Fairy Tail Rising 1

Surprisingly, with Macao's help, it was incredibly easy to get a small, but comfortable apartment. Right across the room in fact, from an old member of Fairy Tail's room, who went missing during the Tenrou Island fiasco, but someone kept paying for her home for her regardless.

The landlord was a gruff, no nonsense plump older woman who demanded money up front and demanded again that you pay on time, and that she was sick of people always failing to pay her on time.

An annoying attitude, but reasonable set of demands that you were fine to agree to.

After that, Macao went on his way and let you get settled in for the night. Requip magic was pretty handy, all of the furniture you'd 'liberated' from your quarters in the Rune Knights, including your massive, incredibly soft king sized bed could just be deposited where you wanted with it.

You got things set up in your new apartment, much of your furniture being magical items that you again 'liberated' from the Rune Knight's when you left. Then, you turned in for the night to get some sleep.

Sleeping was an activity you generally enjoyed quite a lot. It helped pass the monotony between missions when you were a Rune Knight after all. There wasn't much you could do to enjoy yourself with all those dreary guys about.

In the morning, you planned to quickly take care of the other two A-rank missions, then see about doing what you could to improve the guilds reputation.

There really was no insta-fix for being the lowest ranked guild in Fiore, except for winning the Grand Magic Games, and it was a whole nine months away not to mention while you were amazingly powerful, you couldn't take on and defeat all the top mages of Fiore by yourself.

..It sure would be fun to try though.

Most of your new guild were still out on jobs right now, and wouldn't be back for the next few days. So honestly, there wasn't really much you could at the guild besides socialize.

And yeah, while you had fun doing that, finding Master Macao and Wakaba and their perverted ways funny, and got a laugh out of Max lamenting what Kinana told him was his sixth shoot down when asking a girl that out this week, you were too eager to rise to the top.

Honestly, the challenge of pulling the lowest guild up to the top sounded like something worth achieving and would be an adventure in of its own.

So before noon even rolled around, you took the last two A-rank missions and went on your way, thankfully, after Max told everyone how strong you were, they were fine to let you handle it on your own.

The missions thankfully weren't too far apart either. The Lizard's had set up a base of operations along the train track towards the port town of Hargeon, while the WereTiger's were travelling through the forest path towards Clover from Akane Beach.

With your movement technique, it didn't you very long at all to race out of Magnolia and down the train tracks towards your destination

And you came upon your target merely sitting atop a rock face. You slid to a stop, peering up at the lizardman. It was said by the groups of mages that faced them, that there were multiple and that they ambushed them, copying their a magic as they did.

But, as you let your senses broaden out, you could feel none, but the power of the the lizardman standing above you.

It was odd too, unlike normal Lizardmen, this one was dressed in clothing. Wearing baggy pants and a dark blue hoody. You'd been warned that it was probably leftover creations of a mad scientist named Daphne that Fairy Tail tangled with seven years ago.

But, while it felt stronger than the average mage, and with the ability to copy magic for a brief time would probably trounce most, it just didn't register as a threat to you.

"..Another human come to try and take my head?" it suddenly talked, in a deep male voice, and sighed almost sadly, "Very well, come, but do not think I will go down quietly." it continued, standing up and suddenly the air rippled around its hands with the telltale signs of Requip magic, and a pair of swords deposited right into its hands.

"Aera!" It cried out, and suddenly long, angelic white wings burst from its back and with twin beats of the large white feathered appendages, the lizardman shot itself towards you, spinning through the air at first and turning towards you with a rapid, powerful double bladed slash.

What did it mean? You shook your head, no time to think about it right now you supposed! You tensed your legs, rooting yourself in your spot and shaped your magic, black and silver light exploding from your back and forming into ten massive tentacles made of compressed sea water that shot up to meet the rapidly descending lizardman. "Sea God's Kraken!"

It had little time to react, most B-rank mages wouldn't be able to react in time. But somehow it did manage to counter, a bit. It slashed its swords out, releasing twin arcs of magic compressed into green energy blades that cut right through two of your tentacles, still in its spin, it lashed out with its long, thick tail with thick black bladed spikes running along it and slashed through another one, before biting through another as it completed its rotation.

It took down four of your tentacles in the blink of an eye, but that was all, as it did the rest of your tentacles slapped into its limbs, wrapping around its ankles, wrists, stomach and neck and holding it aloft.

"Damn!" it cursed, snapping out with its jaw and trying to bite at the one around its neck with razor sharp teeth.

"This shouldn't kill you with how tough your scales are," you commented, winding your arm back and edging your hand out into a bladed shape before slashing your arm through the air towards it, "Sea God's Slash!" you shouted, releasing a massive blade of finely compressed black sea water.

But, just as the massive blade of water cut off your vision of the lizardman, and was about to hit, you heard a very familiar sound. It sounded like someone glugging down massive amounts of water.

Suddenly, the blade, and the remaining tentacles were dragged away from you, and towards the lizardman as it was suddenly released, its mouth open wide as it devoured your magic!

"That was a close one," the lizardman commented, eyes serious as it landed on the ground and eyed you cautiously, "Powerful, much more powerful than any mage that has hunted me before, possibly even as strong as my origin, if it wasn't for your own magics ability to devour any water attack, I would have been defeated then and there."