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Time is the Path to Strength	By : Repiece Category: +. to F > Fairy Tail Views: 47113 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 12
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Chapter 6: Natsu's Team VS Eisenwald

"I can't believe this." Erza muttered. "All because I was talking nonstop that I forgot about Natsu." She then turned to Lucy. "Please hit me!"

"That's going a little too far!" Lucy screamed at her.

"Tch!"

"Don't tch in response!" Lucy screamed again. "Why don't you just calm down and think this through."

Erza ignored her. "He can't even handle transportation. This is just so unlike me."

"She's ignoring me..."

"Aye!"

"Just ask the train employee to stop the train." Erza nodded and the four of them went back to the train station and searched for the control room. Once they found it, Erza explained the situation to the employee.

"...and that's why you need to stop the train." The employee sweat dropped at the acting she did.

"W-What?" He asked confused.

"Is everyone from Fairy Tail like this?" She asked Gray.

"What are you talking about? I'm normal." He replied.

"Aye me too!" Happy agreed as Lucy sweat dropped at the two.

"How can an exhibitionist be normal...and your definitely not normal." She said the last part toward Happy.

"So, please! This is for our nakama, you have to understand!" Erza finished.

"Are you insane!" The employee shouted at Erza. "We can't just stop the train because one person didn't get off!" Erza bit her bottom lip in frustration. It was then that she noticed a switch behind the employee with the words, 'Emergency Stop' written underneath it.

"Happy!" The blue flying cat looked at Erza. He looked behind the employee and saw the switch and his mouth turned into a huge grin. He flew toward the switch, flying over the employee's head.

"Ah! W-Wait!" The employee said as Happy pushed the switch down. An alarm was heard throughout the train station, alerting all those who were at the station.

"Huh? What happened?"

"An accident?"

"Alright, let's go!" Erza told the three and they nodded their heads. She then turned to two random strangers that were walking by. "Can you please take these to Hotel Chili?"

"Who are you?" They asked, confused by her sudden request.

"It's...become such a mess..." Lucy sighed.

"Indeed..." Gray agreed and she looked over to him to see that he didn't have his clothes on.

"Your outfit! How! W-When!" Lucy asked in shock.

Meanwhile, the train that Natsu was on continued to make it's way toward it's destination. Natsu groaned in pain from his motion sickness. The man who sat in front of him continued to talk to him. "Speaking of Fairy Tail...Mirajane's famous, isn't she? She's in magazines sometimes, right? She's also beautiful."

'God, why do I have to listen to this pervert?' Natsu thought getting annoyed.

"I wonder why she's not active anymore. She's still young." He continued.

'Can this train please stop so I can punch the shit out this guy!' Natsu groaned.

"I also hear you guys have another beautiful girl join your guild recently. I wonder her name is. Do you know her?" Natsu let out another groan as he clutched his stomach to prevent himself from throwing up. The man paused and Natsu hoped he was done talking, but he forgot that there was more. "I envy your guild. There are so many beautiful girls. My guild doesn't have many girls like yours." He then looked at Natsu with a freaky smile that pissed Natsu off. "Would you please share some? I promise that myself and my fellow guild members would treat them nicely."

'W-Wait a minute...if I remember correctly, wasn't he supposed to kick me? What the hell is with that disgusting smirk on his face?' Natsu felt confused.

"I'm sure we'll use them very nicely." Natsu's widened. "If we can, we'll like to take that hotty Mirajane off from you guys." Natsu suddenly felt his motion sickness disappear. "Or we could take that new girl, huh? How about it?" Natsu raised his head and glared at the man. The man flinched at Natsu's glare. "That glare...you think you are better than us that you can look at me like that! Don't underestimate us like that!" The man yelled and this time tried kicking Natsu in the face. However, Natsu grabbed his foot and ignited his arm. "W-What?"

"You bastard...how dare you say that shit about my nakama!" Natsu roared as the man panicked.

"H-Hey, wait a minute...d-don't you know who you are dealing with! If you hit me then you would declare war on Eisenweld!" He tried warning him, but Natsu didn't give a damn.

