In the world of Earthland, there were many things that one from Earth may consider "Strange". Things such as wizards from every corner of the globe capable of wielding tremendous power, strange magical creatures that inhabit the more wild parts of the planet and even demons that strike fear into every humans heart.
However a war between humans an immortal and the black dragon of the apocalypse would have been weird even for the people of earthland. And that was what was happening right that moment in the country of Fiore, where the previously mentioned black dragon of the apocalypse, whom had wreaked havoc and despair across the face of earthland for centuries, was currently chasing after a very fast airship with a wizard known as a "dragon slayer" aboard it.
This dragons name, real name, was Acnologia. He was once a dragon slayer himself, however after fighting in a massive dragon civil war 400 years ago. He overused his magic and turned into a dragon himself, a dragon capable of things no other mortal or god had ever even dreamed of in the realm of earthland. He was on a mission to destroy every living dragon on the planet, and that included dragon slayers.
Acnologia was getting rather close to the ship when it suddenly sped up dramatically, he took a moment to regain his bearings.
'Smart.' Acnologia thought, the black dragon then spread his mighty wings to their full length and absorbed more magic within the air.
'But as long as a "dragon" still exists.' He thought as his massive wings then beaten towards the left.
'I'll still hunt you.'
The airship known as the maria suddenly slowed down incredibly, as the black dragon had somehow caught up to it in record time and slammed his talon into its side creating an explosion within its interior. He roared as he knew his attempt to slow the vehicle down was successful. However that was also the same moment when the black dragon paused before attempting to rip the magical airship to pieces, he could feel very something odd far away in the distance. Something concerning. Far more concerning than the airship he was currently attacking. He looked towards the ship, he could practically taste the dragon slayer within it who had escaped his grasp earlier. But what he felt needed his attention far more than her.
As the wizards within the airship got ready to fight an unwinnable battle against the dragon that the entire world feared and lure him into a trap, they were shocked to find out that the relentless dragon king had..well relented his search and flown away for seemingly no good reason.
As Acnologia flew across the skies he attempted to pinpoint the massive surge in magic he had felt earlier. Due to how far away it had been it was some weird miracle he had even noticed it, had he not been paying attention he would've still been chasing the airship. Funny how things sometimes work out like that, as he flew he realized how large the power truly was and made a mental note to work on his sensing abilities because he felt like an absolute moron for not noticing it before. The dragon flew above a rather large city and pinpointed the power within a rather busted up three story castle with a bell on the top of it. Acnologia roared, sending a wave of sound so powerful that it blew away clouds and shattered the windows far below. The dragon then began to change, a massive white light enveloped the black creature, it's arms retracted, it's eyes suddenly lost some of their white and began to form irises with lizard like pupils. When the dragon finally landed it was no longer a dragon, but a dark skinned man with many blue markings, a missing arm and very long, messy blue hair. A white glow formed around him and a tattered black cloak appeared covering him up.
Acnologia walked into the guild hall, unsure of what exactly he would find. However he was rather surprised to see what had produced so much power, and who was facing him. The man who had summoned him was enveloped in an almost angelic white and golden glow, everything from his hair to his eyes were white and gold. Even his clothes were white with gold trimmings and he had two tribalistic wings coming out of his back that were produced from his very strange power alone. This man was Zeref, the immortal black wizard.
Opposing him was a wizard, a dragon slayer. A fire dragon slayer to be exact, one he remembered to be named "Natsu Dragneel". He was the dark magicians brother, and he seemed to be almost on the brink of death whilst facing the now white wizard. His flames were burning violently, but they were certainly dying out. Both combatants halted their battle upon the arrival of Acnologia, who had taken both completely off guard. Natsu appeared to be more taken aback then Zeref however.
"Acnologia, I hadn't expected you to intervene in my battle with Natsu." Zeref said, his eyes seemed distant, as if his mind was someplace else. However the power he wielded was something not even the dragon king had felt before, not even in his fight against the mighty fire dragon king, Igneel. Who could shatter mountaintops with his very breath. He looked over to Natsu who was glaring back at him with a face full of hate, it was understandable, Igneel was the boy's father after all. His magic power had grown extraordinarily since the last time Acnologia saw him, however he reasoned that it may actually have something to do with the mark on his shoulder and Zeref. For some reason some power was actually seeping off Zeref and into Natsu.
