Chapter 4
The ride to the meeting hall for the guild masters wasn't very long but it was long enough for a blushing Natsu to rest on Erza's lap again. Well make that a blushing Natsu and a blushing Erza. 'Why do I keep blushing around him' Erza thought to her self as they made their way to the meeting hall. The ride was also surprisingly quiet, they all were thinking on what they had to do about Lullaby.
"Hey Erza," Gray called out to her, "What do you think the masters will say to do with Lullaby?" "I honestly don't know but probably along the lines of either sealing it or destroying it." "Yeah that's what I was thinking they would say, what about you Lucy? What do you think they will have us do?" The blonde replied "I really have no clue." "Well what ever it is I hope nothing bad happens.
After this conversation the ride went back to being silent. Erza was still thinking about why she was blushing all the time; it's not something she's used to doing. Lucy was thinking about how the rest of her guild life will be if this was her first job. Gray was thinking about the other demon from Zeref that terrorized his life when he was a kid. 'I hope this isn't anything like him' Gray thought to himself.
When they got into the meeting hall Erza said "Natsu, Gray…do your best to behave so I don't have to punt you to the other side of Fiore and back again. "Aye sir!" they squeaked. "Though I'm pretty sure I won't have to punt Natsu…that's gonna be taken care of in about 5 seconds." "Wait what?" Natsu said but that's all he could say because as soon as they rounded the corner a giant hand smashed Natsu through the roof and he flew into the air before falling down into the same hand that shot him into the air.
"BOY! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE LAST TWO AND HALF YEARS" Master Makarov roared at Natsu while squeezing him. Natsu felt like his bones were being crushed as if he was fighting against Gildarts the crash magic user. "Hehe sorry master but me and Happy had gone for a training trip. Sorry it took so long, but could you not squeeze so hard, I already had to go through all this with Erza and I'm still sore from taking out a dark guild single handedly."
"Well no matter it's good to have you back boy and you say you took a dark guild down single handedly? Makarov questioned. "Yeah but then we had to deal with some bandits and the leader again which brings us to why were here." At that being said all the masters were focused on Natsu to see what brought them there. "I'm just going to say this now…this is no trivial matter." Natsu said with a seriousness that Makarov has never seen before.
"Alright boy I can see you're serious what is this about." "Thanks gramps, but this is about Lullaby." Whatever the masters were expecting it definitely wasn't something like that. "So you're saying the dark guild has Lullaby?" Makarov asked with all anger set aside and was replaced with nothing but seriousness. "Correction they had Lullaby. We now have it; I took it from the leader once I knocked him out. We want to know what you guys think is the best course of action." Master Makarov was even more surprised by his young guild member.
"Well it would be best to destroy it or seal it so no harm can come from it." "That's what Erza and I thought." Gray said from the side. "So how do we go about to destr-" Gray was cut off as a blinding purple light coming from the flute Natsu had. "Oh fuck us." Natsu said as a huge magic circle appeared over the meeting hall and Lullaby appeared behind the meeting hall. Everyone rushed outside to see what happened and they saw a massive demon standing there.
"Natsu, Gray get everyone to safety right now!" Erza commanded as she requiped to her Heavens Wheel Armor and charged for Lullaby but was cut off by a wall of fire. "Erza you stay back this time I'll handle Lullaby. I want to test my strength against it." Natsu claimed with a devilish smirk. "What are you crazy?" Erza asked in surprise. "Yes I am." Natsu replied laughing. Natsu walked up to her and put a hand on her shoulder and said "Please allow me to do this." "Very well but be careful." With that said Erza requiped back to her plain Heart Kreuz Armor and moved back with the masters.
While this exchange was going on Lullaby was dealing with the Rune Knight army that was challenging it. Lullaby sent a single blast magic energy at the mountain next to the army to scare them off. "Now that they're out of the way I can have my feast of wizard souls…they taste so much better. "Oh yeah" Natsu called "You won't get the chance too do it." Lullaby turned towards Natsu and shot another blast directly at him this time instead of trying to scare like he did to the army. The blast impacted right in front of Natsu who didn't even flinch.