"Looking forward to it..." Natsu told him and delivered an uppercut to the man's jaw. "Iron Fist of the Salamander!"

"Waaahhh!" He screamed as Natsu's fist connected with his jaw sending him and a large flame flying upward, through the roof of the train and into the sky. Natsu sighed in satisfaction and looked down at the floor to see the bag that he dropped and saw the skull looking like flute. He picked it up and wrapped his hand around it and grinned.

"Ugh..." Natsu groaned as his motion sickness returned and he collapsed back down to his seat.

"W-What was that!" Erza shouted as she saw the large flame erupt from inside the train. Gray looked at the flame from his place above the wagon that Erza was using her magic to make it run. Lucy and Happy popped their heads out of the wagon at Erza's yell.

"That looks like Natsu's flame!" Lucy exclaimed.

"Aye!"

"Let's hurry!" Erza poured in more magic to the wagon to get it to move faster.

When they got close enough tot he train, it started to brake to a halt. Erza made sure to stay next to the train cart that Natsu was and kept on decreasing the amount of magic she put it the wagon to accommodate the stopping train. When the rain came to a halt, so did the wagon. "Oi, Natsu!" Gray called out from atop the wagon.

Natsu was relieved when the train stopped and then heard his name being called. He looked around and didn't see anyone. He shrugged. "Attention passengers! We apologize for the inconvenience, we will be moving shortly. Also, the person who created that big hole in cart 5, be prepared to pay for the damage as an employee is going to confront you of the debt." Natsu began sweating nervously.

"Crap! I got to get out of here!" Natsu panicked. He tightened his hold on the flute and jumped out of the window. However, he wasn't expecting Gray to be standing there, well he did, but it wasn't like he remembered and they crashed into each others foreheads. The blow caused the two of them to fall of the top of the wagon and onto the ground.

"Natsu! Are you okay!" Erza called out.

"I'm fine too, thanks for asking!" Gray groaned in pain as he sat up. "...and you! What the hell is wrong with you, you idiot!" He tuned his attention to Natsu.

"Huh? Whoa re you?" Natsu asked, looking at Gray in confusion. "I lost my memory from the the shock just now." He added. "By the way, you smell."

"Natsu! We're sorry!" Happy apologized as Lucy and Erza ran over to them.

"Oi, Erza, Lucy! How could you leave me on the train like that! I thought we we're friends!" Natsu shouted at them.

"Oi, your memory seems just fine now..." Gray muttered under his breath, glaring at Natsu.

"Sorry, Natsu." Lucy apologized with a nervous smile.

"I apologize as well, Natsu." Erza added. She then put an arm behind him and pulled him into a hug, smacking his head into her armor. "I'm glad your safe."

"It hurts..." Natsu groaned.

"By the way Natsu, what happened? We saw the flame..." Lucy asked pointing to the train that started moving again.

"Huh?" He questioned looking at the train. "Oh right. Some guy pissed me off so I kicked his ass." Natsu told them. "His name was Eisenwald or something..." He lied, knowing he was about to get punched by Erza, but had a surprise waiting for them. Just like he remembered, Erza punched him hard.

"You idiot!" She yelled at him. Lucy gawked in shock as the punch made Natsu fly over a few yards. "Eisenwald is who we are after!"

"Huh? That's the first time I heard of it!" He lied.

"Why weren't you listening to my story!" She continued to yell at him.

'That's because you knocked him out.' Lucy thought in surprise.

"Tch! The person we are after is on that train, right? We should go after the train." Erza concluded.

"I doubt he's on it, I knocked him off the train." Natsu told her.

"So then, he's somewhere over there." Erza pointed to the opposite direction the train was going.

"Why are we after him anyway?" Natsu asked, lifting an eyebrow, despite knowing already.

"Do you want me to hit you again?" Erza muttered in anger as a vein popped in her head. Natsu started sweating nervously and shook his head. Erza sighed to calm herself down. "In any case, we have to find him and make him tell us what Eisenwald is planning."

Lucy, Gray and Happy nodded their heads, while Natsu pretended to look confused. "So, was there anything strange about him?" Lucy asked Natsu.

"Nothing special. He was a pervert though." Natsu answered.