"I was about to journey into a new world, one where I can live in peace. One where you will never become the dragon king...however defeating you as you are now, with the power I wield, will be far more satisfying." Zeref said, the white mage took a step forward. His magic power leaking off him in waves as it came back at a faster rate, causing the temperature in the hall to skyrocket faster than the flames that Natsu was producing could do. However despite his seemingly infinite power, Acnologia smiled. There was a reason he was known as the mightiest being on earthland.
All dragon slayers have their own element, Natsu had fire for instance, another may have lightning and another may even have iron or air. However Acnologia's element, was magic itself, every element to him was edible and useless against him unless used properly.
"Finally, a true challenge. I haven't felt such a thrill since my clash with the fire dragon king, the one that took my arm." Acnologia stated, as Zeref walked closer his smile began to falter. Despite his newfound power, he knew full well of the might of the dragon king Acnologia. This would truly be a battle worthy of testing his power and beyond, but before either them could begin their battle. The third party spoke up.
"Y-you..took my father from me..attacked and nearly massacred my guild..you even tore Gildarts apart...what I do now isn't for my guild." Natsu proclaimed as his right hand lit ablaze with flames that could only be topped by the fire dragon king himself. I was impressed by his display of power, he truly was one of the strongest wizards to ever walk the face of earthland.
"IT'S FOR ME!"
Natsu launched forward, his fist engulfed in bright red and yellow flames before he shot his fist at my face. Acnologia had predicted this, after all it wasn't his first time seeing him in action and even then it didn't take a genius to figure out that Natsu was a close combat brawler more than anything. As his flames touched the dragon kings skin, he was surprised to feel that they actually burned his skin a bit. This infuriated him a little, but deep down, he became excited, the thrill of combat overcame him. Acnologia used his magic to dispel the flames around his hands and grabbed Natsu's arm, Natsu winced as his grip was way stronger than he had expected as was his strength as the dragon king lifted him up and slammed him into the ground. Natsu coughed up blood before feeling his spine crack as Acnologia drove his foot into his back and sent him flying into the wall at the other side of the hall. Zeref merely watched by the sidelines, seemingly bored at the display.
"As fun as I believe a clash between us would be, Natsu, I sadly have other matters to attend to at the moment. Don't worry, once I'm done with Zeref I'll be back for you and the others." Acnologia said with a toothy grin, Natsu glared at the dragon king with as much hate as he could possibly muster as he pushed himself up from the new massive hole in the wall. He tried standing, but quickly had to lean on a large piece of debris. His glares never faltered, bit he didn't seem to be keen on attacking anymore, so Acnologia allowed himself to look back towards the real threat at hand. The two ancients stared each other down, neither one making a move on the other. The guild was silent, all except for Natsu's breathing, and when he broke the tension with a rather loud and painful cough.
All hell broke loose.
Zeref had been the one to make the first move by practically vanishing. Acnologia was a little surprised before he sought out his magical power, it didn't take long for Acnologia to snuff him out as he had launched himself into the opposite side of the guildhall, his hand and fingers outstretched. A moment later Zeref came back into view, and his side was completely tore open. Natsu had stopped breathing in that moment, most likely due to shock at Acnologia's power. However it wasn't like Acnologia hadn't tried, he had redirected all his power into his hand and even then it felt like sticking his hand into the sun briefly as it was now smoking. The dragon king shook his hand before looking to see the damage, only to see that Zeref's side had completely reformed out of thin air, even his clothing was back. Acnologia smiled, and Zeref did at the same time. He then saw the white mage vibrate strangely before he shot forward faster than even the regular trained eye could see. Acnologia tried to get out of the way but what remained of his left shoulder was then torn open, his shoulder seared in pain and the king opened his mouth but nothing came out. He was feeling pain, actual and real pain, for the first time in years.
