Fairy Tail's First Guardian

Chapter 3-Blue Skull

Walking back to camp Naruto and Zera had smiles on their faces while Zera walked with a small limp in her step. The guys turned away with YurI bearing a noticeable blush on his face. Warrod Said nothing and bit into another piece of the fish while Precht opted to sharpen his blade some more. Mavis was sleeping soundly in a sleeping blanket that they had bought in the last town they were in so she couldn"t react to them coming back as they were. "Hey guys." Naruto said with a wave. "So you found her after all. You know we were starting to worry about you guys and almost sent Yuri to track you down." Warrod to the couple with a deep chuckle."Yeah we went for a swim to relax a bit no harm done." Naruto said. "Yeah I hear ya. So did you enjoy your swim?" Warrod asked him. "Sure did and guess what happened while we were there?" Naruto asked the man. "Uhhh you kissed her... I don"t really know..." Warrod responded unsure of how to answer him without spilling that Yuri had found them in the middle of having their quality time with their other half. "I asked Zera-chan to marry me... and she said yes." Naruto said. Snapping out of his embarrassment Yuri looked at the couple with a wide smile on his face "That"s great news guys congratulations on your engagement." he told the smiling duo."Thanks Yuri... it means a lot..." Zera told the blond. "Eh don"t mention it." he said with a smile. In all honesty he was surprised they were getting hitched. He knew they had been with one another for a while now, but he didn"t think they had been together long enough to get married. Yuri scratched his chin "Hey I hate to pry but how long you two been together?" the blond asked them. "Oh they"ve been together since the night of the attack. Master Zeeself had arranged for Zera to marry big brother before we ran into the forest." Mavis answered the blond. "That long huh... I can see the perfect couple in them... it"s as if they were meant to be." he said."Well you"ll probably find it weird that I used to look down at them for being poor... but the night of the attack I lost everything and finally understood what it meant to have nothing... but then I realized... I had Naruto-kun and Mavis... I didn"t lose everything after all." Zera said leaning into Naruto as he wrapped an arm around her. "Wow... I didn"t think that would have been possible for you to actually be a bully..." Yuri said. "Yeah... I never pictured you like that. You"re always so nice to everybody..." Warrod said in agreement. "Well sometimes losing everything you love and cherish can work miracles and open anybodies eye"s." Zera told them quietly."Well if it weren"t for the Blue Skull"s raid on Tenrou then you wouldn"t be near as nice as you are today." Yuri said. "Uh huh... And although I"m sad it happened I"m kinda glad it did." Zera said with a sigh. Naruto yawned loudly gaining their attention "I think it"s about time we hit the sack. We do have a long day of traveling tomorrow." Naruto said. "I agree. We need as much as much rest as we can get or else we won"t get as far as we can if we are exhausted." Precht said in agreement as he unrolled his sleeping bag. Warrod, Yuri, and Naruto followed his example and unfurled their sleeping bags before they crawled inside them.Zera climbed inside the sleeping bag with Naruto where he wrapped a arm around her as she cuddled him. "So what exactly caused you two to sleep in the same bag?" Yuri asked them. "Well Naruto-kun is my fiancee so what"s it to you anyway." Zera replied to the blond with narrowed eyes. "Ok ok I was just asking." Yuri responded. Closing his eyes Naruto let the lull of Nature take him to the land of dreams with a smile on his face. He was happy... happy to have friends like Precht, Yuri, and Warrod... to have a sister like Mavis... and a woman to love like Zera... this is was camaraderie at it"s finest and there was nothing that could change that ever...Three days later they could see the town of Magnolia from several miles away. "So that"s Magnolia?" Warrod asked. "We"re almost there." Zera said happily. "About time if you ask me." Yuri said. "So this is the home of the guild that killed all our people, and stole the Tenrou orb is." Naruto said looking at the city. "Well let"s get moving or else we"ll be stuck out here for another night." Precht said. "When we get there we need to find just where these assholes are hiding." Yuri said. "All in due time Yuri... all in due time..." Precht told the blond. "Bah to hell with time... we need to find that thing before something happens to the orb." Yuri said."Is that all you care about?" Warrod asked the blond. "I"m... just... worried that they"ll use it... that"s all... yeah that"s it." Yuri said while Naruto narrowed his eye"s in suspension. "We can worry about that later. Right now we just need to find the Blue