'G-Great...' Lucy sweat dropped. "Anything else?"

"Well, he did have this weird flute thing that had a skull at the end. A skull with three eyes." Natsu told her.

"What the? That sounds gross." Gray commented. Lucy began shaking.

"Huh? Lucy, what's wrong?" Happy asked.

"A flute with a three-eyed skull...No...It can't be...it's just a made up story...but..." Lucy stuttered slightly. "...if that flute is the cursed song...lullaby...sleep...death..." She then remembered. "Ah! That flute is lullaby! Lullaby...the 'Magic of Death'!"

"W-What?" Erza exclaimed in shock.

"Cursed song?" Gray asked.

"I've only read about it in a book...but...among forbidden magic, there is such a thing as a 'murder by curse', right?" She told Erza as she nodded and went to sit on the driver's seat of the carriage.

"Yeah...just like the name, it'll curse the target and cast 'death'. It's a black magic." Erza explained.

"But Lullaby is different and worse!" Lucy told her as Erza gritted her teeth.

"Damn, if Eligor gets his hand on that, then there will be people in danger."

"But I have it."

"We don't have any time to waste." Erza told them ignoring Natsu.

"I said I have it."

"Natsu says he has it."

"Aye! That's what he said."

"Ah! That's what I heard." Lucy muttered before she realized what she just muttered. The four of them looked over at Natsu and he grinned at them as he showed them the flute in his hand.

"W-When did you...?" Erza asked in shock.

"I picked it up before jumping out of the train." He told them.

"Good job, Natsu!" Lucy cheerfully grinned.

"Aye!" Happy did the same.

"I'm impressed." Erza added, nodding her head.

"Not bad for an idiot like yourself." Gray complimented by adding an insult.

"Shut up!" He said to Gray and tossed Erza the flute. Erza grabbed it.

"Alright, now that we have this in our possession there is only one thing left to do. Punish those assholes from Eisenwald." Natsu grinned in excitement.

"Yosh!" Gray smirked.

"Sounds like fun." Lucy didn't know what her reaction should be, so she just smiled.

"Yeah."

"Aye!"

"Get all the guests and driver off the train now!" A tall man, who had a tattoo across his chest and shoulders, and carrying a scythe told his fellow guild members. "Eisenwald is taking over!" The guild members all nodded and began pushing people out of the train as they were hijacking it at Kunugi Station. The man noticed that one of his fellow guild members who were supposed to meet them on the train wasn't on it. "Hey! Where is Kageyama!"

"We don't know. We checked the train, but can't find him anywhere!" A guild member told him.

"That bastard! He has Lullaby! Without it, our plan won't work! That bastard better not have ran off with the flute! If he did, I will personally kill him!" The man yelled in anger.

"E-Eligor..." The man turned around to see a badly injured, crawling Kageyama.

"What the hell happened to you?" He asked, but didn't show any concern in his voice.

"E-Eligor...Lullaby...he took it...the Salamander took it..." He winced in pain as he told him what happened.

"W-WHAT!" Eligor shouted. "YOU INCOMPETENT FOOL!" He kicked Kageyama in the gut as the others cringed at the sight. "Damn this! Looks like we have no choice but to steal it back! Men! Go look for the people who stole the one thing we need to accomplish our goal!"

"HAI!" They shouted. "But what do they look like?"

"Pink hair..." Kageyama said.

"There's your answer. So, get to it!" Eligor shouted.

"HAI!"

"Woah...what happened?" Lucy asked as she noticed a blockade and couple of guards blocking the path for others to enter.

"I'm guessing something happened at the station." Erza answered her as Natsu groaned from his motion sickness in the background.

"You don't think Eisenwald took over the station?" Lucy asked.

"It's a possibility." Gray answered above her.

"But why a train? I mean I understand a carriage or a boat, but..." Lucy asked confused.

"Aye...it can only run on the rails so it's not very beneficial to take over, huh?" Happy agreed.

"But it has speed." Gray told them. "Maybe they're in a hurry to carry out some sort of plan." He suggested as he began taking of his clothes.

