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[celestial_wizard]

WHO: Anyone who wanted to confront the old lady from plot + anyone else who might be curious by a shady old woman with a kid that isn't hers
WHEN: In the morning today
WHAT: Confrontation times!
Summary: Hey, Hey guys, remember that old lady who asked some gullible kind heroes for help? SHe's baaaaack~~! <3


Today in Genessia, some people may come across a familiar (or not familiar) old crone. To those familiar with her, it's the same suspicious old woman that requested they 'rescue some kidnapped children. Whether or not they were able to - well. That's no matter now, right?

In any case, she'd got a stick in one hand as she hobbles along back through the gate, holding something in her other hand as she goes. She doesn't stop for anything, but stealthily slips through the gate to Fayren and, if one were to follow her, will eventually pass through the forest into a heavily wooded and foggy section until the ground gives way to a hardened path of bones bleached white by the sun, leading up to a cottage. Mind where you step, it's rather hard to see here.

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[explodewiththerage]

Ever since picking up Justyn, Neveren and Herb, Natsu had kept his nose to the ground when walking around Fayren, waiting for the scent of that hag to show up again. And eventually it did. He frowned and after a brief call to Lucy telling her he was going to go after her, he trailed the old woman all the way into the forest.

He caught the scent of bones and death before the first rattle from his feet. "dammit." He hissed and looked up only to see the cottage at the end of the unsettling path. A house that looked like it belonged to a witch alright.

[celestial_wizard]

Lucy would have preferred to go along with him, but she wasn't about to leave the kids alone. Especially since as long as that witch was a threat, there was a chance that they'd come after the children to the guild itself. Which would actually be a mistake. A huuuuuuuge mistake.

As Natsu drew close to the cottage, he'd see the door open and an a man in his late thirties slouch out, plopping down on the steps against the door with a heavy sigh like his life is just the hardest thing ever.

[explodewiththerage]

Honestly he felt better when she decided to stay there with the kids. Natsu was going to really give a piece of his mind to this fake old lady. Even so for now he was going stake out the house first before making his entrance.

He tensed up when the door opened and quickly dove behind one of the bigger trees and looked over to the cottage again. His eyes narrowed as he saw the man sitting on the steps. An accomplice? No matter. He paused for a moment when the scent came to him riding on the wind. Earth. Earth and magic again. So it was one of those guys again. Though he looked way more convincing than the goons who attacked them on the fields. Hmmm maybe he could get some answers from him. If he actually got up from the steps.

[celestial_wizard]

Maaaaaaaaaaaybe! He glanced up briefly to glance around, but spotting nothing at the moment, sighed loudly again and rapped against the door. "Old Lady, no one's out here, it's all in your head." A moment of silence, and he grumbled something under his breath. Old bat. He could be sleeping right now.

[explodewiththerage]

The grin on Natsu's face put in question his status as the hero of this twisted fairy tale. So the old bag had somehow felt him trailing after her. But now he had ceased to exist since her morose bodyguard had sounded the all clear. Excellent. He moved back behind the tree and climbed up onto the higher branches. Maybe he could drop a fireball right down the cottage's chimney and end it in one fell swoop.

[celestial_wizard]

...maaybe he's NOT the hero with a grin like that! Well actually it's probably a good thing Lucy isn't present, or she'd get worried. ANYWAY don't do that, they're trying to cook. Maybe.

Moving higher into the tree, Natsu would actually be able to see a small barred window from that height, looking into a very very barren bedroom. Not big enough for someone to climb through, but he might catch sight of woman in her late twenties standing in the room. Nothing curious about her - unless you count that she's bound and gagged.

[explodewiththerage]

And that plan was scrapped instantly seeing the captive through the window. "Damn!" He cursed under his breath and looked down to see what the lookout was doing. As soon as it was clear he jumped to another branch and then on top of the roof of the cottage. As soon as he landed he froze and stood prone on top of the roof and completely still. He just hoped the captive girl wouldn't give him away.

[celestial_wizard]

The lookout is very diligent! He is.. .. he is totally not paying attention, but watching a butterfly flutter about his finger.

