Chapter 20
"We need to get Natsu fire." I said and pulled myself up off the floor.
"But Lucy we have nothing to start a fire with. And Natsu can't eat his own fire." Happy told me.
"I know, I know." I said and started scrolling though my inventory, looking for anything that could start a fire. "Even without my keys, I have to try and help." And I saw something in my inventory. "A key?" I selected it and a gold Celestial key appeared in my hand.
'Thats right! This key was part of the reward from the Deliora fight. Gray gave it to me as a gift.'
I didn't know if they were going to be able to help. But I had to try.
"Open Gate of the Archer: Sagittarius!" I called and a man appeared in front of me in a horse costume. He then saluted me.
"At your service My Lady!" He told me after I gave him a strange look on his fashion choice. "Don't ask."
"Sagittarius." I said and I dropped to my knees, I was exhausted. Happy came up to me and grabbed my arm. "I need you to shoot fire." I told him.
"My lady, I apologize. But I can't do that, all I can do is shoot normal arrows." He told me. I looked towards the fight as I watched Natsu getting punched into the ground. When Gajeel stopped Natsu wasn't moving, but he wasn't dead.
'Get up.'
I thought. Gajeel started laughing hysterically.
"Check out your Guild Hall." He said and I walked towards the opening in the wall that led to outside. And watched as a giant shadow bubble was pounding down on the Guild. My heart broke as I watched the roof collapse, along with the rest of the Guild. Natsu got up off the ground, and I was surprised that he didn't fall back down. He took a couple of steps towards Gajeel before stopping.
"You're going to have to kill me before I quit." He said.
"They should just take me." I said. "Then they'll just leave. They'll stop all of this." Happy touched my leg and when I looked at him he had tears in his eyes.
"Lucy, you know he won't let that happen." He told me, and I looked at Natsu. Gajeel back handed him into the wall and he fell to the ground face first, limp. He had next to nothing left in health. "If only he could eat some fire, he'd get some health and energy back!"
"You should've just stayed down." Gajeel said as he picked Natsu up by his scarf. He then changed his arm back into a sword.
'No!'
"My Lady, I completely misunderstood what it was that you wanted." Sagittarius said as he drew multiple arrows at once. "I thought what you wanted was for me to create my own fire. But it turns out what you need is a fire source." He then let the arrows go and they flew through the air as Gajeel went to finish Natsu, but he stopped when the arrows went passed by them and struck what looked like an engine of some sort. The force of the arrows caused the engine to explode sending Gajeel and Natsu flying backwards.
"Nice shot!" Happy called out.
"Thank you!" I yelled as I hugged Sagittarius. And I could feel my tears getting soaked up by his vest.
"You're quite welcome." He told me and patted my back. I pulled away to see Natsu sucking in all the flames, and I watched as Natsu's health and energy went back up till they were almost full.
"That's just what I needed." Natsu said wiping his mouth. "Thanks Lucy! I owe you one."
"I should've killed you from the start!" Gajeel yelled as he jumped into the air. "Iron Dragon:-!" He started to say, but Natsu cut him off by throwing the punch first.
"This is for my friends!" Natsu yelled and threw multiple fire swings at him. "And this is for destroying our Guild Hall!" He threw more with his other fist. "And this is for Lucy!" He screamed and punched him completely unconscious.
The whole building started shaking and more of the ceiling came crashing down getting in between me and Natsu.
"Natsu!" I screamed as the whole place started coming down. Happy grabbed my hood and flew me into the air. I sent Sagittarius back to the Spirit World before he could get hurt. "Natsu!" I yelled as Happy maneuvered us around the falling building.
"There he is." Happy said and lowered us closer to the ground as the building started to settle. Natsu was laid out on the edge of the building before it opened up to outside. Happy set me down and I instantly fell to my knees next to Natsu.
"Well, that was fun and all." He said as he was breathing pretty heavy. "But I think I'm going to rest a bit." I laughed before I laid down next to him and sighed. "Are you okay?" He asked me. Happy curled up between the two of us.