"Why are you taking off your clothes?" Lucy sweat dropped. "Well, it looks like the military is handling it, so it's only a matter of time before they get arrested."

"I sure hope so..." Erza muttered in worry.

"But why did you call us back?" One of Eisenwald's guild members asked Eligor as he and the others sat on on the train as it headed toward Oshibana Station.

"Why search for people who are after us anyway? We'll set a trap for them. Kageyama, what can you tell us about our chasers?" He asked.

"I only know about one of them, but he can use fire magic. Not only that, but he seemed to be sick while on the train." He answered. Eligor glared at him before grinding his teeth. The next thing Kageyama knew was the feeling of his ear being cut. "GUAAAAAHHHH!"

"You're lucky I need you or otherwise I would have killed you by now. You better pray that we retrieve the flute back or otherwise, I will kill you." Eligor threatened him and Kageyama shook in fear as he put his hands on his ears.

"H-Hai…"

"Erza! You're going way too fast! The S.E. plug is inflating!" Gray yelled at her as he held on the carriage. Erza didn't stop and continued to pour her magic into the carriage to make it go faster. In doing so, she crashed into buildings, wagons, fruit and other property.

"We don't have time! We may have the flute, but it would be useless if we don't stop what Eisnewald is planning as well. You saw what they did back at Kunugi Station!" Erza yelled back as she steered the carriage through the town they were passing through.

"I know that! But if you keep using your magic like this, you'll run out!" Gray fired back.

"I don't care!" Erza told him. "All we have to do is defeat them and that's it. As long as we possess the flute, we'll just have to kick their ass. Besides, even if I do waste all my magic, I have you guys." Gray looked down at her with a frown and didn't say anything back.

"Ne, Lucy. I feel like I'm forgetting something important to tell you." Happy said, making Lucy curious.

"What is it?" She asked as Happy made a face that showed he was thinking hard about it.

"I can't remember…" Lucy even became more curious.

"You're making me curious! Try to remember." Lucy pleaded and Happy did so.

"Hmmm…" Happy tried to remember as a groan was heard from Natsu on the opposite seat.

"I think…I'm not…feeling good…" Natsu groaned.

"Not feeling good…" Happy murmured and then made a pose that showed Lucy that was it.

"That's it!" Lucy screamed and looked over at Natsu to see him almost falling out the window. She rushed over and grabbed him to make sure he didn't fall of. "You're falling, Natsu!"

"Ugh…just push me…off…" He groaned to her.

"Hmm? What was it? Lucy. Weirdo. Fish. Lucy. Weirdo." Happy muttered.

"No I'm not!" She yelled at Happy. Then a large exploding sound was heard as the five of them looked in the direction the explosion came from and saw smoke begin to rise into the sky. "W-What is that!"

At Oshibana Station, people were panicking and scared out of their minds at the sudden explosion. "Ladies and Gentleman, please calm down! Please stay back! It is too dangerous to enter the station at this time!" A train employee spoke into the blow horn. "The train has been derailed due to an accident, so please be patient and I apologize for the inconvenience."

"Derailment?"

"Nah! I heard it was terrorists!"

"Until we can confirm the safety inside, the station is closed to all public." The employee added.

"Let's go!" Erza told the others as they pushed their way through the crowd toward the front.

"But it's closed." Lucy told her.

"We do not have time to listen to them." Erza retorted.

"Don't get sick by being near people!" Gray yelled at Natsu as he became sick again, making Gray carry him through the crowd.

When they arrived in front, Erza approached a station employee. "What's going on inside?"

"Huh? Who ar-" He didn't get to finish as Erza head butted him. She then turned to the next employee.

"What's going on inside?" She asked him and he didn't respond quick enough and she head butted him as well. Then she went on to the next and when he didn't answer her quickly, she did the same thing to the poor, confused employee.

"She hits you when you don't answer quickly enough….scary…" Lucy commented.

"You are getting to know her better and better." Gray added, feeling just as afraid as Lucy was.

"Hey! Why is this my role!" Lucy questioned as she was the one carrying Natsu on her back. She heard a groan in response from Natsu.

"Let's go inside." Erza told them.

"Yes, sir!"

