and battered suit coat.
"Loke!" Mira cried out, running forward to him.
He was wavering in and out of existence, with golden sparkles of spirit energy draining out of him. Still, the Lion forcefully raised his head. They saw his eyes dark with exhaustion, one blue lens shattered, and his normally impeccable clothes now torn to shreds.
"Lucy..." He coughed harshly and grabbed the gaping hole in his torso.
Natsu jolted at that, and his eyes went wide in fear.
"The beast...is after...Lucy. Couldn't...stop him. He's...strong. Much stronger. Couldn't...stop...s-sorry..." Then in exhaustion far beyond what even the Leader of the Zodiacs could withstand, Loke sank to the floor and vanished in a rain of golden light.
"Lucy!" Natsu yelled, and he ran to the door.
Erza yanked him back by the scarf. "Where do you think you're going?"
"To save Lucy," he bellowed in rage.
"Natsu, you're in no condition..."
"Save her!" he screamed, and his eyes flashed red for a moment.
"Natsu, calm down," Gajeel warned.
Natsu slammed his eyes shut and shook his head, straining to regain control. "I'm...okay. Really, I'm okay."
They heard a tiny, weird voice with a beeping alarm. "Help me, help me." Erza pulled out her emergency card. On it was a chibi picture of Lucy waving her tiny arms with HELP ME flashing in bold letters.
"It's Lucy. She must still have the card."
Since Erza had let go of the scarf to get the card, Natsu bolted and ran out the opened door. He sniffed, but there was nothing. The barrier was still up and blocking the smell. Only the feral's smell, though. He smelled Lucy's scent right away. With the others racing right behind him, he ran to the entrance and passed the magic barrier. Not far down the street, he dropped to the ground and inhaled. There was the reek of blood, and he saw dried bloody footprints.
The worse smell: Lucy's blood.
"Grrrr! Lucy blood. Lucy in trouble. Bad smell. Smell...enemy!" Natsu shook his head, suppressing that instinct. "No! Can't give in. Lucy...was here," he said calmer. "Just a couple hours ago. The feral too. I smell that...that...bad smell. Enemy. Feral. Kill! Feral hurt Lucy. KILL THE MOTHERFUCKER! No! Calm down, calm the hell down. She just used that card, which means she's okay."
The sun was barely up, but Natsu looked around frantically. He smelled something else and scrambled to a nearby alley, sniffing the scene. It smelled like cow.
"Taurus," he whispered. "He fought the feral here while Lucy ran." He smelled more of Lucy's blood and looked around. "Bloody footsteps. She was barefoot. The blood could have been from stepping on something with bare feet. Where the steps end, there isn't more blood, which means the feral didn't hurt her here. She stopped, though. She turned around, probably confronted the beast. Dammit, she was almost at the guild. She was so close before he caught up." Natsu turned around and screamed at the mages who had hurried after him. "Why did no one realize Lucy was out here? She was right there."
Mira realized too late. "Kinana mentioned that she thought she heard something, but when she went to inspect nothing was there. Could that have been Lucy? Oh God, no one heard her."
"Dammit!" Natsu screamed, grasping at his hair as the voice within him went into an outrage. "If I hadn't been locked up, I would have smelled her right away. Sting, Rogue: why didn't you smell her?"
"I was asleep, idiot," Sting said defensively.
Rogue sadly shook his head. "Sorry, I don't know her smell."
Natsu cursed under his breath. He spun one way, then the other way, sniffing the air. "We have to hurry. That beast has her. It could kill her."
"So could you, if you go after her," Sting warned.
"You're not well," Makarov told him. "We can't let you go."
Rogue stepped forward. "We'll get her back, Natsu."
"You won't be quick enough," he shouted furiously.
Suddenly, Natsu ripped off his shirt and squinted up his face, expecting the pain. Wings sprouted out of his back and unfurled to full width. A blood red tail with shiny black spines grew out of his lower back. He hissed a little from the pain. When his eyes opened, they were green, fierce, but clear. He stood with the translucent pink wings fluttering in the morning air, twitching eagerly to fly, and the tail whipping from side to side.
"Natsu!" Makarov warned sharply.
He turned to the horizon, and his fists clenched defiantly. "I can smell him. I can hear her. I know where they are. I hear her...calling me."
"Bastard, stop it right now," Gajeel yelled. "If you change fully again, you might truly go feral."
"I won't," he assured with a smile of confidence. "I can't allow that, because I'm gonna marry Lucy, and I can't make her my wife if I'm not even human."
"Marry her?" Erza shouted in shock. Mira covered her mouth at such a bold declaration, and Gajeel arched an eyebrow in surprise.
"That's right," he grinned broadly. "I'm gonna marry her, and we're gonna have a family, and I'm gonna be a father. So I can't let Lucy die."
Sting shouted furiously at him, "This is precisely what I warned you about yesterday: sacrificing your human side to save a friend. You'll really lose, Natsu. Then you'll not only lose your humanity, you'll lose everything. You'll turn into a bloodthirsty dragon like Arcnologia. You could kill Lucy."
