Chapter 4 - DRAGONS

Prologue

It was raining in Academy. Students in the streets were running to indoors with their book bags over their heads. The only one who didn't bother to even to react to the rain walked down the road with an air of not even caring. The thin white haired boy walked slowly through the rain, his futuristc walking cane tapped lightly against the ground as he used it for support. Though this boy might have seemed like a harmless cripple at first, he was actually powerful enough to take on an entire army without even taking a scratch.

This boy was Accelerator. The strongest esper in Academy City. The boy who could control vectors.

"Hmph." said Accelerator to himself. "Looks like the weather report was wrong again."

It had been raining in Academy City for around a week now. The Academy City News Weather Forcast that had been so accurate when the super computer Tree Diagram was still working, was now extremely off. Unusually off actually, even if they no longer had the access to the worlds most accurate super computer, they should have at least been slightly accurate. In fact other News stations were addressing the strange issue of the abnormal weather that had appearing in the general Japan area. Stranger still were the reports of giant winged monsters being sighted somewhere in the Himilayas and near Mt. Fuji. All of the sightings had been in the light of the full moon and scientists were wondering if there was new species of reptile that had remained undiscovered until now.

Accelerator pretended not to care about any of this. Though the two people he cared for and roomed with constantly talked about it, Accelerator would pretend to be absolutely oblivious. But the truth was that he did care. He couldn't place his finger on it, but something strange was going on. About two weeks ago, the girl known as Mikoto Misaka who had been missing for a total of about two months, had mysteriously reappeared with no explanation to where she had gone or why she had been missing. And to top it off, Accelerator had recently run into a strange man last Wednesday.

It had been around evening. Accelerator was walking home alone as usual when he heard a sound he was all too familiar with. Gunfire.

Accelerator wasn't afraid of guns. He had been fired upon by millions of bullets during his lifetime, tank missles and rocket launchers included. However, out of all those projectiles, only one bullet had ever hit him.

Accelerator rolled his eyes. Who the heck was deciding that it was good night to go killing at this hour? Accelerator had moved to sound of the noise to find a strange looking man fighting what appeared to be some of the street gang known as Skill Out. The man was tall with a long dark cape over his tall form. He was holding one of his hands out and deflecting the bullets from the automatic weaponry. Actually, the word 'deflecting' was innaccurate. The bullets were disintegrating against his touch.

"Jeez." said the man lazily. "The weapons from this world are so annoying. You can't even see the stupid projectiles comeing. I think I like gun magic way better then this steampunk style model."

Looks like he can handle himself. Thought Accelerator. He had made to leave when suddenly he himself was also surrounded by Skill Out gang members armed with automatic guns.

"Out of my way trash." Accelerator spat. "I really don't care enough to be doing any kind of fighting today."

"Oh, look at the little esper." said one of the gang members tauntingly. "Too afraid to face us?"

"Get out of here!" said the tall man stepping in between Accelerator and the members of Skill Out. "I'll take care of these idiots."

"Playing hero now huh?" said Accelerator turning on an electrode on a chocker that was around his neck. "You can keep your heroics, I'm in a bad mood."

"Enough talk!!" said one of the gang members. "Kill them!!"

The gang fired their weapons. The tall man held his hand out to stop the rain of bullets. Accelerator however, just stood their as the bullets richochetted from him as if he had a invisible shield around him. The bullets that bounced away from Accelerator's vector deflection all went back and hit the ones who fired them in the legs. The members of Skill Out all crumpled to their knees and cried out in pain.

"Great." said Accelerator. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have some mouths at home to feed."

Just as Accelerator made to walk away, the tall man called out to him. "Hey, wait..kid."

Accelerator turned back to look at the man. "What do you want? I don't have time for silly games."

"Well that's rather rude." said the man. "I just wanted to thank you for the help. The name's Gildarts."

"I'm Accelerator, now beat it, you're breathing up all my air."

"Accelerator?" said Gildarts. "Pretty weird name for a boy. Who names their kid Accelerator?"1

"That's not my real name, I forgot mine long ago." spat Accelerator. "But I'm not here to go into some long stupid sob story. Bye."

Gildarts, however, continued to follow Accelerator down the street. "Actually I'm kind of new to this neck of the woods....I was wondering if you could help me out. I hate to do this to a guy I just met, but you don't think I could-?

"No." said Accelerator before Gildarts could finish his sententence.

Gildarts stood there and watched Accelerator walk off. "Jeez, there really is a rude crowd in this city."

Accelerator jerked back to the present. He had just noticed a familiar figure standing in the rain ahead of him. It was Gildarts. He was standing in the middle of the deserted street, looking up as if he was expecting something to happen.

"Hey you!" Spat Accelerator. "Get out of the road, unless you wan't to be run over by drivers who don't know a snot's worth about hydroplaneing!"

"Gildarts started and looked and Accelerator. "Oh, it's you, ummm.....Accelerator right?"

"Just get out of the road already." grumbled Accelerator.

"Funny we just ran into each other." said Gildarts. "Because I have a little favor to ask-."

"No." said Accelerator as he made to walk off again.

"Let me finish." said Gildarts. "You see I have been researching this place significantly since I got here...and I know who you are, strongest esper in Academy City."

"Your point?" spat Accelerator.

"I don't suppose you've noticed the News lately have you?" said Gildarts. "Strange weather, flying monsters? And a girl who goes missing for 2 months without a single trace and suddenly reappears? I think these things warrant some investigation...."

"Let me guess." said Accelerator. "You're some sort of weird conspiracy hunter and you want me to be your informant."

"Well you're right about the investigating part." said Gildarts. "But I'm not an information hunter. And I want you to investigate with me....as a temporary alliance. Cause where I go tends to have a lot of danger, and I think a level 5 like you would be the only one who could handle what I'm about to go through."

"Is it dangerous?" asked Accelerator.

"Yes."

"Old geezer..."said Accelerator. "You had better not slow me down....you hear?"

"Why of course...." said Gildarts.

Gildarts held out his hand. Accelerator took it and shook it.

"So Old Geezer..." said Accelerator. "What do you need help with?"

"Ever heard of a little something called magic?" said Gildarts.

"Don't tell me." spat Accelerator. "I'm fighting another magician aren't I?"

Around twenty meters away, the head of Aqualas peaked out from a black colored rain puddle, watching Fairy Tail's strongest mage form a deal with Academy City's strongest esper.

Happy Birthday Railgun

"Well...." said Aqualas"....This is an interesting development..."

"Guys! I don't know what to say.." said Mikoto still feeling rather stunned.

"Then don't say anything!" said Natsu cheerfully. "And let's just party!!"

"Erza and Gravix are still out getting the cake." said Lucy. "But we still got plenty of stuff to do until then."

"Hehem" Kuroko coughed and nudged Mikoto.

"Oh,right!" said Mikoto remembering why they were here. "Guys, this is my friend Kuroko Shirai."

"Hi there Kuroko!!" said Natsu cheerfully. "Any friend of Mikoto's is a friend of ours!"

"Wow Sissy." said Kuroko looking at the Fairy Tail emblem on Natsu's arm. "You weren't kidding about all of you wearing those tattoos. Is it like a cafe tradition or something?"

"Well you certainly could call it a tradition." said Mirajane cheerfully holding up a tray of scones. "Can I interest you in anything Kuroko?"

As Kuroko went to try some of the scones Mikoto turned to talk to Lucy. "So where are Master, Gajeel and Laxus? "

"Don't know." said Lucy scratching her head. "They weren't here when we woke up this morning. With Gajeel it's not too surprising because he always goes out around this time, you know how he likes to find iron to eat in the scrap yard down near the southern districts. But usually Laxus and Master are always around."

"Well I hope Gramps comes back soon." said Natsu cheerfully. "Cause otherwise he's going to be missing a whole lot of cake."

"Aye!" said Happy from the windowsill. "Plus we still have to give you your present!"

"Did that cat just talk!?" said Kuroko who had been talking to Mirajane.

Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Mikoto looked at each other then frantically tried to cover up the situation.

"What?! Of course not!"

"Cats that talk!? Ridiculous!!"

"Come on Kuroko, why don't we....um.... have some more scones!!"1

Kuroko raised an eyebrow suspiciously. Then she shrugged and continued to talk to Mira.

Mikoto breathed a sigh of relief and glared at Happy. "What did I tell you about talking around carelessly?"

"Sorry- I mean....Meow" said Happy winking.

Charle shook her head and whispered. "Honestly Happy, you need to be more careful."

"I wonder what's taking Erza and Gravix so long?" said Wendy. "They should have found a cake by now, there's like a ton of bakeries around here."

As it so happened, Erza and Gravix were currently waiting in line at one of the Learning Garden's most famous bakeries. A line which was so packed that it extended outside the doorway. Passerby outside the bakery stared, but it wasn't because of the line, that was a normal thing. It was because of the strange attire of Erza Scarlet and Gravix Terras. Erza wore a set of armor over her torso and had a sheathed sword at her side. Gravix on the other hand, was dressed completely in ginormous hulking armor with a horned helmet and a metal lion's mask. (His honor as a man of The Western Forge dictates that Gravix never takes off his armor often, because of this it is still unknown what he looks like under it.) Erza had a large box with a birthday cake in it, and was currently waiting in line to pay for it.

