"This guy really is a Jackal, huh?" Vector said.

"Huh? How do you...oh I get it. That chameleon I hit was your little friend wasn't he?" Jackal said grinning wickedly. "Yeah. He went down so easily when i blew up the building and he fled like a coward."

"Yeah. And I'm gonna make you pay for hurting him." Vector said.

Jackal just grinned as with a move of his hands, a wind blew around the town as one explosion after another went off.

"What kinda man are you?! Sure youre a demon, but the city? Its him you want, right?" Usopp said.

"Heh. So what if a few humans die? No skin of my bones." Jackal said. "Now Explosion!"

As an explosion went off around Natsu, he quickly started eating it.

"Yeah! Do it Natsu!" Usopp shouted.

"What gives? Is he eating my explosion?" Jackal said as Natsu punched him down to the ground as he got on his feet. "Whoa this guy's like a living fireball. You're kidding me!"

Natsu then uppercutted him into the air before charging at him. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" he shouted before punching him into a brick wall and then knee striking him through it.

"Yeah! Go Natsu!" Usopp cheered.

"Whoa. You guys are good. Better than I thought you'd be. But there's something you should know about my power." Jackal said before being punched again and lying on the ground as Natsu got on top.

"I am through with you!" Natsu said as her furiously beat Jackal in the face.

"Uh...you know we need him conscious right?" Lucy asked.

"Huh? Oh that's right. He's suppose to tell us where their hideout is." Natsu said.

"King of overkill, that natsu." Vector said.

"Well, it looks like you guys got it covered so I'll be on my way." Michello said trying to flee.

"He's definitely hiding something." Usopp said.

"I'm not hiding anything and that's final!" Michello said.

"What a shame." Jackal said surprising them as he got up. "If you had some juicy info to share I might have let you leave with your body intact."

"He doesnt know anything, he said it. I think. And what are you made of?" Vector said.

"You should be more worried about not listening to me." Jackal said as natsu started glowing. "Y'see, theres more to my Explosion Curse. Anyone stupid enough to hit me gets turned into a living bomb. I wonder, how many times did you touch me?"

"We fell for it. Viola will survive this because of her new armored skin, but the rest of us need to run!" Usopp said.

"Keep far away from me!" Natsu shouted before the explosion went off as they ran with Jackal laughing.

Viola held up against the explosion as it hit her before she was sent flying out and hitting the ground. "No way...his explosions...they're more powerful than the ones I make." Viola said.

She then saw Jackal move out of the ruined house with natsu out cold as Viola held a rumble ball.

"Cant afford to use Overheat yet. I need to get in closer before I start up the timer for it. But, i gotta save the council member." Viola thought as Jackal was leaping into town as she ran after him.

She finally caught up to where Lucy was trapped in a land mine curse as Jackal had two people in spheres. A woman and Michello.

Viola gripped the rumble ball before something came out of nowhere and knocked Jackal into the water. She was shocked to see it was Natsu.

"Natsu! Remember his curse?" Viola asked as natsu knocked out Michello.

"Huh? I didn't forget." Natsu said as he put the marked spot in his mouth as it went off. "See, easy peasy." Natsu said.

"He ate the explosion as it went off in his mouth." Viola said.

"And now we really get to hurt him." Vector said.

"Okay. Now I can use it. Rumble!" Viola said ingesting the ball as her skin turned red and heated. "I make explosions too. But you don't even care about who gets hurt. I can't just let that go."

"What the hell?!" Jackal asked.

"You wont touch me now. My body is burning hot." Viola said as she got in the water with Natsu.

"These guys, they're al lot stronger than when they started out. But so am I." Jackal thought as his body shifted and changed before becoming a larger jackal like creature and roared.

"Well, least we know where he got his name." Natsu said. "You can dish out more like that right?"

"Yeah, but I've gotta finish this fight in approximatly.." Viola said before she was hit by Jackal making an explosion.

"HAHAHA! You think I'm just gonna sit by and let you power up. Hardly. I'm gonna kill you before you can even finish this!" Jackal said laughing as he unleashed explosion after explosion on her.

Each explosion tore away more and more at her second skin as it was beginning to rip.

"Not good. We didn't count on continuous attacks in one spot." Viola thought. "What's more...his explosions are actually hurting me."

"But hes just a demon, Viola!" Natsu said hitting him. " Hes got no reason to fight! And because he hurt my friends, hes gonna pay the price!"

He knocked down Jackal, doin massive damage.

"This is for Laxus, and the Thunder Legion!" Natsu said incorporating electricity into his flames.

Viola then got an idea.

"And this is for all the people you hurt today!" Voila said channeling all the heat head into her left arm and making the skin burn off, making it glow like a nuclear bomb.

"Lighting Flame Dragon...Iron Hammer!"

"Warhead….Destruction!" she shouted giving a punch to him as well as Jackal went flying and crashed into the ground.

"Nice job, Viola!" Vector said.

"Whew… transferring all of the heat from your body into a punch that packed the force of a nuclear bomb." Usopp said.

"Yeah. But...all that force comes with drawbacks." Viola said showing her arms was a broken wreck with some of her actual skin missing.

"Dont worry, we'll have Chopper and Mikan fix that right up." Vector said.

"Hehehe. Sorry, but you guys won't be seeing anyone." Jackal said as they saw him glowing as was the land. "Not where you're going at least. Kyoka, forgive me. You're gonna have a tough time bringing me back, but this is the only way I can take these humans with me."

