The Tale of the Two Brothers Arc

The One Who Keeps Thy Blade

"Wake up, everyone has already left for breakfast." Lucy nudged the Fire Dragon Slayer gently.

"Not now." he mumbled.

Smirking, Lucy grabbed a gong that stood on the room's wooden desk and gently dangled the instrument by her friend's ear.

BOOM!

"KYYYYAAAAAAA!" Natsu jumped and slammed right into Lucy in an attempt to make her stop. Tripping over the leg of the desk, Lucy fell backwards onto the floor, Natsu landed over her, his lips just centimeters from her own.

"KYEEEE!" shrieked Wendy, "I'M SO SORRY FOR DISTURBING!"

"Wendy, it's not what you-"

"SORRY!" The young dragon slayer ran out of the room.

"This is going to be awfully awkward..." Lucy mumbled, looking at Natsu. He jumped onto his feet, offering her a hand.

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"A little birdie told me you two were making out." whispered Gray to Natsu and Lucy.

"We weren't, Natsu just fell on me." Lucy grumbled in response, her cheeks pinkened.

Gray snickered, "Why did Pyro just fall on you?"

"You got a bone to pick Pervy Popsicle?" Natsu thrust his elbow into Gray's side.

He growled, "Hell yes I do."

Erza, wiping bits of strawberry cake icing off her lip, looked up in disapproval, "Gray, are you picking a fight with Natsu again?"

"NO SIR!"

"Good, now eat."

"AYE!"

Wendy, Carla, and Lucy sweat dropped.

"We have to leave in 15 minutes if we want to make it to the Academy to investigate and make it back here in time for dinner. We have to travel 50 miles through rough terrain and all we have are horses.

"Transportation?" grumbled Natsu, his face took on a shade of sickly green.

"Yes, Natsu, transportation. There is no way we can get there on foot so I rented a couple of horses. Gray and Wendy will share one you and Lucy will share the other, and I will take the third."

Carla raised an eyebrow, "Are we going to fly there?"

"Yes, if that is possible."

Happy swallowed his fish, "Aye, I will protect you Carla!"

Sighing, Carla nibbled on a piece of toast, contemplating Erza's plan.

"I promise to cast the Triola spell before we leave." promised Wendy to Natsu, he nodded groggily, "If it still works." quietly she added.

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To everyones dismay, Wendy's spell didn't work. Natsu already threw up six times within 15 minutes.

"We won't get anywhere at this rate." Erza walked over to Natsu and punched him hard in the stomach, knocking him out.

"So, how am I supposed to carry him and guide the horse?" Lucy thought

out loud.

"I'll take him," swinging the unconscious Natsu over her shoulder, Erza walked back to her own black stallion.

"Come on! We don't have all day!" Gray shouted over his shoulder.

Nodding, Lucy took off after the Ice mage.

They traveled for what felt like hours over mountains and swamps. Natsu awoke three hours later demanding lunch.

"That's an excellent idea Natsu," Erza patted or rather smacked Natsu on the head, very hard.

"Ow,"

"It's by time we had a picnic. It's a sunny day in the mountains, a picture perfect scenery."

Jumping off their horses, Erza equipped a basket and a flower decorated picnic blanket. Lucy, Gray, Natsu, and Wendy began to set up the picnic.

"I'm going for some water." Carla announced,

Happy landed next to the white exceed "I'll go with you!"

"Fine, let's go."

"Be careful, Wendy, join them!" Erza called out.

Nodding, the young healer ran towards her friends as they ambled into the woods.

"There's got to be water some where..." Carla trailed off.

"Shh." shushed Wendy, she listens closely for any sign of water. Her brown eyes lit up, "I hear water, it's this way." Wendy took off, running deeper into the woods.

"Wendy be careful, we can't loose our way back!"

Carla and Happy dashed after the mage.

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"I'm so hungry, I can eat a horse." Natsu rubbed his empty belly.

"Don't you dare, it's the only way we will be able to get to the Academy!" Lucy looked up from her sorting.

"Yeah Natsu, you want us stuck out in the middle of nowhere?" added Gray.

"I was joking, sheesh. I'm going to see if I can find Wendy, it shouldn't take her this long. Natsu bolted into the forest, searching for Wendy's scent.

"She was here-" His black eyes widened.

Up on a ledge on the mountain, stood a figure in a cloak. He/She was too far for Natsu to identify who it was. The sunlight glinted off something metal that the cloaked figure held. Natsu blinked and the figure was gone.

"What the..." He turned to continue to only notice the cloaked figure just over 100 yards away walking deeper into the woods.

"Hey!" He shouted at it.

He or She noticed him and began to run, Natsu took off after it.

"COME BACK HERE AND FIGHT ME!"

Tripping over a root, Natsu started rolling off an incline only to catch himself on a tree branch off the edge of the cliff.

"Dammit!" Natsu looked down to see a ravine, the fall had to be at least 700 feet. There is no way he could survive that. Natsu looked up to his savior, the root looked frail, it will break. Suddenly, the wind picked up.A new scent traveled up Natsu's nostrils, an inhuman smell. The smell had a familiarity to it, just like the scent of each of the demons back in Tartarous... Looking up, Natsu gasped to see the figure approach him. Blue locks of hair peeked from under the dark azure hood. A pair of silver eyes glared back at him. The cliff shook from the magic energy she released. Who is she? And, what does she want?

-------Hey, so I wanted you guys to vote. After this story, should I do a series of oneshots about the Dragneel Brothers with different plot stories. One an AU, another in Universe, etc?-----