Reborn As Natsu - Chapter 4 Ch4 First Mission

So Natsu, can you tell us the details of the job?”

“Sure thing Erza, it says that the Lotus Village was a peaceful one, nothing ever really happened here so there are no guilds stationed in the area. So, the dark guild, which is named ‘Wolf’s Fang, saw this as the perfext place to to have their guild hall,” Natsu explained to both girls.

The three were now in seated after getting on to the train, with Natsu next to windows, and Mira and Erza across from him.

“All the more reason to kick their asses!” Mira exclaimed, bumping her fists together with a smirk. Erza could only gain a tick mark at her attitude, she was wondering why the Master would pick an immature girl like her as an S Class wizard. Natsu only smiled, he always liked the way Mira acted when they were younger.

“How strong are they Natsu?” Erza asked once more.

“It doesn’t say it in the description, the village has no resident wizards, meaning that their strength is unknown. So, we must be prepared for anything,” Natsu smiled. The rest of the train ride was completely silent after that. Natsu was quite happy though, before, riding trains would be the worst possible scenario for him. He mentally patted his subconscious in the back for shutting off his pain pain receptors.

_______time skip talking to the Mayor __

“Ah you must be the wizards from Fairy Tail, I am the mayor of this village, please, sit,” the mayor stated. The mayor was a buff middle aged man, with black hair. He had an average appearance and from the desk, seemed quite tall. He also wore a black three piece suit and wears half rimmed glasses. Despite his common appearance, Natsu noticed something off about the mayor, making him smirk inwardly.

‘Strike one,’Natsu thought.

The three proceeded to sit down casually in the seats available to them, with Natsu in the middle, Erza at his right, and Mira at his left. Once they were seated, the mayor started speaking again.

“As you have seen from the job flyer we sent to Fairy Tail, this village used to be peaceful, the people here were happy, they never had anything to worry about because bandits and criminals don’t usually come here. However, a few months ago, a dark guild invaded this town and situated themselves in the forest to the west. They stole our food, raped the women and took our profits. They also kidnapped people who tried to seek help, taking them hostage so that we wouldn’t report them. The fact that I called your guild means that I risked my life for you to save us,” the mayor stated sadly, looking like he was about to cry. This pulled on both the girls heartstrings, mentally promising that the dark guild would pay for their crimes. Natsu however, kept a poker face on, his mind running a thousand miles per hour, and the voices in his head started screaming louder and louder by the second.

‘Strike two,’Natsu thought once more.

“Don’t worry old man, we’ll beat those good for nothing criminals to a pulp!” Mira promised with a cocky smirk. This time Erza wasn’t angry, because she thinking along the same lines. Natsu just smiled, but inside he was trying to shut the voices up. They kept getting louder and it was honestly annoying. If he wasn’t in public, he would probably yell at the voices. Natsu, Erza and Mira then left the mayor’s office to find the dark guild’s base.

“Here it is,” Natsu whispered. They were hiding behind some bushes, in front of them was the “Wolf’s Fang” guild hall. It was a ragged castle style building. It was slightly smaller that the Fairy Tail guild hall and had multiple broken windows and vines going through them, from their position, they could hear members talking to each other inside the building. However, with his enhanced hearing, Natsu also heard the whimpers and sobs of people underground and the talking of a couple of men a few feet away from them. He was sure that they were the hostages the mayor mentioned and the men were just the guard dogs. Erza then decided to talk about their plan of action.

“Alright, I suggest that we go sneak inside the guildhall, release the hostages first and then lure out the dark mages, since we do not know their level of strength at the moment,” Erza suggested. Natsu thought it was a good plan but Mira decided to object.

“Hell no! Let’s just kick the doors open, kick their asses and then free the hostages,” Mira whispered loudly. Natsu almost forgot, Mira’s patience was even shorter worse than his was during her goth days, he also remembered that she was very cocky as well. Natsu, listened once again, the voices of the men underground were gone, if they left the hostages, then Mira’s suggestion could be taken into consideration. Ultimately, Natsu’s thirst for battle got the better of him and decided to listen to Mira’s suggestion.

“I’ll take your plan of action Mira-chan, while I was listening, I heard a few guard dogs underground with, what I assume, were the hostages. If we take out the members quick, then we can save the hostages without anyone getting hurt,” Natsu decided. Mira only had a smug victorious look on her face, while Erza was glaring daggers at the side of her head.