Natsu dropped his head solemnly. "I know what you warned me, and I know I said I wouldn't do this, but there's still a chance I can keep conscious. Lucy just sent that message, which means she's alive, but she's run out of options. She was here two hours ago; I can smell it. She's been fighting that beast for hours, already injured! She would have called for help earlier, but she obviously doesn't want to put her friends at risk. That's the way Lucy is. She's stubborn and prideful," he said in admiration. "I'll make sure she doesn't have to worry about losing any friends. I want to save Lucy, and I feel that the beast within has the same desire."
Gajeel warned darkly, "Dual emotions might actually be a worse sign."
"It's not," Natsu insisted confidently. "The beast has always felt that way, and I have always felt that way. It's one instinct that will never change...ever! For Lucy's sake, I'll make sure I stay sane."
"Natsu," Makarov warned as they all stayed back, like cornering a rabid dog.
"Gramps, if you try to stop me, the beast will struggle and I might really lose it. If I don't at least try to save her, the beast will insist I do, it'll take over, and I'll lose to it anyway. Either way, by you forcing me or by me realizing this is a really stupid idea, my only chance at staying sane is to go after Lucy. She's the only person who keeps me...being me." He reached down to the scarf and pulled up the part hiding her panties, giving it a deep sniff. It calmed the panicking beast within that wanted him to stop talking and start fighting. "I have to go to her. She's my only chance at surviving this."
He flapped his massive wings and took off fast, flying to where he smelled that scent of strawberry shampoo and rosewater.
« Slayer save Lucy? »
"Yes, we're going to save her," he calmly told the voice inside him.
« If Lucy dead, we kill all. »
"She's not dead, and we're not killing anyone."
« All. Slayer kill all. Burn. Fire. Burn everything. To cinders. Ashes to ashes. If feral hurt her...if feral fucked her... »
"Shut up! Don't even say that." He knew it was a possibility, but he refused to believe something that horrible had already happened.
« Kill feral. Burn slowly. Then fuck all scent and marks off Lucy. Make her ours again. Kill all rivals. Then fuck the redhead, and fuck the white-haired girlie. Fuck and kill and fuck. »
Natsu sneered and he shoved that cackling voice back down. "See, this is how I know I'm not feral. You still disgust me. And seriously...Erza? Are you insane? She's way too scary."
« Once you want to fuck her. Had dream. Naughty dream. Fucked her in dream. »
"Oh God, I was fourteen, it was a wet dream, and it was only once. Don't you dare tell her about that or she'd kill me."
Back near the guild, the group watched Natsu fly off.
"Master!" Erza shouted in protest. She knew Makarov easily could have grabbed Natsu and restrained him. If anyone could beat sense into that boy in a single second, it was Makarov.
"He may have a point," Makarov said reluctantly. "If we keep Natsu locked up, he'll be panicking and anxious. Those darker emotions will feed the beast inside. Natsu might eventually want to lose control purely to go after Lucy. Right now, his eyes were still Natsu's. I think that, since Lucy is involved, Natsu will fight just about anything to make sure she stays safe, including fighting himself."
"He's still unstable and not as strong as a person who's been feral for a while," Gajeel warned. "Lily, fly after him."
Pantherlily grew to battle size and grabbed Gajeel as well. "Against two dragon slayers, even I wouldn't be enough." They flew off together after Natsu.
"He's right," Sting said. "Against two dragon slayers, not many could survive. Erza, Mira, try to evacuate the town in that area. You know how destructive Natsu can get, and he might be worse considering he's fighting to save the woman he loves. Plus that Earth Dragon Slayer's magic can probably destroy half the town easily."
"Understood," Erza nodded.
"I'll call in the other mages," Makarov told them. "We'll evacuate the southern half of Magnolia for now, and I'll send Gildarts to meet with you. He has a trick that forced Laxus to revert to human form again. It might work on the feral."
"Get Freed as well," Mira pointed out. "Natsu...might need to be caged." She pouted at the many worries troubling her mind.
"That's true," Makarov frowned sternly . "I'll organize the evacuation and a team to wait on standby for the dragon slayer fight. Rogue, Sting..." The old man's eyes wrinkled beseechingly. "Don't kill him, even if he's lost to us. There might be a way to bring him back."
"A feral can't be healed," Rogue warned.
"I know, but...there might be something we can do. Don't kill him."
"I can't promise that," Rogue said sadly, "but we'll try our hardest to capture him alive."
"Yeah," Sting growled, "that way I can beat him up for being an idiot. Lector, Frosh!"
"Coming, Sting-kun."
"Fro too," said the froggy little Exceed.
"I'm also coming," Happy insisted.
Lector scoffed at him. "A stupid-looking tiny brat like you?"
"Tiny brat," Frosh repeated.
There were tears of terror mixed with determination in Happy's eyes. "Natsu is my best friend. I don't care if he can fly now, or if he's scary, or even if he goes crazy. He's my friend, and I'm gonna help him fight in any way I can."
Rogue leaned over and patted Happy's head with a gentle smile. "Natsu is lucky to have a friend as brave as you."
Frosh also came up and patted Happy in the same way. "Fro thinks so, too."
Lector folded his arms and looked away. "Yeah, whatever. At least don't piss yourself when you get scared."
Frosh heaved Rogue into the air, and Lector grabbed up Sting. With Happy flying behind, they all rushed south after Natsu, ready to face the feral beast.
End of Chapter 29
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