With Great Power Comes Great Responsibilty

Chapter 22

"He's taken the chief of police?" Erza gasped when Natsu and Gray told her what happened at the party.

"Yes and he said that he's going to kill him if we don't bring you to him." Natsu said. "He wouldn't actually do it would he?"

"The Jellal I knew before all this madness happened would never harm anyone but now lord only knows what he's capable of." Erza said. 

"Well what should we do? We can't just give you to him." Gray said.

"I'm almost done with the antidote ." She said. "You two go on ahead and try to save the captain, I'll meet you there later."

"But where is he?" Natsu said. "Where would he go?"

"In the state of mind he's in, Jellal considers himself an animal so he'll go to where the animals are. In other words he's at the nearest zoo." Erza said.

"Well that's not very inconspicuous." Gray said.

"But be careful when you get there. He'll probably have the whole place rigged with booby traps. He maybe insane but he's insanely clever."

With that said Natsu and Gray went to the local zoo, checking every exhibit there. At last they found his tracks leading straight to the Galuna Jungle exhibit. It was quiet in there, too quiet and they knew that this was the right place. 

"Careful where you step Natsu." Gray warned. "Remember what Erza said."

They looked around for any sign of Jellal or Jude. At last they found the chief of police tied up and hanging over the crocodile exhibit. 

"Hold on Captain Heartfilia!" Natsu called. "We're coming."

He moved toward him but he stepped on a trigger that catapulted him into the bear exhibit. 

"Natsu!" Gray gasped. 

"Where is Erza?" He heard Jellal's voice demand from the trees.

"She's coming but she had to finish something first." Gray said trying to look for him. "Look can't we just talk about this like civilized people?"

He sensed Jellal charging toward him and immediately jumped out of the way. 

"Your senses are impressive." He complimented. "But let's see if you have strength to match."

He tackled him with strength that made Gray feel like his bones were about to snap like a couple sticks. In the bear exhibit, Natsu found himself face to face with a very large, vicious, and hungry grizzly bear. 

"Uh hi there." Natsu said nervously. "Listen you don't want to eat me, I'm too tough and my bones brittle."

But the bear just moved to tear him limb from limb so it could eat him alive. Next thing he knew he was wrestling a 1200 pound bear for survival. Thanks to his super human strength, he was able to be a match for the bear but he couldn't fight forever. As soon as he had a free moment he climbed out of the exhibit and ran to get Jude. The rope holding him up snapped and he fell right into the crocodile infested waters. Natsu immediately jumped into the exhibit.

"Don't worry sir, I'll get you out of this." He said swimming toward him.

"You're going to save me?" Jude said trying to get away from the on coming crocodiles.  "That's a laugh! Especially considering it's your fault I'm in this mess."

"You're not one for gratitude are you?"

As for Gray, Jellal had him in choke hold. His face turned red as he struggled to breathe. His strength was unlike anything he had ever encountered and he was becoming dangerously close to passing out or worse, suffocating.