Chapter 65: 65. 4 Tails
After being defeated by Alex, Mira seems to hold a grudge against him. She often asks him to fight her again, saying the result will be different even though everyone knows it won't.
To avoid being annoyed every day, Alex tells her that he will fight her once per month. They have many jobs to do, so once a month is the best possible time to play around.
Mira reluctantly agrees after thinking about her financial situation. She and her siblings really need to take many jobs for their daily needs. Their purpose of joining the Guild is to get money anyway, but her defeat from Alex makes her forget that.
So now the Strauss siblings start focusing on taking jobs. Thanks to that, Mira stops picking a fight with Alex. Though her bad temper is still a problem because after Alex, she picks on Erza as well, just like in the story.
Thanks to that though, she doesn't annoy Alex as much as before. Erza seems to be a bigger rival for her than Alex because they are the same age and they both are girls. Their power and abilities are also on similar levels, so it makes more sense for them to have rivalry than Mira and Alex.
Unlike Mira who picks rivals here and there, Elfman and Lisanna are trying to befriend everyone. Though well, Elfman is being affected by the boys and starts nonsense brawls daily in the Guild too.
The only one who truly behaves well among the siblings is Lisanna. She is now the youngest in the Guild and her bright personality makes everyone adore her. The siblings would get into many problems in the Guild if not for her.
A few months after the Strauss siblings join the Guild, something quite strange happens. Natsu finds an egg that's bigger than a human head. He takes it to the Guild to ask if anyone knows about it and of course, no one knows.
Well, Alex knows and he has been waiting for this since the Strauss siblings joined them. But of course, he won't tell them that he knows what egg that is. None of them will believe him if he says that it's a cat's egg anyway, so he rather stays silent.
'So it's already the time for the Exceed eggs to be sent to Earthland. The other 1st gen Dragon Slayers must've found their eggs too, except for Gajeel. Well, I also have a partner, so I don't need to be jealous.'
Alex looks at Meteor Destroyer that sleeps beside his chair. The bear cub has grown much bigger in just a year. It's now as big as a sheep even though it's still a cub. Well, it's a bear, after all, so it will grow to be even bigger than humans anyway, so this is normal.
Meteor Destroyer suddenly wakes up and sees the big egg in Natsu's hands. It looks excited and approaches Natsu while drooling because it thought Natsu was going to feed it with an egg.
"W-what are you looking at?" Natsu steps back nervously when the bear cub looks at him expectantly.
"Meteor, buddy, come back here! That's not your food." Alex calls his bear cub that looks very disappointed when hearing that.
"H-he wants to eat the egg?" Natsu hides the egg behind his back quickly.
"Well, what would you think when someone brings a chicken egg in front of you?"
Natsu doesn't say anything but he will think that the egg is food, maybe a boiled egg. Everyone also thinks the same, so now they know what Meteor Destroyer thinks.
Anyway, just as in the story, Natsu and Lisanna are taking care of the egg. They even read books about how to hatch eggs properly and follow every step taught in the books. It's like looking at Grade Schoolers trying to hatch chicken eggs for a school project.
The egg only takes a few weeks to hatch and to everyone's surprise, the creature that comes out of it is a blue cat with wings. Alex has known this would happen, but even he gets surprised to see a cat come out of an egg because it just shouldn't be the way a cat is born.
Then just as how it was in the story, the cat is named Happy. Now they have another member in the Guild, so as usual, they hold a party. It's just a must for them to celebrate every event be they big or small events.
The one who seems the most happy with Happy's birth might be Meteor Destroyer. He's finally not the only non-human member of the Guild. Though he is still quite disappointed that he is the only one who can't speak human language.
Meteor will always play with Happy who's always with Natsu and Lisanna when Alex doesn't take any job. He'll still follow Alex when working even though Alex allows him to stay in Magnolia to play because the bear actually also enjoys working with Alex and Cana.
Alex mostly takes subjugation jobs because he wants to absorb the magical creatures' magic power. But by taking subjugation jobs, he also trains himself and his team. Cana and Meteor Destroyer that are assigned to his team have gotten stronger too from all of their battles.
Right now, Alex is almost done with breaking the 4th seal. So soon, the 4 Tails will be freed and he will have a new form with new abilities. With the 4th Tailed Beast, he's sure that he will pass this year's S-Class exam in a few months without any problem.
Then in August, it finally happens. He finally collects enough magic power to break the 4th seal after absorbing the magic power from a group of Lizardmen. But he waits until he gets home to break the 4th seal.
Alex and the other 3 Tailed Beasts wait patiently as the 4th seal is cracking. Right now, Alex is in the forest outside of Magnolia to break the seal. He doesn't know what will happen when the seal breaks, so he comes here.
Usually, nothing happens outside of his body because the seal is inside his body. But he can't always be sure because each seal is different and each Tailed Beast has different characteristics. So something might happen now even though nothing happened before.
Luckily, he anticipates it because something really did happen. When the 4th seal is broken, the 4 Tails' power overflows in Alex's body. Maybe it's because of excitement that Alex starts transforming unconsciously.
His body suddenly becomes very hot, so hot that he starts melting. Well, he's not really melting, but hot lava is coming out of his skin. The heat from his body spreads, making the grass and trees around him dry up a little.
Fortunately, the 4 Tails, Son Goku quickly acts and suppresses the power that leaks out because of the broken seal. Alex quickly returns to his normal form too after he manages to control his violent magic power.
"Damn, that was quite intense." Alex sighs in relief after he manages to control everything back.
"Sorry about that, boy. The seal needed more power to break than I thought. I never thought the magic power used to break the seal will be released and go on a rampant like that."
"No worries. These seals are not things we really know, so side-effects like this should be anticipated. The remaining seals might cause even worse problems, so we need to be even more careful."
"Yeah, the seals are getting stronger the higher you go. But as you say, we don't know much about these seals that the unknown Goddess made. So there might not even be a problem when breaking the other seals."
"There's nothing wrong with being careful though."
"You're right. By the way, nice to meet you, Alex. I'm Son Goku. I guess we will live together from now on."
Alex finally has a new partner. Now he can transform into 4 Tailed Beasts with different abilities. It will give him more options to use in battles, although he also needs time to get used to his new abilities.
His raw power also increased significantly after releasing Son Goku. Some of the magic power that was used to break the seal is absorbed by his body, so it increases the amount of magic power he has quite a lot.
This happens every time he unseals a Tailed Beast anyway. Matatabi said that it's like a reward for his hard work. Though it's actually because he used his power to break the seal, so he just takes back what's his.
But the magic power that he got back from breaking the seals has the freed Tailed Beast's magic power mixed in it too. With their power mixed in that, Alex will get a part of their power too, which then will make it easier for him to use their power, so it's really beneficial for all of them.
Their power that's mixed permanently into Alex's power is also the reason why he has beastial traits like abnormally powerful senses and physical power.
While it's also because of his hard training, Alex's rapid growth is mostly thanks to the Tailed Beasts' power that he takes for himself. Thanks to that, he can be very strong even without transforming. He has turned into a beast himself.
For the next few months, Alex focuses on getting used to Son Goku's power. He mostly uses Son's power when he works, but he still also uses the other 3's power because they get jealous too easily. Then in December, the year X778's S-Class exam finally came.
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