Everyone was having a great time at Fairy Tail; they had their master back and took their revenge on Phantom Lord. Every member was partying and feasting, well all but one. In the corner of the guild hall a furious Erza Scarlet was looking for Natsu, she let him off the hook while he was recovering but now that he was up and about she was absolutely furious with him for using such a dangerous technique even though it brought the master back. She was also mad now at the fact that she just had found him and he had started another brawl... typical Natsu. She made her way over to him….
Natsu and Gray were going at it as usual. They were grappling and trying to over power each other with sheer force alone. "Give it up flame breath." Gray said trying to taunt Natsu.
"Yeah right stripper, like I'd ever give up to you." Natsu said as he started to push back harder.
Gray was about to loose his balance so he got right up to Natsu and head butted him causing Natsu to slip. In causing Natsu to slip Natsu's right leg shot upwards…right into Gray's manhood. Both of them slumped to the ground groaning in pain and holding their injured body parts. Natsu had stars in his eyes while Gray had tears. The people around them were chuckling at their actions as they groaned in pain.
Natsu stood up and said to Gray, "Looks like I win popsicle, you're still on the floor."
Gray just groaned out then kicked up at Natsu, effectively bringing Natsu to his knees. The guild members were laughing at them even harder now and Natsu was about to yell at Gray but fell silent as did the guild as they felt a massive killing intent. Natsu turned to see Erza standing right next to him with fire in her eyes. Natsu backed away slowly and looked at Gray and said, "I should run now shouldn't I?"
Gray nodded slowly and Natsu dashed for the guild doors. He only made it 10 feet outside the guild before tackled to the ground by Erza. The guild watched in horror as Erza dragged him behind the guild while beating him at the same time. 'Poor Natsu.' The entire guild thought. Natsu had one thought on his mind, 'I am so fucked'.
When they got behind the guild Erza immediately started yelling at Natsu, "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND FOR USING SOMETHING SO DANGEROUS AS THAT STUNT YOU PULLED BACK AT PHANTOM LORD?" Natsu could only cower before her to afraid to even speak. He may be stronger then her but she still terrified him.
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW BADLY YOU SCARED ME WHEN YOUR HEART STOPPED? I THOUGHT YOU HAD DIED NATSU. IF YOU EVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT AGAIN I AM GOING TO TAKE MY PURGATORY MACE TO YOUR FUCKING PENIS AND MAKE SURE YOU CAN'T EVEN PISS OUT OF IT."
At this point Natsu was very pale at her words. He didn't even want to think of how bad that would hurt. He subconsciously clenched his legs together at her saying that. "Erza, I'm sor-" He didn't get to say anything else as he was cut off by Erza slapping him hard leaving a red hand mark on his face. Erza proceeded to hit every inch of him she could. She was beyond fury at this point with him. 'Stupid Natsu for making me worry like that.' She thought as she beat the living shit out of him.
Erza was hitting Natsu nonstop for about 5 minutes before Natsu had felt something wet hit his face, 'Is it raining now?' He thought and opened his eyes only to see Erza crying over him. 'Oh my god, I'm horrible, I made her cry.'
"Erza, I'm so sorry for worrying you like that, please don't cry." Natsu said sincerely.
Erza just slapped him across the face again and pulled him up into a tight hug. "Never do that again you moron. I thought I lost you there." She sobbed into his shoulder. Natsu wrapped his arms around her and just held her there as she cried.
After awhile she stopped and stood up with Natsu. "Let's go back into the guild." She said and led him back.
Upon entering the guild everyone cringed at the state of Natsu who was bruised and bloodied. Natsu sat at their usual table and Gray said "You really pissed her off didn't you?" Natsu just nodded weakly still thinking he was horrible for making her cry.
Erza walked up to the bar to order some cake and a drink, as she sat down Mira asked, "Are you alright Erza? You look as if you had been crying."
It's nothing Mira, thank you for your concern though."
"If you say so." Mira said unconvinced but let it drop. "Well is there anything I can get you?"