"Hmmm..." said Erza. "We have been in line rather long."

"That's not surprising." said Gravix. "The brochure for this District did say it was world famous. It wouldn't make sense for it not to be packed."

"Yes, but at this rate we might be here forever." said Erza.

Gravix shrugged. "No pain no gain, right?"

Suddenly some movement caught Erza's eye. It wasn't normal movement, the entire Learning Garden area was filled with people walking around everywhere, so something as simple as a movement wouldn't catch Erza's eye. The movement she saw was at the edge of an alleyway nearby, it shimmered and glowed like a strange mirage. But it was the energy that enimated from that area that really caught Erza's attention.....magic.

"Did you feel that just now?" Erza asked Gravix.

Gravix nodded. "I'll hold our place in line, you go check it out."

Erza handed Gravix the cake and ran off in the direction of the alleyway. When she turned into the alleyway, she saw a figure running. Erza ran after the figure.

"Halt!" shouted Erza as she gained on the figure. "There is no place to run!"

The figure stopped adbruptly. The man was dressed in a harlequin outfit with midnight blue and yellow designs as well as the traditional Harlequin hat which had the strange protusions with bells on the end. The Harlequin wore a mask that had a smiley face with a star for one eye and a moon for the other. On the chest of the Harlequin's clothes was the emblem of a three headed Oriboris. The symbol of the dark guild Hydra Head.

"Why hello there Titania!" shouted the harlequin in a wacky jovial voice. "What do you need from an ordinary unsuspecting man such as myself!?"

"You're from Hydra Head." said Erza unsheathing her sword. "Who are you!?"

"Who am I?" echoed the harlequin. "That is an interesting question! Who are we really in this life!? I'd like to think that I've made a real difference in my-"

Erza pointed her sword at the harlequin's throat. "Enough with your jests, answer me!"

"My, my." said the harlequinn with an overly exaggerated sigh. "You are impatient. Well, my true name is of no importance, but for all intents and purposes you may refer to me as Night Reveler, Expert in Crazy Antics, Illusions, and Resurrection. Though mind you, I can only resurrect 5 souls a year, so I have to be pretty stingey about it!"

"What are you up to here?" Erza demanded. "Why were you spying on us?"

"Why? Hmmmmmmmm... well that's because-" Night Reveler suddenly thrusted his gloved hand into the air and a blue magic circle opened up. Suddenly Erza's vision swam and the buildings began to melt like ice cream in a heater. The ground also liquified and Erza began to sink into the ground.

"Wh-what is this?!" Erza said trying without success to free her feet.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" Night Reveler laughed like a psycho clown in a circus. "I can't believe you actually thought I would tell you everything! You idiots in Fairy Tail are so gullible!"

"Bye Bye~!" Night Reveler sang in a taunting melody while waving his hand. "Give my regards to Markorav~"

Night Reveler leapt onto the roof of one of the surrounding buildings while cackling jubilantly and dissapeared in an explosion of smoke and confetti. The melting houses suddenly returned to normal. And the liquid ground was solid again....it had been illusion magic.

Erza looked at the spot where Night Reveler had been earlier. On the cobble-stoned ground was a note written in jubiant hand writing. Erza picked up the note and read it. It was a rather goofy sounding poem:

'Fairy Fairy, where are you going

The Fun has just begun

So stop all your loafing!

-your happy little riddler, Night Reveler.'

"This can't be anything good." muttered Erza.

About 20 meters away, watching in the shadow of the alleyway was the blue haired Aqualas. He stared at Erza for a moment before melting back into the black puddle of water at his feet. It was almost time.....almost time to break the guild known as Fairy Tail....and take the Grimoires of this world's magic...

Natsu Meets The Human Library

"Hey Happy! Are you going to eat that?"

Natsu, Happy, Mikoto and Lucy were cleaning up the cafe. It was around 8:00 and Fairy Tail had already closed up for the day. Now Natsu was attempting to clean out all of Mira's leftover homemade food all by himself.

"Natsu, there is such a thing as saving for the customers." scolded Mikoto.

"Mmmfff..." said Natsu snarfing down a muffin. "C'mon, if it's still here when we've closed up, that means the customers don't want it."

"But if we still have some food leftover for tommorow it'll save Mira a whole lot of baking." Said Happy as he scrubbed the underside of one of the round tables.

"Hey....." said Lucy as if suddenly realizing something. "Has anyone seen Laxus or Master at all today?"

Everyone looked at each other. Gajeel had come back at around 2 in the afternoon (just in time for some birthday cake.) But Laxus and Markorav had been gone all day. Most unusual.

"Maybe Gramps got held up doing something." said Natsu.

"But this could be bad." said Lucy worriedly. "We havn't been in Academy City that long. What if they're lost?"

"Don't worry about it." said Mikoto. "If they do get lost, all they need to do is find a Judgement officer and they'll be able to find their way back no problem. Kuroko is part of Judgement. I'll ask her to put a word in when I get back to the dorms."

"All the same." said Lucy. "I'd feel better if they came back soon. What if they run into some Level 5s or something?'

Mikoto smiled. "Lucy, that's least thing to worry about. Firstly their are only 7 level 5s in the entire city including me. Secondly, they're not the types to be looking for a fight just for the heck of it. In fact most of them are so darn arrogant, I'm sure they'll think any random person they meet is completely beneath them. You should see how much of a jerk Mental Out is."

"Still..." said Lucy looking at the dark street that lay outside the transparent doors.

"Alright then." said Natsu stretching his arms. "If it's that much of a big deal, then I'll go looking for Gramps then. Come on Happy."

"And how are you not going to get lost yourself?" asked Mikoto raising an eyebrow.

"Hah! I'll just smell my way back." said Natsu. "Nothing smells as awesome as Mira's blueberry muffins!"

Dragon Slayers like Natsu actually had a very keen sense of smell as well as some enhanced reflexes and durability. In fact, after Mikoto had unlocked her inner Dragon Slayer powers, she had started noticing that she could see and smell much better then she had previously. (Not exactly pleasant when she walked near the Academy City dump.)

"Alright then." said Mikoto. "Oh, before I forget...."

Mikoto took out a cellphone and put it in Natsu's hand. "I bought some for the others too, but I'll give them out tommorow."

Natsu looked at the cell phone curiously. "What's this? Can you eat it?"

Mikoto laughed. "No, it's a phone, you use it to talk with people far away. But I payed alot of money for minutes on these, so only use it when you need it."

Mikoto showed Natsu the basics on how to work the phone. When Natsu had pretty much got how the phone worked, he walked over to the door with Happy sitting on his head and went out.

"Alright then Happy!!" said Natsu enthusiastically. "Why don't you search from the air and I go and look around the ground?!"

"But Natsu." said Happy. "If people see a cat with wings flying around won't it freak them out?"

"Aww come on Happy! It's night time! Who's going to see you?"

"And since it is night, who am I going to see?"

Natsu scratched his chin. "Good point! Lets just both search on the ground then."

And so Natsu and Happy left the Learning Garden area and began searching throughout all of District 7. After around 2 hours, the twosome had already had several mishaps with the security drones, accidentally spilled the coffee of a student doing some nightime shopping, and got several suspicious looks from some Anti-Skill units on patrol.

Now Natsu and Happy sat forlornly on the curb of a sidewalk.

"AAAAAGGGHHHHH!!" shouted Natsu in fustration. "Where are they?!!!"

"Maybe they're in another District." suggested Happy. "We could search in that underground mall thing!"

Suddenly they heard a small squeel. Natsu and Happy turned around to find a young girl wearing a gold and white nun's habit tripping and falling on her face. Natsu ran over and helped the girl up.

"Hey there, are you alright?!" Natsu asked the nun as she brushed herself off.

"Oh! I'm just fine thank you!" said the nun cheerfully.

"Wow," said Happy, "That was quite a fall!.....Ooops"

"That cat!! it just talked!!" shouted the nun.

"No I didn't!" said Happy frantically.

"Yeah! What he said!" said Natsu waving his arms distractingly.

"Wow! That's amazing!" said the nun. "That's so cute! Sphinx is cute too, but all he ever does is meow."

"Sphinx?"

As if on cue, a small calico kitten peaked it's head out from inside of the nun's robes and mewed.

"This is Sphinx." said the nun cheerfully. "And oh my! I guess I should have introduced myself, how rude of me! My name is Index. Index Librorum Prohibitorum being my full name. My magic name is Dedicatus545."6

"Index?" said Natsu. "That's an odd name for a girl. Isn't that the name of a book part or something?"

"Natsu! That's amazing!" said Happy.

"Huh?"

"The fact that you actually know something about a book is nothing short of incredible for you!!"

"Aw come on!!" Natsu retorted. "I read books!.....sometimes....maybe a little....ok not much."

Index giggled. "You're weird you know?"

"He get's that all the time!" said Happy cheerfully.

"Hey Happy-" Natsu began. But then he stopped short as if remembering something. "Wait...Index, you said something about having a magic name didn't you?"