He is the worst lookout ever. Not too quick either, once Natsu's moved, it takes him ten more seconds to actually turn and look in that direction. By then Natsu's already gone still and quiet on the roof.

The captive in the meantime, let out a confused grunt from the sound of someone landing on the roof, glancing around. A few seconds later, a door from her room opened and a man's voice - one different from before - spoke. "Eeh? That you making that racket in here? Quiet down or I'll eat you." THreat made, he slammed the door shut again, chuckling.

Silence followed, thought the captive girl was listening for a repeat of that noise from earlier.

[explodewiththerage]

Charming bunch weren't they. Though that threat was empty to Natsu since they clearly were going to eat her regardless. Still he waited a few more moments before he started crawling on his stomach to the edge of the roof and then leaned his upper half over and in front of the barred. He peered into the room hanging upside down. If the captive were to look in his direction he would quickly put a finger over his lips in a shush before putting his hands on the bars and giving them a few tugs to see how sturdy they were.

[celestial_wizard]

The poor woman knew it too. She hung her head for a second, then looked sharply towards to the window when Natsu leaned in the way of the barred window. Her eyes widen in surprise, and her attention shifted from the window to the door and back, shaking her head. Don't do it, these people are crazy!
The bars are pretty sturdy; they're not going to give with just a few tugs.

[explodewiththerage]

Don't do it was not in his vocabulary. Besides it was either that or get eaten eventually. But he could see that the bars wouldn't come off by force so instead he resorted to what he did best.

He gripped the bars rightly and heated up his hands to the point that the metal began to boil and buckle. He repeated this process for each bar until the only thing keeping it attached to the window was him holding it up that way.

[celestial_wizard]

Yet more surprise on her part, but she's watching with a lot more interest this time, until each bar was no longer connected to the window. Cautiously she got to her feet, staring at Natsu in disbelief. There's some rattling outside her door, but so far that man who had threatened the girl earlier hasn't come in. He can't be far though.

Dragonslayers and Titania vs ... THEM

[celestial_wizard]

There is only a small breather, the space of two hours that pass that the fairies are unbothered. The woman that Natsu rescued was revealed to be the nanny of the two children that Lucy and Natsu had been looking after, and an herbalist with a specialty in magic potions. Though they lost many of their family, the kids were elated to see their nanny was still alive - but there was still an air thickened with tension.

The tension broke while Lucy was bringing a tray of drinks over for the woman, Gina, and the kids. She's in the process of passing a window when it suddenly shatters inwards, a heavy rock smashing it to bits and knocking the tray out of her hands. Outside the guild, the heavy footsteps of a fifteen foot golem is stepping towards the guild, with five farmhands made of earth and mud, each armed with crossbows tipped with snake venom. On the other side of the golem is a man roughly half the golem's size, dragging a heavy hammer behind him. He also smells vaguely of charred skin and smoke. "Oiiiiiiiii! You better return what was ours rightfully taken or we break more than just a window!"

[ OOC: Just as an fyi, Erza requested the battle with the golem :3 ]

[explodewiththerage]

Natsu knew they'd come. After his talk with Regina and his escape, it was obvious that the bastards would come knoccking. However breaking a windo to deliver their introduction? NO one was going back to that creepy burned down hut alive.

"Regine you take the kids and Herb up to the upper floors. Don't come out until one of us comes for you." Natsu said and quickly before moving towards the window to look over the side to see their attackers.

"Guess they're done playing nice huh?"

[karmademon]

The response was almost instantaneous: a black metal tube, capped at both ends with polished steel, shot out of a window towards the man with the hammer. As it flew through the air the tube grew bigger and bigger, the sudden size increase causing it to flip end over end. Whether he was able to get out of the way in time or not, the tube smashed into the ground end-first, teetered ominously, then fell to the ground with a tremendous crash. The metal pipe ended its flight embedded halfway into the dirt.

Needless to say, the whole thing kicked up a tremendous cloud of dust. A pair of glowing red eyes appeared out of the darkness. "Since when does bacon get to make demands? Get off our land or I'm going to cut you up and make sandwiches out of you."