The three kids then walked towards the large guild doors. They all nodded to each other, and then Natsu kicked the door open, shocking the members inside the guildhall. Natsu felt slightly dizzy and the area around him seemed to collapse.

flashback- The forest and the guildhall he was in turned into a hellhole, full of fire and bones of humans. He saw the members of the Spriggans in front of him and Natsu felt anger spread through every fibre of his being. Natsu’s dark green eyes turned blood red again. The landscape returned to the guildhall and forest, but he saw all the members of the guild to be Spriggan soldiers. flashback end-

Natsu let out an angry shout, startling the two girls next to him and scary the shocked members. Without warning Natsu dashed forward to the person closest to him, grabbed his head and slammed it into the ground, breaking the stone floor of the guild and knocking the person unconscious. Mira and Erza was shocked to say the least, a few seconds ago, Natsu was calm and collected and without a moment’s notice, became animalistic and furious. What happened to him, they didn’t know. They looked at Natsu one more time and saw him dodging a punch from a dark mage. Natsu proceeded to grab the mage’s hand and twisted it, making a sickening crunch sound the guildhall. Another mage came up behind Natsu with a magic infused fist at the ready, Erza was about to warn him, when Natsu did a backflip, going over the mage and using his legs to grab onto the mage’s neck, before proceeding to slam him down to the ground with the momentum of the fall.

All eyes were now on Natsu as he successfully started beating the dark mages without even using his magic once, every punch, every kick, and every magic attacks seem to not even faze him as he relentlessly knocked every single one of them out. Mira and Erza didn’t waste any more time as they activated their magic. Mira activated herSatan SoulTakeover. While in this form, Mirajane’s eyes become darker and her eyelashes grow larger, with a dark, thin marking in a light zigzag-style crossing her right eye vertically; similar markings are present above her right breast and on both of her bare thighs. Her hair becomes wilder, jutting upwards and getting curlier, with the front ponytail growing longer, and her ears enlarging, extending backwards, and gaining pointed edges, bearing resemblance to those of the fictional elfs. She also gains sharp canine teeth, and her lips become covered in dark lipstick. Her forearms and hands receive noticeable changes, becoming covered in scales and each sprouting a fin-like protrusion on its outer side. She also grows a large, stocky tail seemingly made of metal plates or scales, getting smaller and smaller near its end. Her clothing also changes, with any attire she might be wearing being replaced by a dark, skimpy one-piece suit, which reveals her arms and legs and is open on the front and the back, exposing most of her belly and wide cleavage. Such clothing has golden-colored edges taking on spiky shapes, and her similarly spiked collar is tied around the neck by a cravat tie. Her shoulders are tied in thin belts protruding from her one-piece suit, and her feet are covered by matching, high-heeled thigh-high boots, which are decorated by lighter motifs on their upper parts, taking on the shapes of jagged blades pointing downwards on the front of her legs, and on the lower parts, in correspondence to her ankles and feet. She also dons a pair of gauntlets covering the back parts of her transformed arms.

Erza activated herHeaven’s WheelArmor. Almost every part of this armor is seemingly made of silver metal. The upper part of this armor only consists of a small breastplate that is composed of feather-shaped plates pointing upwards with a large metal flower on the front which extends along her hips. Her biceps are covered by metal straps and her very large plated gauntlets sport feather-shaped plates at the edges. Her waist is circled by large, decorated plates reminiscent of feathers that lie on a long skirt. She wears a pair of plated boots which is partially hidden under her skirt, each sporting metal ornaments shaped like wings. Erza also wears a neck guard made of feather-like plates and a tiara with prominent metal wings. The armor also sports two pairs of large metal wings which adorn Erza’s back, composed of metal feathers which get longer and larger at the edges.

“Blumenblatt!/ Demon Blast!”Erza/Mira yelled. Erza slashed a group of enemies with two swords in hand, bringing them down easily, the rest of the swords on her back taking out everyone else in her area. Erza then re-equipped a few more swords, slashing more dark mages in her way. Mirajane, on the other side of the guildhall, threw extremely powerful punches and kicks to the dark mages in front of her, sending them flying away at the force of the attacks. Meanwhile with Natsu, he was charging viciously at all the mages in front of him. When they all attacked him, Natsu responded with either blocking the attacks and then breaking their hands, making them useless from the fight, or dodging and kicking them in the head, cracking their skulls open and giving them concussions. As this was going on, the members of “Wolf’s Fang” were now realizing how fucked they were. They may have been kids, but they had the strength of monsters!