Skull." Warrod said. "Let"s go..." Naruto said as he took lead in walking. Reaching the town they saw all the street"s deserted which made it seem suspicious as hell to the group. Walking further in Naruto spotted something. "Hey guys... look up..." he said. Looking up their eye"s widened in shock at what they saw... on the top of a large cathedral was a skeleton... a dragon skeleton that spanned the top of the church."W-what the..." Warrod said shocked at what he saw. "W-why is that on top of that cathedral?" Mavis asked. "I can"t answer that..." Precht said. "It"s gotta be Blue Skull... they must have taken over..." Zera said. "That"s exactly what happened. We need to do what we came here to do... let"s go..." Naruto said. With that they split up in groups of two to do what they needed to do. Naruto and Zera stayed together while Yuri went with Warrod and Mavis went with Precht just like in Hargeon. Walking through town Naruto didn"t see nor smell a single person, and those that he did were inside the houses that lined the street most likely locked tightly inside.THey quickly regrouped as nobody was out and about and reported that they found nothing. Precht scratched his chin "It seems that Blue Skull has taken over the town through force. So how can we gather the necessary information if we want to take the Tenrou orb?" he asked. "Simple... we find them and fight." Yuri said. Warrod sighed "Yuri they are a wizard guild and can use magic. If you haven"t forgotten we are treasure hunters that can"t use magic." he told the blond. "Mavis seems adapt in using her illusions." Precht said. "Yeah and illusions can"t kill. What happens if one of them is smart enough to see through them huh?" Naruto asked."Calm down big brother. You"ll protect us right?" she asked getting raised eyebrow from the giant. "What do you mean I can"t use magic." Naruto said lying. "Uh huh I know you can. In fact I can tell you just what kinds of magic you can use." Mavis said. "Oh please enlighten me on just what magic I can "use" Mavis." Naruto said making air quotes. "Ok. You can use Crash and Slayer magic... both God and Dragon Slayer to be exact." she said getting a shocked look from her brother before his eyes narrowed dangerously at her. "How did you know that I could use those magics Mavis? Tell me now." he told her in a voice that showed he won"t take no from her.Mavis gulped in a bit of fear. She knew she had royally pissed her brother off when he started to speak in that voice. Yes he could be prone to anger... but when he was pissed off like he currently was he could do anything that would make even the late Master Zeeself scared. Gulping again she started to speak "I-I f-f-followed you one day... I-I s-s-saw you training i-in your magic. I"m s-s-sorry Big brother I r-really am." she told him as she tried to unsuccessfully to not stutter out just how she knew he could use those Magics. "Next time... don"t spy on me and just tell me that you knew... got it." he told her calmly as he tried not to blow a gasket at her.Mavis nodded quickly to show she understood him while Naruto got looks of surprise, shock and relief that he could use stronger magic than Mavis" illusions. "So what are we gonna do?" Warrod asked as the tension eased quickly. "We find em... and kill em all." Yuri said. "No... we find them... beat them... and take the orb... and destroy it..." Naruto said. "What... You"re still going to destroy it?" Yuri asked. "Yes..." Naruto replied to the blond. "But it"s worth so much Jewel though why would you want to destroy it?" Yuri asked him. "I will destroy that thing before it can destroy the world... and you"re not going to stop that." Naruto told the blond man."And if you look around you can look at the damage that the Blue Skull guild did to this place. I want to help them." Zera said. "Yeah the sheer damage to the town is immense." Precht said looking around as he now noticed the damage. "That"s an understatement of the century." Warrod said. "Everyone is hiding because Blue Skull destroyed their happiness." Mavis said. "That"s why I am going to take the orb and destroy it." Naruto seethed angrily. Yuri much to his own surprise nodded in agreement this time "I understand... and I"m in... we need to get that orb back and rid the world of its presence for good." the blond said agreeing with Naruto."About time you saw reason." Zera said. "Oh come on- Yuri went to whine, but Zera looked at him with a raised eyebrow as if she was daring the eccentric blond to retort back to her. Yuri shut his mouth and said nothing more as he could incur Zera"s wrath as the girl"s giant fiancee was shaking his head no behind his fiancee"s back while he was motioning for him to stop by waving his fingers back in forth in front of his neck. Yuri said nothing more as he sighed in defeat knowing that Zera was indeed right about destroying the Tenrou orb... it