"Oh that's right!" said Index. "You see, not only am I a nun in training for the English Puritan Church, I'm also a magician too...though my magic ability I'm afraid is quite low."

"Well that's cool." said Natsu. "Because I'm a mage myself-"

Natsu was interupted by Index who seemed to have a sudden change in attitude. "You a magician! Now that's just absurd! For one thing your attire is all wrong for anyone who would be an expert in magic!"

"Eh!? Come on!! Of course I can do magic!!"

"Oh really?" said Index crossing her arms. "Well then I want you to tell me everything! Your sect, your magic name, the type of magic you use, everything!!"Natsu and Happy just looked at Index dumbfounded for a while. "My magic name....?"

"Yes!" said Index haughtilly. "Like my magic name, which I mentioned before, is Dedicatus545. It translates to 'The dedicated lamb who protects the knowledge of the Almighty.'"

Natsu and Happy looked at each other for a moment, then they fell to the ground rolling and laughing.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Laughed Natsu. "Magic name!? HAHA, You almost had me there. I've never heard of such a ridiculous thing!!"

"Hey Natsu!" said Happy with jovial tears in his eyes. "Maybe we should call Levy! Because that name is a bunch of words that make no sense!"

"How dare you!!" shouted Index. "I'll have you know that the reason for magic name is that I hold and protect over 103,000 forbidden Grimoires within my head!! I should beat you over the head for your disrespect!!"3

Natsu stopped laughing. "Hey, you're the one who went all disrespectfull against me for saying I could use magic."

"Oh come now!" said Index. "So far I've seen nothing to prove you could use any form of magic whatsoever!"

"Oh..."Said Natsu rubbing his head. Mikoto had specifically told him that he should never ever use magic in this town unless he absolutely needed it. And that if he did, she would zap him with a million volts. And considering Mikoto scared Natsu just about as much as Erza did...

"Well....then." Said Natsu stuttering. "Where's your proof!? How am I supposed to believe you're a magician!!?"

"Oh you want a demonstration huh!?" said Index growing red in the face. "Fine then!! See these robes!? They're called The Walking Church. They've been blessed so that they would be strong as if I was in an actual building!! If you punch me right now, then I wouldn't be harmed one bit!"

"Aw come on!" said Natsu with a shocked look on his face. "I'm not punching you!!"

"Afraid I might be right?!"

"No, I just don't go punching people randomly!! Unless it's Gray, because he deserves it!!"

"Well then get your stupid talking pet cat to scratch me or something!"

"Pet?!" said Natsu now looking extremely put off. "Happy isn't a pet, he's my friend!"

Happy sighed and watched the two of them argue. "Hey there everyone reading this book...it looks like Natsu and Index are going to be at it for a while, so why don't we all go and enjoy a fish until it's over?"

1 hour and 30 minutes later.....

After a while, Natsu and Index finally calmed down enough to stop arguing.

" So what are you doing around here anyways?" said Index, "you don't look like someone whose out for some late shopping."

Natsu slapped his head in sudden revelation. "That's right!! I still can't find Gramps and Laxus! AAAGGHHH!! Where are they!?"

"Well as it so happens I'm searching for someone too." said Index. "I don't suppose you've seen a spiky black haired fellow have you?"

"No." said Natsu scratching his head. "But he sounds familiar...."

"He's a pretty great guy." said Index. "But he gets so darn forgetful. Like this morning he was absolutely in a panic because he forgot to get that girl he likes a present for her birthday! Then he started blaming his own bad luck, which is totally absurd considering that he could have just tried to remember.

"What a coincidence." said Happy. "Cause it's a friend of ours's birthday too! And we still have to give her the present we got when we get back."

"Tell you what!" said Natsu grinning. "Why don't we help each other out. We'll go search for the people we're missing together!"

"Hmmmm....." said Index. "I guess it couldn't hurt.....Okay, lets go!"

The threesome left down the dark city street in the direction of the underground shopping district. However they weren't alone. several meters away, a tall man with long red hair and dark priests robes stepped out of the shadows.

Stiyl Magnus breathed out some smoke from his cigar. "Hmmmm...this could be a problem."

A tall dark haired woman with a long pony tail, torn jeans, and a white shirt tied up at her naval appeared next to Stiyl. At her side she held a sheathed katana.

"It's a problem for you mainly." said Kaori Kanzaki. "My target is that one called Erza Scarlet remember?"

"We can't let them interact with Index though." said Stiyl gritting his teeth.

"Your mission was just to wait and watch." said Kaori. "And besides...These magic users don't actually seem dangerous."

"For now they don't." said Stiyl. "But I'm not taking any risks."

Innocentius, The Witch Hunter King

"Come on already, pick up!" Mikoto was on her green Gekota themed cellphone trying to call the phone she gave to Natsu. Natsu had already been out for hours and she and Lucy were getting worried. Plus there was the indisputable fact that Mikoto's dorm had a curfew, and if she didn't get back soon, the dorm supervisor would deal some pretty harsh punishment (As a matter of fact, she was already way past curfew.)

"You did show him how to answer it right?" asked Lucy.

"Yeah, but no way he's that forgetful." said Mikoto dialing on the phone again. "At this rate, I'm going to have to go out looking for him. Might as well, I need to practice using this whole Dragon Slayer smelling thing anyways."

Lucy sighed. "At least you wouldn't get lost, you know this city well enough."

"Tell the others upstairs that I won't be long.....I hope." said Mikoto putting on a gray overcoat over her uniform and walking towards the door.

Meanwhile, Natsu and Index were walking down in the underground Mall. The underground mall was part of a vast network of underground passageways and roads that ran all under Academy City. THe Underground had been orriginally an experiment to counter the large amount of recent earthquakes in Japan. The Shopping Mall area, which was mainly in the District 7 area, had resulted after a period of time when stores and shops started moving in. Now this place was a recreational paradise for buying clothes, playing in arcades, or just hanging at a cafe.

"Whoaaahh!" said Natsu. "I've never actually been down here before! Check out all this stuff!"

"Aye." said Happy. "I think I even see a store for selling fish over there!"

"You guys are pretty new to this city aren't you?" said Index. "When did you enroll in the schools here?"

"Enroll?" said Natsu. "Naahhh! Our friend said that if we developed esper abilities, it would make it impossible for us to do magic without hurting ourselves! So we didn't do anything like enroll here!"

"Oh?" said Index. "I guess you do know a thing or two about magic then...."

"That's what we've been trying to tell you." said Happy. "We're magic users like you! Only we've never heard of magic names or people with books in their heads."

"So how did you manage to get a bunch of books in your head?" asked Natsu. "Did someone shove them into your ear?"

"Now that is just ridiculous!" said Index. "I actually have a photographic memory, so I memorized all the Grimoires by reading every single one word for word!"

"You read 103,000 boring books!?" Natsu said with a shocked expression on his face. "That must have been totally exhausting!"

"Boring? No." said Index. "Exhausting? Well...maybe a little.."

Suddenly Natsu stopped. His expression turned extremely serious.

"Huh?" said Index. "Why are you stopping?"

"Does the place usually get so empty this quickly?" Asked Natsu.

The underground shopping area which a few moments ago had been packed with people, was now completely empty. Even the shop tenders and employees had dissapeared. Something was not right here. Not to mention that Natsu could feel a strange magic energy flowing through the place.

Suddenly, Stiyl Magnus walked out from a store on the left. He breathed out some smoke from his cigar. "Hello there, lovely night isn't it?"

"Stiyl!?" exclaimed Index in recognition. "What are you doing here?!"

"Wait." said Natsu. "You know this weird priest guy?"

"This 'weird priest guy' has ears." said Stiyl. "Index, if you would please? Get away from that boy now."

"What? said Index confused. "What are you doing? Natsu is just...."

"This isn't a negotiation!!" Shouted Stiyl. "I'm trying to protect you from this cult here!!"

"Cult?" said Happy. "Hey Natsu, I think this guy thinks we're part of some cult!"

"Cult!?" said Natsu. "You mean like with people chanting nonsense and doing weird blood rituals and stuff?"

"I don't know, I actually don't know anything about cults. Maybe it has something to do with fish!"

"You can continue to play dumb all you like." said Stiyl. "but it won't save you."

Stiyl reached into his robes and pulled out a stack of paperslips that had strange symbols on them. The paper runes spread themselves all over the floor and roof of the underground.

"Stiyl stop this!" said Index. "This guy isn't-" all of a sudden, Index went wobbly and fainted on the spot.

"Hey!" shouted Natsu. "What did you do to her!?"

"Calm your horses." said Stiyl pointing to a slip of paper attached to Index's back. "I only knocked her out with a simple sleep rune."

Natsu engulfed his fists in flames. "I don't care what you did. Who do ya think you are stressing her out like that huh!?"

"It's not like I wanted to cause her distress." said Stiyl. "Anyways you can cut the whole heroic act now. I know all about you and your whole magic cult. You may not have been after Index at first, but after she told you about the Grimoires in her head I knew it was only a matter of time....."

"I don't have any idea what you're going on about." said Natsu. "But if you want a fight, than I'm more then happy to give ya a little of ol' Natsu!!"

"Well then." said Stiyl. "Then I guess I should introduce myself before we get to it then!"