"Is that all you got ya great big oaf of a demon?" Natsu challenged. "Why you little brat." Lullaby threw a massive fist at Natsu who just jumped out of the way igniting his own fists and jumped towards Lullaby yelling "Fire Dragon Flame Elbow!" and hitting Lullaby right in between the eyes knocking the demon down.
"Really now? I thought you were supposed to be some bad ass demon but you're just weak." Lullaby was angry at this point and lashed out towards the masters but before the blast made an impact Gray yelled out "ICE MAKE: SHIELD" and put a barrier up just before the blast hit. "Oh wow that boy's make magic is amazing." One of the masters called out. After the smoke cleared there was a fire raging through the woods but all Natsu saw was a giant buffet of fire. He started sucking all the fire towards him and consumed it all. "What are you? You're a monster!" Lullaby yelled at Natsu. "Well your not one to talk you bloody demon."
"I got a fire in my belly that's raging to get out now." Natsu sucked in a deep breath and exhaled yelling "FIRE DRAGONS ROAR!" engulfing Lullaby in flame. "Wow, what kind of wizard is Natsu?" Lucy asked in awe at what she was witnessing. "Natsu is a Fire Dragon slayer." Happy told her. "Igneel was the one who taught him it. He was Natsu's foster father so to speak." "What do you mean by that Happy?" Lucy asked curiously. "Igneel is a fire dragon." At hearing that Lucy fainted.
When they were done talking the flames had finally died out and Lullaby was getting back up with several holes burned into him from all the fire. "That's it I'm just going to kill you all here and now! One note is all it will take for my magic to give me your souls. Lullaby sucked in and all the plant life started dying around them and then Lullaby clapped his hands together and declared "IT IS TIME TO DIE MORTALS" and let loose his song…or at least he would have if it weren't for all the holes Natsu's fire caused on his body. All that was let out was a breeze of sound.
"What is this where is my beautiful magic? Why aren't you all dying?" "It must be from all those holes Natsu caused." Erza said and the group agreed. Natsu spoke up to the demon again "Alright you demon its time to end this." Natsu started a fire in both hands and combined them together yelling 'FIRE DRAGON'S BRILLIANT FLAME!" and threw the massive fireball at Lullaby. Lullaby couldn't do anything to stop the fireball and when it impacted there was a mighty explosion causing everyone to fall down. After the attack there was nothing but smoke everywhere; no sign of Lullaby at all.
"Well done my boy." Makarov called out to Natsu. "You made dealing with a demon created by Zeref easy. You truly are something now boy." Natsu just smiled sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head in an embarrassed manner. "Good job torch head." Gray said to Natsu. "You know it popsicle. I got the moves." Natsu said while laughing.
Erza walked over to Natsu and gave him a stern look. After looking him over she said "Now I'm looking forward to our fight when we get back to the guild, you certainly have grown. "Well I intend to win it though so don't be too disappointed when I beat you." Natsu said with a cocky grin. In response Erza just hit him on top of the head again. "We'll see who beats who dragon boy." Erza said in a challenging tone.
"I'm not sure what happened with Lullaby but I think we owe Natsu a thank you for taking him out." One of the guild masters called out. "But still…YOU GOT CARRIED AWAY NATSU." All of the guild masters screamed at him. "What are you talking about?" Natsu asked curiously and saw that Makarov, Gray, Happy, and Erza were all pale (Lucy is still passed out). Natsu turned around to look at what they were looking at and went white. Where the meeting hall stood was nothing but a crater around 70feet wide and almost 100feet deep.
Self preservation instincts kicked and Natsu ran for it with Makarov, Gray, Erza, and the other guild masters chasing him to clobber him to bits.