was an unnatural item that needed to be removed from the world for good."Let"s retreat back to the forest for a bit... maybe we can think of a plan before we do something reckless." Warrod suggested. The other"s nodded in agreement and they all turned around and began to make their way back to the forest a few miles away from Magnolia. Soon Naruto and the others began to sneak around the thick forest, even though they weren"t near Magnolia, so as to not be spotted by the Blue Skull flunkies. Naruto peered around a tree and saw Zera motion the all clear for him to move where he ran to hide behind another tree. "Is all this really necessary guys? I mean seriously we aren"t even near Magnolia right now." Yuri said quietly."We are trying to sneak around so as to not get caught." Warrod replied. "We"re here for one reason and one reason only... and that is to take back the Tenrou orb and destroy it before the Blue Skull use it for their own means." Precht said to the two of them. "We"ve been over this several times now Yuri." Zera said to the blond. "Ugh I know but we"re sneaking around like common thieves." Yuri said. "Wait aren"t treasure hunters people that steal what others want?" Naruto asked them. "Well technically yes but I prefer the term finders of lost items instead." Yuri told the blond giant who just shrugged his shoulders showing he didn"t really care about it."It means that we can"t just go and blow our cover because you want to go and barge into the Blue Skull headquarters to take back the orb." Zera said to the man. "I get that. What I meant was that we all saw that giant dragon skeleton right. I think it would be rather obvious that is where they"re hiding at." Yuri said quietly. "I hate to agree with Yuri, but that seems like the most logical of places for them to build their base." Zera said. "I can"t believe Yuri is actually thinking with his head for once." Warrod said with a grin on his face. "I know it"s like Yuri has went to a opposite world and someone smart replaced him." Naruto joked with his friend."I thought we were supposed to be sneaking around not making fun me suggesting the most logical place where Blue Skull based themselves at." Yuri hissed out at the to giant men. "I think what big brother and Warrod mean to say is that we"re just making sure that they don"t have other hideout where the orb may be." Mais said. "Exactly." Warrod and Naruto said at the same time. The sound of a bird landing caught the group"s attention. Mavis smiled at the sight before she closed her eyes as if in thought "The energy here is unlike anything I"ve ever felt in my life before." she said with a gentle sigh as if she were being caressed by a lover.Naruto sighed as he too closed his eye"s and felt the energy in the air. Mavis" voice suddenly called out to them in excitement "Hey guys come check this out." she exclaimed to the group breaking Naruto out of his trance. Walking over to where Mavis was Naruto saw a crystal clear lake surrounded by a rocky fortress that had stood against the testament of time and hardship. "It"s amazing..." Zera said as she gazed at the clear blue waters. "All I really see is a giant puddle." Yuri said with a raised eyebrow. "No... she"s right... it is beautiful..." Naruto said in contemptment as he and the others now gazed at the beautiful lake surrounded by nature."Yeah... there"s something about this place... I just can"t put a finger on it..." Warrod said. "It"s kinda magical don"t you think?" Zera asked as she leaned into Naruto. "Yeah... there is..." Naruto said in agreement. "Can you guys feel the energy this place gives off?" Mavis asked them with a laugh. "Yeah now that you mention it... there is something that"s invigorating about being here..." Precht said. "So what do you say about setting up our home base right here?" Yuri said o the group with excitement clearly in his voice. "Sounds wonderful." Mavis said. "I agree... nothing like home than having one of your own." Warrod said. "Let"s do it." Zera said."I"m in..." Naruto said with a large smile on his face. "Alright then... let"s do it." Precht agreed with a nod as they all began to imagine the building that they would soon call home. They were brought out of their thoughts by a fearful shriek causing them to run over to where they saw a woman and a child they presumed to be the child"s mother running away from three members of the blue skull guild. The mother tripped and fell to the ground exhausted while the Blue Skull members were laughing at her and her daughter"s terror. "Get up b***h we"re just getting started." one of them said. "Yeah it ain"t no fun if you stop." another said in agreement."That"s them... the Blue Skull Guild member"s." avis said as she watched them. "Please... listen to me... if killing is the only thing that satisfies you... then kill me... but let my baby girl go... I beg of you..." the