Stiyl Magnus threw his cigar into the air where it erupted into flames and dissapated. "I am Stiyl Magnus, my magic name is Fortis931, it translates to 'Mighty One'. I suppose you know a little bit about magic names.....right?"

"Huh? Well Index mentioned them..."

Stiyl sighed. "You really are dense....Well to summarize, we sorcerers don't usually give out our magic names. You see, by speaking them, it removes the seal that suppresses our powers, allowing us to go full out.....You could say it's what we call, Killer Names."

"Yeah, yeah..." said Natsu. "Big deal! I'm still gonna whoop your butt!"

"We'll see about that!" said Stiyl.

Stiyl engulfed his hands in a huge ginormous fireball. "Let's see how you like burning up!"

Stiyl threw the giant fireball and blasted it into Natsu, causing giant flames to erupt where Natsu was standing. Stiyl watched the crater of flames for a moment.

"Hmmm...." said Stiyl. "I guess you're just talk after all....."

"Aw man!!" shouted a voice from the flames. "You sure you call this fire!? It tastes awefull!!"

"What!?"

The flames cleared to show that they were being sucked into Natsu's open mouth like a tornado. Natsu closed his mouth and swallowed. "Oh, yeah! Now I'm all fired up!"

"What kind of monster are you!?" shouted Stiyl. "How did you eat my flames!?"

"Fire attacks won't work on Natsu!" shouted Happy. "He's Fairy Tail's Fire Dragon Slayer!!"

"Dragon Slayer.....?" Said Stiyl. "Oh, I see now, you're one of those cult members the pope told me about, the ones who use Drakon Force.....the magic that gives you the powers of a dragon."

"You bet!!" shouted Natsu. "Now get ready for an amped up ROAR OF THE FIRE DRAGON!!"

Natsu exhaled a massive tornado of flame at Stiyl. Stiy barely managed to dodge the attack as the Roar razed a deep gouge in the ground while it blasted down the underground shopping area.

"I'm not done yet!" Natsu Launched himself into the air and engulfed his fists in flames. He put the flames together and threw a massive fireball at Style. "Brilliant Flame Of The Fire Dragon!!"

As Stiyl continued to dodge Natsu's blows, he began to chant.

"One of the five great elements from which the world was constructed....The great fire of the beginning.....It is a light of blessing that creates life and a light of judgement that punishes evil...It overflows with blessings and misfortunes that destroys cold darkness...It's name is fire and it's role is the sword....Take shape and devour the energy of my body so that you may raze all of existance!!"

Suddenly the ruins covering the underground began to glow and a massive fire sprung up and began to take shape until it had formed into a massive humanoid form. The flame monster's body eminated a heat so intense that all the metal nearby turned orange and began to melt. The monster gave out a flaming beast-like roar that also sounded like a raging fire.

"WHOAAAH!!" said Natsu. "I've never seen fire magic like that!"

"This is the Witch Hunter King, Innocentius." said Stiyl. "You'll probably find it a little hard to eat his flames....."

The monster roared and a glowing giant cross appeared in one of it's flaming talons. Innocentius raised it's cross and brought it down at Natsu, who jumped out of the way and leaped at Innocentius with his mouth opened ready to eat the flame creature.

Natsu rode on top of Innocentius's head and began biting into his fiery hide. Suddenly Natsu fell back choking. "What the!? These flames are.....AAGGHH!!"

Stiyl laughed. "Innocentius is called the Witch Hunter King for a reason!! He's a pope level spell that was created to deal with other magic users, and one of those, just so happened to be a rare breed of magic users which were known as.....Dragon Borns!!"

Innocentius grabbed Natsu in a flaming talon and threw him into the ground, creating a huge crater where Natsu hit the ground.

"Natsu!!" Happy shouted. "Are you okay!?"

Natsu got up coughing rocks out of his mouth. "Yeah, I'm fine....but man.....I've never tasted flames like that before."

"Natsu." said Happy. "Did you notice how all those paper things were glowing when he summoned that fire guy?"

"Now that you mention it...yeah."

"It's hopeless." said Stiyl. "You will neverbe able to remove all the ruins in time."

Natsu suddenly started grinning. "Not by taking them all off one by one.....but I think I know what can take em out..."

Natsu suddenly became cloaked in both flames and yellow lightning. Thunder Fire Dragon mode had been activated. "I'm going to destroy the entire area!!!"

Stiyl's eyes widened. "What!?"

"Happy!" shouted Natsu. "You know what to do!!!"

"Aye Sir!!" shouted Happy as he activated his wings and flew over to the unconscious Index. Happy flew off with Index at top speed.

"Alright then....LETS DO THIS!!" shouted Natsu. "CRIMSON LOTUS: EXPLODING THUNDER BLADE!!!!"

Natsu whirled his fists around, creating a poweful twister created out of fire and lightning. The twister spread out wider and wider as all the area within 60 meters became totally obliterated. Innocentius moved over to Stiyl and shielded him from the attack. However, all the paper runes were completely obliterated.

When the dust settled, the entire area was in ruins and Innocentius had dissapeared.

"I-impossible." said Stiyl falling to his knees. "This guy is insane!"

Natsu began laughing. "HAHAHAHAHA! How do ya like them apples ya jerk!!?"

"NATSU!!! WHAT DID YOU JUST DO!!!?" Mikoto had just arrived on the scene. Her jaw was open with complete and utter shock. "YOU DESTROYED THE SHOPPING AREA!!"1

"Mikoto!!" said Natsu just noticing her. "It wasn't my fault!! It was this guy-.....Huh!?"

Stiyl Magnus had dissappeared.

Natsu looked back at Mikoto sweating instensly. "Well.....he was here.....heheheheh.....heheh....heh."

Mikoto's bangs began crackling with electricity. "Natsu....You had better start running....now!!"

"AAAAAAAGHHHHHH!!!!!" Natsu didn't need telling twice. He ran off into the night as Mikoto chased after him in utter rage. As he ran Natsu couldn't help but fear for what what would happen when Erza found out...

Grimoire Heart Resurgent

In the southeast portion of Academy City, their was an area known as known as the warehouse district. That wasn't the official name of District 11, but since it was an area mainly known for the transfer of goods and shipping, it was called such. However, not every warehouse here was used by Academy City specifically. Some companies would buy out certain warehouses for their own personal use. As it so happened though, their was one warehouse in particular which was completely abandoned, but now it was being used as a base of operations. A base of operations that was in particular, being used by a certain pair of dark guilds known as Hydra Head and Grimoire Heart.

Master Hades stood in the middle of the rusty old warehouse contemplating. Though it might not have looked like it, Master Hades, also known as the former Master Purehito of Fairy Tail, had died seven years ago. In an attempt to wake Zeref, Hades and the rest of Grimoire Heart had attempted to take over the sacred Tenrou island of Fairy Tail, while the guild was actually having an S class mage exam on the island. In the aftermath of the battle, Zeref had killed Zancrow, Rustrose, Kain, and Hades. Bluenote had become missing, Zodio had died of his own foolish magic, and to add insult to injury, both Meldy and Ultear had defected. Oh, and Azuma was now a permanent part inside of Fairy Tail's great Tenrou tree.

However, seven years after the battle, Black Whisper leader of Hydra Head had secretly gotten the mage known as Night Reveler, who was famous for his resurrection magic, to resurrect the members who had been killed by Zeref, and he got another one of his mages Gore Beastwalker, who had an unusual affinity with plants and animals (and an unnatural savagery to back it up), to demerge Azuma from the tree. It had been all part of Hades and Black Whisper's master plan in case the whole Zeref part didn't pay off. To instead find a different means to render the world at their fingertips. However, in order to do that Black Whisper first needed to find a way to return to his own world. He had nearly failed. If it hadn't been for Aleister Crowley's meddling, they might have failed in their plans.

"It seems that you love to dig your own grave don't you?" said Hades to himself. "Don't you Aleister?"

Suddenly the bucket of water which stood only several feet away turned black, and Aqualas rose out of the water like a man on an erie elevator. "Master Hades...I have news regarding our current situation."

"You may speak." said Hades.

"Zancrow follows the one known as Railgun like you requested." said Aqualas. "However, she is constantly surrounded by the other guildmembers, he is finding it difficult to get her alone. Meanwhile, it appears that the English Puritan Church is making their move on Fairy Tail as well, the sorcerer known as Stiyl Magnus was seen doing battle with Natsu Dragneel. They suspect that Fairy Tail seeks the Grimoires now."

"Hmmmm....." said Hades thinking. "Tell Night Reveler that it's time for him to give Zancrow a little hand in the whole divide and conquer bussiness. Is Black Whisper fully recovered yet?"

"My master... still requires some time to heal...."

"Then tell Kain and Rustyrose that it's time they moved in as well." said Hades.

"And what of the ones known as Accelerator and Gildarts?" asked Aqualas. "Forgive my opinion.....but they seem like the most dangerous ones...."

"Oh don't you worry." said Hades. "I have a special associate of mine to deal with them..."

