Chapter 3:- Happy and natsu ves Gray and Ice monsters

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"Finally we made it to Mt. Hakobe!" Natsu cried out in joy as they stood at the foot of the huge landscape. Up ahead into the dense snow and harsh stormy cold weather was the icy mountain of Hakobe, famous for it's freezing death ice and icy mythical monsters.

The trio had made it on foot, journeying for seven days straight. Only stop by for the night or getting supplies from a nearby village. Wendy wore some thick fitting clothes made out of animal skin to withstand the harsh weather, keeping her warm and dry. The two boys weren't much disturbed by it since their superhuman body were able to withstand almost anything thrown at them.

"Yeah, I can't believe the amount of snow in here" happy said, looking around at the unbelievable amount of snow that kept falling down from the sky, topped with the cold wind that blew violently.

"You'll be fine buddy, and Wendy would be fine too. She's protected, right Wendy?"

Wendy smiled at them as they turned to look at her heavily protected self, "Yes natsu-sama, happy-san, I feel very warm wearing this coat you bought for me."

"See buddy" Natsu confirmed. Happy sighed, moving ahead of them. "Let's just get going"

"Alright then, let's find Gray!"

One hour later...

"Oi Natsu" happy called him, "I can't sense him here. You sure he's actually here" he strained a little, yelling loud enough to be heard by his companion.

The harsh downpour and violent storm made it hard for them to see, breath or move freely. The dense, deep snow made it even harder to move with each step taken. In the middle of nothing but icy snow and vast empty landscape, they felt lost and confused.

"I dunno buddy, but I trust them. Let's just keep looking harder" he replied, "Don't think for a second that it's be easy to find everyone of them"

Natsu looked at Wendy to see she was struggling hard to stay firm on her two feet. Before she gets swept away by the storm, natsu took hold of her hand, smiling at her, "This is just for assurance that you don't get blown away" he said.

Wendy blushed a little, accepting his offer and held on tightly to his warm hands. She had a pair of warm mittens worn on her hands to keep them warm. But holding on to his filled her whole body with warmth like she was fire, but also a good kind of feeling added to it.

'He's so warm even now' she thought, looking down at his hands.

"Hey happy, I think you should look from the sky while we search the grounds just in case he might be dead you know"

Happy sweatdropped at his comment, "There's no way he could die from this."

"I know right" he grinned, making happy to facepalm.

"I'll do it" he revealed his small white angelic wings and flew off into the air.

"Will happy-san be alright, natsu-sama?" Wendy asked in concern, watching the small feline as he flew out of sight and disappeared into the thick white fog.

"Yeah he will" he answered as they begin moving forward, "He won't die from something like this"

Happy flew continuously, around the area uncovered by them on foot. Flying gave him the advantage of covering more areas faster but with the white mist slowly building up and the cold wind slapping on his face, it became a little harder to sight what was below him. He continued flying into the same direction he was headed, his breathing slowly becoming cold for his tiny body to bear, he turned to his mini-dragonic form to keep himself warm.

Steam came out of his nose, burning off the cold wind that had pass into his body slowly keeping him warm, 'Feels much better now' he thought in delight, feeling his whole body warming up.

'I wonder where that guy is' he thought, looking down to earth a little more clearly with his draconic eyes sudden he spotted something moving down below.

"What's that?" he asked out loud, halting his surveying mid-air as he looked at it with keen eyes.

All of a sudden, large icy spears shot out towards him, it sharp edge a little more deadly that a normal spear. Swiftly dodging them, he grew smaller in size as he maneuver towards the earth.

"A blue dragon that could shape shift huh" someone said, sounding masculine.

'That voice...' happy said, still avoiding the spears while making his way to the lower ground.

"It's getting closer..." the masculine voice said, halting his attack against the smaller dragon as he watched it came closer towards him.

Happy finally made his way to the ground still floating in the air when he suddenly came face to face with the man that attacked him out of nowhere.

Happy couldn't recognised him for a split second, both of them stared eye to eye, no one responding to yield defeat.

"Gray..."