It was honestly refreshing, and infuriating. Acnologia decided to go on the offensive once more, he leaped forward off his right foot towards Zeref. Zeref calmly attempted to stop him in midair, however Acnologia created a wave of magic underneath of himself in midair and flipped over the white mage before he could figure out what had really happened. Acnologia spun around once his foot touched the ground and drove his fist into Zeref's spine, the attack caused a shockwave that revertabrated throughout Zeref's body and it destroyed the right half of the guild hall completely along with a number of houses in that direction. The landscape had been flattened and Zeref's body was now disfigured, however once again Zeref began to immediately regenerate. Acnologia snarled but he had anticipated this and used this time to activate a technique he had not used in much time. First he began to inhale the air, and then a small whitish tornado swirled into his mouth, Zeref's regeneration slowed and Natsu collapsed onto the ground as he suddenly found it very hard to breathe.
A thick and dark purple fog spread throughout Magnolia, anyone who had still been there began to suffocate horribly. Acnologia smiled as he ingested more and more particles, Zeref looked back, now he was no longer distant. If anything he was quite worried.
"You..You're ingesting all the ethernano in the area?" Zeref said as he realized what was happening, the purple fog soon overtook the guild hall as well and that's when Acnologia stopped his feast on ethernano. The legendary dragon smiled as he looked towards his shoulder, it was no longer bleeding and had healed up quite nicely. He then flexed his muscles, and grinned as his magic power practically bursted with a single movement. He then looked towards Zeref before rearing his arm back, then a huge whirlpool of magic swirled around Acnologia's hand creating an earthquake that started to topple nearby houses. The white mage braced himself for what was to come next.
Or at least he tried to, before Acnologia moved so quickly that he became a blur and socked Zeref right in the stomach with a fist infused with all of the magic Magnolia had to offer. The resulting shockwave made the last one look like peanuts as this time the previous hole in the guild became twice as large and the houses beyond it flew into the sky as an invisible wave of destruction spread as far as a nearby mountain before finally halting. When the dust settled, half of Magnolia had been wiped off the face of Earthland along with a nearby mountain. All the remained was a massive crater, but Acnologia didn't care for the damage in the town, he cared for the damage he had dealt to Zeref. The dust finally settled, and he saw Zeref panting heavily while holding his stomach, or at least what was left of it. There was now a gaping hole in Zeref's torso, and it seemed like it had actually affected him.
"H-how can this be? The power of Fairy heart is supposed to be infinite." Zeref asked himself, Acnologia laughed at this, Zeref looked up, his eyes full of hatred.
"What do you find so damn amusing!?" Zeref exclaimed, in that moment his power surged and an aura overtook him. Acnologia ceased his laughter, he had momentarily forgotten who he was dealing with.
"To be infinite means to have no end, however from what it looks like there are more than a few weaknesses to that power of yours..one is that the members of Fairy Tail seem to now get far stronger when they're around you." Acnologia explained to the former black mage, Zeref was surprised he hadn't noticed it before as they both looked at the struggling to breathe Natsu. It was true, Natsu's guild mark had a faint glow to it, and his magic power did seem to be abnormally high.
"Two, while your magic may be infinite, the amount you can put out without destroying yourself does have a limit. In other words." Acnologia said before clenching his fist in a tight ball before smiling.
"You are fallible." Acnologia finished, the dragon was prepared to launch another attack when all of a sudden a wave of light and dark spread around Zeref. The white wizard clenched his teeth and glared at Acnologia.
"No, I was never truly fallible, especially now that I have double the power of the Ankhseram curse within me." Zeref said, Acnologia's eyes widened in realization before a wave of death spread throughout Zeref and then engulfed everything for miles around. Acnologia felt his very soul attempting to leave his body but he held it in by creating a magic barrier around his body. Acnologia watched as everything around him began to fade away, he actually thought it might've been the end.
Until the world came back into view, he almost wished it hadn't. All of Magnolia, had been wiped off the face of the earth. Everything had been turned to ash, all except Natsu, who was still holding on somehow. Except one of his arms had seemingly been torn apart and almost decayed completely, and the dragon slayer himself seemed rather out of it. Acnologia looked around and saw that the very few other people that had been in Magnolia as well had suffered similar injuries, he was honestly rather confused. Zeref himself was on one knee panting. Acnologia had lost quite a bit of magic protecting himself from the attack but wondered why it was so hard to protect himself if it didn't even kill people like Natsu who hadn't been protecting themselves at all. Then he realized it.
'He focused his curse around me, and it still caused this much destruction..still..it seems like something went terribly wrong.' Acnologia thought, he had to take a moment to catch his breath, he had never taken an attack on that scale. Zeref stood up, a little displeased with the result of what he had done.