Meanwhile, Accelerator and Gildarts were strolling through Academy City's District 23. District 23 was the largest district in all of Academy City, and for good reason. This was Academy City's Aeronautical research area. It held a wide assortment of Academy City's latest aircraft inventions, it was also an airport for students or tourists (tourists were only allowed if they were preparing to enroll in the city or if they were coming for one of Academy City's festival events). The place was littered with huge runways and airlines. Their was even several hangers that held Space Shuttles that were used before Academy City had created it's Space Elevator which shot into the heavens from the center of the city. (For more details on the Space Elevator, watch A Certain Magical Index the movie).

"What are we doing here?" spat Accelerator as he and Gildarts strolled in between the various garrage buildings and hangers.

"Just a hunch." said Gildarts. "I've sensing a strange magic coming from here for days now. It's been setting my teeth on edge. I thought it was time we looked into it."

"Old Geezer." said Accelerator. "You had better be right about this...or I'll kick that metal leg of yours from under you."

Suddenly Gildarts stopped. He looked around with a sudden seriousness in his eyes.

"Hey Old Geezer." said Accelerator. "What is it?"

"I feel another magic.....but this one is different...it feels.....familiar."

"Someone from your world then?" Accelerator spat. "Is it a friend or foe?"

"If it were a friend." said Gildarts. "I doubt you would find me acting so serious."

"An enemy then." said Accelerator. "Fine, I was getting bored anyways."

"Be careful what you wish for." a tall dark haired middle aged man with a white coat and purple clothes walked out of the shadows. "Because unless you can fly....Then all you can do is....Fall!!"

Bluenote Stinger held out his hands and all the gravity began pushing down on both Accelerator and Gildarts. Accelerator fell to the ground stunned as the the surrounding ground and him were weighted down into a huge crater. Gildarts however, began to emit a white magic aura and was still able to stand despite the intense magical gravity attack.

"Bluenote...." said Gildarts grinning. "It's been a while....."

"Gildarts." said Bluenote. "It's been a while since both you and I have stretched our wings together."

Accelerator groaned as he was pushed farther into the dirt. "Hey Old Geezer...if you don't mind....."

Gildarts kneeled down and turned the electrode on Accelerator's choker. Since gravity, whether controlled by magic or not, still followed the laws of vectors, Accelerator was able to stand up with relative ease, leaning on his cane for support. (There are certain kinds of magic that can get past Accelerator's vector deflection ability, but they have to be completely void of following any kind of vector laws or physics in order to work.)

"So it seems you aren't so weak yourself....." said Bluenote. "But...will you soar like your friend here has...or...will you crash and burn with your wings clipped...?"

Accelerator had only one thing to say. "Shut up."

Mentally Out Of Your Mind

"I'm sorry I'm sorry!!!!" shouted Natsu as Mikoto pulled on his ear.

"I don't believe this!!" Lucy exclaimed. "You burned down the underground shopping area!!!!???"

"But-" Natsu began. "AAAGGHHHH OW!!"

Mikoto continued to pull hard on Natsu's ear. "You're lucky the cameras all shorted out from from the blast!!! Otherwise, Anti-Skill would have arrested you within the hour!!!!!"

It was morning, and the Fairy Tail Cafe had just opened it's doors. It was still quite early in the morning though, so Mikoto and Lucy were taking advantage of the emptiness in the cafe to scold Natsu for obliterating nearly half of the underground shopping area.

They weren't ignorant though. Mikoto had already asked Kuroko to see if Judgement could dig up anything on a strange priest with long red hair. But in the meantime.....Natsu shouldn't have gone overboard in a fight like that. This wasn't Fiore anymore where repairs could be instantly made through magic. The board of directors who ran this place were definitely a lot harsher then the Magic Council.

"Seriously Natsu!!" Mikoto said. "If you're going to fight someone, think a little before you go and blow everything up!!"

Index, who was sitting at a cafe table nearby stood up haughtilly. "Oh yeah, Miss Shorthair!? You go overboard in fights all the time!! Why else do the traffic lights in this city always malfunction!? And then there were all those times you caused blackouts in entire districts!!"

Mikoto went a little red with embarrassment. She did tend go a little overboard in fights. Even Kuroko had told her that time and time again.

"Well it's to be expected." said Mira cheerfully as she took a tray of pastries out from the oven. "The one thing to be expected of those from Fairy Tail is that we'll always go overboard. Besides, this isn't nearly as bad as the time Natsu destroyed an entire village....twice."

Mikoto sighed. "Aw....well I guess you're right."

Suddenly the cafe door flew open and Touma Kamijou burst in. "INDEX!! I turn my back for one second!!!"

Apparently, Index and Touma had gone out last night to get something (late birthday present for Mikoto, but she didn't know that yet.) In the process, the two of them had been seperated somehow. After Happy flew back to the cafe carrying the unconscious Index, Lucy and Mikoto had called Touma, who had been paniking all over the city looking for her.2

Index had been allowed to stay the night, as it was already 1:00 in the morning. Mikoto had then returned to her dorm, and not wanting to face the dorm supervisor, had actually used her static electricity to cling to the wall and climb all the way to her dorm window.

"Oh hi Touma!!" said Index cheerfully waving. "What brings you here?"

Touma slapped a hand to his forhead. "To pick you up of course...what else?"

Touma turned to look at Mikoto. "Sorry about that Misaka.....I'll just take her off your.....eh? What's wrong?"

Mikoto had gone extremely red and was trying to form words, but couldn't. "Umm.....erm....hi..."

Happy, walked over to Mikoto and whispered sinisterly. "You li~ke him...."

Mikoto gritted her teeth and muttered "Shut up" at Happy.

"You li~ke him."

"Shut up Happy."

"You LI~KE him...."

"I mean it Happy....."

"You really really Li~KE him..."

"Uhhh....Misaka?" said Touma. "You feeling alright?"

Mikoto must have looked pretty strange, what with her extremely red face, unusually shy demeanor, and the sparks jumping from her bangs from rage at Happy. Mikoto couldn't take it anymore, she needed some air before she exploded from hyperventilation.

"I-I gotta.....ummmmm.....go....floss!!" Mikoto, ran out of the cafe absolutely red in the face, while Touma just stood there looking absolutely confused.

"Uhh....what was that all about?" asked Touma.

"Oh, I'm sure she's fine." said Mira cheerfully. "It's a case of what I would call....lover's fever."

"You idiot!" Mikoto said to herself as she walked down the street of the Learning Garden. "I have to go floss?! What kind of stupid statement was that!? When am I just going to buck up and tell him that I really li-?"

Mikoto was suddenly cut off by a familiar sounding voice coming from down the street. "Hey~ Misaka!"

"Oh no," said Mikoto turning around to look. "It's you."

Running up the street to her was none other then the blonde haired Misaki Shokuhou. Also known as the 5th strongest level 5, Mental Out. Of all the level 5s she had to run into after a 2 month absence....why did it have to be her? (she would have even preferred Meltdowner over Misaki.)

"Now is that the way to speak to me after not seeing each other for two months?" said Misaki playfully pouting at Mikoto and doing a cutesy pose. "Really now!"

"Well I have to admit, I'm a little surprised it's you talking to me and not one of your brainwashed zombies." said Mikoto coldly.

Mental Out was one of the most powerful telepaths in Academy City. She could willingly control the mind of any human she wished. Unless you counted Mikoto, who because of the unconscious electromagnetic field around her mind, was immune to Misaki's control.

Because Mental Out really hated public appearences, she tended to use mind control to get other people interact in her place. Or she would directly contact the one she wished to speak to through telepathy. Because she was the only other level 5 who went to Tokwadai besides Mikoto, the two of them were kind of like rivals....with one difference. Mental Out couldn't get enough of irritating Mikoto, while Railgun wanted absolutely nothing to do with Misaki whatsoever.

Mikoto had always felt sort of sickened by the way Misaki used her powers. Not to mention, despite Misaki's carefree and cutesy naive exterior, on the inside she was quite cunning and devious. (Not that Mental Out was inheritantly a bad person.)

"What do you want Shokuhou?" said Mikoto. "I'm busy."

"Oh?" said Misaki. "Busy hiding from that boy you like?"

Mikoto went red. "No.....I mean yes.....I mean shut up!!"

Misaki let out a mischevious gleam from her eyes. "You had better hurry up and go out with him then....because I can't garuntee he'll be available for long....."

"Wh-What are you talking about!?"

"Well...."said Misaki as a sly grin went up her face. She took something that looked like a tv remote out of her pocket and clicked on it. "I might decide to seduce him myself."

All of a sudden everyone around them stopped what they were doing and stared blankly at Mental Out, as if waiting for orders on what to do.

"For instance." Said Mental Out cheerfully. "I think I could make all the girls in this crowd make out with him~"

Suddenly a thunderbolt flew past Misaki's head and melted a nearby mailbox into a puddle.

"You wouldn't dare!" said Mikoto gritting her teeth.

Misaki smiled as if she was enjoying herself. But then something unexpected happened. Everyone in the area besides her and Mikoto suddenly collapsed unconscious. Misaki looked around surprised. "What? I didn't do anything-"

"Actually.....that was caused by me!!" Night Reveler appeared several feet away in a puff of smoke and confetti.