The man narrowed his eyes, taking a step backward after the young feline worded out his name while looking stern and a little vicious in the eyes. He smirked, his bangs covering his eyes as it made his face dark and a little menacing.

"Mmm~" he hummed "How do you know that name gray?"

Happy sighed, looking at him with deadpan eyes, "Snap out of it gray. Natsu and Wendy are currently looking for you right now. Let's head back to meet them"

Gray sent him a surprise punch to the face almost crushing his skull and sent happy flying metres away from him.

"Natsu..." he said in a menacing dark voice that sent a little shiver up Happy's spine. Happy slowly stood up, his face hurting slightly and his eyes spun in circle. This brain not functioning properly for a little while.

"What the hell gray?!" he yelled angrily at him, his eyes visibly showing his anger by slitting with yellow hue.

Gray audaciously approached him looking him straight into the eyes, boring into his very soul that felt like a thorn of ice. "What the hell gray? Where is that man called Natsu?"

Happy felt dauntless at his approach, standing his ground as they both had a face-off of eye contact.

"Look here buddy..." happy started slowly, "I don't have time for your nonsense pal, so you better follow me to save my freaking time of dying out here in the cold"

Gray smirked darkly, towering over him by just a head, "Oh~ You sure have guts you damned cat"

Happy aso returned the smirk to him, "Yeah, right back at ya. You have strong guts trying me pal and it won't be a funny business when it gets ugly"

Gray laughed, keeping his dark face in check while happy waited for him to finish burning off his steam of laughter. "Look here cat, I don't have time to pl-"

Happy awarded him with a bone crushing fist to his stomach. Gray felt the impact with wide eyes and a gaped mouth, responding to the pain he felt from the sudden destructive fist planted deep within his stomach. Blood spilled out from his mouth and the hole made in his abdomen as happy withdrew his fist out, wiping away his blood in a single swipe of his hand.

"T-that...was..." he spat out more blood, "...some...p-punch..." he fell down on the snow, rapidly painting it's white flakes a thick crimson red colour.

"Now he's dead" happy sighed, "Guess I'll just have to drag his lifeless body and explain it to him"

Happy grew to a humanoid size, standing on his two feet and his wings spread out, bigger that before.

"Happy of the seven deadly sins. Sin of gluttony. One of fairytail's strongest wizards" the dead man said from under the snow, still not moving an inch but spoke continuously with words.

Happy looked at him with dead eyes, "Finally remembered me idiot" he picked him up by the cloth, "Maybe that punch woke you up" he brought him to his eye level, eying him as he watched the large hole made by fist slowly closed up.

"And you've still got that abnormal regenerative ability of yours"

Standing on his on feet, gray scratched the back of his head nervously. Gray had noticed a small group of intruders after they set foot on the mountains. Just to be sure that he wasn't mistaken by who he thought they was, he took it upon his to check on them himselves. He followed the fastest moving source which lead him to happy and sent out ice monsters towards to other two pair to take out the threats.

"It's good to see you again happy" gray said with a genuine smile, "I can't believe Natsu would want to look for us again after so many years"

Happy smiled, he was exactly the way he remembered him to be fifteen years ago. Seeing he was still his easy going self made him feel at ease, dropping his guard a little.

"Yeah well, a lot of things happened and now we need everyone's strength for an upcoming war"

'War?' gray thought, looking at happy a little surprised.

Happy can tell what his expression meant since he had secluded himself from civilisation just like the rest of them, he wouldn't have the slightest idea to what was going on in the kingdom.

"Yeah, the wizard knights suddenly took over the kingdom and are now trying to wage war on very other kingdoms around. They're throwing everyone in chaos" happy answered, "Me and Natsu can't take them all alone especially the saints behind everything"

Gray eyes widened at what he just heard. 'The wizard saints...' he slowly coated his face with a grin, "I'm definitely in on this battle"

Happy smirked. He definitely had it easy looking for gray this time. Natsu was so in the wrongs for thinking they wouldn't be easy to find.

"Speaking of Natsu" gray said thoughtfully, "We better hurry back before he gets eaten by those ice monsters I sent"

Happy stopped moving. He blinked once, twice and yelled, "WHAT?!"

