Chapter 3: Revelations

Onibas Train
Erza and the others were on their way towards Onibas Station.
They were sitting on the passenger's seat with Erza on one side and Lucy, Gray and Lucy on the other side.
"So, Lisanna suggested you to come for some experience. Huh?" Gray said while looking at Lucy who had Plue sitting on her lap.
"Yeah, and it's only a matter of time before I go on one. So, it's like killing two birds with one stone." Lucy replied while remembering what Lisanna told her.
"Remember Lucy! This is your first quest mission! So, Be careful!"
"Well since these two are with me, I think I'll be safe and sound"" Lucy thought in her mind while smiling.
"And it's a good thing that you came with, Lucy." Erza said while smiling to her.
"Eh?" Lucy said.
"I heard that you can call upon a talking bull that holds a big axe to strike down enemies. So, it's pretty much it's us who'll be counting on you for your strength" Erza pointed out as an imagination bubble appeared as in it was a comically drawn Lucy who had Taurus swinging his axe like a crazy man.
"I think you got the wrong info." Lucy said while sweat dropping.
"by the way, what magic do you use Erza-san?" Lucy asked as she was curios
"Erza is fine. And I use Re-quip Magic." Erza replied
"I'm able to call out weapons that are stored in my pocket dimension." A dagger appeared in her hands before dissapearing
"Erza's magic is just like Natsu's." Lucy said while amazed.
"he also uses Re-quip." Erza exclaimed in surprise.
Lucy and Gray nodded and then retell Gray's fight with him.
"I see, after we go home from this mission. I'd like to have a duel against him." Erza said with a smile.
"You can ask him now." Gray said to her.
Erza tilts her head confused.
Gray then pointed to the seat behind him as a figure stands up as if he was signaled.
It was Natsu who was wearing a cloak.
"yo!" Natsu greeted as he walks to their seat and sat down beside Erza.
"W-w-why are you here!?" Erza stuttered out while backing away from him a bit.
"Lisanna said to me that I would need to experience first hand on Fairy Tail's extreme destruction damaging skills first hand on a job. So…here I am." Natsu replied as an imagination bubble of Lisanna and him talking while an image of Fairy Tail Members destroying things appeared next.
"And you just followed us?" Gray asked while crossing his hands in front of his chest.
Natsu nodded while making his cloak disappear.
Erza has been fidgeting while trying to look away from Natsu as she tried to get rid of the embarrassing memories of what happened at the guild before.
Natsu was smiling amusingly to her shyness and embarrassment.
"How did you learn Re-quip, Natsu?" Lucy asked.
"Learned it by myself." Natsu replied while grinning mischievously to Erza.
He then blows a little heated breath to her ear as he was replied with a squeal from the woman.
"How much of a flirt is this guy?" Gray and Lucy thought while sweat dropping.
"CAN YOU PLEASE STOP THAT!?" Erza exclaimed while blushing.
"Maybe? Maybe not?" Natsu replied while shrugging his shoulders.
Erza started yelling at him while Natsu just amusingly grinned to her.
Lucy and Gray just sweat dropped while trying to look away from the bickering.
"nyaaaaa!"
A cat's meow came from Natsu's backpack as Erza and the others were surprised from it.
"Oh, he's awake." Natsu said while reaching into his backpack.
He then pulled out his backpack and in it pops out what looks like a little furry red cat that was staring at Lucy and the others.
"Wow! What is it?" Lucy said while looking at the creature in amazement.
"a Vul Cat, and don't call him "it". He'll get angry." Natsu said while caressing the little cat's head.
"Does "he" have a name?" Gray asked while looking at the little cat.
"Milo." Natsu replied while letting the little cat crawl up to his shoulder and rested himself there.
"I found him 2 years ago at Mt. Hakobe, abandoned and I have been raising him ever since"
"An egg?" the others said while having a question mark over their head. Natsu nodded in reply.
"Milo. Say hello." Natsu motions to the little cat as it meowed a cute nyaa in reply.
Lucy awed at the little cat and petted his head.
Erza had a little blush as she awed to the little fury cat.
"Want to pet him, Erza?" Natsu suggested while handing Milo to her.
"Eh?" Erza said before looking at the little cat as it was doing the same to her.
"He won't bite." Natsu said as Milo jumps onto her lap and meowed to her.
Erza then gently caressed the little cat's head as she softly smiled to it.