"A slice of strawberry cheesecake and some water if you could." Mira nodded and walked into the back to get the stuff while Erza sighed and rubbed her temples. "He is such a hassle." She muttered to herself
"Who's a hassle Erza?" Lucy asked plopping down into a chair next to her.
"Oh no one Lucy." Erza said in a completely unconvincing tone.
"It's Natsu isn't it?" Lucy simply said.
At hearing her say that she turned to Lucy with a red face saying "Shut up Lucy. It's not Natsu."
"Erza your face is a dead give away." Lucy said teasingly.
Erza growled out at her and next thing Lucy new she was rocketing towards the stars from a fierce kick. The people closest to Erza started edging away slowly fearing for their lives. A few minutes after Erza punted Lucy, Mirajane came back with Erza's cake and water. "Sorry that took so long Erza, no cakes were ready so I had to make a fresh one." Mira said apologetically.
At hearing the cake was completely fresh Erza perked up like a giggling school girl. As soon as the cake touched the counter Erza started devouring it in seconds. When Erza finished she held her plate up and said "More, now."
Mira just laughed to herself and went to get her more. As Mira came back there was a sudden boom and the guild hall shook causing her to drop the plate of cake. "What in the world was that?" Mira asked surprised.
Natsu went over to the window to look outside and a look of rage passed over his face.
He said while trembling in rage, "Its Phantom Lord."Fairy Tail was shocked to say the least at hearing Phantom Lord was back and attacking them. They all thought they had been done with after they had defeated them at their own base. What's more is they were surprised as to how Phantom Lord got to Magnolia; the guild had turned into a walking giant robot. Natsu was trembling in rage; Phantom Lord dared to show their face at their doorstep after it was clear they had beat them in the first place and even after they failed to kill their master like they had tried. Natsu turned back to the guild and yelled, "WE NEED TO GET OUT THERE NOW AND FUCKING ANNIHLATE THEM FOR SHOWING THEIR FACES HERE."
All the members present at Fairy Tail rushed outside to confront Phantom Lord but stopped dead in their tracks. Phantom Lord's guild was pointing a giant cannon at them. "Well that might be a small problem…" Gray said in a simple and sarcastic tone.
"Small problem my ass." Loke said while shaking his head. "It's called sarcasm dipshit." Gray retorted.
"Okay you two, enough goofing off we have a problem here now." Erza said while requiping to her Heaven's Wheel Armor.
As Fairy Tail prepared for battle they heard a voice over a loudspeaker, "Members of Fairy tail; stand down and turn over the member known as Lucy Heartfillia. Do this your deaths will be only slightly painful."
"LIKE HELL WE'LL GIVE ONE OF OUR OWN MEMBERS OVER TO YOU!" Natsu yelled in fury. "YOU CAN HAVE THIS INSTEAD" With that said Natsu proceeded to throw a giant fire ball down the middle of the cannon.
"Foolish boy." The voice from the loud speaker said again. "You leave us with no choice then, you will all die and then we shall just take Lucy. I Jose of Phantom Lord decree you shall all perish before the might of the Jupiter Cannon."
Magical energy started to swirl around this tip of the cannon and a purplish light could be seen gathering at the base of the cannon's tube. Thinking on her feet Erza quickly shouted, "Everyone get out of the way now!" Requiping to her Adamantine Armor; she jumped in front of the cannon just as the cannon fired its magical beam. Erza slammed the two shields on her arms together and braced for impact. The beam of energy raced towards Erza and slammed into her like Freight Train and she struggled in holding her ground. She was slowly being pushed back by the beam while it started to die down, but just as it looked like she was going to get out of it fine her armor shattered and the remainder of the cannons blast slammed into her hurling her back a couple yards.
Natsu watched in horror as Erza slammed into the ground from the blast and ran over to her. He slid to a stop next to her and picked her head up off the ground and put it in his lap. "Erza are you okay?" He asked worriedly and then thought, 'Of course she's not. I'm a fucking idiot she just took that blast while I stood back and not even attempted to help.'
Natsu shifted Erza's position as she started groaning so she could be more comfy and gently shook her causing her to slowly open her eyes. "Okay I admit that one did hurt a little." Erza said in a quiet joking tone. "Yeah I assumed so, will you be okay?" Natsu asked with concern being evident.