"Honestly dude I didn't expect you guys to be the one here, I thought it was some intruders so I had to follow you since you were coming too fast and sent them to follow the other two" he explained.

Happy sighed, "Is it an ice dragon?"

Gray scratched his cheeks nervously, "Well...let's say both an ice dragon and a bull and a rhinoceros..." he looked backwards, avoiding Happy's strange gaze directed at him.

"If anything happens to Wendy, I promise I'll eat you for lunch"

Gray gave a comical teary smile seeing the annoyed happy was a little funny but a little scary too.

"Let's just find them before they get killed"

Gray tilted his head in confusion, "It's Natsu right, he'll be fine"

"Yeah, but he got someone to protect. Which means he won't be able to have an all out battle"

'Shit'

Happy turned his heels towards the opposite direction and took off into the air, "I'm going to help them."

With Wendy and Natsu...

"Happy-san is gone" Wendy said, looking at the direction he took off.

Wendy couldn't help but feel concerned about the small feline. Certainly she knew he was a part of the active members of Fairytail and what's more, a member to the seven deadly sins but seeing his tiny figure made her worry all the more. She haven't really witnessed his full potential yet.

"Come on Wendy, we also better get moving or we'll be trapped in this hailstorm before we know it" Natsu held her firmly, leading her into a different direction. The storm didn't aid much to their sight, obstructing their view from seeing ahead.

"Well, I guess we just need some sort of luck to get by this one" Natsu looked around the cold empty vast land with nothing but icy snow.

Shortly after they moved further ahead with still no sign of gray or happy, Natsu was getting a little bored and his feet was wet and slightly cold making him a little uncomfortable.

"You okay Wendy?" he asked, making sure she was alright before attending to his own wellbeing.

"Hai natsu-sama, I'm okay" replying back to him, he gave a nod before proceeding forward.

Moving on about the storm, after what felt like hours, Natsu suddenly felt something.

'I sense about three magical energy heading this way' he glanced around from his eyes, watching with acute eyes that immediately spotted his preys.

When they came to view, Natsu was a with confounded after seeing something that amazed him.

A sky icy dragon hovered above them, and from the earth came a large bull, slightly more taller than a human on all four feet and a huge rhino that looked like it weighed about a million ton.

"N-natsu-sama?!" Wendy shrieked, after seeing the abnormally large animals in front of them and an ice dragon hovering above them. They were completely surrounded.

'Damn, these are times I really wish happy was with me' he thought exasperatedly, dropping their stuff onto the snow, standing in front of Wendy.

"Wendy, don't panic alright" he said, glaring at the incoming large mammals towards them "I'll definitely protect you alright"

Her skipped a beat, looking at his back that faced her, trailing on his name, "Natsu..."

"It'll be alright okay" he turned to face her, "and I'm pretty sure happy might have found gray by now"

Turning to face them, he merely walked towards them, shoving one hand into his pants pocket as he went a little further from Wendy to keep her out of danger and disrupted their path from moving any further.

"Looks like it's just the three of us" he said, watching as the dragon flew down and landed beside its comrades. The rhino was slightly bigger than the bull and the dragon was a little bigger than the rhino.

"I think I'll first take down the heavyweight champion first!"

Just with his physical might, he zoomed forward before any of the creatures could react, sending a heavy punch to its bigger ivory horn.

Natsu narrowed at his own prowess, coming down to his feet and looked at his knuckles. "It didn't work" he merely said calmly. The rhino was left unhanded as he was unable to defeat it with just one heavy punch.

The bull became enraged, roaring loudly, it let out ice cold steam from its nostrils, stomping its foreleg as it breathed out angry steams three times more and charged at him.

Dispersing snow, creating thick dense fog from its speed, Natsu managed to see just before it came in contact it him before he gets pierced by the horn. Grabbing both horn as it drove him backwards, its speed decreasing with each moment courtesy to the humanoid being trying his best to halt its moment.

It drove him all the way to Wendy, finally managing to overpower it. He used his might to lift the bull off the ground, throwing it in collision to the rhino sending them skidding backwards.