"I'll be fine." I said, as I took pain killers out of my inventory and split them between me and Natsu. And the three of us laid there and decided to watch the clouds for a bit. It was still a nice day out.
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POV: Nobody (Focusing on Erza)
Jose held up his hand and a purple essence wrapped around Erza, and tightened at the slightest movement of his hand.
"What exactly do you hope to achieve with Lucy?" Erza screamed out, both in demand and pain.
"What do you think?" He questioned. "She's an Elf! And only if she had just come willingly the first time, none of this would have happened. And now, I'm going to really make sure I suck her dry of any and all energy!"
"Why?" Erza demanded. "Why do you want that much power for?"
"To complete the game of course!" Jose yelled, and Erza flinched.
"What?" She asked.
"I want my children to be the ones remembered! The one's that beats this game and become the heroes of this story!" Jose said. "How is it fair that your Guild gets to keep her all to yourselves? All for your own personal gain. We're not much different if you think about it."
"That's where you're wrong!" Erza yelled. "Lucy didn't come to us as an Elf, she came to us saying she was a human!"
"What?" Jose flinched.
"She lied about what she was because she was scared to trust us at first!" Erza continued. "But she stuck around anyway! She made the decision to become a member of Fairy Tail, all on her own! She's learned to laugh with us. Cry with us. And even fight with us! But most importantly, she's learned to trust us! And we will never betray her trust!"
"Well then I have no other use for you then, now do I?" He asked and squeezed Erza tighter while he put up his other hand and sent out two purple figures that had the upper portion of a skeleton. They flew forward up towards Erza and opened their mouths before they started to breath in, sucking a part of her away.
'If I'm going to die, it sure as hell ain't going to be by his hand!'
She thought as she glanced behind her, at her sword that laid on the ground.
As part of Erza's Requip magic, being able to summon multiple swords from her inventory also meant she had a type of telekinesis magic as a small perk. Meaning she has the ability to control her swords without touching them.
She thought hard and the sword lifted off the ground, pointing directly at her. She took a deep breath before she launched it towards her.
But everything stopped as a warm light surrounded her. She could feel a small amount of the tip of her sword pierce her back, and she could feel a small amount of blood rolling down the small of her back.
"What is this?" She asked as the pain stopped and the essence that had a hold of her let her go and the creepy purple figures disappeared. A light came from behind her as she landed on the ground on her knees. She turned around and saw Master Makarov. "Master!"
"You've hurt my children, Jose." Master Makarov said. "This ends now." Erza grabbed her sword and got out of the way, running over to Gray, Elfman, and Mira who were slowly waking up.
"Come on get up." Erza said as she helped Gray up.
"What's going on?" Elfman asked as he helped Mira off the ground.
"We need to get out of here." Erza said, and started pushing everyone towards the exit and outside.
"But what about Gramps?" Gray asked and tried to fight against Erza.
"He'll be fine." She told him and Gray didn't quite want to listen to her.
"You kids get to safety." Master Makarov said. And with that the small group ran outside where they jumped down onto one of the legs that was closest to land.
"Here Elfman use a transportation potion." Mira said as she handed him a vile and she had one too. They both chucked the vile's as hard as they could and they smashed on the ground, up on a cliff near the edge of the giant's leg. A large smoke cloud formed around them and when it cleared, they were up on the cliff.
Erza grabbed a hold of Gray and using her armor flew both of them to safety next to Elfman and Mira. They then started running down a path towards the Guild as a bright white light started shining from the Phantom's Guild Hall.
"What is that?" Gray asked as they ran.
"That's Fairy Law!" Erza said, said as she stopped to admire it's light. "Possibly one of the most legendary spells in the game. It only attacks and vanquishes whoever the user finds an enemy. I never thought I would ever get to see it." They looked down in the direction of the Fairy Tail Guild members and the hooded figures that had been attacking the Fairy Guilds people were being evaporated.
After the light faded, Master Makarov could be seen at one of the broken openings.
"We are victorious!" He spoke loud enough that everyone could hear him. "Well done, my children!"
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