"Aye!"

"I'm being ignored…" Lucy sweat dropped. Once they entered the station, they saw many of the military soldiers unconscious. "Hieek!"

"They were all defeated!" Happy exclaimed in shock.

"It isn't that surprising. The opponent is a guild filled with mages. The military platoon wouldn't be able to handle them by themselves." Erza told Lucy as she led the others up the stairs.

"This way!" Gray told them as they reached the top. "The platform is over here!" Erza nodded and they ran toward the platforms. Lucy lagged behind as Natsu groaned, feeling sick because he was being carried by Lucy. They stopped when they arrived at the platform and before them stood the entire guild of Eisenwald as they glared and snickered at their guests.

"I knew you'd follow us, Fairy Tail." Eligor snickered, glaring down at Team Natsu. Erza matched his glare as Lucy shook in fear at how many people were there.

"S-So m-many…why…?" Lucy asked, moving her eyes left to right.

"We've been waiting for you…" Eligor smirked.

"So, you're Eligor." Erza said.

"Huh? T-That's the armor girl…the one from the other day…" A member of Eisenwald, with three scars going down the side of his face said.

"I see, so she's the one who leaked out our plan." The guild member next to him stated.

"Oi, Natsu…wake up!" Lucy shook him. Natsu groaned in response.

"It won't work, Lucy. Natsu's has been on a train, and then the carriage and then by you. It's a massive combo!" Happy told her.

"I'm considered transportation!" Lucy yelled.

"These bastard! It's all their fault!" Kageyama growled in anger.

"Calm down, Kage-chan." A fellow guild member told him from behind.

"Hmm? That voice…" Natsu groaned.

"Now then, let's talk business." Eligor spoke. "How about you hand us over Lullaby and we'll let you go?"

"Like we'll accept that kind of deal." Erza told him angrily. "You will tell us what you are planning now!"

"Hmph! You just can't make this any easy can you. Oh well. Not like we were expecting it anyway. As for what we are planning, well, we are just bored." Eligor told her as she clenched her fist in anger.

"You…" She growled as the other guild members laughed.

"Don't you understand yet?" Eligor chuckled as he rose into the air, surprising Team Natsu.

"He can fly!" Lucy exclaimed.

"It's wind magic." Happy exclaimed.

"Station? What are you…" Erza muttered.

"He plans on using the speakers…" Erza and the others turned around to see Natsu start to get up. 'All though, that is not his true goal.'

"Natsu!" Lucy and Happy shouted.

"I see…so that's what he planned on using Lullaby for. Thankfully, we have it." Erza said as she turned around and looked at the smirking Eligor.

"Oh? Not bad. You figured it out." Eligor smirked. "However, we'll be taking Lullaby now. Men, attack! Get back what they stole from us!" He ordered his guild to charge at them.

The guild all yelled out their battle cries and ran toward Team Natsu. Kageyama was leading the charge as he wanted payback for what Natsu did to him. "You brat! Take this!" He yelled and placed his hand on the ground. The five of them watched as his shadow started to quickly head towards them. It reached Natsu and the shadow popped out of the ground in the shape of hand. Natsu wasn't impressed and ignited his flame.

"That's too easy. Give me a challenge for once." He told Kageyama as he punched through the shadow hand, cutting it in half. Kageyama eye's widened in surprise.

"Damn you! Stop looking down on our Dark Guild!" He shouted toward Natsu. Natsu frowned.

"I'm not you idiot. I'm just too strong for you." He grinned.

"You still are though…" Lucy sweat dropped.

'Oh? Impressive…however, I have to get that flute back. There is someone I have to kill and I will make sure that man dies.' Eligor thought mischievously.

"Natsu! Gray!" Erza called the two. They both looked at the red haired curiously. "I want you two to handle Eligor. If you are able to defeat him, then the others would have no choice but to surrender." Natsu and Gray looked at each other.

"But I don't need his help to defeat him." Natsu stated, pointing at Gray.

"What was that!" Gray fired back.

"You heard me! I should be more than enough to handle him!"

"You cocky son of a bitch!"

"Why are they fighting amongst themselves…" Lucy sweat dropped.