Natsu then had a mischievous idea.
He then faced his mouth to Erza's ear and whispered.
"He won't bite but I will." He then nibbles her ear for a second before ducking his head from an Armored fist.
"PERVERT!" Erza screams as she sends a Gatling of her fists towards Natsu who dodged it all with ease.
"Man, these two are just made for each other." Gray sarcastically said while having knelled on his lap as the little Vul Cat jumps away to avoid the quarrel.
"Ha ha ha." Lucy laughs awkwardly while sweat dropping.
After 10 minutes of Erza's bickering
Erza had a puff of steam coming out of her head as she was glaring at Natsu who switched seat with Lucy.
"Now that you calmed down, Erza." Gray said while sweat dropping a bit to her fuming.
"Mind filling us in on your "needing help"?"
Erza then let out a sigh
"I need your help in taking down a dark guild called Einsenwald." She started to explain her recent encounter with a bunch of dark guild members on her quest and everything she knew to them.
"And I heard that they plan to use something called Lullaby." Erza said with a glare.
"Lullaby?" Lucy and Gray said in confusion.
"Lullaby, a very powerful magic item that was created by The Black Wizard, Zeref centuries ago. Like the name suggest it cast a deadly death magic that kills anyone who hears the sound, except the user." Natsu explained while looking out the window.
"What!?" Lucy and Gray exclaimed in shock.
"How do you know that?" Erza asked with a raised eyebrow.
"when you're roaming here and there. You tend to hear a lot of info on black magic." Natsu replied with squinted eyes.
Attention, dear passengers. We will be arriving at Onibas Station in two hours. I repeat.
The sound of the speakers sounded out. Informing everyone in the train of their soon arrival to their destination.
"Welp, I'll be taking a nap. Wake me up when we arrive." Natsu leans back his head to his seat and closes his eyes while letting Milo curl up on his lap.
"Man, this guy is too laid back." Gray said while looking at Natsu who quickly fell asleep.
"Just let him be Gray." Erza replied while looking awed at Milo's cute cat snore.
Lucy and Gray sweat dropped at Erza's fawning over the little feline.
Two hours later
Onibus Station.
Erza and the others arrived at the station and were heading towards where Erza was taking them.
Lucy who had Milo riding on her left shoulder suddenly realized something.
"Hey, Where's Natsu?" She asked while looking around.
Erza and Gray also realized the disappearance of a certain pink haired figure and they look around as well.
Their search stopped when they heard the Train whistle and its departure.
"Ah!" Erza and the others said when they realized it.
"We left him on the train!" They yelled in a comical way.
In the train
"-snore- ah! Gah?" Natsu who woke up from his sleep, sat up and look around to see no one on the train.
"Where is everyone?" He asked while yawning.
He then looks out the train windows and saw that it was leaving Oshibana station.
"They left me?" Natsu said while in a gloomy cloud.
He sighed and then sat back down.
"Now, I'm really hesitating on joining Fairy Tail." Natsu said while running his hand on his hair.
"Oh! So, you're apart of Fairy Tail." A man with black hair that is in a spiky pony tail said while smiling to Natsu.
"Huh?" Natsu said with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm really jealous of you people. Getting a lot of fame and lot of jewels. But for me, you guys are nothing but just…" He then stomps on Natsu's face as Natsu glare intensified.
"FLIES! YOU'RE JUST LOUSY AND PESKY FLIES THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE!" The man shouted out while having a maniacal smile to him.
"1." Natsu spoke out as he grabs the man's leg.
"Uh?" The man tried to pull back his leg but Natsu's grip was getting stronger.
"2." Natsu stand up while holding on to the man's leg and clenching it harder.
"Bastard." The man then tried to kick Natsu's leg to make him let go of the man's leg.
"3." when Natsu counted to 3, he swings the man by the leg to the other side of the train like he was just a rag doll.
CRASH!
Natsu then started to walk towards the bruised man, who was struggling to get up.
"Tch! Bastard, do you know who I am?! I'm Kageyama. A member of Eisenwald!" The self proclaimed Kageyama exclaimed as he had shadows appear behind him
Shadow Knuckle!
Shadow fists started to appear behind Kageyama as they launched towards Natsu.
Natsu didn't do anything as all of the shadow fists disintegrated from some unknown force.
"What the-! What the hell did you do!?" Kageyama exclaimed while stepping back from Natsu who was approaching him.
