Of Fire and Ice

C.59

Erza was now fighting Evergreen, and in a matter of minutes, Erza was declared the victor. And all the statues turned back into the girls. "Lucy!" Natsu shouted, jumping up on stage and hugging her tightly as her eyes stayed wide against his shoulder. "Thank the gods and Erza." He sighed and kissed her. I couldn't help but coo "aww".

"Luuucyyy!" Happy cried and hugged her too. "Really, Happy?" Natsu sighed as they pulled away from each other. "Sorry, sir! I missed her!" Happy sniffled. "Glad to see you're all okay." I sighed, standing up.

Master explained what was happening to the girls, who caught on. Gajeel turned to me. "I just noticed. You're only wearing a T shirt and bikini bottoms." He said and I shrugged. "I don't really like pants all that much." "She walks around the house naked all the time. It's scarring." Lucy chimed in. "You mean it's a blessing." I smirked.

They were still talking, then Natsu thought up the plan of keeping a contest to see who's the strongest going, and we all stared at him.

"So in other words, what are we waiting for?! We got enough people here! Let's start brawling! C'mere, Henley, I've always wanted to fight you and see who's stronger!" He said, walking over to me. "Get away from me, Natsu. You know what happens when I fight people." I warned and he just grinned. "Gajeel's still alive." "Yeah, but I was burned pretty badly. I could've died if I didn't use my iron scales as armour the last second." He said and I rolled my eyes. "See?"

"Aw, c'mon, I've got to do something with all this pent up energy I've got!" He said and started throwing punches towards me.  "Just... I don't even know what to say anymore." I sighed.

The barrier turned red and letters started flying out to make a skull. "What's going on?" Lucy asked. "That's weird." Natsu hummed. "Don't tell me he's up to something else." Cana said. "I'm so fucking tired of dealing with this shit!" I groaned and fell back, Ari catching me.

"Can you hear me, old man? The rest of you better listen up, too." Laxus said. "What do you want?" Natsu ordered. "Looks like one of the rules has gone out the window. That's fine. I'll just add a new one. In other words, since I would hate to end the Battle of Fairy Tail early, I've decided to activate the Thunder Palace." Laxus said.

"Are you out of your mind, Laxus?!" Gramps shouted. "You have one hour and ten minutes. If you think you can win, you'd better get moving. Unless you're ready to hand the guild over to me now, Master." Laxus said and the skull fucking exploded.

"After this, I think I'm going to sleep for a few days, and not come out of my room for at least a week." I nodded to myself.

Then Master collapsed and I snapped out of it to see if he was dying or something. Mira went to go grab his medicine, then told us to look outside.

There were little orbs or spheres just sitting there in the air. "What the fuck are those?" I asked, leaning up on the railing. "They look like lightning lacromite to me." Levy said. "That means Laxus did this." Cana said.

"They may not look that dangerous, but they're overflowing with lightning magic. This could get ugly." Cana sighed. "Let's just hope he doesn't set them off." "If those things are full of lightning, what'll happen when he activates them?" Lucy asked. "Everything within it will be burned to a crisp." Cana said and I groaned. "No coming out of my room for two weeks, then." I pressed my lips together in a tight line.

Gajeel shot me a look. "What?" I asked. "You're very pessimistic." "Nah, I'm realistic." I corrected.

Bisca shot one with a sniper rifle and it was quiet for a few seconds before she was electrocuted. She screamed and writhed, and I was a little bit impressed.

"I don't get it, why'd that happen?" Lucy asked. "It must be body link magic." Cana said. "If we get rid of them, we'll be risking our lives in the process. Laxus has us by the balls." I explained.

"Your mouth continues to astound me." Gajeel commented. "That's what my boyfriend says too." I smirked and he blushed a little and looked away.

"Astounding." He hummed.