No matter how hard they tried, how many spells they hit them with, the three kids would not go down. The remaining members looked around and saw that there were only about 30 of them, which scared them even more. Erza, was completely focused on the fight, not losing her concentration for even a millisecond, every slash and hit was coordinated and clean. Mira, was laughing in enjoyment, her sadism shining through, seeing the members go down like flies was extremely amusing. Her attacks were sloppy and unfocused, but her power more than made up for it. Natsu, however waspissedthe fuck off Everywhere he moves, he sees the Spriggan soldiers that he fought against. The voices in his head were screaming out in satisfaction every time he took one of them down, fueling his anger even more. While attacking the enemies, he didn’t even notice the number of cuts and wounds he suffered. However, this was not important as hisDragon-SlayingandGod-Slaying Magichealing him constantly. Eventually, all of the members were down and the three of them were just standing on top of their unconscious bodies. Erza re-quipped out of her armor and removed the dirt on her body. Mira smirked cockily and crossed her arms. Natsu glared down darkly at the mages, the hallucination fading and his red eyes turning green again.

“Well, I gotta say, that was fun, now Natsu g- HOLY SHIT!” Mira said then yelled in shock. Erza looked at Natsu to see why Mira yelled out loud and gasped. Natsu was standing there, his clothes torn, cuts and bruises littering his torso, arms, legs and cheeks. Blood was trailing down his mouth and his hands were swollen from all the damage. Dirt was scattered on his body but his white-scaled scarf was remained untouched.

“NATSU! ARE YOU OKAY!?”both girls screamed, running over to him. Natsu was unresponsive for a second, before he looked at them and smiled. He brushed himself off and stretched his arms.

“Of course, why wouldn’t I be?” Natsu smiled.

“Why!? You have cuts and bruises all over you and you’re asking why!?” Mira screamed.

“Oh, I didn’t notice, but look, it’s fine,” Natsu said, pointing at one of his cuts. The two girls were about to scold the younger boy, but when they looked at his cuts, they saw them, amazingly, healing at a fast rate. After a few minutes, all his wounds were gone. The two girls were speechless, they have never seen healing magic that worked that fast, let alone healing magic that is applied to oneself.

“Okay, that’s enough standing around, let’s go save the hostages and report to the mayor,” Natsu said.

“Yeah! Let’s go!” Mira replied

“These people have suffered enough,” Erza added, her eyes showing sadness and understanding. Mira looked confused, while Natsu looked at her with sorrow. At this time, Erza still hasn’t gotten over the Tower of Heaven incident. They started walking towards the doors to the basement until they found a staircase leading up to what seemed to be the guild master’s office. It was weird for the two girls, as to why the master wasn’t in the guild fighting with the rest. Natsu, just needed to confirm his suspicions.

“You guys go down and free the hostages without me, I need go up to the master’s office and check something out,” Natsu said, looking up at the staircase leading to the office.

“Okay Natsu, just be careful,” they both said, before walking downstairs. Natsu walked up the staircase until he was met with a door. Unlike the other parts of the guildhall, the door was clean and looked newly furnished. He opened the door, which was surprisingly open and went inside. The room was a normal office. With some bookshelves at the sides, a coffee table, some chairs and a desk at the end of the room. Natsu looked at all the drawers and found that most of them were empty. He checked the desk at the end of the room and found a stack of papers. Once Natsu got a good look at the papers, he smirked in satisfaction and made his down to the ground floor.

‘Strike three, you’re out.’

When Natsu got down, he found the kidnapped villagers getting out of the guildhall, most were thanking Mira and Erza. He smiled and made his way to the duo.

“Hey there Natsu, ready to go back to the mayor, I’m sure he’ll be happy,” Erza smiled at him. I’m sure he will.natsu replied back at her.

_back to the Mayor _

“-so we freed the villagers and sent the dark mages to the rune knights.” Erza finished briefing the mayor of the events that transpired in the guildhall. The mayor nodded calmly and smiled at the three kids.

“I am truly in your debt, Fairy Tail wizards. Thank you for helping us free this village from Wolf’s Fang,” The mayor smiled, he then proceeded to individually shake the hands of the three young wizards.

“It was no problem old man, we enjoyed kicking their butts!” Mira grinned, throwing a thumbs up.

“If that is all, we should report to back to our master,” Erza stated calmly

The trio left the mayor’s office and made their way to the train station. Before they got onto the train, Natsu stopped walking, making Erza and Mira turn back to him.

“You guys go ahead, I’ll stay here for a little while longer, tell Gramps that we got the job done okay?” Natsu said before walking back out of the station. The two nodded and went on the train.

“See you in the guild Natsu-kun!” Mira chirped, blowing a kiss.

“Yes, be back soon Natsu,” Erza said, glaring at Mira.