"You!!" Mikoto said recognizing the emblem on Night Reveler's outfit. "You're from Hydra Head!"

"Allow me to introduce myself!!" Night Reveler's head disconnected from his neck and did a three hundred sixty degree turn in mid air (which really freaked the two girls out.) "You can call me Night Reveler. King of Illusions, Prince of Pranks, and...."

the star and moon eyes on Night Reveler's mask glowed red. "...I'm going to EAT you..."

God Slayers and Psycho Harlequins

"So..." Said Night Reveler as his head reattached with his neck. "Who wants to play with me first? heeheheeeheee!!!"

"Who is this guy!? said Misaki looking freaked out by the recent turn of events.

Mikoto turned to Misaki and grabbed her shirt collar, pulling her close. "Get out of here now! Don't talk to anyone! Don't wake anyone up! Just walk away, and pretend you never saw any of this!"

"Are you kidding me!?" Said Misaki with a sparkly look in her devious eyes. "This is a sign that you're hiding something....you know what this guy is, and I want to to figure out why!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk!" said Night Reveler shaking his head. "I would really do what Railgun tells you Miss Mental Out if I were you. Otherwise it won't end well for you. Because I am so hungry, and a level 5 telepath looks like the perfect appetizer before I go and eat a bunch of guild mages..."

"Guild mages?" said Mental Out not looking afraid in the slightest this time. "This is getting interesting."

Mental Out took out another remote from her bag and threw the other one back in. (Mental Out purposely limits her powers mentally with her remotes because it's easier to control them that way. She switches remotes whenever she wishes to use another aspect of her powers. The remotes themselves, actually don't really do anything.)

Mental Out clicked on her remote and several people unconscious people immediately got up and looked ready for action. "You, know...it's quite odd, I can control the minds of any human I wish.....but you I'm finding rather difficult, even though I can read your mind I can't control it.....odd."

"Well isn't that reason obvious?" Said Night Reveler. "I'm not completely human am I!? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

"Shokuhou don't!" said Mikoto. "You're only going to get innocent people hurt if you fight that way!"

"Who said I was fighting?" said Misaki with her eyes sparkling cutesly. "Don't you see what those delightful little servants are doing?"

The people Misaki had under her control were talking into their cellphones.

"That's right!" said Misaki. "I do believe Anti-Skill we be....oh my they're all ready here!"

Several armored vehicles had pulled over next to the scene. People with automatic weapons and bullet proof vests were pouring out of the vehicles and training their guns on Night Reveler. Some police drones had also pulled onto the scene. (Police drones look like cleaning drones, only they're on tripod wheels and they have police sirens and lights.)

"Hands where we can see them!" shouted an Anti-Skill official. "Now!"

Night Reveler sighed. "Yeesh....all I wanted to do was give Zancrow a clear shot at Railgun....but I guess having espers for dinner will have to wait a little.....I'll have a spectacular party with this lot first!!"

"Hands where we can see them!!" said the Anti-Skill officer again. "We won't ask you again!"

Night Reveler turned to look back at the Anti-Skill officers. He then did a little goofy jiggy dance while singing in a sing song voice. "Guess what time it is"

"What?" said the Anti-Skill officer a little taken aback by the masked harlequin's response.

"IT'S DINNER TIME!!" shouted Night Reveler joyously.

Night Reveler was immediately obscured by a great puff of purple smoke and multicolored confetti. when the smoke cleared, where Night Reveler had stood before, was a giant box the size of a small house, with a wind up handle on it that was turning slowly and sinisterly, while an evil version of the Jack in the Box song was playing.

Right when the song reached the 'pop goes the weasel part', the top of the box opened up and a giant clown head on a spring sprang out. The clown head looked down at Anti-Skill and smiled to reveal sharp dagger like teeth, letting out a sinister demonic laugh.

"Wh-what the heck is that!?" said Mental Out, now really feeling stunned.

The monster Jack In The Box's box suddenly grew eight huge black spider legs and scuttled towards Anti-Skill laughing wildly. Anti-Skill fired on the sinister clown beast, but their bullets richochted off of the creature like it was nothing.

"Time to eat!! Time to eat!! Cackled the clown beast maniacly as it blew a stream of blue flames from it's mouth and ripped apart the armored vans.

"Listen Misaki! I don't care what you say this time... Just get-!!" Mikoto turned to look where Mental Out was, but she had already dissapeared. "At least she didn't need telling three times."

Mikoto turned to face Night Reveler, but was in for a shock. Anti-Skill had dissapeared, along with the psycho clown monster, in fact, all that was left was a couple of burning vans and some spider tracks that suggested that the monster had chased Anti-Skill down the street. Even odder still, all the unconscious people in the street had dissapeared too....had they been evacuated?

"H-how did that happen so fast!?" Mikoto said aloud.

"Slowing down are we!?" said a savage gleeful voice.

Standing 20 feet away behind Mikoto, was none other then the wild haired Zancrow of Grimoire Heart.

"Another psycho huh?" said Mikoto whirling around. "Are you from Hydra Head too?"

"Those weirdos?" said Zancrow tilting his head to the side. "Don't be ridiculous...I'm way too crazy to be seen with those guys...Though I have to hand it to that Night Reveler guy! He really knows how to play ball!!"

"Who are you then!?" demanded Mikoto. "I can already tell you're a mage!!"

"Ahhh..." said Zancrow licking his lips. "You're already able to sense magic are you!? Good!! This won't be boring then!!

Zancrow spread his arms wide and grinned sinisterly. "You can call me Zancrow!! And you can call this...THE PREQUEL TO YOUR FUNERAL!!!"2

Zancrow puffed up his cheeks. "BELLOW OF THE FIRE GOD!!!"

Zancrow exhaled a blast of black fire at MIkoto who used electromagnetism to pull herself out of the way. However, the explosion from the blast still hit her even though she didn't take the move full force. Mikoto fell to the ground coughing and with the back of her uniform smoking.

"You're a God Slayer..." said Mikoto panting. "Where did you come from.....who are you working for?"

"I don't see the need to tell you!" said Zancrow smiling maliciously. "You're going to die anyways!!"

Mikoto got up and blasted a huge stream of lightning at Zancrow who was thrown into a nearby parked car. The car exploded and Zancrow was thrown into the air and into a lamp post.

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch." said Mikoto as her bangs crackled.

"Hmmm...." said Zancrow his eyes glowing. "Looks like this is going to be fun after all!!"

Mikoto shot another set of lightning at Zancrow who dodged with frightening agility. "Supper of The Fire God!!!"

Zancrow put his fists together and blasted a huge mouth made of fire at Mikoto. The fiery mouth opened wide and chomped down on Mikoto engulfing her in a huge explosion of flame.

"Heh..." said Zancrow looking dissapointed. "You had some pretty powerful attacks....but this ended too quickly for my taste..."

"Careful what you wish for..." The fire was blasted back as a pair of wings made completely out of bright white lighting unfolded outwards. Mikoto stood there as her powerful lightning wings crackled and burst outwards. Her esper electricity colided and intertwined with her innate Dragon Slayer lightning, getting more powerful with every bursting spark.

Zancrow's eyes widened with happy surprise. "HAHAHAHAHA!!! Now that's what I'm talking about!!"

"You sound like Black Whisper." Mikoto muttered as she launched herself at Zancrow, igniting her fists in lightning.

Zancrow held out his hand which was engulfed in flames that shaped themselves into a huge scythe. "Death Scythe of The Fire God!!!"

Zancrow swung the ginormous fire scythe at Mikoto, but one of Mikoto's wings swatted it aside as Mikoto readied her fist. "Demolition Fist of The Thunder Dragon!!!"

A ginormous fist made of lightning shot out from Mikoto's fist and crashed against Zancrow who flew into the cobblestone road throwing up rocks as he tumbled.

Zancrow came to a stop and jumped into the air laughing. "Now this is a real fight!! You've got some spunk girl!! BELLOW OF THE FIRE GOD!!!"

Mikoto puffed up her cheeks as well. "ROAR OF THE THUNDER DRAGON!!!!"

The two roar attacks collided in a massive explosion of black flame and white lightning. Mikoto dug her feet into the ground as she stood against the shockwave that accompanied the blast.

When the smoke cleared Zancrow was standing there laughing his head off.

"Why do I always get the nuts?" Mikoto asked herself.

"Sorry about that!" said Zancrow after he stopped laughing. "But it's been a long time since I've had such an awesome battle!! It's a pity I couldn't make it last longer, I heard your esper powers alone were already pretty hard to beat!"

"You seem to think that you're going to win this fight." said Mikoto

"I don't just think!!" said Zancrow. "I KNOW!!!"

Zancrow spread his arms and legs as a ginormous ball of fire began to spread around himself. "KAGUTSUCHI OF THE FIRE GOD!!!!"

The massive flame grew larger and larger. Mikoto prepared to close her electric wings around herself. But before she could, a spiky black haired boy jumped out in front of her and held out his right hand to the incoming flames.

The moment the flames touched Touma Kamijou's hand, there was a sound like shattering glass and the flames shattered into nothingness.

Zancrow's eyes widened in shock. "What!? How...!? WHO ARE YOU!!?"