The dragon roared before attacking him with a breath attack made out of ice. Natsu responded with a spell of his own. The two opposite colliding elements created a huge amount of steam upon contact with each other, once more obstructing their view against each other.

Natsu dispensed it with his hand motion only to see an angry rhino charging at him with great intimidation it gave off. Trying the same thing he did with the bull, he tried using his physical might to stop it but once he came in contact with it, it rammed him with great force, sending him flying far past behind Wendy who was shocked and instilled with fear.

"Natsu-sama!" she yelled his name, seeing him crash a little ahead. She ran towards him. "Natsu-sama, are you alright?!" she looked at him, a little scared and concerned by what just happened.

"Y-yeah, I am" he groaned slightly, his arms slightly in pain. "I was stupid to think I'll be able to stop a rhino just like I did with the bull"

"Natsu-sama...

"Don't worry Wendy" he grinned at her, "It's gonna be alright"

He stood up, looming at the three creatures in interest. "Alright then, let's try this one more time!"

He charged forward, but this time, he headed towards the dragon first and activated a spell.

"Fire dragon, jet thruster!" he gave a light jump into the air and immediately his feet were inflamed with powerful orange-redish flames, propelling him at great speed. The dragon responded once more with a mighty breath attack but he countered with a different spell of his own.

"Fire dragon; extreme roasting bath" he engulfed his whole body in hot flames and continuously flew forward like a shooting star. He collided with the ice dragon roar attack and burned it off from the excessive amount of heat he emitted around him, reducing greatly the amount of snow surrounding them.

"Fire dragon secret art: crimson lotus; fire dragon fist!" he rapidly punched the dragon, not even halting for a split second as he created a mini fiery explosion for his reigning punches, destroying the dragon into tiny ice particles.

"One down" he maneuvered mid air, changing his body trajectory towards the bull, "Two to go!"

He grabbed bull by the horn, lifting it up into the air regardless of its weight. He threw it a little higher and charged another attack at it.

"Fire dragon..." his body shone a crimson orange, glittering brighter in the air, "...sword horn"

He flew at a high-speed, upwards he went and headbutted the helpless bull, breaking it into pieces as he rendered it lifeless.

"Two down..." he swiftly turned mid-air only to see the rhino charging at Wendy who had the looks of terror apparent on her expression. "one to go!"

"Fire dragon; Jet thruster" he propelled himself downwards, gaining even faster speed. Closing on to it, he launched a final attack just before it could get to Wendy.

"Normal fist: 1000%" he crashed onto it, using all his might to destroy the rhino, few metres away from getting to Wendy.

Natsu breathed out a sigh of relief after managing to defeat them. He walked towards Wendy with a smile on his face.

"Yo" he greeted her.

She smiled back at him, trying to hold back her tears, she ran towards him and engulf herself with his warmth.

"N-natsu-sama..." she cried into his chest, letting out her fear to him. She felt like it was all over for her when she saw the incoming form of the ice rhino coming towards her. But he saved her again. Just like he said, he'll always protect her from harm and he did once more.

"It's alright Wendy, no matter what happens, I'll be there to protect you alright" he smiled at her. She looked at him, at his grin. He looked so perfect in her eyes. He looked so handsome, so brave and strong that she just can't compare.

"Thank you, natsu-sama" she returned his smile.

Suddenly a man and a small flying feline appeared from behind him, a smirk on the man's face.

"I see you haven't lost your touch, Natsu"

"That's right gray" he replied without looking at him, "how have you been by the way?"

Gray shrugged "Nothing much, just being bored for the past years"

Wendy left his embrace, looking from his side to see happy and another man who she assumed was gray.

"I'm glad you're okay Wendy" happy flew at her, setting down on her head like a bird.

"Hai, natsu-sama protected me" she smiled, instigating happy to pur at her smile.

'So cute' he thought in delight.

"Wendy, this is Gray Fullbuster, third sin of fairytail, bearer of the sin, Envy" Natsu introduced, gesturing towards gray.

"H-hai, I'm Wendy marvel Fiore, Third princess to the throne" she bow her head in respect to him. Gray was a little surprised by her actions but brushed it off seconds later.

