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Yeah, chapter four is out. Aren´t you excited Crystal.
Crystal: "What you did to Levi is unforgivable. You are a horrible person Askaroth."
Askaroth: "That was Vlad and you know it. I just gave him the script. But he was too eager to hurt someone."
Vlad: "Don´t try to blame it on me. It´s your script and I follow it exactly as it says."
Crystal: (Grunting like a monster ready for the kill) ASKAROTH! You are so dead"
Vlad: Crystal, remember the mission. He is the only reason we are here so don´t spoil it killing the idiot.
Crystal: Fine, but I´m not giving him sweets any time soon.
Askaroth: T-thanks Vlad. Anyway… lets get started. Phantom Lord vs Fairy Tail. How´s the Wizard Hunter and the Devourer going to change things? Find out now.
Chapter 4: Betrayed
"This is hilarious" Laughed off one of the numerous members of Phantom Lord.
"Those Fairies got their asses burned bad." Mocked another.
"That's not all. I heard that the new member knocked three fairies with only his hands." Said the first one and the others whistled in approval.
"I bet those Fairies are trembling with their tails between their legs."
"What a bunch of morons." Murmured Vlad standing from a rafter in the ceiling. Gajeel grunted and nodded at the other side of a rafter.
Gajeel looked at them annoyed "They are nothing but cannon fodder. Is our job to wipe the fairies when they come."
"So little faith in your comrades. Then why I´m here with you?" Questioned Vlad expecting a bad reaction from the Iron Dragon Slayer.
"Jose was impressed when I told him about your display against those mages. He wants you to break them again. No mercy." Stated Gajeel like an order.
"No killing too I suppose." Inquired Vlad.
"As much as I would like to see that, we can´t. The Magic council doesn´t allow killing unless they are dark wizards. A pity." Shrugged the Iron mage.
The Wizard Hunter grinned darkly "Noted. Then they are going to suffer." His mind drifted to Crystal and wondered where she was. A whole day had passed and still no signs of the naga. "This girl is hopeless with directions. If she isn´t here by dawn then I´m going to hunt her." But a realization struck him. "I never gave her a direction of any sort. She can be anywhere. I´m an idiot."
A minute later, the door exploded in cloud of dust and rubble. Vlad and Gajeel narrowed their eyes and used a hand to cover from the flying debris.
"WE ARE FAIRY TAIL" Shouted in anger a short old man at the front.
"Bring it on. Anyone ´ll do." Roared a pink haired boy that ignited his hands-on fire and charged against the Phantom mages. He blew away countless opponents like the cannon fodder they were. He was followed by the other mages, doing the same. A tall muscular man with white hair transformed his hand into a rock with spikes and punched a lot of mages shouting, "Fight like a man". Another of the fairies used his hands to cover the floor in ice and froze several enemies while other mage, a redhaired girl in armor, materialized swords and send them against the Phantoms without killing them.
"That´s Erza the Titania." Spoke Gajeel impressed at the female wizard display. "But there are no signs of other S class. They are underestimating us."
The short old man was surrounded by enemies that shouted, "Get Master Makarov". The master of Fairy Tail was covered in an explosion of light and in his place, was standing a Giant and bulky version of the old geezer. Vlad was impressed to say the least, it could prove to be a challenge, but the orders from Jose were clear. Don´t engage Makarov.
"Hey, Alex." Called Gajeel. "The fire mage is mine."
Vlad hated the false name, but giving his real one wasn´t a smart move. It was almost time to fight so he chanted one of his spells in silence to augment his reflexes called Warzone. His eyes glowed in a golden yellow tone and his pupils became long and thin slits "I ´ll take Titania. Good hunt." When the enraged giant shrunk back to its original size and started to climb the stairs, The Hunter and Black Steel knew it was their turn to mess thing up. They jumped off the rafters and went after their targets.
