Ice Dragon Slayer/Chapter 23: Monsters and Mages

The port town of Hargeon:
The town of Hargeon was bustling with people as it usually did. Boats and ferries would come and go to help people get to where they needed to go, or to let them have a good time. It only seemed like yesterday when Natsu and Happy met Lucy here after saving her from a fire wizard named Bora, who was using his charm to seduce and capture women.
At the train station, Lucy and Happy had made off the train from Magnolia, Natsu was following behind, rather sluggishly. His face was puffed up and he had a little drool coming out of his perked up lips.
"It's times like this were I wish Wendy would've come..." he muttered as he slowly made his way after the others.
"Relax Natsu." Happy said as he pointed to the request flyer. "According to the request we just got to walk to the woods on the outskirts of town."
Suddenly, Natsu jerked up straight as he punched his fist into his palm. "As long as there's no vehicles, I'm game!" he shouted as he began to run ahead of the others. Lucy and Happy followed close behind.
"Hey! Wait up!" Lucy shouted as she was tailing after him.
Then, the three of them noticed towns people pointing up at the sky with curious eyes. They stopped and looked up as well. What they saw was something they had never seen before. A golden comet was soaring over the town and was heading towards the forest where they were headed. The three continued to watch as the comet disappeared into the forest without a trace. They looked at each other curiously.
"Please don't tell me I was just imaging that?" Lucy asked.
"Aye! I saw it to. What would a comet be doing in Hargeon? Especially in the day time?" Happy asked, slightly frightened.
"I don't know, but it could be trouble for all we know." Natsu said as he put on a serious face.
"Mabey we should go check it out." Happy suggested. "Who knows, maybe we can track those shady people hanging around in the forest if we do."
"I guess..." Lucy said. "But I got a feeling something will happen if we do."
"Oh c'mon Lucy!" Natsu reassured her. "Sometimes we gotta take risks every now and then. That's what makes it so much fun!"
"Sure...fun." Lucy muttered as she followed after Natsu and Happy towards the exit of town.
----Godzilla groaned as he began to slowly stand. His body ached all over and felt slightly singed, probably from the crash. As he opened his eyes, he noticed he was in a crater, no doubt also from the crash. He slowly began to climb out, his clawed hands digging into the dirt and rock as he managed to pull himself out. His vision was still a little blurry, but after shaking his head a few times, his sight returned. He looked around, taking in the sights, he saw nothing but rocks, shrubs, and large trees towering over him.
Wait...LARGE TREES TOWERING OVER HIM?!
He instantly looked up and saw the trees were indeed bigger than him. He slowly began to realize...he had shrunk! Godzilla was beginning to panic until he saw a deer staring at him curiously from afar. Godzilla watched the deer and began to glare at it.
"What are you looking at?!" he shouted, causing the deer to run away.
After it disappeared, he realized something.
"Wait... I can speak?!" he practically screamed as he put a clawed hand on his throat.
He was starting to panic again but started taking deep breaths through his snout.
"Calm down Goji, calm down. There must be an explanation for this." he said to himself as he continued to look around.
He took in the scenery around him, it felt rather peaceful to him, almost to peaceful. Back home he always sensed the destructive poison the humans called 'radiation' in certain areas around the globe. Unfortunately, it was also humans that caused him to rely on this 'poison' as a source of energy when he needed it.
He did, however, sense something different in the air, it didn't feel negative like radiation, but it felt positive. He could feel it interacting with the air and the life all around him, it started to affect him as well. He felt himself beginning to calm down significantly.
"Okay, now to find the others and find out what's going on around here." he said to himself.
Before he could move, he sensed something approaching from the east. He could sense the same energy he felt in whatever was coming towards him. As he felt them getting closer, a familiar scent hit him in the face.
Humans.
But this scent was different, he could sense something within it that he couldn't quit put his claw on. It felt like the energy he felt around him...but slightly different. Not wanting to take any chances, he made his way to some large bushes, hoping to wade out whatever was coming. As he waited, he sensed another presence approaching from the west. It too smelt like humans, but this energy felt...bad.
He continued to wait until he noticed two humans and what looked like a blue cat with wings approaching the crater he had come out of.
Natsu, Lucy and Happy looked at the crater with wide eyes.
"Whoa! This thing is huge." Happy exclaimed.
"That's an understatement." Lucy said. "It's ginormous!"
"What could've come from something this big? You got any ideas Natsu?" Happy asked, but not getting a reply. He looked to see Natsu looking elsewhere.
"Natsu? You okay?" Lucy asked in concern.
"I smell something, over in those bushes." he said as he slowly began to approach.