mother begged as she hugged her child. "M-mommy..." the child whimpered out clutching her dress in fear. They all laughed at her "Fine sounds like a fair deal if you ask me." the man i n the middle laughed out. "We"ll just take you out before we do te little brat in." a man on the right said before they laughed harder. "It"ll be painful... for the two of you." the third laughed out causing Naruto to see red... they would pay for doing this to them.Jumping out from behind the tree Naruto drew back a fist and turned it into iron before he called out "Tetsuryūkon (Iron Dragon"s Club)" surprising the Blue Skull members causing them to turn right as Naruto shot out a powerful steel beam at them taking them out and shoving them through several tree"s knocking them out in the process, much to the blonde"s silent satisfaction. The blonde"s group walked out from behind the tree and watched as the blonde"s club arm grew smaller and smaller before changing back into a normal fist that was clenched tightly. "And that"s what you get if you piss me off... punks..." Naruto growled out as he looked at the downed trio of dark mages."T-thank you... you saved our lives..." the woman said to the blond with a bow of her head. "It"s alright... no thanks is really necessary." Naruto said. "Wow... so that"s the lost art of Dragon Slayer Magic... kinda cool if you ask me." Warrod said to the blonde. Mavis knelt next to the girl and placed a bandage one a small scratch she had after she fell to the ground. "T-thank you." the girl told her. "We need to hurry... we don"t know how long they"ll be out." Precht said. "Is there anything I can do to help?" the woman asked them. Seeing it as a opportunity they couldn"t pass up Yuri stepped forward "We need info on Blue Skull." he asked her."If it"s information I would l give it to you... but not out here... follow me." she told the group of people. Following the woman and her child they returned to Magnolia to a bakery the woman ran... or used to run. Walking into the bakery Yuri nodded in acceptance "Nice place you got." he told the woman. "Thanks..." she replied. "I don"t suppose that you get much business anymore do you?" Zera asked as the woman shook her head no. "No... not anymore... ever since Blue Skull came to Magnolia and took over the place." she told them with a sad smile on her face showing she had been doing her best to make it in life for the two of them."Damn... I"m sorry to hear that..." Warrod said. "Thank you... I know that this will probably be hard for you to believe, but the town of Magnolia was once a thriving place." she told them. "People would come from all over to see the sights, and the streets would be lined with shops and cafe"s." she told them. "The best times were the ones during the Harvest Festival. People would come here by the thousands just to celebrate it." she said with a small smile before it was gone. "The night of the attack seems like it happened yesterday. They had came and taken over in but a few hours... took all the food, medicine and everything else before giving steep taxes that most couldn"t pay. Those who tried to resist were taken out." she said as she clenched her fisits."So that"s what happened to your husband..." Naruto said as he looked at the solitary picture on the wall. "Yeah it is..." the woman cried. "Sorry for your loss madam." Precht told her with a small and polite bow to the woman. "You see daddy was amazing to us. He even made me that bread on my birthday." the woman"s daughter said with a smile. "That was very kind of him." Naruto said as he knelt next to the child before he pat her on the head. "It was super yummy too. He would make them so delicious. He would always make me stuff in different shape. Animals, flowers or even trees, they were so nice when I got them." the little girl said to them."They sound good." Warrod sid as his stomach growled in hunger. "They were tasty." the girl said again as she rubbed her small stomach. The little girl"s face grew solemn "I was hoping that this year I could make one for daddy like he always did for me on my birthday. I never got to as them meanies took him away..." she said. "Blue skull won"t stop until everyone here is gone. I beg of you... leave before they hurt you or worse." she told them as she cradled her daughter. "They"ve grown in the few weeks they"ve been here. Where they were once several dozen they"re now several hundred... If you value your lives then you"ll leave us." the woman said.They all narrowed their eye"s... they hadn"t expected for the people here to lose the will to fight back, but here it was being proved by this woman. "Let"s go..." Naruto said and they complied and walked out of the building. "Wait." a small voice called out. Turning around they saw the little girl run out with a large cookie in her hands. "Here I made this for you. It"s a thank you gift for saving us