‘Time to settle this,’

It was now 12:00 PM and the mayor of the Lotus village was filling out some paperwork. Most of them were forms sent by the magic council to detail the incident that happened in the village. It was very quiet, since most of the villagers were now asleep. It was peaceful, until the window to his right was smashed open and a figure barged into the office, crouching down on the ground.

“Who are you!” the mayor yelled.

“Why hello there, mayor~” The figure voiced out. The figure stood up from his crouching position and cracked his knuckles.

“Did you think you were going to get away that easy~?” The figure added.

“W-What do you mean?” the mayor asked nervously.

“That you’re the guild master of Wolf’s Fang, well former now. Heheh” The figure answered.

“How did you find out…boy?” the ‘mayor’ asked the figure with a smile. The figure moved out of the shadows and revealed himself to be Natsu. His eyes were glowing red, with a malicious smirk crossing his face.

“It wasn’t that hard actually, you left too many clues to find, so it was easy to figure out. The first, is that you said that the dark guild kidnapped anyone who tried to seek help. If this was true, then you would have been captured and this information wouldn’t have been sent to the guild. The second is that, when checking out the Wolf’s Fang guildhall, I found copies of the job flyer sent to us. This led me to believe that we we are not the first guild that you lured here. The flyer said this was a C-Class mission, when in actuality, this was an A-Class or a low tier S-Class at best. You expected us to die in the guild, but I had two S-Class wizards with me and I’m not a joke myself.” Natsu explained to the Wolf’s Fang Guild Master.

“Very impressive boy. You are sharper than you look, most of the wizards who came here never noticed things like this. That is the reason why they died a painful death. But, don’t think you’ve won yet,” the mayor smirked arrogantly.

“Oh I know. The last reason why I suspected you was because when I first came here, I had the feeling that you were hiding you magic signature. I tried to sense you to make sure and I found aDragon-Slayer Lacrimainside you,” Natsu said, already feeling anger rising up.

“Heheh, that is right. I bought aShadow Dragon’s Lacrimawhen I first started my guild. Just in case something like this ever happened,” The man’s smile grew wider.

Without warning Natsu disappeared from his spot in front of the mayor. The mayor looked around, trying to find him, shocked at his speed but had no luck. Just then, he felt a hand grab his shoulders from behind and saw Natsu, standing above him, his eyes being shadowed by his hair. The thing that scared the man was that he could only see one red eye on the boy’s face, but it was different. The red eye was darker and the pupils were gold in color. Something like this would have been beautiful to most, but the boy’s expression made it terrifying. Then, the boy spoke out.

“Then I’ll just have to take if from you,”Natsu said, his voice sounding distorted and demonic. Natsu proceeded to land a punch on the mayor’s face, not letting go of his shoulders, so that he wouldn’t fly away. Without a second wasted, Natsu kicked the man’s knee, breaking the man’s bones and bending his legs at an unnatural angle. The man screamed out in agony and tried to land aShadow-Dragon’s Crushing Fangpunch on the boy,but he only caught it with his bare hands. He could see that it didn’t leave the boy unscathed, because parts of the flesh on the boy’s hands were peeling off. The man smirked, thinking that he could escape his grip, but it disappeared when he looked at the boy, who didn’t show any reaction to the attack.

“You know, when I was fighting your pathetic guild, I tried activating my ‘other’ magic, but it wouldn’t. So then, I realized I needed to refill it like myFire-Dragon Slaying Magic.ButDeath God Slayer Magic needs just that,DEATH. I couldn’t kill in front of my friends. But, they’re not here anymore. So I think you’ll be the perfect candidate, Nobody will miss a criminal like you”Natsu voiced out with a crazy smile.

The man was scared for his life and was about to beg, but Natsu squeezed his hand once more, making him scream out in pain. The pain seemed to intensify, making his body feel like it’s on fire. The mayor looked at his hand and his eyes went as wide as saucers. His hand was turning grey, it wrinkled and then disintegrated. The man tried one more to time to escape, but Natsu just grabbed his head. His head felt like it was melting at the touch, but he couldn’t scream anymore. His vision was blurring and he felt his brain turning into mush. This continued for a few more seconds before the man’s body was no more. The only thing left of him, were the clothes he wore.

‘Hmm, interesting’ Natsu thought, activating hisDeath God Slaying Magic.It appeared as a black form of energy, with a blue glow surrounding it. Natsu, tried to touch the mayor’s desk with them, but withered into a crisp upon contact. Natsu smirked, successfully bringing out a new magic in only a day is an accomplishment after all, the killing of people didn’t even cross his mind, or he just didn’t care. His eyes turned green once more and Natsu made his way out of the office.

‘Time to get back to the guild,’