At North Station
After a few hours on the train, they reached North Station in high spirits and Naruto sensed something wrong in the area immediately.
As soon as they stepped out of the station, a large gust of wind swept past them clearing a few shops in the process. Naruto was in front of the group, ready to shield them if something happens.
"Are you the mages from Fairy Tail?" Asked a person waiting by the side of the road and Naruto turned towards the man.
He is an average man wearing normal clothes with few dirt marks here and there. He also had a small badge to the side of his shirt which the flyer specified.
"Yes. We are from Fairy Tail," introduced Naruto, showing his Guild mark and the man nodded.
"Please follow me," he said and went towards a small dock where some ships were present.
"Are you sure we are safe in this if the wind blows like this?" Asked Naruto as his group can easily go across the water.
"Safe, they are not. They can manage," he replied.
"Then we have a better alternative," said Naruto, wings coming out of Sirius's back and Happy following suit. The villager was surprised but nodded in agreement.
Happy carried Natsu with Sirius carrying the villager while Naruto and Gray started to skate on the ice path Gray started creating on the Sea.
The journey was up in few minutes as they arrived on the North Island in just after half an hour. Everyone knew it would have been an hour or two because of unfavourable weather.
"Please, follow me," asked the villager as Naruto and he explained about the job to the group.
"There is a cave in the sea, it started to produce all this out of the blue a month ago. Then it was a strong breeze here and there and everything was silent.
But things started to pick up after that and we thought it was an earthquake. But it worsened from there with large shock waves releasing from the sea often.
We tried everything possible. But no result. So owe increased the job difficulty to S-class to get it done and you arrived in time. Thank you," said the villager, bowing in respect.
Naruto's group has a different reaction. Naruto and Sirius had a knowing expression while Gray was sighing, blaming everything on Natsu's trouble magnet nature.
While the Pinkett was laughing like a fool. Now he can fight someone strong. Completely unaware of this, the villager continued. Happy was being happy, eating fish.
"According to legend, there is a mythical sword in the sea bed and we suspect its imbalance is the reason for it," continued the village elder, an elderly woman.
"Did you go there to check?" Asked Gray.
"No, we tried, but couldn't. The gusts became strong as you approach the cave. That's why we hired you. We want you to stop whatever that is happening inside the cave,"
"Do you want us to bring the sword back?" Asked Naruto.
"It is up to you. But whatever you do, make sure that you stop these tornados or it could lead to a disaster we can't face," she added.
"Yes, ma'am. We will make sure to stop these tornados and see what's causing these," promised Naruto and the woman nodded.
"May ancestors help you and bring victory!" She prayed and left Naruto's group.
"Interesting case this is. I think we are back to our routine, Siri," said Naruto with a knowing smile and Sirius nodded in agreement.
"What routine?" Asked a curious Gray.
"Well, we would go on misranked jobs and they tend to be a rank or two higher difficult than what we get. It seems this is the same. They wrote about the disaster. Now they are talking about Mythical Swords. This is what a misranked job means. Who knows what is causing all these," said Sirius and Gray nodded after thinking about it.
He is happy that he has improved in his magic, and this misranked job also gives him experience on how to deal with anomalies like this.