"T-Touma!" said Mikoto looking equally surprised.

Touma sighed. "Geez, you decide to go attacking my friend and think I'm going to be as curteous as to tell you who I am?"

Touma clenched his right fist angrilly. "All you need to know is this...whatever illusion you had that made you think you could hurt my friends and get away with it....I'll break that illusion of yours!!!!"

Relentless Blades

"Keh!" Spat Zancrow looking Touma over. "You don't look strong kid...but somehow you were able to able to negate my attack..ineteresting."

Touma looked back to look at Mikoto. "So...care to tell me who this guy is?"

"To be honest." said Mikoto. "I've only just met him."

Touma grinned. "Then I guess you won't mind if I take over this fight from here."

"Are you crazy Kamijou!?" Mikoto exclaimed as her wings bursted a little out of stress. "This guy is a complete nutter psychopath!! He'll kill you!!"

"Yeeeaaaah." said Touma. "And Accelerator wasn't a psychopath?"

Mikoto opened her mouth and closed it. "Okay, good point."

"Hey!!" shouted Zancrow. "Are you two going to argue all day, or am I gonna get to see some blood and destruction!?"1

"Bring it on you hair disaster!!" Shouted Mikoto engulfing her fists in lightning.

Zancrow grinned maliciously. "Continuing our little dance are we? SPECTACULAR!!"

Zancrow ran forward and thrusted his fist out expelling a massive blast of black flames. "Explosive Flames of the Fire God!!!!"

Touma thrusted his right hand out again and the flames dissapeared. Mikoto's electric wings morphed into ginormous tendrils and shot forward like spears at Zancrow. Zancrow was knocked back into the ground as the tendrils smashed against him.

Zancrow got up and leapt out of the way as the the electric tentacles quickly tried to subdue him. "Bellow of the Fire God!!!!!"

Zancrow exhaled another blast of flames. Mikoto reformed her wings and folded them over herself as the flames colided against her. Mikoto pushed back with her electric wings gritting her teeth. Touma ran past Mikoto and punched the fire blast with his right fist, shattering the flames into nothingness.

"Darn it!!" shouted Zancrow. "What the freak is up with you negating all my attacks!!?"

"Hey Misaka!" said Touma. "I know you've always been a powerful electromaster...but were you always able to make wings out of lightning?!"

"It's a long story." said Mikoto. "One that I'll tell you after we beat this guy!!"

"Beat me!?" shouted Zancrow. "That must be some fantasy you're living in fools!!!"

Zancrow swelled up his cheeks in preperation for annother roar attack. "Bellow of the Fire God!!!!"

Touma moved in front of Mikoto again and shattered the blast of black flame. Mikoto jumped over using her enhanced Dragon Slayer strength and grabbed her wings with her hands. The wings instantly morphed themselves into two giant electric blades in Mikoto's hands.

"Secret Art: Great Flashing Lotus Blade!!!!!!" Mikoto swung the electric blades around at blinding speeds. The blades grew in length and power with every blow that hit Zancrow. The ground around Zancrow was torn into rubble as the blades continued to swing.

Finally Mikoto bought both swords together, which formed into one gigantic blade. She swung it down in one giant explosion of power at Zancrow's head.

Mikoto fell to her knees panting. "Man....so tired....and hungry."

Touma ran over to Mikoto and kneeled down next to her. "Mikoto! Are you all right!? You look like you've been drained or something!"

"You could say that..."said Mikoto weakly. "I guess,.....I'm still not completely used to using my magic...owww...."

Mikoto's stomach gave a huge rumble.

Touma grinned. "Well, why don't we get you something to eat, then you can explain this entire craziness to -"

Before Touma could finish his sentence, a loud laughing was heard. "Where do you think you're going you twits!!? I'm not finished yet!!!"

Zancrow dizzily rose out of the rubble. "This isn't over by a long shot kiddies!!! I don't care how much lightning you hit me with or how many times you negate my magic....I'm going to deal some pain today!!!!"

"That should have at least burned out half the nerves in your body!!" shouted Mikoto. "How are you even still standing!!?"

"What can I say?" said Zancrow licking his lips. "I've had a few upgrades since my resurrection."

"Resurrection...?"

Touma clenched his right fist. "You want her.....you'll have to get through me."

Zancrow smiled. "I've already figured out your weakness kid. Master Hades warned me about your Imagine Breaker, took me a while to figure out it was you though.....But you can only negate supernatural stuff like magic and esper abilities.....which means, that all I have to do, is to come at you in a fist fight and you won't be able to do a thing!!"

Zancrow prepared to advance on Touma and Mikoto. Suddenly, a hand came out of nowhere and touched Zancrow's shoulder.

"That is enough Zancrow." said Aqualas. "Your master and my master have changed our plans for the girl...You may retreat, we have a new job for you....."

"Dang it you aquatic freak." Muttered Zancrow. "And just when things were getting interesting.."

Mikoto, recognizing Aqualas, cried out. "Wait! Stop!!"

A swirling vortex of black water rose from the ground and swallowed both God Slayers. The water then died down, leaving nothing behind but a puddle the size of a small plate.

Zancrow and Aqualas were gone.

Meanwhile, in the 23rd district. Erza was searching among the plane hangers for an intense magical disturbance she had sensed earlier. For just a moment, she had felt something extremely familiar about the magic energy coming from here, almost like two familiar things, one more well known then the other.

Erza came to stop and stared. She had good reason to, she had just come to a spot where there was a 50 ft wide crater. Buildings nearby had been completely demolished, and a few vehicles were stuck in some of the hangers still standing, as if someone (like a guy who could control vectors) had kicked them into the buildings.

Erza knelt down and picked up some of the rubble with a hand. "What in the world happened here?..."

"I would ask you the same question...."

Erza whirled around to find Kaori Kanzaki standing just a few feet away, with a hand on her sheathed sword.

Erza readied her hand on her own sword as well. "Who are you? And do you have to do with any of this?"

Kanzaki stared at the crater for a second before responding. "I watched it happen....one of your own was here, he and the strongest esper of this city fought against another magic user. There was no winner however, and he and his esper friend escaped without much injury."

Strongest esper? Thought Erza. According to Mikoto, the strongest esper in all of Academy City was a boy who went by the name Accelerator. What was one of Fairy Tail doing with him, and who was it? Had it been Master or Laxus

Kanzaki looked at Erza. "I had hoped that I wouldn't have to draw my sword to take care of this...but the pope wants your head, and I can sense that you are one of the most powerful of your group....." Kanzaki drew her sword and swept it to the side. From the blade, a hissing wind was emitted that seemed to blow throughout the area.

"I am called Kaori Kanzaki.....My magic name is Salvare000.....And I have come to kill you Erza Scarlet."

Erza gritted her teeth. She didn't know what this girl was all about, but she could tell that she was strong. If they battled here there was no telling how long the battle would draw out. She didn't have time for this. For some reason, she had a huge feeling that the rest of the guild was currently i a lot of danger.

Erza drew her sword as well. "As much as I enjoy an honorable battle between two swordsman, I'm afraid I must make this quick. Please let me go, I fear there isn't much-"

"Nanasen! (Seven Flashes)" Said Kaori as she swung her sword and the wind seemed to cleave a little as Erza was suddenly cut around several areas near her legs and side.

Erza leapt out of the way before the injuries could become serious. Immediately Erza saw several flashes in the air. "Wires?!"

"Hm" said Kanzaki impressed. "So you've already noticed all the wires I have set up around here...Good, this should be an interesting fight then."

Kanzaki swung her sword again and the nearly invisible wires began slicing towards Erza, who glowed with a light and immediately requiped into her Soaring Armor. In a burst of speed, Erza quickly sped through the wires, slicing each and every one of them apart.

Erza came to a stop with the point of her sword near Kanzaki's neck. "Surrender, I do not wish to kill my opponents."

"Then you are weak..." said Kanzaki, who began to glow with a bluish sacred aura.

In a flash, Kanzaki swung her sword at Erza who blocked it. An intense shockwave blasted outwards when the two blades connected, and the two combatants were knocked back.

"I see that you are quite skilled in the blade." said Erza. "Not bad."

"Neither are you..." said Kanzaki readying her blade. "But who is the better fighter...well we'll just have to see won't we?"

Both Erza and Kanzaki blurred as the sped forward at impossible speeds and swung their blades like human shredders, clashing their blades in a frenzy of sparks and destruction.

Erza leapt back from the close combat frenzy and changed into her Heaven's Wheel armor. "Go forth my swords!!" Multiple swords appeared out of mid air and shot forward at Kanzaki at the speed of a bullet.

"Yuisen (Single Flash)!!" Kanzaki swung her sword, emitting a blast of sacred energy into the incoming swords, shattering them to pieces.

Kanzaki sped forward surrounded by sacred energy and sliced outwards with her sword. Erza immediately requiped into her Purgatory Armor and blocked the blow with her huge sword. Erza pushed outwards with her blade and knocked Kanzaki away.

"I understand now." Said Kanzaki. "You can change your armor at will. And each armor enhances your physical and magical abilities on a certain aspect or level..."