Gajeel transformed his arm in a metal pole and hit allies and enemies the same. He engaged in combat first with the mage with the rock arm. Vladimir landed in front of Erza, his dark and white cape waving in the air, and attacked her by surprise. But she managed to block with the hilt of her sword. She was moved backwards by the force of the punch, but still on her feet. The blade shattered and the redhead narrowed her eyes, trying to analyze her new opponent. "Nice reflexes. You are quicker than the speed mage I beat today." Inducing rage in an opponent was the best way to make them commit a mistake, and confessing his crime was the easiest way to achieve it.
The female mage glared at him, a fierce killing intent in her eyes, but his golden and mad gaze was stronger. She summoned another sword and charged at him with a battle roar. "You are going to pay for that." Erza tried to slash him with an uppercut, but his augmented reflexed allowed him to block her attack with his gauntlets.
"Make me then." She kept on attacking. Up and down, left and right, from the sides and behind. He blocked her sword every time using his gauntlets. Vlad allowed her sword to pass by his side and took her out of balance, he used the chance to punch her in the ribs so hard he dented her armor and make her cough blood. She fell on her back and he put his foot over her breastplate to pin her to the ground. The entire guild fight seemed to stop for a second to look at him and the fallen Titania.
"It can´t be. Erza is down" Said the ice mage, clearly shocked.
"!Erza¡" Shouted the pink-haired mage, but he couldn´t help her, his hands were full in fighting against Gajeel.
"The mighty Titania has fallen against one of my smallest spell. Pathetic." She opened her eyes and glared at him defiantly. Erza summoned a sword again and slashed his knee. He didn´t flinch "Oh, still not defeated, it seems." He raised his gauntlet ready to strike her in the face. But he wasn´t able to bring it down. Vlad was punched in the jaw with so much strength that he was send flying into the second floor, over the stairs.
"What the fucking hell? That hurt." The Wizard Hunter was confused. He didn´t understand how they had sneaked through his Warzone spell so easily. After standing up, he watched down to the guild hall. "You got to be kidding me. Crystal?"
The naga was standing over Erza protectively, and helped her to get up. She stared at him worried, but her expression changed when a mage charged at her. Vlad observed Crystal fighting with her fists and tail and decided to step out of the fight. "After all the times when I don´t need her to fuck things up… she comes and fucks things up. Just great. To hell with the orders, Jose. I´m going after Makarov. He´s going to pay for putting her against me." The golden glow in his eyes disappeared and his normal dark green color returned. But a hurricane would have been softer than the look in his eyes. Now they had become the gaze of a true enraged monster.
The Wizard Hunter ran to Jose´s office room in the top floor and found Makarov emitting an overflowing aura of light magic like-beams that was out of control and obliterated objects and walls on the sides of his path. Vlad realized then that Jose wasn´t on the room, instead, an illusory image of the Phantom Lord master was sitting in the throne, so he waited outside the office wall. "Using his own guild members and base as bait. What a waste of resources."
The infuriated master of Fairy Tail enlarged his arm and punched Jose with all his might, not realizing that he wasn´t there. "I´m not here to reminisce with you, Jose" Said the angry Makarov. A cloud of dust was all that was left of the throne after he retreated his arm to its normal size. The image of the Phantom Lord master blurred and made a static sound. "An image!? You… are already gone from this guild!?"
"No shit, Sherlock. You finally realized." Vlad was ready to attack when he saw a massive man with tanned skin floating in the ceiling and descending slowly behind Makarov. He was wearing a large green coat over a yellow robe that reached to his feet, a green top hat and a blindfold.
"A battle among two of the ten holy great mages can cause extraordinary natural occurrences. I prefer a rational victory." Monologued the image of Jose. Makarov complained and demanded him to come and fight, but Jose only chuckled.
The body of a blond girl, tied and unconscious, appeared on the floor in front of the Phantom master and Makarov screamed her name. "Lucy!?"
Grinning like a fake madman, in Vlad´s opinion, Jose materialized a dagger in his hand and brought it down. The Fairy tail master shouted a horrified "NOOO" and tried to stop him. In that second, the massive flying man positioned behind Makarov and put his hand together, forming purple magic circles in them while crying. Vlad decided to interfere "No flying clown is going to steal my prey." He jumped and kicked the blindfolded man in the head, sending him through the wall. The air mage even screamed the word ´sorrowful´ and disappeared out of sight.