"I just need to rest up a bit and I'll be fine." Erza replied as she shakily stood up.
As Natsu started to help Erza back towards the guild they heard Jose speaking into the loudspeaker again, "Well it seems you have survived but don't think you're safe. Tremble in fear for in 15 minutes we will fire again and you will be wiped from existence."
As the speaker fell silent Natsu declared, "I'll blow up your cannon in 10 minutes."
Not giving anyone a chance to fully comprehend what he said so they could stop him from doing something reckless Natsu took off at a sprint running for Phantom Lord's headquarters with the intent of taking it all down. Natsu blasted himself forward and landed on the giant's arm which he proceeded to run up and jump into the barrel of the cannon. He quickly dashed inside with the single thought of stopping the cannon.
Back with the guild Mirajane was helping Erza into the guild so she could rest up a little bit. They all had decided they had to put Lucy in hiding who was now currently being taken by Loke to warehouse so she was safe. They sent Reedus to go find Master Makarov who had gone to Porlyusica for a check up to make sure there was nothing wrong with him still. The rest of Fairy Tail was preparing for any attack that might come.
'Natsu better be alright after this.' Erza thought to herself. She was still mad at him for that move he used in Phantom Lord. She was grateful for what he did by bring the master back, but she couldn't bare the thought after loosing him. 'After all this is done, I'm going to put a stop to that forsaken tower we were building. I need to stop Jellal from using that tower. I just hope it isn't too late.' Erza sat down and continued to think about how she would confront Jellal and how he had changed just before she got away from the tower.
Back with Natsu:
Natsu had just gotten through the barrel of the tank and was in a wide circular room with a giant lacrima in the middle of the room. 'I guess that's what is controlling the blast from the cannon.' Natsu thought to himself. "Well time to take care of this lacrima."
Natsu started building up his fire getting ready to blow it up but hears someone call out, "I am sorry but I can't allow you to do that."
Natsu turns to see who spoke and is jerked forwards by an unseen force. "I am Totomaru of the Element Four. I will not let you destroy our cannon, and besides you are powerless before me for I control all forms of fire." Totomaru said smugly.
Natsu grinned in a feral like manner and said, "Oh is that so? Well then lets see you try to control me."
With that said Natsu lunged forward towards Totomaru igniting his fists to only be stopped again by an unknown force. "What the fuck is going on I can't move." Natsu said while struggling to get free.
"Like I said I can control all forms of fire." Totomaru said and with a wave of his hand Natsu started punching himself.
"You bastard." Natsu said in between punches.
Natsu then thought, 'Well what if I'm not using my fire?' and with that Natsu stopped using his fire and fell forward from the sudden loss of force holding him. Totomaru growled in annoyance and launched his own fire attack towards Natsu who jumped out of the way and slammed his knee into Totomaru's face then threw him into the ground.
"I'm not some novice who will be tricked by your fire manipulation. If there's no fire then you have no control." Natsu said with a smirk.
Natsu turned towards the lacrima again and started to build his fire up once more and yelled "Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" launching the fire ball towards the lacrima. Just as it was about to hit the fire ball stopped in mid air and headed straight back towards Natsu who let out a squeak and started running from his own fire ball.
"Not some novice are you?" Totomaru said while making the fireball chase after Natsu who was running around the room from the fireball.
"OH JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY." Natsu yelled as he kicked Totomaru in the face as he ran by. With Totomaru being knocked unconscious the fireball disappeared giving Natsu a chance to stop and catch his breath.
"Okay this time I am destroying it." Natsu said as he threw another fireball towards the lacrima this time effectively hitting it and causing it to blow up.
"Now that that is taken care of I need to go check on the guild." Natsu said to himself as he started running out of the cannons room. When Natsu was about to get out of the cannons room a figure dropped down in front of him barring his path. Natsu grinned a little and said, "Back for more are you?"