[scarletrequip]

If looks could kill everyone within Erza's line of sight would have been dead; fortunately she was looking at the enemy. The fact these creatures had taken the children was reason enough to make it personal for Erza, now they were trying to claim the kids as their property?

"Unforgivable." She muttered, fists trembling with barely contained anger. The redhead faced her fellow guild-mates.

"Try to keep damage to the guild to a minimum."

Gajeel had torn up a pretty significant chunk of the yard already and she knew Natsu would try to best the Iron Dragon-Slayer. Erza climbed onto the window frame, staring down the golem with murderous intent.

"And if you cannot, I'll forgive you so long as you crush them into dust."

[celestial_wizard]

Whoops, they made Titania angry.

Wait, back up.

Whoops, they made all of Fairy Tail angry.

Regina, having been about to help Lucy with the drinks, the celestial wizard shook her head instead, "Do as Natsu says! You'll be safe back there and it's going to get dangerous if you stay out front here." On both sides. Once Regina is off, Lucy joins Natsu at the window, frowning. "There's... really a lot of them. Wah - that guy is huge!" Because he's a golem. Still, she reaches for her keys - if they wanna play with arrows, she can play with arrows too.

Hammerman stops short as the metal tube comes flying out of the guild hall, smashing into the ground in front of him. A hand swipes through the cloud of dust that gets kicked up clearing the air as he glowers in the direction of the scary red eyes. "HAHAA! Who are you calling bacon? We aren't leaving without what's ours, small fry! Come out here and stop me if you can." He countered, grabbing the metal pipes and yanking it from the ground. YAY new toy?

The Rock Golem does not want to be crushed into dust, and Erza's glare actually makes it pause for a second. Just a second though - one massive hand is slowly lifting as he steadily stomps forward, intent on squishing the redhead flat, and the guild with it.

Meanwhile! The farmhands are already in the process of taking aim again, to fire through that open window. Ready! AIM!....!!

[explodewiththerage]

They made two dragons, Titania and the celestial queen angry. That's quite the death sentence for the earth made dolls to be certain. On one hand this was going to increase their reputation exponentially not that they were thinking about that. This was all about taking out a threat to their newest guild members.

"Yeah they really brought out an army huh. But what I wanna know is where the heck the hag is if she even bothered to show up herself." Natsu answered Lucy before he heard Erza's order. A vicious grin grew on his lips. Getting the all clear from Erza to go wild. Oh these idiots had no idea of the hell they had unleashed.

He filled his mouth with fire and stuck his head through the shattered window only to open his mouth in the direction of the small army and bathing them in his fierce flames.

[karmademon]

"Looks like bacon, smells like bacon. And oh hey, listen to that. I just got permission."

A broad and rather predatory grin appeared on Gajeel's face as the smoke cleared. He easily hopped over the windowsill and cracked his knuckles. His smile faltered just a little as Natsu managed to beat him to the punch, but he quickly recovered. He waited just long enough for the smoke to clear (or for something to leap from it), swiveled to face the guy with the hammer, and took in a deep breath. Like, a really deep breath. His chest started to swell, even. dude you should totally see a doctor about that

"Iron Dragon's Roar!"

And then he raised his hands to his mouth like a funnel, letting out the breath he'd been holding. A small tornado of razor-sharp iron shards shot out of his cupped hands towards the hammer-wielder.

/flies off to the first boss fight ;D

[scarletrequip]

Erza darted from the window frame, gliding swiftly into battle with her freshly requipped Black Wing Armor. She advanced under cover from the roaring Dragon Slayers, confident that their opponents couldn't muster a defense against such sudden and ferocious attacks.

As much as she wanted to make Hammerman pay for his words the golem was the largest threat to the guild and to the children, literally. The armored wizard wasted no time striking at the construct, ferociously slashing at various parts of its hulking form, probing for a weakness.

