Chapter 284 The Cursed Magic Book (3)
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Late at night in Magnolia, a cherry-haired boy wearing a white scarf was running frantically on the street. His cool flip-flops made noisy footsteps on the ground. Next to him, there was a flying blue cat.
"Not here... not here... not here... no no... there's no smell of Lucy anywhere !!!"
After an unknown amount of time, Natsu, who had searched in vain, sat on a long stone bench by the roadside, lowering his head in deep thought. The faint incandescent light shone on him, flickering.
The inexplicable uneasiness in his heart was constantly irritating his nerves, but Natsu suppressed it with his strong heart, and used his insufficient IQ to barely analyze the situation with Happy.
"Happy, where do you think Lucy will go?"
"I have no idea either!" Happy raised his little paw and scratched his head, and asked, "Compared to that, Natsu, have you noticed that the streets are much quieter than usual? There are no stray cats and dogs, nor drunk old men or girls."
"Indeed, before, no matter how late it was, there should have been some movement. Now it's like there are only two of us left in Magnolia."
At this point, Natsu and Happy couldn't help but look around, and at this moment, they suddenly discovered that the strange magic book was quietly placed beside them!
"This is?!"
"That magic book?! It appeared again?!"
“It clearly wasn’t there just now!”
Happy was running and shouting anxiouslyΣ(っ°Д°;)っ: "It's over! Natsu, we must be haunted by the vengeful spirit that resides in the book! [Souls that cannot die completely will be entrusting here], it must be referring to this book... No! Maybe it refers to the curse mark on our foreheads!"
This guess was well-founded. Natsu felt cold sweat on his forehead: "Happy... don't... don't don't... don't panic! There must be a way!"
Because of fear, Happy threw himself into Natsu's arms and hugged him tightly, looking up and asked, "What can we do?"
"Well... that's right! Let's burn him!"
Natsu didn't come up with a solution, but he acted on his instincts and solved any problems with fire.
boom!
With a loud bang, the high-temperature red flames engulfed the magic book, and the old magic book was instantly burned to ashes.
Natsu wiped his sweat and said, "This should be okay, right?"
"N...Natsu..."
Natsu's heart was shaken by Happy's trembling voice. He looked up and saw that in the night, the ashes that should have disappeared with the wind were gathering again, and relying on the dark magic in them, they slowly formed an oval black vortex three meters high and one meter wide.
Immediately afterwards, countless white spirits madly poured out and floated away in all directions of Magnolia.
"Midnight, inhuman monster..."
"A soul that cannot completely die..."
The man and the cat turned their heads stiffly to look at each other, and found that the other was trembling all over, and was not as calm as usual: "Haha... it's just a ghost... haha... there's nothing to be afraid of... haha..."
"That's right... I'm not afraid..."
The next moment...
“Run!!!”
The two men turned around and ran, their speed so fast that a cloud of dust was raised, which rolled around in the wind and fell on their clothes that were soaked with cold sweat.
"Wait... Could it be that Lucy was captured by them?!"
Thinking of this, Natsu was no longer afraid. The frightened look on his face was quickly replaced by seriousness. He paused, turned around and rushed towards the black vortex: "Hand over Lucy!"
Physical attacks like fists obviously cannot hit spirits, and Natsu missed and fell to the ground.
"Damn it! I can't hit them!"
The harpy flew over and said, "Of course, he's a ghost after all!"
"In that case..."
Natsu clenched his fists unwillingly, and two seconds later, he decisively picked up Happy and ran away!
"Then let's retreat first!"
Habi Σ(っ°Д°;)っ: “Eeeeeeeeeee???!!!”
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"They didn't catch up?"
"Natsu, why are you running away?"
"Of course it's because we can't hit them! And, judging from what happened just now, they don't have the ability to attack people, so Lucy's disappearance may not be related to them. If Lucy disappeared because of them, it means that something similar happened while we were unconscious! And with such a movement, everyone in the guild will definitely notice it. With them around, nothing should go wrong..."
Happy rolled his tongue and spit out, "Natsu has become so smart today, it's incredible! Could it be that this curse will increase IQ?"
despair!
As Natsu was walking forward, he felt he stepped on something. He looked down and saw that the magic book he had burned before was lying on the ground intact.
“Ahhhhh!!! It appears again!!!”