from those guys." she said as she handed Naruto the cookie. "Thank you. That"s very kind of you." Naruto told the girl as he accepted her small little token. "You"re welcome. I"m sure daddy would like for you to have one after what you did for us." she said as she left to go back inside the bakery her family owned.They quickly walked away where Naruto split the cookie, as it was a rather large cookie, amongst his friends and the woman he loved. They had to admit that the little girl had skill, but she had a lot of room for improvement. "I have to say that girls cookie was delicious." Warrod said as he pat his stomach. "Yeah, but she still has room for improvement that"s for sure." Naruto said in agreement. "Can we get back on track guys I thought we were supposed to do something about Blue Skull." Mavis said. "What can we do Mavis? As far as we know we"re the only wizards in this party and I for one don"t wanna watch you guy"s die fighting." Naruto told her."Yeah with the amount of members we were told about what can we do?" Yuri asked her. "I thought we were only here to destroy the orb?" Zera asked. "We are, but from what we know we can"t get anywhere near the damn thing." Precht said quietly. "Even if we were wizards I doubt we could take them all on." Warrod said. They didn"t say anything for a while and they walked up to a old man that was walking about "So you young one"s are travellers huh?" the old man said as they nodded their heads yes showing they were indeed travellers that weren"t from the once beautiful town of Magnolia while the old man sighed in resignation sounding tired."There"s nothing left here. Leave while you still ca-AHHH" the old man didn"t get to finish as a bullet of magic pierced his chest killing him instantly. "What the hell." Yuri said. Looking up Naruto saw four of the Blue Skull member"s laughing at their kill"s. One of them then aimed at Zera causing the blonde"s eyes to widen before he covered Zera with his body while he covered his own in iron just in time for the magic bullet impacted his body where it bounced off his metallic hide as if his body were a mirror. "You ok Zera-chan?" Naruto asked her while she nodded her head yes. "I"m fine Naruto-kun... thanks for saving me... again." Zera said with a smile.Naruto unwrapped himself from Zera and turned around to see the four men landing on the ground with frowns on their faces showing they weren"t pleased with the fact that the brunette wasn"t dead. "I"ll kill them all." Naruto growled out as he looked at the four men. "Let"s get"em." Warrod yelled as the four men charged the wizards. Zera was kneeling next to the deceased man with tears in her eye"s. She looked up and watched as the love of her life along with their new friends charged the wizards. "This is such horseshit. Everyone I know and care about are gone because of these assholes. They can"t be happy with taking out Red Lizard." she said.Naruto was calmly walking towards one of the wizards who was constantly firing a barrage of bullets at him, but much to the wizards shock they just kept bouncing off his ironhide. Naruto grabbed the man around the throat before slamming the man into the ground cratering it and drew a fist back and sent it into the dark wizard"s face knocking him out almost instantly while breaking his nose and busting out several teeth. Warrod easily dodged the magic bullets that were fired at him before he ripped out the man"s staff and aimed it at the man "Let"s see how you like a mouth full of bullet"s." he growled out and fired it above the man"s head and then knocked him out with a hard left hook.Yuri threw a crystal object at his opponent and it detonated showing that it was a crystal bomb. He then drew back his leg and kicked the man in his nuts causing him to drop to the ground while moaning in pain. "You bastards are gonna pay for what guys have done." Yuri growled out before he kicked the man in his face knocking him out. Precht drew back his arm before he sent it forward shooting a hidden blade out from his sleeve attached to a chain. The chained blade wrapped around the wizards throat and Precht drew the chain back an clotheslined the man dropping him to the ground before he stomped on the man"s stomach again and again."You guys are pathetic. If this is the best wizards can do than I think I can just take you all out myself." Yuri said. The sound of hundreds of feet running across the ground reached Naruto"s ears causing him to turn along with the others "Damn it seems we"ve alerted the whole Blue Skull guild." Naruto growled. "I"ve got this big brother." she waved her hands and the air glowed as she called upon another illusion causing the charging group of wizards to stop in their tracks when they saw the sudden appearance of the illusionary army. "Turn back now or else I"ll order them to attack you hear me." Mavis said unflinching towards the