Back at the guild:
The members of Fairy Tail were cheering at Natsu's success on destroying the Jupiter Cannon. "So flame brain can actually do something good." Gray said while smirking. "Well a man isn't totally useless." Elfman said from the side. Before Gray could say something else they heard Jose use the loudspeaker again. "Insolent fools. I gave you a chance and you throw it back in my face so now you will not receive any mercy. Now face the might of my Shades."
As Jose stopped speaking hundreds of shades started appearing out of no where and started circling the guild and its members. Erza had come running out of the guild at hearing Jose speaking again to see all the shades circling the guild. "EVERYONE PROTECT THE GUILD AND EACHOTHER WE MUST STOP THE SHADES." Erza yelled as she ran up to all the other members.
Back with Natsu:
Natsu was staring at the person blocking his path with a feral grin. "So I get to kick your ass again eh Black Steel?"
"No I'm going to be killing you Salamander." Gajeel responded as he charged at Natsu yelling "Iron Dragon's Club!"Natsu was staring at the person blocking his path with a feral grin. "So I get to kick your ass again eh Black Steel?"
"No I'm going to be killing you Salamander." Gajeel responded as he charged at Natsu yelling "Iron Dragon's Club!"
Natsu ducked out of the way of Gajeel's attack and kicked Gajeel in his legs as he went by causing him to trip and fall forward. Gajeel growled in annoyance and rolled back up barely avoiding another kick from Natsu who ended up with his foot through the floor. "Heh looks like your not messing around Salamander." Gajeel said while smirking.
"No not at all so please just die already." Natsu replied while pulling his foot back through the floor and igniting his hands and jumped towards Gajeel punching out and hitting him in the stomach. Gajeel coughed out and stumbled backwards from the force of the blow and then found himself being thrown back further, courteously of Natsu. Gajeel pulled himself up and jumped out of the way of Natsu charging at him with a flaming punch and sent out a pillar of iron towards Natsu, successfully hitting him in the head.
Now it was Natsu's turn to growl in annoyance as he felt the iron hit him in the back of the head. "Okay Gajeel time to turn up the heat." Natsu said as he righted himself and faced Gajeel.
Natsu started to cover his body in flames hot enough to melt steel and charge Gajeel tackling him to the ground and repeatedly punching Gajeel in the face and chest. Gajeel did his best to block the punches from Natsu and tried to find any opening he could to either retaliate against Natsu or to get away and recover.
Natsu pulled his arm back for a final devastating punch to end Gajeel but Gajeel took the moment of time from the arm being pulled back and for the punch to be thrown by grabbing Natsu's arm and threw him away and off him so he could get back up. "Alright then Salamander, no more playing nice. Your flames may burn normal metal but let's see you get through my Iron Dragon Scales."
As Gajeel finished talking his body started turning scaly and was completely covered in Iron scales. Even his hair had scales on it; his entire body was now as if it was covered in armor. "Let's see you damage me now!" Gajeel roared at Natsu while charging at him yelling "Iron Dragon's Sword!" causing his right arm to turn into a jagged saw like sword. He immediately started slashing at Natsu who was jumping around avoiding the sword as best as he could but Gajeel was relentless with his onslaught.
Back with Fairy Tail:
Erza was doing her best to keep order with the guild as the Shades just seemed to appear endlessly. The guild had so far been taking the shades down without any casualties but people were starting to tire out from the constant fighting. "Ugh I need a break." Gray said while panting. "There's just no end to these damned things."
"Keep it together and fight like a man Gray!" Elfman roared as he took down a shade that appeared in front of them. "Yeah, yeah, whatever." Gray said while rolling his eyes.
As the guild fought on the area around the guild seemed to get darker and colder. The air around the guild seemed full of hatred, fear, and death. Amongst all the shades a large ball started forming in the air. "What the fuck is that?" Gray said in shock as the balled formed to be some kind of shadowy demon with glowing red eyes and a fanged mouth. It started descending upon the guild and started bashing on the guild with its arms as soon as it got in range.
"Stop the giant shade! It's attempting to destroy the guild!" Cana cried out while shooting some of her magic cards towards it.
With Loke and Lucy:
"I appreciate you staying here with me Loke." Lucy said to Loke as she strummed her fingers on a crate in boredom.