"It seems that when two curses join their properties also change, for once the inanimate objects around me faded while the living creatures were simply injured extremely. I could grow to live with such a curse honestly." Zeref said calmly, it seemed that hole in his stomach had mostly healed up as well. Acnologia growled and looked towards his golden armband. He grabbed it, and this piqued Zeref's curiosity.
"Black wizard, do you remember why I am known as the mightiest being on Earthland?" Acnologia asked, Zeref was bored by this question but humored the dragon king.
"Well being the dragon king would cause that belief, why?" He remarked, Acnologia did not reply right away. He took a deep breath, as if readying himself for something big.
"No, it's because of the fact that my magic container is so large, that I require a constant magic restrainer or else I would self implode over time." Acnologia said, that's when he slipped his armband off and a magical aura unlike anything Zeref had ever dreamed of burst out of Acnologia's body, ripping apart the earth underneath him and drying up the nearby ocean behind them, the dragon king leaped backwards and seemed to almost ingest his own ethernano. Zeref's instincts began to light themselves on fire and he looked over towards his younger brother before he heard Acnologia say something.
"MAGIC DRAGONS ROAR!" Acnologia chanted, a breath attack burst out of the dragon kings mouth that resembled a beam of white blue, fiery energy. The clouds were blown away quickly, the entire country shook violently and the attack tore apart anything in its path, not even faltering when it tore through a couple of mountains in the distance. Acnologia then ceased his roar and quickly threw his armband back on, his mouth was smoking and it also had black residue around it as if that attack had charred the area around his mouth. He was sweating and panting, he even coughed a few times before regaining his second wind and looking back up. Even he was surprised by the absolute carnage he had inflicted, going off of every enhanced sense of perception he had the attack had somehow changed the majority of Fiore into ravines and soon to be stray islands. Entire mountain ranges had been wiped clean off the face of earthland and he was pretty sure that his attack had even went through the atmosphere. His answer was confirmed when he looked over the horizon, and saw a brand new crater in the moon.
However despite all that power, Zeref still stood. Acnologia audibly roared in frustration, around Zeref and most of Magnolia was a very cracked open Fairy sphere. However what took Acnologia by surprise was that Zeref was protecting the mages as well, now that he thought about it from what he could smell there had been a far smaller number of casualties from his attack than he would have imagined. Which meant one thing, Zeref had used his power to protect the people of Fiore. It didn't take a genius to figure out why either.
"Haha..hahah..HAHAHA! Oh my Ankhseram! Zeref the black wizard using his magic to save the people of Fiore? Your mates spirit must really be rubbing off on you." Acnologia taunted, Zeref realized that he certainly had done just that too. It came as quite a surprise and a grimm realization that Mavis was gaining a bit of control. Zeref's body was smoking, his angelic clothes were tattered, and his tribalistic wings were nearly gone. However then Zeref realized that not all hope was lost, as that attack had taken quite a lot out of Acnologia.
Zeref then released his sphere and took the initiative, he flew over Acnologia and the latter was too tired to properly react. Zeref outstretched his right hand and made a gripping motion, that's when a white and black sphere overtook Acnologia. The dragon king was unable to move and he could feel his life beginning to fade away, however Zeref knew this wouldn't hold him long and so began to prepare his next attack. He halted in midair and whilst upside down he swiped both of his arms in a circular motion until the bottom of his hands met. The hand on top had the index and middle fingers pointing upwards, while the other hand had the little and index fingers pointing downwards. A white and black aura overtook Zeref and his eyes gained double white irises.
"May you suffer at death's doorstep! Acnologia, bane of my very existence!" Zeref exclaimed, a moment later a vertical pillar of black and white magic completely overtook Acnologia and tore into the earth below him and shot into the sky above him. Acnologia roared in pain before he decided to risk it, he began to devour the magic that was being used against him. Despite eating the attack however, his skin was burnt and he was bruised in many places. However, he was about to see if the boost in magic power was worth it as he leaped into the air and came face to face with a surprised white mage.