Godzilla's eyes practically bulged out of his head after hearing the humans statement.
'He can smell me?! This human possesses acute senses too?!' he screamed in his head.
As Natsu got closer he smelled something approaching from behind. He quickly turned around.
"Lucy! Duck!" he screamed.
Lucy was slightly confused until she heard something coming towards her. Natsu quickly tackled her to the ground as a large axe flew over their heads and impaled a nearby tree. Natsu and Lucy sat up as they looked up in surprise as they stared at the weapon.
"What the heck was that?!" Lucy yelled.
"That would be us girly." a sly voice said from behind.
They turned around and noticed a group of about thirty men approaching them. These people all wore matching blue suits with white t-shirts with blue ties underneath and matching red pants. Their hair was strange, however, parts of it was pointed upwards from the front, almost resembling a unicorns horn. They also wore yellow straps on each of their arms that carried the same emblem. Happy recognized the emblem immediately.
"Hey! I know that symbol!" Happy cried out. "Their from Dark Unicorn! A dark guild that used to work under the Oración Seis!"
"Oh yeah." Natsu said in realization.
"Hey, didn't Ren and Eve from Blue Pegasus beat you guys up a while back?" Lucy asked.
Most of the members fell over comically on their backs while the leader looked rather disappointed.
"Those two jerks humiliated us last time, but this time we're gonna get our revenge. If you hadn't defeated our bosses and destroyed Nirvana, we could've had the power to rule over all of Fiore!" The others got up and shouted in agreement.
Natsu dropped his backpack he was carrying and punched his hands together, a small burst of fire coming out. Lucy grabbed her keys from her pocket, after hearing how easy it was for Eve and Ren to take them out, they felt this wouldn't be a problem for them.
"This is gonna be almost too easy." Natsu mocked as he put a hand out, giving the come and get me motion.
----Fairy Tail OST: Invoke Magic...
----The members of Dark Unicorn took the invite and charged, whipping out their swords, axes and other weapons. One member swung his sword at Natsu's head, but he easily ducked out of the way, grabbing the dark mages arm and throwing him into several of his cohorts. He then noticed several others approaching him with spiked clubs, ready to strike him. Natsu punched his fists together as a red circle appeared in front of him.
"Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu released a large torrent of flames from his mouth that sent the dark mages flying into several trees, their skin had slightly darkened from the large amount of heat.
Natsu then turned to about four other Dark Unicorn members who carried axes and charged at him. Natsu's fists where soon covered in fire as he jumped in the air just as the weapons where about to impale him.
"Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!" twin streams of fire shot from both his hands, looking like giant, fire whips. He swung the streams of fire towards the dark mages and they were sent flying back several feet.
Lucy was surrounded by several of the Dark Unicorn members, all were smiling at her.
"Ha! We gotta fight a girl?! What a joke!" one member said.
"Heh, she looks pretty hot." another said.
"Ugh! What a bunch of perverts!" Lucy said as she pulled out a key. "Open: Gate of the Maiden - Virgo!" soon, Virgo appeared out of the ground in front of Lucy and bowed to her.
"Princess, do you wish to punish me?" she asked innocently. The members of Dark Unicorn all had hearts flying over their heads as they stared at the Celestial Spirit.
"Wow, look a maid!" one cried.
"Forget the girl! I'd go for her!" another shouted in glee.
Virgo turned to Lucy. "Do you wish for me to punish these people?"
"Yeah, take these perverts down!" Lucy shouted triumphantly.
"As you wish." Virgo replied as her eyes began to glow slightly blue. She charged at the men and began delivering a series of kicks and punches at the dark mages, moves one might see from a professional martial artist. The Dark Unicorn mages were completely helpless as they continued to get the tar kicked out of them by the Celestial Spirit. However, Natsu, Lucy and Virgo soon found themselves completely surrounded by the dark mages, who gave ferocious glares towards them.
Godzilla watched from the bushes, something in his being found great respect for the two humans, they seemed to give off the same positive energy he was sensing before. He was also greatly surprised yet also impressed by their skill. Never in his life had he seen a human shoot fire from their hands or use keys to summon spirits before. But when he saw them being surrounded by the dark mages, something inside told him that now was his time to take action, and his senses were rarely ever wrong.
The dark mages were closing in on the three as they stood their ground. Happy was watching from behind a tree, wondering on what he should do. The leader smirked at the trio.
"Guess we win this time. You're gonna pay for destroying Nirvana!" the leader said as he held his sword in the air.
Natsu glared at the leader, but then he smelled something. It was the same smell from when they got their...and it was heading right for them.