"It's no trouble Lucy, I am always glad to help a guild mate." Loke said as he cleaned off his glasses. "I just hope everyone else is holding up well enough in the fight."
"I'm sure there fine, though how much you want to bet Natsu did something stupidly reckless?" Lucy asked casually.
"5,000 jewels says he ran off on his own and got his ass kicked." Loke said while laughing.
"Alright you're on Loke." Lucy said as she reached over to shake on it.
As Loke was about to reach over and shake on it there was an explosion from the door way. "What the fuck was that?" Loke asked as he righted himself from falling over.
"I don't know." Lucy said as she coughed from the smoke.
After the smoke cleared Lucy and Loke saw 3 people standing there with evil grins on there faces. "Looks like we found you Lucy." The girl in the middle said while the other two guys started circling around the sides.
"Who are you?" Loke asked as he eyed the two guys circling them.
"Isn't obvious? We're from Phantom Lord and we're here to take Lucy to our master." The girl said.
Back with Natsu and Gajeel
Gajeel was swinging his sword/arm around wildly trying to cut Natsu in half while Natsu was still trying to dodge all the swings. "HAHAHAHA, I'll admit you're a nimble little fucker Salamander." Gajeel said as Natsu jumped over Gajeel.
"You're not too bad yourself you fucking tin can." Natsu said as he landed.
"Tin can? That's just harsh man." Gajeel said while swinging his sword at Natsu neck.
Natsu ducked under the swing and got up in Gajeel's face throwing a punch into his stomach knocking him back a few feet. Gajeel rolled to a stop and jumped up only to fall down laughing. Natsu was rolling around grabbing his hand yelling, "IT DOESN'T HURT!" Over and over again.
After Natsu stopped rolling around Gajeel got up and said, "You know you're a dumbass right Salamander?"
Natsu growled and charged at Gajeel punching him in the chest and sending him through the wall outside of the giant. Gajeel landed on the arm of the giant and looked up in time to see Natsu flying down at him with his leg out. Gajeel jumped out of the way just as Natsu crashed down on the spot Gajeel was occupying just a moment before. As Gajeel landed he yelled out, "IRON DRAGON'S ROAR!" sending out his breath attack towards Natsu who countered with his own breath attack.
When the two attacks collided it sent out a shockwave knocking them both off the giant and landing on the cliff's edge with a loud crash.
Back with Fairy Tail
Erza was attacking shades relentlessly as the rest of the guild tried to stop the giant shade from destroying the guild hall though nothing seemed to phase it. Erza was working overtime trying to take out any shade that attempted to attack a guild mate when she heard the giant shade roar out and smashed one of the guild walls. She looked over and saw the right guild wall had been caved in while the shade started pounding on the roof. 'We need to find away to stop the shade from destroying the guild but nothing seems to affect it.' Erza thought desperately.
Erza saw another shade attempting to attack Gray from behind so she dashed over and stabbed the shade just as Gray turned around to see the shade attempt to kill him. "Wow thanks for the save Erza." Gray said while sighing.
"Just keep your eyes open Gray." She replied.
Erza was about to go off again when they heard a crash again. Erza and Gray looked over towards the cliff and saw Natsu and Gajeel indented into the ground. They both ran over to Natsu to see if he was alright. As they got over to him Natsu was pulling himself out of the ground only to see Erza and Gray running to him. "Natsu are you alright?" Erza asked worriedly.
"Oh I'm sure torch head is alright Erza." Gray said while smirking. "I mean he does have a hard head after all."
Natsu growled and said, "Hard head huh? Let's see just how hard it is Ice queen." Natsu then proceeded to head butt Gray effectively knocking him to the ground.
Erza just sighed and looked over to Gajeel as he groaned from the impact who was also out of his Iron scales again. "What should we do with him Natsu?" She asked.
"Leave him to me Erza he's a lot stronger then he seems." Natsu said as Gajeel got back on his feet.
"Ready for round two Salamander?" Gajeel asked once he was up.