Both Wizard Saint looked at him shocked. One in utter rage, and the other confused. "What the fricking hell are you doing, Alex. You have ruined my perfect plan." Jose screeched while pulling his hair hysterically.
"Not at all." He said coldly, his magic power raising.
"Who are you, young man?" Makarov stared at him with harsh in his eyes. "Why did you save me?"
"Save? Hahaha. I just modified this plan a little bit. Instead of only being defeated by a flying clown, you are going to be punished. For putting my dear friend against me." Explained Vlad, dark green eyes staring him with pure hate.
"Alexander. You are no match for Makarov. No matter how good you think you are. But there is no better punishment for disobedience than these. Maki, here is the responsible of beating your precious children. Have fun with him." Spitted the Phantom Lord Master with poison in every word.
"Don´t try to cower away, Jose. I held you completely responsible for this." Yelled Makarov.
"Let´s end this fast. I need to talk to someone."
"Who´s this friend of yours, Alex?" Asked Makarov, sounding concerned.
"Maybe later, now suffer.First Pillar, Power Drain." Vlad raised his open palm like a claw and five translucent human-sized obelisks appeared from the ground under Makarov. He jumped out of the way in time to avoid getting impaled, but Vlad repeated it again. From the ceiling and the walls, the spear-like obelisks appeared and remained in place. Running out of room, the Fairy Tail Master decided to attack. He throwed a sphere of light to him, but it was intercepted by a translucent spear and instantly absorbed into it. "It´s no use, old man. This spell can absorb ethernano in all its forms. No magic can past through it."
Instead of despairing, Makarov smirked. "Then ´ll see if it holds again a fist." He made his arm grow to a massive size and attacked the Wizard Hunter. Phasing through a lot of spears that started to glow and drain his power.
"Smart move, but reckless. Second Pillar, Bloodlust." Vlad´s hand glowed red and a giant crimson obelisk sprouted from the ground that collided hard against Makarov fist, stopping it. The Wizard Saint shrunk his arm again and started to breath with difficulty due to the magic loss "You might be powerful. And I would love to have an all-out fight, but I need to end this now." He charged across the room phasing through his spears, making his magic power skyrocketing for absorbing the stolen ethernano. "Third Pillar. Last Breath." Both gauntlets where surrounded with a dark ominous energy. Vlad throwed a punch at Makarov´s face, but he blocked with a giant hand and closed it in a crushing grip around Vlad´s whole arm.
"You need to learn to respect your elders, boy." Said the Fairy Tail master, disappointed.
The Wizard Hunter ignored the pain and laughed like crazy. "Hahaha. And you to watch your surroundings." When he finished saying it, a black obelisk, the size of a sword, raised from the ground under Makarov and pierced his chest. The old man clenched his teeth and loosened the grip of Vlad´s arm, then he started to cough, trying to breath. "Hurts, doesn´t it? If I had used the second Pilar to drain your blood you would had turn into ashes with this one. So be grateful. You may live to see the destruction of your guild." After finishing his talk, the dark sword broke and he kicked the Wizard Saint in the gut, sending him through the same hole in the wall where the air mage had crashed. He saw him fell all the way to the guild hall. Vlad started to tremble and kneeled, breathing exhausted. The image of Jose appeared at his side with a blank stare.
"Don´t. Say. A word." He grunted and stood up, holding his injured arm and walked away, limping. "That was exciting. If we had fought in an open space… it would have been ten times harder. Like fighting Crystal in her true form."
Several minutes before.
"Second day in this guild and I´m going into a war. Smooth, Crystal, really smooth." The naga slithered with the rest of her guild comrades until they were at the doors of the castle that was Phantom Lord headquarters. "Impressive place they got here, but I guess I could demolish it with a hand on my back." She was confident on her destructive skills, but she wanted to raise the mood of her friends. She was still wearing her white shirt and red coat.
"Probably, but we don´t want to risk killing anyone. Remember, we are here to give them hell in this life, not the next." Said Makarov in a harsh tone. He was at the front of the group, and Natsu was by his side. Not wanting to waste time, the fire mage ignited his hand and punched full force the door, transforming into nothing more than dust and debris.