group of wizards.The wizards looked at one another before a new voice reached their ears "So you"ve brought you own army have you?" a man asked as he walked out from the crowd. "So it seems we"re at an impasse." Mavis said. "Oh surely we can reach an agreement little girl." the man said. "I"ll have you know I"m seventeen. And no we won"t. Leave this town or else they"ll attack." Mavis ordered. The man smirked before turning around "Kill them all." the man ordered getting confused looks from the men. "But Maser Geoffrey there"s to many of them." a man said. "Oh surely we can beat mere illusions now." the man said before waving his hand and dispelled the magic.The illusion faded shocking Mavis as she was sure the man had been fooled, but apparently that wasn"t the case. "And now to make an example." the blue faced man said as he aimed a finger at Mavis where the tip glowed and a magic bullet shot out of his fingers. Mavis" eye"s widened and she dodged it, but it grazed her arm and caused her to scream out in pain. "MAVIS!" Yuri yelled out. He reached into his pouch and pulled out another crystal bomb and threw it at the man but with his finger raised he stopped it before he sent it flying back where it impacted Yuri in the chest causing him to yell out in pain as the bomb detonated. "YURI!" Warrod cried."Damn you." Precht roared as he sent out his concealed blade at the man. The blue faced man just grabbed it and raised another finger and shot out another magic bullet and it him him in the eye causing him to roar out his pain "PRECHT NO!" Zera shouted out as she ran up to his side. Naruto was enraged beyond anything he had ever felt... these bastards had hurt his baby sister... his new friends... they would pay. With a roar he blasted off the ground and into the air where a pair of white wings with shadowed bottoms emerged from his back shocking all those that watched this newfound transformation. With a dive Naruto began his onslaught."Tetsueiryūkon (Iron Shadow Dragon"s Club)" the blond roared as he created a powerful club made of metal surrounded by shadows. The man dodged it where it impacted the ground and shook it causing several of the wizards to be sent flying. "Oh so we have an actual wizard in the party now do we." the man named Geoffrey scoffed out. Naruto drew his head back "Tetsueiryū no Hoko (Iron Shadow Dragon"s Roar)" Naruto called out as he released his powerful breath attack on the group. Geoffrey waved his hand and a wave of magic met the dual draconian element, but was no match for the lost magic of the dragon where it easily overpowered it.It impacted the ground kicking up a cloud of dust, which was what he wanted. Flying down Naruto landed next to Mavis and picked her up. Looking at Yuri and Precht he saw Warrod pick the two up and began running. Naruto followed soon after and flapped his new wings to catch up. Zera was running next to Warrod with tears in her eye"s. She felt so useless back in that fight... Naruto had taken on the Master of Blue Skull and overpowered him, but in the end he was just waiting for an opportunity to grab Mavis and fly away with her in his arms. That was why she loved him so much, because he cared about others before he did himself.The smoke cloud cleared and showed the members of Blue Skull looking at the retreating group. They had wanted to chase after them, but their Master had said that the sheer terror they had just felt would keep them away indefinitely. To be honest Geoffrey knew they would come back, bu he didn"t care... he had a planet to take over and there was nothing that was going to stop him from achieving that goal... not even that dragon slayer would stop him from making the world burn. "Let them live... they won"t be coming back ever. The sheer terror they feel now will keep them away for the rest of their days." he told his men as he walked away.Naruto flapped his wings keeping pace with Warrod and Zera who had tears in their eye"s. They had retreated to the forest so they could help Yuri, Precht and Mavis. Naruto had used his healing spell to help them recover, but they were still unconscious. Precht had lost his eye, and Naruto couldn"t do anything about it. Naruto"s wings wouldn"t retract back inside his body making the blond even more frustrated because scales were starting to cover most of his body now. Zera was getting worried that something irreversible was happening, but Naruto told her he would still love her even if he changed into something else. Today would be the day that their lives changed forever.A hour would pass before the injured trio woke up. Mavis" wound was easy for Naruto to heal as it had been only a mild cut, Yuri was just bruised badly due to his own bomb exploding against his chest. Precht was easily the worst off as he lost a eye. "I"m going to go get some water... I"ll be back soon okay..." she told the upset group. "Be