Vivi stood on top of some rocks looking down into the village for any signs of people. She saw none. Well, there was Erza, who was walking from house to house to look for clues, but no one else. Not even the Master who was probably inside eating despite Erza's orders for them to not eat the food. Vivi then tilted her head with her eyes narrowing. What were those lines on the ground she could see?
"Those are so pretty weird cracks in the ground." Vivi said. "Almost as if they had been put there for a reason."
Vivi looked behind her guessing she could try to get an even higher vantage point. She started climbing higher up on the rocks until she reached the top. She crouched down while looking down at the village. Her eyes widened as she realized what those lines in the ground were for.
"It's a giant magic circle." Vivi said. "This can't be good."
She stiffened as a growling noise entered the air, which had her looking around. Where was that coming from? The growling grew louder by the seconds and then grew louder still.
"I don't like this." Vivi said. "I better report to Gramps."
Vivi stood to move on, but stopped when she noticed that the cracks in the village started to grow. This could only mean the magic within the circle was activated. They didn't have much time until whatever spell was cast here takes over completely, and since they didn't know what kind of spell, it was too dangerous for them to remain in the village. Vivi spotted Erza and Makarov on the ground below, and the others were running up to join them.
"Everyone, get out of there!" Vivi shouted getting their attention. "Move!"
Erza frowned at Vivi's urgent tone knowing the bluenette had to have seen something from her perch to get her this riled up. Erza then looked around with the others as the buildings started to warp around them.
"It's a giant magic circle!" Vivi continued. "Move to higher ground before whatever magic there consumes you!"
Her words had Makarov's eyes widening as he realized the danger his children were in.
"You heard her!" Makarov said. "Everyone to higher ground, now!"
No one argued with Makarov as they hurried to climb on top the large rocks out of town. Vivi moved down to join them just as the village was turned into a nest of monsters.
"This magic is a forbidden art." Makarov said. "It was outlawed a long time ago. It is known as Alive."
"What does it do?" Lucy asked.
"See for yourself." Makarov said. "It's exactly as it looks like. It has the ability to turn inanimate objects into living creatures. It appears the villagers cast the forbidden spell. Only to end up being eaten by the very monsters they brought to life."
"But why would they use magic that's been banned?" Lucy asked.
Vivi, who crossed her arms over her chest, had a pretty good idea as to why the villagers cast this magic.
"Must be a dark guild of sorts." Vivi said.
"Yes, while investigating I did find dark magical tools that would point towards that theory." Erza said.
Vivi guessed those guys learned the hard way not to play with magic like this. This kind of stuff is outlawed for a reason. Sure, she doesn't follow every rule given by the Council, but she knew better to break rules like the one that banned this magic.
"I guess whatever they had been cooking up back fired." Vivi said.
"Yes, it appears they were burned in the process of whatever they had been planning." Makarov said. "But there's one thing we should be grateful for!"
"Oh yeah, and what would that be?" Natsu asked.
"The dark guild's mischief brought these things to life." Makarov said. "And most living creatures can be turned into… FOOD !"
As Lucy looked at the Master as if he was crazy, Vivi grinned along with the others. Well, they might not look like the prettiest of cooking ingredients, but Vivi supposed she could make do. As the boys and Erza jumped down to start catching their food, Makarov looked up at Vivi.
"Vivi, be a dear and whip me up some lunch." Makarov said.
"Sure thing, Master." Vivi said. "Any requests?"
"Nah, anything you prepare will be just fine." Makarov said.
Vivi nodded her head before she jumped over the side of the small cliff. Lucy gawked after her guildmates as Vivi brought forth her violin. She landed in the middle of some of those creatures, and they turned their sights on her. She grinned looking unconcerned as the rest of her friends fought for their own food.
"Now, Melody of the Seven Swords!" Vivi said.
She played this exotic, fast pace tune with seven curved blades appearing. They quickly went to work at chopping up the monsters who screeched in pain as they died. Once they were all cut into the right sized pieces, Vivi brought her song to an end.
"Now I believe it's time to cook you." Vivi said. "Now, Melody of the Raging Phoenix."
She played a different tune with things becoming extremely hot. Fire ignited around the sliced up monster cooking the meat to a beautiful golden brown. Once they finished cooking, she stopped playing her violin all together.
"Well, that looks yummy if I do say so myself." Vivi said as her violin returned to the other dimension she kept it in. "Though I wish I had some spices."
She then shrugged guessing there was no helping things. She picked up a few pieces while taking them back to Makarov as the others were just starting to eat theirs.
"Here you go, Master." Vivi said holding him out the food. "I'm not sure how good they'll taste. It's not like I'm in a kitchen."
"It's alright." Makarov said. "Thank-you, Vivi."
Vivi nodded then jumped when Natsu popped up while glaring at Makarov who was about to eat.
"What were you thinking, Gramps?!" Natsu demanded. "There's no way we can eat this nasty stuff!"
"Are you trying to kill us, you old geezer?!" Gray demanded.
He grunted in pain a second later as Vivi pegged him hard in the face with a rock.
"What the hell was that for?!" Gray demanded.
"Why don't you stop yelling at the Master?!" Vivi snapped. "I'm sure you just cooked it wrong or something, ya icy delinquent!"
"Oh yeah?!" Gray challenged as he grabbed some of what Vivi had cooked for Makarov. "Then you try some!"
He tried to shove it into her mouth, but she pushed against him to stop him. They ended up rolling across the ground tussling while shouting insults at each other. Lucy sweat-dropped though wasn't surprised. She's actually surprised it took them this long to be at each other's throats. They continued fighting while ignoring the others who were trying to figure out what to do next. The two didn't stop their fighting until a reformed monster appeared above them. It snarled at them before going in to attack.
"Oh no!" Lucy exclaimed. "Gray, Vivi!"
Gray immediately forgot about his fight with Vivi as he grabbed the girl into his arms. She gasped as he jumped back while taking her with him. He landed on higher ground while keeping his arms around her. He glared down at the monsters as they all started reappearing.
"Is there no end to these slimy bastards?" He asked as the others started fighting them.
"Don't know, but I think things just got worse." Vivi said. "Look."
She pointed with Gray following the direction of her finger. His eyes widened as he saw the magic circle was back and it was glowing even brighter.
"Shit." Gray said as the ground started crumbling around everyone.
"Everyone, run!" Erza yelled.
No one had a chance of getting away as the ground completely crumbled underneath them. They all shouted as they started dropping towards the circle and the monsters.
***
"Gees, when will this day end?" Vivi complained as she hobbled along with the others.
Gray and Natsu just groaned in reply ready for things to be over with too. They don't know what happened, but just as they were about to be consumed by the magic circle, everything was suddenly better. Even those villagers had been turned back to normal. And after a stern talking to from Makarov to the villagers, the wizards of Fairy Tail headed for home once more.
"I still don't get what happened." Lucy said.
She wasn't sure if she'd ever understand what happened, but she guesses she don't want to try and figure it out. Vivi, who had been trying to understand, was just getting a headache. Vivi finally let out an annoyed growl before looking up at the sky.
"Why can't it all just be over?!" She yelled.