Chapter 12

Cursed Song is the 12th chapter of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail.

Natsu encounters Kageyama from Eisenwald and discovers a strange flute in his possession. He is later reunited with his team and the group realizes that the Dark Guild is planning to use a powerful Dark Magic.

Summary
Realizing that they left Natsu in the train, Erza is blaming herself while Lucy is trying to calm her down. Erza talks to the station employees asking them to stop the train, but they replied that they cannot stop the train for one person who didn’t manage to get off. Erza spots the emergency stop signal, and orders Happy to pull it, which he did.

Meanwhile in the train, Kageyama talks to Natsu about Mirajane and Lucy and how he envy regular guilds for having cute girls and wished to have girls in their guild. When Natsu continues to ignore him, he kicks him in the face saying that he is being discriminatory to Dark Guilds. Natsu finally awakes with Kageyama calling Fairy Tail flies and swats Natsu head. Natsu stands up and tries to use his Magic but fails since the train is still moving. Kageyama laughs at Natsu and attacks using shadows. Suddenly the train stops, Kageyama’s bag falls on the floor sending all the contents to fly everywhere, one of which is a flute with a skull that has three eyes which Natsu saw. Natsu then attacks Kageyama with a fistful of flames. An attack he calls “Fly Punch”.

Suddenly, the conductor announces that the emergency break was based on a false report and that the train will depart shortly. Natsu scrambles to get off the train while Kageyama says that he picked a fight with Eisenwald. Natsu jumps out of the window and sees Erza, and Gray riding a Magic Four Wheel Drive. With the team reunited, Natsu talks about a weirdo in the train that was from Eisenwald making Erza angry because Eisenwald is the one that they are after. Erza asks Natsu what he looks like and Natsu replies that there was nothing special about him except that he was carrying a flute with a skull that has three eyes. Lucy then realizes that it can be the cursed song lullaby, the Magic of death.

Meanwhile in Kunugi Station, Eisenwald is taking over the station. Having just arrived, Kageyama gives the flute to Erigor stating that he already broke the seal. Erigor smiles at this and reveals to his guild mates that lullaby is a mass-curse murder Magic that kills anybody who hears it.

Fights

 * Natsu Dragneel vs. Kageyama (started and concluded)

Magic used

 * Aera (翼 Tsubasa)
 * Fire Dragon Slayer Magic (火の滅竜魔法 Ka no Metsuryū Mahō)
 * Shadow Magic (陰魔法 Kage Mahō)

Spells used

 * Knuckle Shadow
 * Fire Dragon's Iron Fist (火竜の鉄拳 Karyū no Tekken)

Items used

 * Magic Four Wheel Drive