Absolute Command

A green-haired young man sat on the edge of a chair in a train's corridor as his hand supported his chin facing the small window.

He was fixated on the rolling hills and mountainside outside the window. Lush trees covered the landscape with a flourish of warm colors.

Daisy yellow, sunset orange, and apple red swirled together as the wind ruffled the leaves. He could barely hear the soft squeal of the machinery propelling her across the earth.

The young man was none other than Nathan.

He sighed with content at the sun's placement, it was perfect lighting to reading, "I should have brought a book in the first place, but the books in this world are really boring".

He spent almost ten years reading all the books in the imperial library. The content of the book is not very interesting, mostly contains about the histories of Eart Land, the world of ancient magic and many books on politics.

Although some of the ancient magic history books caught his attention, Nathan needed a kinda refreshing book to read.

"Speaking of which, I'm curious about the novel Lucy wrote, I have to take a look later"

...

In another corridor, as usual, Natsu immediately gets motion sickness right after he entered the train. Therefore, Erza knocks him out to ease him a little.

Erza explains that on her way back from work, she stopped in a bar in Onibas where some guys caught her attention.

She overheard that they finally found the hidden Magic "Lullaby" but it was all sealed up. She also accidentally overheard the name Erigor.

Erigor is the ace of the Mage guild Eisenwald who has been labeled a Dark Guild by the Magic Council.

After the conversation had passed, soon the train stopped at the next stop. The group then gets off the train as they continue talking about Eisenwald.

However, they have not realized when they forget someone on the train they were riding.

...

Meanwhile, Natsu whose consciousness is still vague because of motion sickness that he felt every time he boarded the train. He sat helplessly and forgotten by his own teammates, even he didn't realize that he had been left behind.

Suddenly, a young man with black eyes and spiky ponytail black hair slipped in and sitting across from Natsu.

"Fairy Tail... a regular guild huh... I envy you" he looked closely at Natsu with an exceptionally polite and full of decorum smile.

He is also talking about Mirajane and Lucy and how he envies regular guilds for having cute girls and wished to have girls in their guild.

However, Natsu simply ignores him because he still in the state of motion sickness.

"There are no girls in my guild, would you share some? or so I'd say, ki..." his facade smile face and polite attitude finally dropped as he tries attempts to kick Natsu who still does not want to appreciate his politeness.

However, before his feet were grounded on Natsu's face, suddenly someone spoke cutting him from the direction not far behind him,

"I'd appreciate it if you didn't do that to my guild friend, or should I call you Kageyama?"

A green-haired young man appeared from behind Kageyama, a smile on his face filled with politeness and no less than facade face of Kageyama usually put on.

He leaned against the corridor door as a circle of gold rings spinning in his deep green eyes staring at Kageyama who was shocked by his sudden presence.

"Who are you?" Kageyama's black pupils constrict as he was quite alarmed for his undetected presence and even know his name.

But after seeing the voice source's figure was a small brat, then he slightly lowered his guard as he looked down upon him. To think he scared because of this small brat!

This shitty brat even know my name, maybe he was popular? he thinks narcissistically.

"Brat, you have guts to stop me! not bad, not bad! it seems like Fairy Tail does have high solidarity among their members, even you want to suffer along with this idiot, brat, how about you join Eisen ..."

"[Sit Down] you pest!"

Even before Kageyama finished his taunting, the green-haired young man cutting off his all nonsense mouth as Kageyama immediately obeyed his orders without objection.

"The Dark Guild is a Dark Guild after all, they all are the bunch of rubbish, I feel sick when they think highly of themselves"

Nathan approached Kageyama and picked up a scarf bag containing contents of elixirs and magic book and a brown-sized wooden flute stick.

He took the flute and inspected it closer.

"So, this is the Lullaby?"

Its size is nearly 50 centimeters in length. The skull with three eyes on one end, and an oval-like cutout in the skull's brow. On the other end, there are root-like cutouts.

According to the legend that Nathan had read, this flute merely a tool that Dark Mage Zeref had developed into a magical flute, called Mass Murder Curse Magic that is capable of putting a death curse on everyone who hears its melody except for the Caster.

This flute is really dangerous. However, he quite didn't understand, in the original storyline of Fairy Tail, the Demon within this flute was easily defeated by merely Natsu, Erza and Gray.

Maybe its strength is weakened by being slumbered too long?

Well, since it fell on Nathan's hand, he was very anticipating what the uses and advantages of this flute were. It was quite waste if it fell on Magic Council's hands.

"Crap! I have to leave before Erza and the others catch up"

Nathan tidies up the Kageyama's scarf bag as before and without thinking any further, he simply hummed a song, leaving in good spirit as he entered the next corridor, flicking his fingers.

"Release"

In the blink of an eye, Kageyama was awakened from the absolute command of Nathan. He didn't even realize that he had been under the influence of Nathan's magic before.

He turned his head right and left looking for the little brat who suddenly appeared, but he couldn't find him anymore.

Or maybe he is wrong? but he sure they chatted a bit. Kageyama shook his head and assumed he probably made a mistake, so he turned back to Natsu.

As he going to take action to Natsu, suddenly the train stops as he finally awakes.

Kageyama's bag falls to the floor sending all the contents flying everywhere, one of which is a flute with a skull that has three eyes, which Natsu takes notice of it.

Natsu tilted his head, he naturally didn't know who Kagayama is.

Meanwhile, Kageyama panicked when he saw the flute in his bag fall, he tidied up it and left Natsu who also saw the flute. He lost his appetite to attack Natsu.

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