*plays battol music*

[celestial_wizard]

It's a good thing Fairy Haven was on the edge of town - the battle won't come close to the locals and they won't have to worry about accidentally demolishing residence. Just... stuff around them. "I'll bet she's somewhere nearby - probably where she can watch the fight easily." Lucy answered, sidling over to another window and crouching a little to study the landscape. Wheeere would the witchiewitch be..

The torrent of flame from Natsu washed over the earth warriors, torching their arrows and their poor little bodies until nothing was left. ...well. That was easy....Whoops, spoke too soon - the warriors were already starting to reform, a surge of magic taking effect to put them back together. That could be an endless fight, wrecking them and rebuilding them! Seems as long as the witch was hiding out somewhere she'd be able to recreate her warriors, though probably not indefinitely. At least they're ridiculously weak?

Following the blast of fire comes the tornado of iron that rips away from the guild towards the hammer wielder. Now while he'd seen Natsu's power he certainly wasn't prepared for Gajeel's (because who knew there'd be TWO weirdos who could do this sort of thing!) and he immediately went on the defensive, the majority of the attack chipping against his hammer. he did not come out of it unscathed int he least though, bellowing a roar of pain from each gash and cut that got past his guard, blood splattering on the ground.

"You filthy little insect! I'll smash you AND your stupid guild thing!" That being said, he took several steps forward, hefting the hammer over his head and swinging it down to bring it into the roof over the pub.

At least that was the intention, except suddenly in the empty space between hammer and guild, there is suddenly a whooooooooooole lot of pink wooly fluff that the hammer crashes into. That would be due to Aries who was summoned just outside the guild with Lucy, keeping a nice thick barrier against people going smash happy.

This brings us to the mighty Titania taking on the Golem (gollum gollum), sending up sparks as her blade chipped away at its body. The Golem didn't appear to like having her buzzing about its head, massive hand swinging this way and that and trying to swat Erza down like she's a particularly annoying wasp. Its only really weak spots seem to be right at the joins of the body, however!

ಠ_ಠ

[deathsought]

Anyone within a three mile radius could hear this racket. Especially with all of the explosions, fire being shot in all directions and threatening to burn down the Guild Hall. 'Blackie' might have been left behind in Exsilium (poor thing), but the idea of keeping an eye on Zeref had been somewhat mutual. So, naturally, what else would he do but create another demon?

Peeking its head out of the Fairy Haven garbage (the things a demon will do for its creator), the small imp-like creature narrowed its featureless eyes to observe the battle. It had chosen a trash can as an attempt to mask its scent from the Dragon Slayers. Time will only tell if it works, or if it ends up being roasted alive by a stray fireball.

[explodewiththerage]

Of course Erza would steal the biggest adversary. ANd Gajeel had to go pick the hammer guy. He turned to Lucy hearing her suggestion which was only proved all the more true when the magic reformed the earth soldiers.

"Nice save, Lucy!" Natsu gave a thumbs up to Lucy before he climbed up over the wool barrier and reach the rooftop. From there he scanned the surroundings both with his eyes and his nose for the familiar scent of the witch.

[karmademon]

After the hammer-wielder's unsuccessful strike on the guild hall, there was a loud 'whoosh!' of displaced air as something shot straight towards the side of his head. The projectile in question was a large metal club, which extended all the way up to Gajeel's elbow...nearly twenty feet away.

Whether the club hit or not, it began to rapidly snap back towards Gajeel's position.

"Are you new or something?" Gajeel asked in a peevish tone, a vein visibly throbbing on his forehead. "Don't look away in the middle of a fight!"

[scarletrequip]

Unfortunately for the golem Erza had faced similar yet much more nimble opponents during the Grand Magic Games. Her initial attacks had proved successful enough for her to formulate a new strategy; she didn't need excessive force, just extreme precision.

Narrowly avoiding a swipe from the lumbering giant Erza vaulted over its shoulder. She requipped as she tumbled, swapping her sword for another; a very specific weapon for a very specific task. The blade flashed crimson as Titania brought Benizakura to bear, cutting at the joint between the left shoulder and arm. She'd taken a gamble by trading her superior mobility to wield the katana but Erza was confident that it would be the best way to end this quickly.