"WE ARE FAIRY TAIL." Roared the guild master. Natsu jumped into action immediately, followed by Elfman, Gray and Erza. Crystal was reluctant to join at first by a simple motive, she feared to overdo it. Makarov transformed into a Giant and crushed several Phantom mages. Then he shrunk back to his old self and gave the control of the battle to Erza. All the others were fighting with all they might but she remained there, frozen. "What if I kill someone? Is not like I haven´t do it before but now… now these humans… they are my first real friends after Vlad. Focus, focus you dumb snake! Focus on the mission. Just go easy on them. Wait… is that… VLAD!?" She saw him blocking Erza´s sword with ease. His eyes golden with reptile slits. Vlad landed a hit on the redhead ribs and she fell on her back. The Wizard Hunter pinned to the ground with his foot and Erza was able to cut him on the knee. "I need to stop him before he hurts her. But how? He´s using warzone, if I come close to him he is going to notice me. Oh, right. Eating through his ethernano circle with my magic."
Like Natsu, she ignited her hands with her white flame and raised her fist in front of her as she closed distance. Vlad was too concentrated talking to himself to notice her until she extinguished her flames and uppercut him in the jaw. Sending him flying to the next floor. "Erza are you alright?" She lent her a hand and helped her to rise. "Well. I´m dead. It was a pleasure to know you guys." When she looked up she was sweating bullets. She almost fainted the second her gaze met his, but an incoming enemy mage took her out the trance. She used her tail to wipe him out in one swift move.
"Thanks. I owe you one, Crystal. A second later and I would be gone." Erza thanked her and continued leading the battle.
The naga remembered the fury that had drove her to this place and clenched her fist. "This is to avenge her. Control yourself and beat the shit out of these punks and apologize later." Letting the last ounce of insecurity in her mind disappear, she started to punch all the bastards that dared to get close to her.
Then, an enormous magic power over their heads could be felt. It was Makarov. And they all knew it. The Fairy Tail mages morale was boosted up while the Phantoms cowered in fear.
"That´s Master´s fury. A giant´s fury… no one can stop." Smiled Erza.
"I hope you are right. Gods, don´t let them cross each other path. Oh, who the hell I´m trying to fool." Crystal bitted her lip while she kept on fighting.
A minute later, a body fell in the middle of the hall. For Crystal´s relief, it wasn´t Makarov or Vlad. It was a tall and massive man using a blindfold and a green coat.
"Aria! What happened?" The Iron Dragon Slayer was standing upside down from a rafter and he sounded alarmed.
"It´s to… sorrowful". Said the mage called Aria and blacked out.
An ominous and new magic pressure appeared at the top of the building that defied Makarov´s power and made everyone cower again or to look up. "Shit. Shit. Why Gods had you forsaken me? This is a disaster. Vlad, you better control yourself." Her silent prays…were denied. Another body fell from the third floor. This time, it was Makarov. He landed unconscious over Aria. Crystal slithered to his side and saw what she feared. Traces of Vlad´s most dangerous spell, Last Breath. She picked Makarov up protectively while all the Fairy Tail Mages where utterly shocked and frozen.
"Master!" Erza ran to Crystal´s side. She could hear the enemy mages murmuring about Makarov not having any magic left and that they had nothing to fear anymore. The phantom members attacked, driven on by their boosted morale while the Fairies struggled to defend themselves. Natsu ran away from the guild dragging a Phantom Lord member after he heard Gajeel mocked him about capturing Lucy. "Everyone, RETREAT!" Ordered Erza at the top of her lungs. Gray was reluctant to obey, saying that they still could beat them, but after seeing Erza cry on his shoulder and beg him to listen to her, he retreated. Crystal´s only explanation to how thing had turned so badly so quick had one name. Vlad.