"Paranormal event!!! This is definitely a paranormal event like an urban legend!!!"
In desperation, Natsu bent down, picked up the magic book on the ground and threw it far away!
Boom!
The magic book fell into the river that ran through Magnolia, with a slight sound and a few splashes of water.
In the blink of an eye, the paper was soaked by the river water, and the strange words on it quickly fell off, suspended in the air by dark magic. After a brief transformation and reorganization, it turned into another magic circle.
"not good!"
As they exclaimed, the words [Once soaked, the second stage of horror will begin] appeared in Natsu and Happy's minds at the same time.
"The second stage of terror!!"
"This seems to be even more troublesome!!"
The dark green strange runes and the evil dark magic power echoed with the "water" that caused the change, condensing into a ball of magic light. At the same time, the curse runes engraved on the foreheads of Natsu and Happy flew out on their own and hit the light ball. The light ball split into two and fell to the ground, turning into two dark figures with the same outlines as Natsu and Happy.
"What is this? It looks a lot like us!"
"Could it be that this magic is to copy a cursed person and let us fight ourselves?"
Seeing that Happy was getting more and more uneasy, Natsu immediately lowered his head and comforted him, "It's okay, Happy!"
"Natsu..."
"Whether it's a curse or a ghost, as long as we are together, there is no opponent we can't defeat! We are the wizards of Fairy Tail!!!"
Thanks to his partner's encouragement in difficult times, the harpy, who had been troubled by the magic book for a whole day, finally cheered up.
"Hey hey!"
With a long howl, Happy grabbed Natsu and flew towards the black shadow. The black shadow Happy and Natsu, who was holding the black shadow, rushed over, and their fists reflected in the mirror collided in the air, stirring up violent red and black flames.
On the ground, the two Natsus were fighting each other, punching, kicking, elbowing, headbutting, and hooking one after another; in the air, the two harpies also used their special skills, cat claw attacks, backpack attacks, bites, and collisions one after another, and the scene was in chaos.
Bang bang bang... snap bang... puff puff puff...
"The fighting style is exactly the same..."
The thorny nature of the opponent and the dark magic covering the streets made Natsu anxious, but what worried him even more was that the continuous sounds of fighting did not wake anyone up!
In this situation, either this space is blocked or something has happened to everyone!
At this moment, the black shadow suddenly moved!
But his target was not Natsu and Happy, but... their shadows on the ground!
tread!
Under the bright moonlight, the other person's feet stepped precisely on his own shadow.
In an instant, Natsu felt a pain like a sword piercing his heart, and the words "Whoever is stepped on by the shadow will have a sword piercing his heart" appeared in his mind.
Late at night, a sharp scream pierced the sky.
"ah!!!"
The pain in his body was bearable, but the sound of Happy's voice made Natsu's face change suddenly: "Happy! Are you okay?!"
“No…it’s okay…”
Natsu took a closer look and found that Happy was in the same situation as himself: "There are no wounds, but I can feel pain. Is this a curse?"
His intuition told him that in the coming time, the "curses" in those books would reappear one by one!
The black shadow moved again, but this time Natsu was prepared. He retreated suddenly, moving his own shadow to avoid the opponent's attack. At the same time, his eyes were still searching for the opponent's shadow.
At this moment, the black shadow stopped moving again.
“Good opportunity!”
Seizing the opportunity, Natsu rushed in the opposite direction, swinging his fists to attack, but the black shadow did not react at all, just staring at Natsu who was approaching him.
[Anyone seen moving will be hit with a heavy hammer]
Bang!
The huge force coming from the side knocked Natsu back several meters and he fell to the ground, and the ground shattered!
"Natsu!!"
After the exclamation, Happy hurried over to check, "Are you okay?"
"Don't worry, I'm fine!"
The opponent was really strange, and the changes in front of them came suddenly. Happy suggested: "Natsu, how about we retreat first? This situation is obviously not something we can solve..."
"I don't want it!" Natsu patted the dust off his body and stood up again, "Happy, do you still remember the words in the book?"
Happy was stunned: "What?"
"The transformation between hunter and prey happens in a flash!!"
Natsu grinned, his face full of fighting spirit, and his fists collided in front of his chest, flames flying.
"Round two begins! Let's go!"
"Hey hey!"