"No, hes gonna detonate himself and take us with him!" Vector said.

"Ahaahahah! I'll see you all in hell!" Jackal said.

"Not if i can help it!" Happy siad using Max Speed to fly Jackal upwards.

"Wha? Happy, no!" Natsu shouted.

"You stupid little cat!" Jackal said.

"Happy! Get away from him now!" Wendy shouted.

"You can tell your friends to stay in hell cause there's no way you're ever gonna win." Happy said.

"I'll be baaaccckkk!" Jackal shouted before he exploded.

"Happpppyyyyy!" Natsu shouted.

"He...he can't be gone." Usopp said.

The group was looking sad before they saw something fly down towards them. It was a charred Happy with puffed up hair.

"Nice hair, stupid." Vector said as he and Usopp and Viola and the group fought back some tears.

"Uh...I could really use a fish." Happy said.

Two other masters were killed before Gray and Gajeel's teams could ever get to them. But Elfman and Lisanna, accompanied by Kakyoin and Kanji.

"Hmm. Looks like they got this guy too." Kanji said.

"But hes not even injured, what happened to Master Yuri?" Elfman said as he awoke and destroyed their communication crystal, then flopped back down.

"What the…?" Kanji said before turning to see someone in the library.

"Well, it was trying to make him look convincing, but a corpse is a corpse." said a girl with horns, black hair and robes that went up to her chest to expose her bust. She had long green leggings on that came down to expose her feet. "These fairy tales are quite boring. They all live so happily. What your kind needs is a demon tale." she said putting it down.

Kanji's nose was bleeding. "Uh… wh-who the hell are you?"

"Sayla of Tartaros and the Nine Demon Gates." she said.

"Kanji… your nose is bleeding." Kakyoin said.

"Shut up! It aint my fault that one of their members is a girl!" Kanji said.

"Putting that aside, did you really think I'd be foolish to know your curse is the same as my Stand's Ability?" Kakyoin said as Hireophant Green slithered out and oozed up to its normal form. "I already had Hireophant -Gah!" Kakyoin said as Kanji's was choking him. "Kanji, what are you…"

"Its...not me man." Kanji said.

"You are the fool. I know about your so called Stand. That Dio fellow told all of us about them." Sayla said.

"So dio was already here…" Kakyion said.

"Yes, but the pawn he sent with me...he was too weak for my tastes." Sayla said unveiling an old man dead on the ground. "Apparently his stand was the Tower. He failed to do a convincing job with visitors, so I used Macro to force him to commit suicide."

"So what youre doin to me and Elfman.. This is what you can do?" Kanji asked.

"My curse is called Macro. It allows me to take control of you humans as if you were my puppets." Sayla said.

"Damn, we dont do somethin, Elfman and i are gonna choke Kakyoin and Lisanna to death." Kanji said.

"Please. Make it stop. She's my sister. I don't want her to be gone again." Elfman said.

"Yeah. Kakyoin, he doesn't deserve to go either." Kanji said.

"Are you two perhaps...willing to sell your own souls to me?" Sayla asked.

"What the hell does that mean?" Kanji asked.

'I can let you stop hurting them...but in exchange...you have to do things for me." Sayla said.

"W-we'll do it. RIght Elfman?" Kanji said.

"Yeah. I just don't wanna kill Lisanna. Just tell us to do whatever. We'll do it." Elfman said.

"Perfect." Sayla smiled.

Back at the guild…

"Guys. We're back on track!" Lucy said on it.

"How did things go?" Hope asked.

"Things were dicey. But we managed to take care of Jackal." Viola said.

"But the guy is still being tightlipped." Vector said. "He knows something about Face."

"Face?" Nami asked.

"Michello, if you know something about this Face than tell us!" Makarov said.

"Face...its the most powerful weapon the council even has." Michello said.

"A weapon?" Mary said.

"The council has its own set of weapons. Each with its own set of rules. One example is the Etherion Cannon. It has power to turn a nation into a crater. Thus it needs the approval of nine council members and the input of 10 security codes." Michello said.

"Face...what does it do? Tell us, council member." Inga said.

"Face..its an anti magic pulse bomb. This device can clear our continent of any source of magic." Michello said.

"And all of the members of Tartaros use curses. If they activate and detonate Face, all of the wizards on this world will lose their magic. But we'll be unaffected, right?" Hope asked.

"We don't use magic so yes. But, Tartaros would have full claim to everything." Jexi said.

"You have to tell us who has access to face!" Hope said.

"Th-the former chairman knows of three members who used body link magick to bind keys to them. If they die, the keys unlock face. I don't know who they are. I swear." Michello said.

"But i think we have the address of the chairman." Hope said.

"COrrection, we do." Makarov said. "Erza and Mirajane have already been sent with that green haired swordsman and that giant girl."

On a deer were Erza and Mirajane.

"Wheres Zoro, giant?" Erza asked.

"My name is Titanica. Huh? Weird. I was sure he was right behind us." Titanica said.

"You do know thats a bad idea." Hope said.

"Why?" Makarov said.

"He has a terrible sense of direction." jexi said.

In the woods, Zoro was grumbling as he looked at the paths. "Damn it. Which one do I take?" Zoro shouted.

"Simply go in the direction that we're heading." a voice said from behind as Zoro turned.

"So, its you guys…" Zoro said.

"After all, we feel like we might need your help." said Spectra with the members of his group.

"So...what is it you want me to do?" Zoro asked with a smirk.

"Taming a few wild dogs." Spectra said.