He woke up in chained from the wrists and ankles, hanging from a wall on a small prison room. Not the first time that happened to him, but it didn´t mean he was accustomed. His dark breastplate and cape were nowhere in sight. In front of him, on the floor and tied up, was the blonde teenage girl he had saw as an illusion in Jose´s office. Lucy. She was still unconscious. But the teen wasn´t the only one there. The Phantom Lord master was laying against the doorframe, waiting for one of them to wake up.
"I hate these magical cuffs. Ugh. My head is spinning. Care to tell me when I blacked out." Asked Vlad with a blank expression.
"Just a minute after you fought Makarov. Aria brought you here. Which reminds me..." Jose lifted his hand and a small purple and black orb formed in the tip of his finger. "Who are you?"
"My name´s Alexander Segmarus, and I´m a traveling mage. Happy?" Answered Vlad, devoid of emotions.
"Tch. I hate liars." He said and fired a purple beam that pierced his broken arm. The Wizard Hunter felt the pain and clenched his teeth, but nothing else. "You may have made me a favor by taking down Makarov. But you put all my plan in stake for that. So, you are going to stay here until I know who the hell you are. A powerful mage capable of defeating a Wizard Saint doesn´t pop up from nowhere."
"You are just jealous that I did it before you. And I ´ll considerate that as an S class job. So, ten million jewels should be enough." He told him in a serious tone. Jose only laughed at him. The conversation was loud enough to woke the blonde girl up.
"Where I am?" She asked confused.
"Oh, you are awake. Lucy Heartphilia-sama." Said Jose in a polite tone.
"Who are you two?" She was afraid. It was easy to tell.
"Where are my manners? I´m Phantom Lord Master, Jose Porla. And this is our newest prisoner. Say hi, Alex."
"A pleasure, my lady." Said Vlad in a polite manner too. She looked at him and he saw concern in her eyes.
"Phantom? Untie me!" She barked weakly.
Jose turned his back on Vlad. "Try to understand, my dear. You are a captive. Depending in your attitude we may treat you as a VIP instead of a simple prisoner like this man here." He signaled him with his thumb without even looking.
"Why did you attack Fairy Tail?" She asked in a demanding tone.
"That was an extra, my dear. You see, our mission was only to retrieve you unharmed. But you were at Fairy Tail, so I though… why not kill two birds with one stone. Your father is expecting you to return to home, Heartphilia-sama. He hired us for that sole purpose." Explained in a monologue voice.
"I will never go back to that house." She challenged Jose. The man just chuckled.
"Tell me…" Started Vlad. His captor turned around. "If your job is to send her home and you already captured her… why hadn´t you delivered her yet?"
"Hey!" Winced Lucy.
"Just remarking that this man doesn´t take his job seriously. Hehe." His laugh was cut short by another purple beam, this time in the leg.
"Leave him alone, you bully." Lucy Stood up and kicked Jose between his legs. The man fell face first, his expression frozen in pain.
"Classic tactic. Old, but useful." Vlad complimented her. She was going to help him escape but he refused.
"But… you are injured. You need help." Lucy was still tied up and Jose was trying to stand up.
"I have faced worse. Just go to your guild and tell Crystal that I need her demolishing skills. And apologize for me." He instructed her quickly. She hesitated but nodded and run to the open gate. She gasped in horror when she found out there was a twenty-story high fall from her position.
"This is our sky prison. You can´t run" Jose struggled to stand up while smirking. "How dare you…do that to me. It´s time for your punishment" But Lucy closed her eyes and jumped to her certain dead.
"WHAT!?" Shrieked Jose, unable to believe it. He kneeled, with his hand between his legs, still in pain for the kick.
"And just like that, my only chance to contact Crystal is gone." Vlad spoked casual, unaffected of the dead of the blonde.
"You are going to pay… you little bitch" The Phantom Lord Master yelled like the girl was still alive. Vlad just assumed she had survived somehow.
"When Crystal comes, the only little bitch that´s going to pay… is going to be you, Jose." The Wizard Hunter smiled darkly to his partner upcoming fury.
What do you think about Vlad´s fight? You may think that his magic is too OP, but I assure you, he has weakness. Makarov found them, but Vlad had the advantage in that closed space. Well, next time is Crystal´s time to shine.
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