"You know it Black Steel." Natsu replied as he got in a fighting stance. "Erza, Gray get back to the guild and help them again, I can handle him." Erza nodded and grabbed Gray while running back towards the guild.
Natsu and Gajeel started circling each other waiting for someone to make a move. Gajeel decided to attack first and charged Natsu throwing a iron pillar at him causing Natsu to jump back out of the way. "FIRE DRAGON'S FLAME ELBOW!" Natsu yelled out hitting Gajeel across the face and sent him flying towards Fairy Tail and its members.
At this point the shade had already destroyed the roof of the guild and was working on the last of the walls. Fairy Tail's members were working desperately to destroy the shade before their guild was completely destroyed. The shade roared out bringing both hands together and slamming its fists down onto the guild and reducing the guild to nothing but rubble. The shade was laughing as it faded away into the darkness with its mission accomplished leaving Fairy Tail in despair.
Erza stood transfixed on the sight of the guilds pile of rubble not wanting to believe the guild hall was taken down. Erza wasn't the only one staring in disbelief, Alzack and Bisca had both slumped down to the ground while Macao and Wakaba were frozen in shock. Elfman and Gray faces were contorted in fury not wanting to believe the guild had been destroyed. Erza took a deep breath turning to the guild and said, "Everyone we cannot give up. Our guild may have been destroyed but we all still stand. We must fight to avenge what was taken from us. Let us take down Phantom Lord and show them we will not be beaten!"
Erza's speech seemed to help the guild as they all cheered out getting ready to fight once again.
Back with Lucy and Loke
Loke was doing his best to defend Lucy who was being restrained by the two guys from Phantom Lord but was having trouble since he was exhausting fast. The girl from Phantom Lord, Sue was laughing at him for tiring so easy. "Hehe you're nothing but a pathetic looser fairy boy." Sue said while preparing her magic. "This ends now! Kaleidoscope!" She yelled out while casting the magic which caused mirrors to form all around Loke trapping him inside a diamond shaped cage of mirrors.
"Alright he's taken care of; let's get the girl back to headquarters." Sue said while knocking Lucy out to prevent her from running away. They then turned and started heading back to Phantom Lord.
Back with Fairy Tail
Natsu jumped after Gajeel as he sent him flying away, he wanted this fight over so he could assist everyone else. As Gajeel stopped moving he righted himself and dodges out of the way of Natsu bringing his foot down where Gajeel's head had been just a second before. "What do you say we finish this now Salamander? No more playing around. No more pulling punches. We end this now!" Gajeel yelled out while bringing his power to the maximum.
Before Natsu could respond he heard the sound of wood breaking to look over and see the guild reduced to rubble. Natsu stood there in shock looking at the guilds pile of rubble. 'My home…it's gone.' Natsu thought to himself, not hearing Erza give her speech to everyone. Natsu then felt nothing but absolute fury. His guild was destroyed and his guild mates had been under attack all day. He was beyond mad; he wanted to make Phantom Lord pay. Natsu turned back to Gajeel with a death glare and said, "You want to end this now Gajeel? Fine then. I'LL SHOW YOU MY FULL POWER!" Natsu roared out with his power blasting around him in torrents of fire. Gajeel started backing away slightly recognizing with dread what was happening.
Back with Erza
Erza and the guild had been fighting the shades with renewed vigor and it was looking like they were going to win. The shades had mostly been driven back and they were all cheering. "We will avenge our guild! We will bring Phantom Lord to justice!" Erza yelled out while raising her sword in the air. The members of Fairy Tail gave a final attack with their remaining power destroying the last of the shades. All of Fairy Tail cheered out as the last shade was destroyed.
"WE WILL WIN THIS FIGHT!" Erza yelled out again. "NOTHING WILL STAND IN OUR WAY OF AVENGING OUR FALLEN MEMBMERS AND OUR GUILD!" The members of Fairy Tail kept cheering but then stopped as they felt a blast of power blow through the area.
Everyone looked over to where Gajeel and Natsu had been fighting and Erza paled. 'Oh no…not again.' She thought as she looked at Natsu.
Natsu was surrounded by black fire again.