Acnologia then did something Zeref did not anticipate, he released his magic and created a massive explosion that engulfed them both and blotted out the sky for the people down below. Natsu was just waking up as this happened, and felt very small all of a sudden as he realized the scope of power they were producing. The fire mage looked around and he forgot to breathe as he saw that everything, was gone. The guild hall, the town, even the mountain ranges had been reduced to nothing, for miles it was just ravines and charred ground. The good news was that it seemed his friends had miraculously survived, as he saw some mages walking over to him, namely Gray and Lucy who seemed like they had seen better days. Acnologia saw that the mages were beginning to stir below, and figured that enough was enough.
"Sorry to cut our fight short black wizard, but I'm afraid that the remaining 7 dragon slayers will be here soon thanks to you protecting them. I want to make sure they all know what true fear is." Acnologia stated, Zeref gave him a confused look as his body began to slowly repair itself despite being heavily burnt and bashed around from the earlier explosion. That's when Acnologia was engulfed in a white light, and his body began to morph, his hands became claws, his mouth began to protrude forward and his eyes became as white as snow. When all was done, Zeref was face to face with the true black dragon of the apocalypse. Acnologia raised his massive tail and swiped down at Zeref causing the black mage to cease his mid air suspension and fall to the ground with a few broken ribs. However as Acnologia tried to attack him again a rather familiar airship hit him from the side.
'Seriously what is this stupid thing made out of!?' Acnologia thought angrily as his attention was redirected, he looked onto the ship and smelled the sky slayer from before. He looked to the right of the ships deck and saw a red headed young woman who was giving him a very nasty glare, this was Erza Scarlet of Natsu's guild Fairy Tail. Daughter of the queen of dragons Irene, she summoned over 150 swords above Acnologia and shot them down at him, Acnologia was sent flying towards the ground as the swords struck his hide but stayed in the air only minorly damaged. That's when another mage, known as Jellal Fernandes, shot into the air using his meteor magic and summoned nine golden swords around him.
"Jiu Liexing!" Jellal chanted as he shot the swords into Acnologia's gut creating a massive explosion that forced the dragon backwards. As this battle went on, Zeref was using that time to heal himself. To regain his strength, Zeref knew now that he had been foolish to take an ethernano dragon slayer so lightly from the very beginning. Especially one as overwhelmingly powerful as Acnologia. He started to weigh his options, trying to figure out how he could end Acnologia. That's when he looked over to his younger brother Natsu, and for once in his life he began to think normally. Because of the changed effects of the curse, the burden of what he was actually doing now weighed down on him far more heavily than before. He had been prepared to kill his younger brother, the one he spent so many years trying to bring back. He had even broken the trust of his one and only friend and lover, Mavis to do so. While thinking this, the airship that Acnologia was after earlier landed on the same flat spot away from the canyon where Zeref was, a drawbridge appeared and out walked a familiar blonde haired woman whom he had never thought to see again.
"..Anna heartfilia." Zeref said, the older woman looked him in the eyes with disgust, hatred and a form of pity plastered all over her face. She walked over to the infamous black mage, and to his surprise, she slapped him right in the face. He took a moment and looked back at Anna.
"Zeref, what the hell do you think your doing here?" Anna said, Zeref calmly smiled.
"Why I am here to reset time Anna." Zeref said simply, Anna froze stiff, she immediately realized what that would mean for everyone who lived in this world. After a moment or two, she kneeled down to the white mages level and looked him in the eyes.
"I don't understand you...you spend god knows how many years trying to kill yourself because of some stupid curse, you try to kill the brother you used to love so dearly and you completely forgot why you helped me with the eclipse gate all those years ago. You think resetting time will reset your sins and your curse? Because it won't! It'll just add the sin of erasing another world to your endless list." Anna ranted, Zeref stood up ready to retort. However, to his surprise he found that he couldn't truly find anything to say back in his defence. Anna decided to keep her rant going after seeing he would not respond.
"You helped me, because after Acnologia became who he is at the last dragon king festival, you didn't want your brother to live in a world of fear. Yet over time that plan of yours somehow changed, you've created more fear than Acnologia could have ever done on his own. Tell me why! If you don't have a better excuse than that stupid curse of yours then maybe you should have left your brother for dead!" Anna exclaimed, Zeref became angry at this statement and nearly attacked Anna before remembering who he was talking to. She was the one who nurtured him for so many years, knitted his scarf and helped take care of him when he could not. He held back his attack, but not his anger.