"I burned them." Natsu replied while starting to make the temperature on the train getting higher.
"Burned them!? You're a fire mage!? But fire can't do that!?" Kageyama exclaimed while falling down on his butt and was scrambling away from Natsu.
"It can.." Natsu then grabs Kageyama's head and pulled him up.
"If I wanted it to." He then throws Kageyama away like he was some sack as he was sent crashing away many train carts behind the first one.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
Kageyama landed on the last train cart where when he landed down a strange flute drops out of his pocket.
Natsu who walk towards where Kageyama was, saw the flute and was looking at it curiously.
"What do we have here?" Natsu said while looking at it.
Kageyama who got out of the rubble he was in, quickly grabs the flute and glares at Natsu.
"You saw it!" Kageyama exclaimed as shadows appeared bellow him.
Natsu thought that he was going to attack again, only to be wronged as Kageyama sunk into the shadow and disappeared.
"Tch!" Natsu then heard a vehicle engine running and look outside
He saw Erza with the others riding a Magic powered car as Erza was driving it.
An idea popped into his head as he grins mischievously.
Outside
"Erza! Slow down! You're gonna crash us!" Gray shouted. Apparently, Erza had pulled the emergency brake back at the station, and now, she was in pursuit of the train on a magic 4-wheeler.
"We have to hurry! Natsu is in there with a criminal, we've got to-" Her eyes widened, as she saw someone braking out of one of the windows on the train, and was heading straight for them.
"Waaaaahhhh!" Gray and Lucy screams as they saw that it was Natsu who was heading straight towards them.
Natsu was about to hit Gray, suddenly ignited his feet in flames and floated up.
Gray and Lucy sighed in relief as Erza pulled the brakes on the magic 4-wheeler.
Natsu landed on the ground safe and sound as he was cleaning off some dirt on his clothes.
"Natsu!" Lucy called out to him as she was running towards him with Erza and Gray following behind.
Milo then jumps up and landed on his right shoulder as he nuzzles his head onto Natsu's cheek.
Natsu smiled and caressed Milo's head.
"Natsu!" Erza exclaimed as she grabs Natsu's collar and started to shake him in it. Milo jumps away and landed in Lucy's arm.
"Did a man named Kageyama was in the train with you!? Did he have Lullaby with him?! Where is he!?" Erza bombarded him with questions as she kept shaking him without stopping.
"Erza calm down." Lucy said to her scarlet haired friend.
Natsu grabs her hands and yanked them away from his collar.
He then grabs her chin and pulled it closer to him.
"If you keep doing that, I'm gonna punish you." He said in a low tone as he licks her cheek.
"Kyaaaaaa!" Erza screams as she jumps away from him while holding her licked cheek.
Natsu chuckled to her reaction and looked to Lucy and Gray.
"I encountered Kageyama on that train and I also found out that Lullaby was with him as they, as in Eisenwald are planning to use it somewhere." Natsu answered Erza's answer while explaining it to them.
Everyone was shocked by the news.
"We have to hurry then!" Erza exclaimed as she runs to the magic 4-wheeler and plugged the SE plug to her wrist and restarted the engine. Only for her to hear something blow up and saw smoke coming out of the car.
"What the!?" Erza said as she unplugs the cable and looks to see what was the explosion.
"Looks like the car's busted" Gray said while holding up a burn up cable.
"How are we going to catch the train now!?" Lucy exclaimed while hugging Milo.
"Relax." Natsu said as he walked in front of them and snapped his fingers twice.
In front of them appeared two green magic circles as they floated up and revealed two magic motor bikes.
"Hop on." Natsu grabs Erza's hand and got on the bike with her.
"Eh?" Erza said as she was wearing a helmet which was put on her by Natsu.
"I assume you can drive, Ice Breath?" Natsu said while throwing two helmets to Lucy and Gray.
"You bet I can, Flame head!" Gray retorted back as he and Lucy got on the other bike.
"Try not to scratch it." Natsu said to them while putting a little helmet on Milo and then put him in a little cat basket on his motor bike.
"Nyaa."
Natsu then started the engine with his magic as the motor bike roared to life.
"Hold on." Natsu said to Erza as the motor bike started to dash towards the train.
Erza then hugs Natsu's waist as they were now riding on it.
"His back is warm." Erza said in her mind while closing her eyes as she was savoring his warm back.
Gray and Lucy followed suit as their bike was following Natsu's.