Hot and Cold

You Don't Deserve Magic

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"Will you be good animals and go back to your cages without a fight?" Carousel Guy asks.

"Dude, you don't give the cattle a choice," Jail Guy comments. "You just make 'em do whatever you want."

"What're they yammering about?" Natsu asks.

"I think they just called us cows." I retort.

"We already took their power. So we don't have to handle with care." Jail Guy continues. "If Code EDT pans out like the old man hopes, that just means these eyesores become a waste of space. And if there's one thing we excel at, it's clearing out the clutter. Hope you're ready to meet your maker!"

"Incoming!" Lucy cries as she clutches at my overcoat. My teeth crush the ice diamond in my mouth, surging my body with magical power. My skin coats in the familiar tingle of ice scales before I thrust my hands out, catching the large boat with my claws and sending a surge of ice through it, destroying it completely.

"Where'd that ice come from?!" Jail Guy gasps as the smoke clears. "So, these Earthland freaks use magic like Exceeds do?"

"I thought their item-less magic was nothing but rumors." Carousel Guy comments. "It's truly breathtaking to behold."

"I don't give a damn about the Carousel guy," I snap aggressively. "I want a talk with that freak over there."

"Not by yourself, cause I wanna piece of him too!" Natsu snaps at me, fire swirling around his body. Wings burst from my back, physically ripping my overcoat before I grasp onto Natsu's arm and sling him forward, giving him a boost of power to slug the guy in the face. "Are you ready to give back our friends yet?!" Natsu barks.

"Sorry, that's not my call--" Jail Guy smirks. "Even if it were, it'd take more than that to make me give up on unlimited power. You'll just have to face the facts that your friends are history."

"I don't think you quite understand how relentless we can be." I snap. "I guess we'll just have to keep beatin' the lesson in!" I grasp onto Natsu's scarf and heave him up. "Seriously, you're gonna have to to better that than if you wanna surprise me!"

"I was hoping you'd say that," Jail Guy stated. "Hell Tornado!"

"Oh, that sounds cool," I comment down to Natsu.

We both glance up and gasp. "Oh, hell yeah! That's awesome!" We chirp.

"That coaster's making it's own track as it does!" Natsu cheers. "How cool it that! Aria, fly us up there, I wanna see it!"

"You're not supposed to be happy about it!" Jail Guy complains. "Whatever... Feast your eyes on my command baton, which allows me to control everything in the amusement park from the rollercoasters to the creepy clowns."

I slam my palm onto the coaster as I nears and stop it completely. "Congratulations. One coaster? That's lame."

"I didn't say I just had one coaster, ya lizard freak. I got a whole symphony of hell coasters just waiting for me to guide them to their next victim." Jail Guy explains as three more appear from the skies.

"WHAT'D YOU CALL HER?!" Natsu barks, thrashing around in my grasp.

I whirl around in surprise as they blast all around me, and I only notice Natsu is missing from my grasp when I look down. "When I get out of this thing, you'll be sorry!"

"We take safety seriously, so please keep your limbs and head intact until your life comes to a complete stop. See what I did there" Jail Guy giggles. "The Hell Coasters go ten times faster when I boost their magic power, their crushing speed defeats even the toughest opponents within five minutes." I slap my hand on my face as I avoid yet another coaster. "IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN TEN SECONDS! HOW THE HECK HAVE YOU SURVIVED THIS LONG WHEN A JOYRIDE CAN MAKE YOU HURL!?"