careful..." Zera said. "I think it would be best if we camped here for tonight..." Warrod said. "Alright I"ll get a small fire going..." Naruto said. Walking off in different directions Naruto began to gather firewood while Mavis found a clear pond that would suit them well for some water to drink if they got thirsty later on.She went to dip the bucket in but, luckily before she did, a man rose out from the water... naked. Seeing a man naked for the first time caused Mavis to turn cherry red in the face "I-I"m so sorry I didn"t know you were in there." she told the man as she looked away from him. "It"s time to get out of the forest..." the man said. Mavis turned around confused at what the man said. She watched as he climbed out and blushed a deeper red than before and turned away again. "Forgive me that didn"t come out right. I meant to say that it was time for me to get out of the forest." the man said as he snapped his fingers and he was instantly dried and clothed.Then the tree"s started to whither and die before a burst of dark energy finished them off shocking Mavis. "W-what"s happening?" Mavis asked. "This is what happens to every living thing I encounter." the man said to the blond. Mavis has a flashback to the dead section of the forest that her brother and Zera encountered a few days ago and her eye"s widen in shock. "So you killed the forest?" she asked him. "Go... it isn"t safe for you to be near me..." he told her. "So his is what Ankhseram Black Magic looks like..." Mavis said as she watched the man"s eye"s widened in shock at her knowing what caused the forest to die like it did... it was amazing to him."I"ve only read about it in books...but from what I know it"s a ancient curse. Some people call it the Curse of Contradiction... The greater the compassion you have the more death energy that you release... however if you hold no compassion then you release none." Mavis said before she blushed again. "Oh no... I"ve done it again... Big brother was right I am to smart for my own good..." Mavis said embarrassed. "It"s ok... your knowledge is quite impressive." he told Mavis. "This is nothing compared to my big brother." Mavis said before her eye"s widened. "Maybe you can help us." Mavis exclaimed making the man raise a eyebrow at the blond."What do you mean..." he said. "My brother recently used lost magic in a fight against a dark guild and grew a pair of wings. However no matter what he tries they won"t recede back into his body." Mavis told him. "What kind of lost magic did he use?" the man asked. He had a hunch, but he wanted to be sure what it was before he took any actions to help this young woman"s older brother. "It was Dragon Slayer Magic. But the thing is he also knows God Slayer and Crash Magic, but they"ve never had any effect on him like his Dragon Slayer Magic has. Please I beg of you... help my big brother... please..." Mavis begged the man with tears in her eyes.His hunch was proved true by the girls confession of him using Dragon Slayer Magic after all. "Very well... lead the way and I"ll see what I can do to help your brother out." the man said while Mavis cheered happily. "Oh thank you so much." she told the man. She waved for him to follow which he quietly did. "Say do you think you can help some of my friends learn magic?" she asked him. "I don"t see why not as this will keep me busy for quite some time." the man told her. "You really are so kind to us." she told him with a smile. "Think nothing of it. So what caused your brother to start using such an ancient form of magic?" the man asked her."We were in a fight against a guild known as Blue Skull. They had taken something that didn"t belong to them, and we just wanted to take it back. We met and fought against them, but some of us were hurt. My brother used his magic to distract them while we gathered our wounded and fled. He sprouted his wings sometime during this interval and he quickly caught up to us after he managed to give them the slip." Mavis explained to him. "I see then..." the man said as he scratched his chin in deep thought. So the girl"s older brother began to undergo the dragonification process in a fight with a dark guild, and he thought something was wrong with himself... well he wouldn"t be entirely wrong as that"s what happened to dragon slayer centuries ago when they changed into dragon"s.When she came back to camp Naruto immediately bolted up right as the smell of death reached his nose. looking left he saw mavis walking towards them with a strange man wearing a black cloak with a white scarf. It was the man that was dressed in black that gave off the smell of death. Zera hid behind her fiancee"s wings and peeked out from behind him o look at the newcomer. Warrod looked at him with a raised eyebrow "Uh Mavis... who"s your friend?" he asked. "Smells like death... he"s the one that destroyed the section of forest