"Don't you ever say those words to me again! You think I was stable? Do you think I could rationally think for all those years, the curse had contradiction in its name for a reason Anna. And even then what would you be like if your body count was in the millions!?" Zeref shot back at her, shs retorted quickly.
"Well since you keep saying "was" and "could" then how do you feel about your brother and they way you've lived right NOW!?" Anna practically screamed, Zeref paused. She was right, he was thinking normally right now, but he was still Zeref the black mage..right?
"Look...I'm not sure I even care if you help your brother or not anymore, I'm more of a guardian to him than you'll ever be. But the fact of the matter is that you want to kill Acnologia, as do we. So help us do that, a common goal." Anna negotiated, Zeref decided that their argument on morality could wait until much later. In order to kill the dragon, he decided to hear out her plan.
As this happened on the ground, Acnologia was currently trying to crush Jellal in his grip after getting a good hold of the bastard. However he had to drop Jellal as a certain sky dragon slayer shot his arm with a dragon force powered breath attack. He looked over and swatted the dragon slayer out of the sky, despite his size he still kept quite a lot of his speed. Acnologia was a little distracted as he saw that Zeref was regaining his strength but these mages had gotten quite strong and were far more bothersome than before. Not even that red headed one with the crash magic had caused him this much trouble.
The dragon decided to stop playing around and start using this fight to his advantage. He allowed Jellal to fly above him and begin casting a spell, Acnologia watched as Jellal placed both arms on top of each other, with the top hand having only the index and middle fingers spread out. Seven Magic Seals were summoned in front of him and connected, creating a constellation of sorts.
"May you be judged by the seven stars...Grand chariot!" Jellal chanted, the seven magic seals then glowed brightly and a massive blast of light hit Acnologia. The magic blast was powerful and that is exactly what Acnologia needed as he began to devour all the magic that had been put into that one attack, Jellal realized what he was doing and made a tactical retreat. Meanwhile, Anna had just explained her plan to rid Acnologia of this world for good.
"It's a good plan Anna, and I commend you for thinking it up. However it has a flaw." Zeref said, Anna was now concerned.
"What? What flaw could there possibly be? Nothing would be able to escape that rift!" Anna exclaimed, Zeref smiled.
"How Naive, Anna, are you aware of what kind of dragon Acnologia is?" Zeref asked her, she furrowed her eyebrows.
"No I'm not, why does that matter?" She asked.
"Why he is an etherion dragon Anna, and you plan on sending him to a place with an infinite supply of magic." Zeref said, Anna realized where she had went wrong now and she looked towards the ground. A sad look overtook her face.
"So there's really no hope then, is there?" Anna asked, Zeref looked indifferent to her, however his face became one of the utmost surprise when a third party entered the conversation.
"No, I believe there is always hope, and today is no different." A girl with long, wavy blonde hair said from behind Zeref. He turned around and froze as he saw his only love, Mavis Vermillion. He was quite surprised to see her standing, because he had stolen her power in order to reset time earlier. She gave him a hard look, and then looked to Anna.
"I know of a spell that can banish Acnologia from this realm. However it will take all parties involved to cooperate..Zeref." Mavis said, the black mage said nothing at first, then sighed and relaxed his body posture.
"Fine then, Mavis, I'll play along with your little plan." Zeref said, she furrowed her eyebrows before raising a hand towards him.
"You'd better."
A glow came from Mavis's hand and it reached out towards Zeref, the glow then began to spread throughout his body, his clothes began to reform, his injuries began to heal and his tribal wings came back into view. Zeref had regained his former strength, all because Mavis was no longer resisting. Zeref looked at his hands as if they were not his own, and then back to Mavis.
"So then my dear Mavis, what is this spell you speak of?" Zeref asked politely, Anna let out a breath of relief as Zeref confirmed that he would lend them his aid.
Nearby their meeting site, Acnologia was currently warding off a brand new foe that had begun attacking him. If he remembered that smell correctly, it was that impudent fool that had attacked him before, the red headed crash mage Gildarts. He had gotten far more powerful over the years, and Acnologia was loving every minute of it.
"I suppose being gutted alive didn't teach you not to mess with me, allow me to correct that mistake." Acnologia bellowed before striking the ground at where Gildarts stood, causing a small earthquake and making the ground shift down. Gildarts managed to leap out of the way and he reared one fist back.