"Oh, so this is the youngest and bravest of the royals huh" he said, inspecting her thoroughly.

Wendy was a little under pressure being in the presence of another sin of fairytail, adding to that he was looking at her with a fixated gaze.

"I wonder why we should help her anyway" gray said, already bored from looking at her, "It's their problem not ours"

"Gray!" happy yelled in slight anger. Slowly raising his power level.

Natsu merely watched them, already knowing what's going to happen next.

"Anyway, I thought it was something big but I didn't know it was just a little girl playing princess. Captain, I'm out of here"

Gray turned his heels to leave, ignoring the angry yells and threats from happy who was in the least, not pleased by his attitude. Happy had explained the situation to him on their way and had agreed to help them. So why change all of a sudden?

"G-gray-san...!"

Gray stopped, hearing the voice of Wendy calling out to him. He didn't even bothered turning to look back at her and began walking again.

'I-i can't have him leaving now!' she thought in desperation, trying to come up with a plan.

"Gray-san, I know the royal family have wronged everyone...most especially Fairytail. I can't say we weren't at fault for believing the royal knights for forgery, but please gray-san...just this once I beg of you. Please help my family, Gray!"

Gray stopped with a sigh, quickly turning and walked back towards her. He had a smirk on his face while looking a little bit intimidating.

"You've got the guts to call me by my name again?"

Wendy felt scared and almost gave in to his threat but she can't stop now that she had one more member added to the crew. She steeled her nerves and tried looking him in the eyes but she couldn't, every time she tried she felt the fear coming back to her. Slowly the pressure and tension became to rise between them as gray even became a little more intimidating than before, almost scaring her to death.

'No matter what happens Wendy, I'll always be there to protect you' she suddenly remembered his words. The promise Natsu made to her when he defeated that ice rhino from advancing towards her. She suddenly felt the feelings of comfort and safety guiding her away from her fear, it felt so easy to move now, she felt out of harm or any intimidation that anyone would try at her.

She looked at gray with an unyielding determination and spoke up, "Gray, please help us fight the battle"

Gray chuckled and it soon turned to laughter, making Wendy to blush in embarrassment.

"Sorry, sorry, I was just kidding" he said after regaining himself, "I'll help save them. I was only trying you out" he smiled at her.

Wendy felt relieved that he was also willing to help her. His way of testing someone was a little bit scary but she could tell he was actually a nice person just like she had thought before.

"Good for you Wendy. Another one decided to help" Natsu finally spoke up, looking at her with a grin.

"Hai"

"So Captain Natsu, where the hell are we going next then?" gray asked, looking at him for answers.

"We're going to look for the red head"

Gray eyes widened immediately, knowing exactly who he was talking about, "You don't mean..."

"Yeah, she's a part of us and we'll have to ask her for help"

Feeling confused and a little lost, Wendy tried understanding their conversation by asking happy, "Happy-san, who are they talking about?"

Happy hummed before replying her, "She's a member of fairytail and considered one of the strongest woman in Fiore, Erza Scarlet. She goes by the alias the crimson despair"

Wendy replied with an ok, still lost but decided to drop it until they get to her.

"Alright everyone, we're heading out of here. I don't wanna waste any more time in this ice hell"

Gray smirked, "You're afraid of a little ice captain~?"

Natsu replied positively, "Yeah because it's making my feet wet and slippery"

Gray's mood suddenly turned down and he sighed in defeat, "That was not the reply i was looking for but okay"

"Alright everyone, we're going sky diving" Happy left Wendy's head and turned into a large dragon, scooping everyone all at once with one of his claw and made their way out of Mount Hakobe towards finding Erza-scarlet.

'Natsu-sama saved me again today' Wendy thought, 'and he was awesome too' she blushed, stealing glances at him. 'Thank you so much for saving me today natsu-sama'

Wendy felt like she could do this. She had succeeded in adsing one more memebr into the party, all thanks to natsu and happy aiding her with her quest. She wished it would stay like this forever but priotiy comes first and that is to save her family. She was definitely going to save them. She has to.

That's all for now

Until next time!