we found several days ago when we left." Naruto said as the groups eye"s widened in shock as did the man"s eyes."I"m surprised you figured out that I did that so quickly. Your younger sister was right about stating you were smarter than her." the man said. "So do you think you can help him?" Mavis asked. "I can do better... I can finish his transformation and then teach him how to turn back to normal through some enchantments." the man said before looking at the group. "You guy"s may want to move away as his size will be quite large when he is done transforming." the man told them. with a shrug Warrod, Yuri, and Precht moved to stand beside Mavis while Zera was very reluctant to move away from her love"s side. Some gentle encouragement would be needed here in order for the man to work on helping him.Naruto looked at her with a gentle smile "It"s ok... just go and I"ll be fine..." Naruto told her as he gave her a gentle push. With a sigh Zera walked over to stand as far from the man"s side as she could. There was just something wrong with this guy... she didn"t like it. With a wave of his hand Naruto began to grow in size. Bigger and bigger until he was taller than the trees themselves. He was so tall he looked like he was touching the clouds themselves. Naruto was shocked at what he had been turned into, but that didn"t matter as he tried to get a better look at himself but ended up causing the surrounding trees and nearly hurting his friends.Naruto"s dragon body is covered in white, iron scales. The scales themselves give Naruto the impression of being covered in a white armor, as from his neck down below to his sternum, as well as on his shoulders, forearms, knees, shins, claws and thighs, the scales are plated in the thick white metal of dragon scales. In the areas between (underbelly, biceps and calves) the plating disappears and instead gives way to cross-hatched scales that resemble chain mail. Naruto"s tail, is also plated like much of his body that fashions into a stinger-esque shape. He also has a dual beard made of white hair and shadows with feathery, angel-esque wings.Between his horns and running down his spine, Naruto has a mane of shadows; his wings are covered at the bottom in the same material. Naruto"s dragon form has four large horns extending backward, having two sets of wings instead of the traditional one. He also has large tusks that jut out from and curve around either side of his jaw and two long canines that protrude from his bottom jaw. Naruto had just been turned into a dragon... and he wanted to see just what limitations his body could push themselves through. With a flap of his mighty wings he took to the skies with an echoing roar of excitement showing he was enjoying himself.The group watched the dragon slayer turned dragon in silent awe. They had never imagined that Naruto would turn into the very thing he was meant to slay... it was something that they would never forget as it was now burned into their memories. Naruto was trying to see just how high he could go with his body, and looking down Naruto could see a lot of the land from the ground... it was an amazing view that would be seared into his memories for the rest of his days. Drawing his head back he released an immense amount of magic from his jaws that could be felt from the town of Magnolia to the city of Crocus by all who were there.The dragon"s breath attack exploded in a sphere of energy that forced Naruto"s friends and his fiancee to look away due to how bright it was. This feeling of freedom... is was so invigorating... so intoxicating that he wanted to bask in it forever if he could. But he knew he needed to learn how to control this form so he dived down at a high speed that he broke the sound barrier with a resounding *BOOM* before he pulled up tearing apart the forest before he turned around to find where he originally took off from, but his path of destruction was bigger than he thought so he used his smelling to land gently in front of them shaking the ground."This is awesome I feel as if I know a Take-Over spell rather than Dragon Slayer magic." the dragon said. "Yeah... and unfortunately you have to learn how to control yourself even in that form or else there could be serious consequences down the road. Are you ready to learn how to control that form as well as your other magics?" the man asked while Naruto nodded his head yes. With another wave of his hand Naruto shrunk back down until he was human once again. "That. Was. Awesome." Naruto said as he emphasized each word that he spoke. "I"m sure it was, but right now we have things to learn." the man told the giant blond who was still smiling like a madman. "Well... let"s get started..." Warrod said cracking his knuckles. "Indeed." Precht agreed. "Uh... ok I guess I"m ready." Zera said while Yuri shrugged and Mais nodded her head showing she was ready to learn.