"Goodbye, Fairy Tail!" the leader yelled as they were ready to charge.
"SKREEEEEEEEEONGK!"
The dark mages froze in place. Never in their lives had they heard such a roar before in their lives. Soon, the ground began to vibrate, it almost sounded like walking thunder. Then a deep, male voice called from the forest behind them.
"HEY!"
They turned and saw a shadowy figure approaching. When it stepped out of the shadows, everyone stared in shock and fright. A large, scaly creature stood before them. To Natsu and Lucy, it looked slightly taller then Elfman, standing about 10 feet tall.
It stood on two large legs and was covered in charcoal grey scales, it had three rows of sharp, white spines that started small from the back of the head, grew larger at its back, then grew small again when it reached its long tail. It's mouth was filled with sharp teeth and its yellowish brown eyes glared at the dark mages before it. As it continued to glare at them, it spoke again in the same deep voice from before.
"I'll give you this one chance. Leave the humans be right now, before I am forced to use less civil means to persuade you." it growled those last words as if it were a threat, which it probably was.
The dark mages were frozen in place, unable to process what was going on.
One mage turned to his leader. "B-Boss, what d-do we d-do?" he stuttered, unable to shake his fear of the beast standing in front of them.
The leader glared at the beast, raising his sword. "Do be a bunch of cowards! It must be some kind of Fairy Tail trick!"
"A trick?!" another member shouted in disbelief. "It looks pretty real to me!"
"Silence!" his leader shouted. "I'll show you!" He then charged at Godzilla, who stood where he was, cocking an eye at the human rushing towards him with his sword raised.
But as he swung his sword at the Monster King, it instantly broke in half!
The other mages gave horrified stares as they saw the weapon simple break upon touching the creatures skin, even Natsu, Lucy and Virgo were surprised at how easily the sword broke. Happy was watching from behind his tree, his eyes where completely white with shock and his jaw was practically hitting the ground.
The leader looked at the broken stub on the handle of his weapon and looked back up at Godzilla, a nervous smile creeping on his face. "O-oh, y-you are real."
"Obviously." Godzilla deadpanned. He then grabbed the leader by the scruff of his collar as he tried to make a run for it. With barely any effort, he tossed the Dark Unicorn leader behind him into a large tree. He fell to the ground unconscious, but alive. Godzilla then turned to the rest of the dark mages, who had looks of terror on their faces.
"So, are you going to go quietly? Or do you also need a lesson like your friend here?" Godzilla asked, motioning to their unconscious leader behind him.
"NO SIR! WE'LL LEAVE QUIETLY" they shouted in unison as they rushed past Godzilla, picked up their leader and sped of with incredible speed.
When he knew for certain they were gone, he turned to the two humans, Celestial Spirit and flying cat which appeared from his hiding spot and was hiding behind the pink haired human.
Time to get some answers on where the Daiei he was!
"Tell me..." he started. "Where the Daiei am I?"
Lucy stepped forward, still very nervous at the sight of such a fierce creature. "Umm, y-your in F-Fiore."
Godzilla raised his brow. "Fiore? Never heard of it."
"Ehhhh?!" Happy screeched. "But you're in Fiore right now!"
The Monster King raised his brow when he heard the blue cat speak. "Wait...you can speak?"
"Aye! 'Cause I'm a cat!" he replied cheerfully.
"...I don't care about what you are. How can you talk?" he said with a deadpanned expression.
Happy simple shrugged. "Don't know. I just do."
"Sir Happy has always been able to talk." Virgo added.
Godzilla didn't know what these people were trying to pull off, but he was slowly beginning to loose his patience. He let out a deep snort from his nostrils as he pinched the brim of his nose.
"Look, I don't know what kind of sick joke you humans are trying pull on me, but I swear if you don't tell me what part of Terra I'm on then I swear to Tanaka I'll-"
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Natsu interrupted. "Time out here. What is this about a tuna?"
Godzilla felt his left eye begin to twitch. "I said Terra, not tuna you damn imbecile!"
"We've never heard of a place called 'Terra'." Lucy cut in before Natsu could say anything else insulting. "We live in a place called Earth Land."
That shut the King of Monsters up instantly. "...Earth-what?"
"The Princess said you are in Earthland." Virgo replied.
Godzilla began to feel his head begin to loose focus. "...What the fu-uhhhh."
He suddenly fell flat on his face, causing the others to jerk away at the sudden action. Happy slowly approached carefully and poked Godzilla in his snout.
Nothing.
"Yep. He's fainted alright." Happy confirmed as he looked to the others. "What do we do now?"