"The day I fought you I had no good reason to fight you, today I have a reason. You're not going to make my only daughters life a living hell like you did for me! Crushing evil, spreading truth:Absolute heaven!" Gildarts roared as he shot forward and drove his fist into Acnologia's chest, resulting in a massive crash magic explosion that sent a ripple throughout the dragon kings body and actually threw him backwards. Acnologia growled as he saw a small bruise on his chest. However just as Acnologia was ready to attack a new voice entered the fray.
"Stygian death circle!" Zeref chanted as he gathered flame-like dark matter in his palm and struck Acnologia in the head with it. The attack caught Acnologia completely off guard and it completely toppled the dragon king and was so powerful it blew Gildarts away completely, Acnologia had to catch himself from rolling into a canyon and picked himself back up only to feel an odd sensation on his head. It felt like something was missing, and when he looked forward he realized what had happened. Zeref's attack had broken off one his mighty horns, and this made Acnologia see red. He roared into the heavens creating a wave of absolute carnage, increasing the size of the canyon he made beforehand. Zeref then took to the sky where Acnologia quickly followed, Acnologia fired a few breath attacks at Zeref which the white mage dodged quickly. Acnologia then had an idea and instead of following Zeref he flew straight up past and above him in a massive burst of speed. He outstretched his wings and roared before lights began to appear in the sky as if the stars that appeared at night had made an early entrance. Soon the whole sky behind Acnologia was filled with white lights.
The dragon king then flapped his wings, and heaven rained down onto earth like a meteor shower of magic. Each ball of magic that hit the earth below caused an explosion that would wipe a town the size of Magnolia off the face of earthland. Zeref managed to dodge for a few seconds before being hit head on with one of the attacks, the explosion nearly sent him hurtling to the ground and it made the explosion that destroyed Tenrou look like child's play. Zeref however shot out of the smoke cloud the attack had made, one of his wings was gone, he was holding his right arm and there was blood seeping out of his mouth, but he was otherwise fine as he kept on flying. Acnologia followed, still in his fit of rage after having one of his horns blown off.
Zeref looked forward for the rift, while it wasn't visible he could easily sense the rift as he now had the power of Fairy Heart within him. It was getting far easier to do so over time as he slowly regenerated, he finally pinpointed it over where the ocean, well, used to be. As he saw it however it suddenly became visible, and Acnologia being an etherion dragon sensed the strange shift in magic and slowed down.
'Wait, what is that?' Acnologia thought as he looked at the strange little vortex in the sky that seemed to be pulling in magic like a little black hole. Zeref realized that if Acnologia really figured out what that was then they might as well get used to living in a world ruled by him. So by tapping into his dark magic, Zeref teleported behind Acnologia, and a white mark appeared on his arm. The mark glowed red a moment later, Acnologia smelled Zeref and whipped his head around to see where he was.
"Now gather, my river of darkness and light that guides Fairies and Spriggans! Gather to end the bane of the world!" Zeref chanted, that's when a ring of light green and yellow energy began to form around Acnologia. The dragon wasn't sure what to make of this attack at all. Not that he had much time to actually react to it either.
"Spriggans Holy redemption!" Zeref chanted, then a blast of green light burst around Acnologia and shook the very foundations of not only Fiore, but Ishgar itself. Every mage on the continent could feel the effects of the spell that Zeref had cast. The temperature around the globe had even spiked for a moment and the pressure for those near the attack was so high it became hard to breathe and caused some serious headaches. Acnologia roared in agony as the green light tore at his scaly hide and began tearing him apart, however he knew he would survive this attack, unluckily for him, so did Zeref. Who brought both his arms behind his back and gathered magic into his palms.
"Now begone from this world Acnologia! Death blast!" Zeref chanted, flame like dark and white matter shot out of his hands as he threw them together and they blew the now injured Dragon king back, right into the space between time, to everyone else it seemed as though Acnologia had fallen through a crack in the sky that vanished as quickly as it had come. That's when Zeref then used the last remaining pieces of his magic power to cast one last spell.
"Celestial ancient magic:Dimensional shift!" Zeref chanted, a massive magic circle appeared in front of the vortex and a light shot into it. Two seconds later and the vortex vanished completely, it was over.
Acnologia was banished.