"I don't care who does it!" Erza yelled at them. "Just make sure he's beaten!"

"H-Hai!" Natsu and Gray shook in fear at her outburst.

"Alright then, me and Lucy will take care of the others." Lucy jumped in surprise and shook in fear at the charging mages running at them.

"T-Take care of that many people…just us two girls…" Lucy nervously stuttered.

"Don't worry, Luce! You can do it!" Natsu grinned at her and Lucy couldn't but smile back with a slight blush. She gave him a nod and the two bash brothers glared at each other.

"Make sure you don't hold me back, pinky!" Gray mocked.

"You bastard! Let's just see who is able to defeat him!" Natsu answered back and then both looked up at Eligor.

"You're on!" The two of them smirked and Natsu took the initiative and used his flames to make him jump upward to Eligor.

"Like I'll let you attack first!" Gray muttered and put a fist onto the palm of his other hand. "Ice-Make: Lance!" He shot his fist forward and created long, curved ice lances that he targeted toward Eligor. Natsu watched as the ice lances flew past him, missing him, and heading toward their prey.

"Oh? Ice magic..." Eligor snickered and used his wind magic to dodge the lances. "Not bad...but it would take more than that to finish me off."

"Then how about this?" Eligor's eyes widened as Natsu appeared behind him and put his hands in front of his mouth. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu blew out fire from his mouth at Eligor. Eligor quickly turned around to face the large flame attack.

"Storm Wall!" Eligor shouted and created a large wind like shield to try and block Natsu's Dragon Roar. He was able to successfully block Natsu's flame, but once the flame and wind disappeared, Natsu charged through, attempting to punch Eligor.

"Take this!" Natsu yelled. Eligor gritted his teeth in anger. He turned his head slight to try and lessen the blow when he saw the black colored hair of Gray Fullbuster. He too, was attempting to punch him. Eligor smirked.

'Idiots...' He snickered and used his wind magic in the last minute to get higher causing the two Fairy Tail mages to connect their punches against each other.

"Ugh..." The both groaned as they fell toward the ground.

Erza yelled her battle cry as she swung her magic sword to take out several of the guild members in just a couple of swings. She jumped in the air and struck more enemies. While in the air, She spun around and attacked more enemies while doing so. "Take this!" A enemy mage shouted. "A long range attack!" Erza glared at him and quickly changed her sword into a lance, striking the enemy that was about to use his long range attack. Once Erza landed back on the floor, she transformed her weapon again, this time to twin swords and struck a couple more enemies. She didn't stop as she transformed her weapon again and this time to a large axe and swung it horizontally to wipe out several more enemies. Lucy was amazed at how incredible Erza was when she fought. She was so elegant, but fierce at the same time. She never seen such magic before.

"H-How the hell can she ex-quip so fast!" Lucy heard some of Eisenwald Guild members yell in fear.

"Ex-quip?" Lucy asked, tilting her head.

"Aye! Her magic is similar to yours, Lucy. Like your stellar spirits, her swords can be teleported from different dimensions. We call that Ex-quip magic!" Happy explained to her.

"I-I see...that's quite amazing..." Lucy muttered in awe.

"However, Erza's greatness starts here." Happy smirked, making Lucy curious.

"Don't think you have won just yet! We still got this many against two woman and a stupid cat!" One of the enemy mages shouted.

"Oi!" Happy shouted.

"Hmph...this is so troublesome...I guess I just have to deal with all of you at once." She told them as her armor started to coming off along with smoke.

"Woah! Her armor's coming off!"

"Uh-yoooo!"

"W-What's going on?" Lucy asked.

"Usually, swordmages can ex-quip their weapons as they fight, but Erza can fight while ex-quipping her armor as well making her stronger." Lucy watched in awe as the smoke cleared and Erza was wearing a different type of armor. "That's Erza's magic: The Knight!" Lucy's eyes widened at Erza's new armor as it was now made of steel, with steel wings on her back and several swords floating behind her in a circle.

"W-Wow..." Lucy muttered, blushing a little.

"Woooaaahhh!" Some of the enemies cheered as their eyes turned into hearts.