Natsu stared at the creatures face. He saved our lives...
Lucy was having similar thoughts as they turned to look at each other.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Natsu asked.
"Yeah." Lucy replied as she turned to her Celestial Spirit. "Virgo, can you find us a wagon? Oh, and a tarp?"
"As you wish." Virgo nodded.
----Godzilla's senses were returning again, he must have fainted after hearing the female humans reply to his question. Fiore? Earthland?! He'd never heard of such places in his life. Maybe it was possible then. Maybe that large circle from before had brought him to some unknown land he had never known before. As his senses were returning he could hear a cluster of voices all around him.
"Lucy, what is this creature?"
"We don't know Master, but it showed up out of nowhere and saved us at the last minute."
"Whatever it is, it looks pretty manly."
"Umm, Big Brother Elf? I don't think this counts as a man."
"Dang it flame breath! You just had to go and bring this-this thing in here didn't you!"
"Hey! Watch it ice princess! This guy saved our lives! We owed it enough to bring him here!"
"He?! So it's a he now?!"
"Yeah! He spoke to us so we knew it was a he, so back off!"
"Enough! Both of you!"
"Yes ma'am!"
"Master, what do you suggest we do with it?"
"Hmm, if this creature did indeed save you, then it must have had a reason for doing so. We will wait until awakens, then we will hopefully learn more about it."
"As you wish Master."
"Hey Natsu. I know I said to bring me a souvenir, but I wasn't expecting this."
"Yeah, I wasn't planning on it."
Godzilla then began to stir as his vision slowly began to return.
"Hey! It's waking up!"
"Wendy! Stay away! We don't know what it will do!"
"Everyone stand back! Give him some room!"
Godzilla began to stand again. He shook his head to regain his focus and what he saw astounded him.
He was inside a rather large building, benches were lined in rows on each side of him. Behind him was a stage with a banner hanging above it that carried a strange symbol. But what surprised him the most was that he was surrounded by humans! They all slightly backed away when he got up and they stared at him nervously, which didn't surprise Godzilla.
As he looked at the humans that were staring back at him, he could sense it again. That same energy he felt from the two humans in the forest, they were at different levels however, some higher than others. He turned to the bar and saw the two humans from before, along with some others.
A red haired human female dressed completely in armor was giving him a cautious look while she held a sword in one hand. A small, blue haired female human was looking at him with fascination while a white cat stood next to her, cautiously eyeing him. Another blue haired female was hiding behind a black haired, shirtless male who was also eyeing him suspiciously.
The small, blue cat from before was hiding behind a reddish brown haired human with a dark cape who was sitting at the bar and just gave him a casual stare. Another male with long, spiky black hair sat next to him while chewing on what looked like a metal bolt while also looking at him casually while a black and white cat watched him with his arms folded. A young, white haired female just stared at him with a sweet smile and was giving off a feeling that reminded him of Mothra and finally, a short elderly man wearing a red suit and blue pants underneath a tan colored cape that carried the same symbol as the one on the banner on the back.
Godzilla was the first to speak. "...If you've got something to say, then quit wasting my time you gawkers."
Several of the humans jumped up with shock. "IT DOES TALK?!"
The King of Monsters snarled at the sudden loud noise and smacked the side of his head to stop the ringing. "Argh, would you shut it?! You're going to blow out my ears!"
The pink haired male from before smirked and nudged the shirtless mans shoulder. "Told you."
"Shut it, pinky..." he spat back.
"That's so manly!" a tall man with spiky white haired exclaimed.
A female with short white hair sighed. "Goodness..."
"Meh, seen weirder." The man with long spiky black hair said as he took a bite out his metal bolt.
"Who are you?" A black haired man asked after swiping his arm through the air as a clear magic seal appeared in front of it and a icy sword formed over it.
"That's something we all want to know." A brown-haired woman commented as a yellow glow covered her body and she changed into a Triceratops.
The King of Monsters was surprised that the brown-haired woman was able to transform into a dinosaur.
Godzilla rolled his eyes at the human's antics. "Good Tanaka, of all the alternate worlds that possibly exist, I just had to end up in this messed up place..."
"Alternate worlds? You aren't from here?" The red-haired armored female asked as she crossed her arms.
Before the King of Monsters could say anything else, the short elderly man hopped off the counter and slowly approached Godzilla, who was slightly unnerved by the level of power he was sensing from him. He stopped a foot or two from the saurian, who simply stared at him. Godzilla spoke first.
"So...mind telling me where I am?"
The elderly man stared at him silently before he started smiling.
"Where are you? Why you're in Fairy Tail."