"I understand you as well." said Erza. "Your magic enhances your body to that of a superhuman's, making you much faster and more powerful with your attacks. Plus your sword style seems to be a unique style that I have not yet seen...most likely a religious group that specializes in both weapon's and magic judging by the unique way you dress yourself."

Kanzaki smiled. "My....you really are quite skilled. It's almost a shame that I have to kill you."

"I feel the same way....." said Erza. "But I would prefer not to execute my opponents when I achieve victory.."

Kanzaki began to breathe slowly as she closed her eyes in concentration. "Kami wo Saku Mono....(He Who Cleaves God....)"

Kanzaki was suddenly surrounded by more sacred energy which created a crater in the ground around her. "This is my God Breaker mode. I wasn't sure if I would have to use it.....but now I see there is no choice if I am to beat one like you....."

Erza requiped into a set of beautiful pink armor which had feather wing like designs. Her hands now bore two swords with wing-like hilts. "This is my Armadura Fairy....It is not often that I use this armor....but it is my most powerful..."

Kanzaki smiled. "This might actually become quite interesting..."

Erza smiled back. "It already is interesting, in my opinion anyways....."

The two combatants leapt at each other and connected blades. The shockwave of power that followed could be felt all the way in the other districts and beyond.....

The 103,001st Grimoire

"People are still unsure as to who or what are causing the intense tremors and destruction in the 23rd and 7th districts." said the Telivision in the Fairy Tail Cafe. "Meanwhile, classes have been cancelled along those districts until further notice. Anti-Skill is currently advising caution as they search for the strange assailent who assaulted the School Garden earlier today.."

Lucy, Mira, Mikoto, Wend, and Touma were watching the news report anxiously as Index and Natsu sat at a table in the corner devouring scones without remorse. Happy and Charle were sitting at their normal spot on the window sill.

"This is getting crazy." said Lucy. "So Hydra Head really was transported to this world too, but I don't remember that Night Reveler guy being anywhere near us during the battle back in our world.

"Yeah..." said Mikoto. "It's completey weird."

"I can't believe that Zancrow is alive though." said Mira. "All of Grimoire Heart is supposed to be deciesed. Unless you count Bluenote, but not even Gildarts could tell whatever happened to him."

"Well this Zancrow guy is now buddy buddy with Aqualas." said Mikoto. "And if that psycho is here too then it's really not good."

"So let me get things straight." said Touma. "Those two months Misaka went missing, she actually somehow got transported to a world where everyone used magic. There she fought an esper who could actually use magic and now you guys all got transported to our world.....right?"

Mikoto shrugged. "You pretty much got the gist of it."

Touma nodded. "Just making sure. This isn't the first time I've dealt with magic anyways."

"Tell me about it." Mikoto muttered.

"But what are they after?" asked Lucy. "Revenge?"

"Too obvious." said Natsu in between bites. "That doesn't explain that weird Stiyl guy who attacked me."

"Yeah..." said Touma. "I should probably talk to Stiyl to make sure he doesn't keep attacking or something."

"The thing is, Stiyl and Necessarius's reasons for being here could be completely different from what Hydra Head wants." Said Mikoto. "But they definetly intended to come to this world, Black Whisper himself told me that was why he had wanted to reach level 6 in the first place."

"Makes sense." said Touma. "I bet he was pretty homesick."

"That's not the reason he wanted to go back though." said Mikoto. "Black Whisper's your typical power hungry type. He liked his current status as the leader of a big deal dark guild, plus he told me that he wanted so much more then just to go back...he wanted control...."

"So what do you think happened to Night Reveler?" asked Lucy.

"Wherever he went," said Natsu. "When we find him, we'll kick his butt!!"

"Aye sir!!" said Happy cheerfully.

Suddenly the cafe door opened.

"Hello fine customer." said Mira putting on her best smile. "What can we get y-"

Suddenly Natsu pointed at the man who just walked in with a shocked expression on his face. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHh!!!????? YOOUUUUUU!!!!!!!"

Stiyl Magnus waved a hand. "Yo...What's up?"

"Come back for a butt kicking huh?!" Shouted Natsu with a grin. "Well bring it on!!!!"

Natsu jumped into the air with his fists flaming and a devious look on his face as fire poured out of his mouth. Suddenly a lightning bolt hit Natsu in mid air, and Natsu fell to the ground charred.

"No fightning in the Cafe!" said Mikoto sternly. "We've got a tight budget on this place as it is."

"O-okay...." Natsu said weakly as he lay smoking on the floor. "B-but he....."

"I'm not here to fight anymore." said Stiyl taking out a cigar from his robe.

Suddenly the cigar was snatched out of Stiyl's hand quick as the wind. Mirajane threw the cigarette into the trash can. "Read the sign!"

Stiyl looked at the no smoking sign in the window and sighed. "Yeesh....I really hate those things. Fine, guess I could go five minutes without one stick."

"Hey Stiyl." said Touma. "Why are you here?"

"Truthfully," said Stiyl. "I'm, here for three reasons. Firstly to apologize for that 'little' misunderstanding I had with you back at the underground shopping area. Secondly, to tell you what's really going on arround here....and thirdly to make a proposal."

"We're listening." said Lucy.

"As it turns out." said Stiyl. "My superior actually sent me to and my friend Kanzaki to get rid of you. According to her, you were some sort of strange cult that might prove to be trouble in this city....."

"But something changed didn't it?" said Touma. "Otherwise you wouldn't be here."

"To be honest.." said Stiyl. "After Touma's little incident with Index about a year or so ago, I never really trusted the pope ever again. And after my fight with Dragon Breath here, I began to feel something didn't add up. For one thing, this kid's attitude wasn't that of a devoted cultist, more like a crazy combat addict."

"That's Natsu for you!' said Happy.

"So you came here to ask us if we were cultists?" Asked Wendy.

Stiyl looked at Wendy in surprise. "You're a little young to be involved in something like this aren't you?"

"Honestly Stiyl." said Touma. "How can you say that after you met Leivinia Birdway?" (Leivinia Birdway is actually only 12 years old.)

"Eh..good point." said Stiyl. "Actually, I don't need to ask you people. I've already done a little investigating of my own. I know all about those two organizations you two have been fighting, and what they're after."

"Two organizations?" Said Mikoto. "The only other organization involved in this is Grimoire Heart, and Zancrow's the only guy left....right?"

"Well we didn't actually see Zeref kill the others." said Mira scratching her head. "And the only ones we actually saw die were Zodio, Zancrow, and Azuma."

"I don't know what kind of eyes you were using when you were watching this." said Stiyl. "But Grimoire Heart is alive, all of them. And I think you people might think it too, after Zancrow decided to take a stroll around the School Garden today. "

"But that's....." said Lucy trying to find the words to describe this cunundrum. "It's totally impossible, how the heck could they come back to life then come to this world!?"

"I don't know." said Stiyl. "But I do know what they want."

Stiyl pointed a thumb over at Index, who was now fighting with Natsu over a particularly large scone.

"Index?" said Lucy now looking confused. "Why would they want her?"

"Index has memorized over 103,000 Grimoires full of forbidden magic that could cripple a person if they even read it." said Mikoto. "This wouldn't be the first time someone's come after her."

"Apparently they think that Fairy Tail might be a huge hinderance to whatever they want to do with her." said Stiyl. "And that's not even the craziest thing."

"What do you mean?" said Natsu as Index furiously bit his head in a frenzy for the scone.

"Apparently there is one book in Index's head they want in particular." Said Stiyl. "Something called the Book of Prophecies."

"Now that is just absurd!!" shouted Index. "I remember every book I've ever read, and I've never heard of anything as ludicrous as that!"

"Well crazier people then them have gone after stuff just as ludicrous." said Stiyl.

"Actually," said Mira. "It might not be so ludicrous. The brain is like a desk full of drawers. We can either keep the things in it on the top area where we can see it, or we can store it inside the drawers, lock it, and throw away the key. Maybe that book is just stored someplace in Index's head where she just can't see it."

Everyone looked at Mirajane in surprise.

"That's amazing! Since when did you know so much about the mind?" said Lucy.

"Oh, that time I went to meet Mikoto at her school I came early." said Mira cheerfully. "So I decided to listen to one of those esper development classes, it was all so interesting."

"Well Mira's right." said Mikoto. "If there's anything I learned in this city, it's that the brain's a big place, there might be something Index has stored in her mind she just cant see."

Suddenly Gajeel Redfox came down the stairs from the second floor, chomping on a chunk of iron. "Hey Salamander, you haven't seen Erza have you? I want to ask her something."

"Eh?" said Natsu. "Hey Gajeel...actually.....Where is Erza?"

Gajeel groaned. "If I knew that I wouldn't be askin' ya!"

Gajeel turned to look around in hopes of spotting Erza in the cafe. "Eh? What's goin' on here? Looks like I just crashed some sort of meeting."

"Well actually-" Lucy began.

The door opened with a loud crash, Erza Scarlet stood framed in the doorway, battered and bruised, gashes were on her armor and she was supporting an extremely injured Kaori Kanzaki on her shoulder.

"Everyone!!" said Erza with a frantic look in her eyes. "We need to get out of here....NOW!!!"