One-Shots

Soulmate [Gratsu] Part 2

"Lyon," Gray suddenly called, turning to the white haired boy, "go and try to find the others. Look for any survivors in the village as well and take them back to our guild. We have a good caretaker there." Gray ordered. Lyon nodded, and with one last glance at Jester, turned and ran off.

"So it's just you and me? Good. We should be able to get this guy in one blow." Natsu grinned, getting into a fighting stance. Gray followed suit, a stoic expression on his face. He had a feeling the amount of magic energy that creature was putting off probably wasn't all of it.

"Oh? So you think you can defeat me that easily? Guess I'll have to prove you wrong." Jester grinned, standing up and looking down at the Wizards.

"You ready, Gray?" Natsu asked, igniting his fists.

"Yeah." Gray answered quickly, preparing to attack.

"Let's go!" Natsu launched himself from his spot, his feet igniting and sending him flying quickly towards Jester. Jester readied himself before launching himself at Natsu, his magic power increasing quickly. Before Natsu could even land a hit Jester's front paws had come into contact with his chest, which sent Natsu flying back, crying out in pain.

"Natsu!" Gray shouted in concern before turning his focus to the small creature and calling upon his magic. "Ice Make: Lance!" Gray shouted, but before the lances even got close to Jester they exploded into small pieces. Gray's eyes widened and he took a step back. "What - What kind of magic-?" Gray cut himself off, managing to dodge an attack from Jester as the creature launched himself at Gray.

"Natsu! Natsu! Wake up!" Happy called, shaking his friend who seemed to be knocked out cold. Gray ran over to Natsu, kneeling beside him.

"Really? Leaving a fight just to check on that useless wizard? Pathetic. You humans really do let your emotions control you." Jester cackled, looking at Gray, Natsu, and Happy with amused eyes.

"Natsu..." Happy said tearfully, worried for his best friend. Gray stood up slowly, his bangs covering his eyes and casting a shadow over them. Walking towards Jester, Gray rested a hand softly on the Exceeds head.

"He'll be okay. Don't worry." Gray reassured, before walking up to the piece of house Jester was now stood on. "You hurt my friends guild and my friends mate, you hurt my best friend and your making his best friend cry. I think that's enough to deserve a good beating, don't you, Happy?" Gray said coldly, his arms crossed over his now bare chest.

"A-Aye." Happy agreed, standing in front of Natsu.

"Those are fighting words, boy. Are you sure you can take me on? Those lances didn't even stand a chance, the rest of your flimsy magic possibly couldn't withstand my Nerve and Break Magic." Jester laughed, smirking the best he could in that form.

"Nerve and Break Magic? What the hell is that?" Gray asked through clenched teeth.

Jester chuckled and his smirk widened. "It's magic that targets vital nerves of living beings to slowly kill them and targets all weak points in non living things to break them."

"Tch." Gray clenched his fists as his arms fell to his side. "Well then I guess I'll just have to make my attacks indestructible, huh?" Gray asked quietly, readying for his next attack.

"I'm afraid nothing is indestructible once you get down to it, boy. You'll do good to learn that here." Jester said menacingly, preparing to pounce.

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Gray panted, wiping at a bit of blood that head trickled down from his head. He couldn't keep this up much longer. "Ice Make: Shield!" Gray yelled, blocking Jester from hitting him. Gray glanced at Natsu, slightly pleading for him to get up again, but he wasn't even twitching. "Damn it...I'm running out of magic energy..." Gray grumbled, glaring at the smug creature.