"Erza...it can't be..." One of them muttered to himself in shock remembering Erza's name.

"Dance! My swords!" Erza activated her new armor's ability as the swords that circled behind her, spun and slashed against the enemy. "Circle Sword!"

"You bitch!" One of the enemies charged at Erza, a wind magic attack circling around his hand. Erza glared at him and then charged right toward him, attacking him and defeating him in one blow.

"N-No way...she's...she's Fairy Tail's strongest woman...Erza the Titania!" The surviving member screamed in fear. "She defeated Beard with just one strike!"

"W-Wow...amazing..." Lucy looked at her in awe. Erza looked around and saw that all the enemies were defeated and sighed. She could feel her magic decreasing after she used most of it in the fight. Then, the floor shook as Natsu and Gray crashed onto the floor, causing Erza to look in their direction with widened eyes.

'No way...did they get beaten by Eligor...?' Erza thought in worry as she knew herself that she didn't have enough magic left over to fight against someone as strong as Eligor.

"Natsu! Gray!" Lucy and Happy both shouted in worry.

Both Natsu and Gray made a groaning noise before they grabbed each others clothing around their necks. "What the hell Ice boy! Why did you punch me for!"

"What was that fire asshole! You're the one who punched me!" Gray fired back.

"I could have had him if you didn't interfere!"

"Yeah right! My ass, he was definitely mine!"

"Natsu...Gray..." Both men gulped in fear as they turned their heads to see a very angry, devil looking Erza glaring at them, possibly even piercing through their souls.

"They're dead..."

"A-Aye..."

"It's not what it looks like Erza..." Natsu tried to calm her down. "We were just playing around..."

"Y-Yeah...we're good buddies after all...I mean even they fight sometimes...right?" Gray added to Natsu's excuse.

"You idiots..." She growled at them. However, she didn't have the magic power left to scold them as she dropped to one knee and in the process, dropping Lullaby on the floor. Erza watched with wide eyes as the flute rolled away from her. Eligor smirked.

"The flute is mine!" Eligor shouted and swooped down to grab Lullaby. The five of them watched in shock as Eligor grabbed the flute and flew toward three of his surviving guild members. "Hahahaha! The flute is finally mine. Now, it's time for everyone to hear the wonderful melody that this flute possesses." Erza's eyes widened.

"No!" She shouted trying to get up but lost too much magic to do so. "Damn it..."

"Hahahaha! Now then...it's time for me to play a little song." Eligor flew up and out of the platform area.

"Crap! We gotta stop him!" Gray yelled. He tried running after him, but was stopped by a man who wore something that looked like a Egyptian pharaoh disguise. "Get out of my way!"

"No can do." He replied, smirking. "How about you and me have a little fun instead." Gray smirked.

"Fine then, but you asked for it." Gray told him as the two squared off.

"Hey pinky!" Natsu turned his head toward Kageyama. "Don't think you are going to get away fro what you did! I will make sure that this time yo-" He didn't get to finish as Natsu ignited his fist and punched him.

"Shut the hell up! You're annoying." Natsu angrily told him. He then walked away and walked over to Erza. "Oi, Erza...I'm going after Eligor." Erza looked up at Erza and nodded.

"Please, Natsu...you have to stop him or everyone at the station will be killed." Erza pleaded.

"Don't worry that's not going to happen. His target isn't the station." He told her and ran toward the exit. Erza's eyes widened in shock at what Natsu said. Why did Natsu say that? Were they wrong? Did he know something? What in the world was he talking about?

"Hahaha! Those foolish idiots didn't even know what we were actually really planning!" Eligor laughed as he floated above the station. "But just to make sure they find out...I'll trap them here using that." He smirked and started casting a spell. Just when he was about to finish, Natsu appeared behind him and kicked Eligor in the back of his head. The surprise attack sent Eligor crashing into the tracks below. Natsu landed on his feet a yard or two away from Eligor and punched his fist into his free hand.

"Yo, Eligor. How about we finish this?" Natsu glared at his opponent.

Eligor raised himself up and glared right back at Natsu. "You bastard..."

To Be Continued...
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