Sorry for the delay I had, I lost all inspiration to write and still don't really have it, I might not update for a long time now, I'm trying to get over the fact that my girlfriend broke up with me after 6 years so I've been pretty down, I may just start a different story since this series was made for her partly, but I will try to continue for those who like it. Sorry if the chapter disappoints.

Chapter 4

As the smoke cleared the group was staring in complete shock and could see each part of the base that had been hit by an explosion had been completely leveled. After the initial shock wore off Erza said, "Well that's one way to cause a distraction."

Everyone just nodded dumbly.

"Alright let's move out and rescue Lucy." Erza called out.

After the order was issued everyone jumped down from the side of the mountain and each of them started heading towards their respective points of entry being Juvia going to the left of the base, Erza to the entrance, and Gray, Happy had followed Gajeel to stick to the shadows to gain entrance easier.

With the Rogue Wizards:

Everyone was going frantic, at first it seemed like it would be another boring night with nothing to do but eat, drink, and sleep; but that all changed once multiple explosions went off taking out multiple areas of the base and causing multiple casualties among them. Many buildings had been destroyed and everyone inside each destroyed building and been killed either by the blast or by the building collapsing on them. People who were caught in the blast from the outside were either killed or rendered useless by some injury from the explosion. Natsu watched silently from the shadows as the wizards were running around frantic while issuing orders to douse the flames from the explosions and to get the injured to safety. 'At least they care about their members and aren't leaving them to die.' Natsu thought solemnly.

'Well on another note, my fire dragon bombs worked flawlessly if anything even better than I had hoped for. They even took out parts of the entrances everyone else was using which I tried to avoid, oh well no harm done.' He thought before heading to the main entrance to assist with taking down any wizards in their way.

With Gajeel and Party:

Gajeel, Gray, and Happy were moving slowly through the wreckage of the right side gate looking around at the destruction in awe. "I think Natsu has given Fairy Tail a whole new level on being the best in destruction." Gray said while looking around.

Gajeel and Happy just nodded and then Happy and Gray broke off in search of Lucy.

As Gajeel rounded a corner he saw a group of wizards trying to put out a fire and thought, 'Time to say hello.'

With Juvia:

Juvia looked around and was impressed by the sheer amount of destruction one man had caused in a short amount of time. However she snapped out of her thoughts when she saw a lone wizard running around like a chicken with his head caught off and ready her magic for a fight.

With Erza:

Erza wasn't given anytime to admire Natsu's handy work since almost as soon as she had entered the base she was in a fight with many rogue wizards. She was slashing furiously with her twin swords trying to take them all down as fast as she could before she was overwhelmed by sheer numbers alone. She however didn't notice a one of the enemy wizards sneaking around and preparing a lightning attack to paralyze her. As the wizard was about to launch his attack he was introduced to the ground from an unseen attacker and had slammed down right behind Erza.

Erza had taken out the last two wizards in front of her when she heard something hit the ground behind her and turned to see a wizard on the ground unconscious with Natsu standing behind him with his trade mark grin on his face. "You're getting sloppy Erza; you almost got hit by this guy which would have left you paralyzed had you been hit."

Erza looked from Natsu to the wizard and back again a few times over before saying with her head bowed in shame, "Hit me Natsu, I must be punished for loosing focus in the midst of battle."

Natsu just gained a massive sweatdrop before saying, "You realize you're asking your fiancé to hit you right? Which is something I'd never do intentionally unless we were sparing for training."

Erza looked at him before walking up to him and said, "Besides that, you provided a great distraction, I think you deserve a reward." Then she proceeded to kiss him with fires raging around them and enemy wizards closing in on them.

A few moments later another group of enemies came into view and all face planted at the sight of Natsu and Erza kissing heavily while there's a battle going throughout the base before someone yelled out, "HEY IF YOU'RE GONNA ATTACK OUR BASE AT LEAST HAVE THE DECENCY TO FIGHT US BEFORE YOU START FUCKING IN THE MIDDLE OF BATTLE".

Natsu and Erza broke apart slowly and turned to glare at the one who yelled at them who had shrunk back in fear now before they said in synch, "You interrupted our time together, your life is forfeit."

They were about to charge but the wizard who had yelled ran away in fear for his life while his comrades just sweatdropped. Erza turned to Natsu and said, "Well we'll have to continue this later, right now we have trash to take out."

Natsu just grinned and charged at the rogue wizards yelling, "FIRE DRAGONS IRON FIST!"

With Gray and Happy:

Gray and Happy were moving rapidly through the base in search of Lucy with little luck. They had run into multiple groups of enemy wizards which were each taken down with a few well place ice lances and such. Happy flew ahead of Gray and said, "I think there's only one more place to look before we've searched everywhere but the main entrance. It's that building built into the mountain side."

Gray thought about it for a moment before saying, "You know, why the fuck did we not look in there in the first place since that's an obvious area to hide a prisoner."

"Aye sir!" Happy chirped

Gray and Happy started to run for the entrance of the massive building in the mountain; well Gray ran, Happy flew. As they got closer; a fairly large group of wizards had jumped out from the sides and barred their path to the entrance. One of them stepped forward and said, "You shall go no further Fairy Tail scum, we had given our demands and you instead attack our base and killed many of our men. We will not hesitate to kill you at this point so fork over the ransom and get out of here."

Gray smirked and said, "Guess more of your men will die now."

With that said Gray sent out a volley of ice lances and spears cutting down four of the enemy wizards before they had a chance to react. One of the wizards who jumped out of the way of the ice magic sent a barrage of fire balls after Gray who wasn't given enough time to dodge and took the brunt of the attack head on causing the enemies to smirk thinking they had won already; instead they heard laughter.

"Oh man that was pathetic. You call yourself a fire user? My friend is a fire dragon slayer and we fight all the time, your flames don't even burn compared to his." Gray said while laughing.

Gray then jumped back while crossing his arms in front of him and calling forth a large amount of magic power causing the rogue wizards to pale a little at the sheer amount of power and it was still climbing. After about fifteen seconds Gray shouted, "ICE TSUNAMI." And swept his arms out in front of him causing a massive wave of ice to form and slam into the remaining enemies slamming them into the wall, killing them all.

Happy whistled at the power behind that attack and said, "Damn Gray, you definitely improved over the years we were gone."

"You think I'd let myself be outdone by flame brain?" Gray said as he started walking forward.

"Fair enough." Happy said as he flew after Gray and together they entered the building.

With Gajeel:

Gajeel was having the time of his life; he was decimating any and every enemy who crossed his path. He was laughing hysterically at all the pitiful attempts of them trying to stop him. He had, just for the hell of it had put on his Iron Dragon Scales, and he couldn't feel anything they threw at him. As he rounded a bend he heard someone yell, "EARTH MAKE: GOLEM!" and a colossal golem made solely of rocks rise from the ground. He simply smirked.

"Looks like I may have a challenge now. It's going to be fun." He said before he ran at the golem.

At seeing him charge the golem roared and swung a heavy fist down right in front of where Gajeel would have been had he not jumped. Gajeel landed on the golems fist and ran up its arm to its head while yelling, "IRON DRAGON'S CLUB!" and slammed his attack into the side of the golem knocking it to the ground.

He then turned to the one who created the golem and charged at him before he could create another and slammed his fist into the man's chest effectively knocking him out. Gajeel turned to the rest of the wizards and called out, "Come on, someone give me a challenge."

Before anyone could take a step a massive fire ball struck them all head on causing a minor explosion. Gajeel turned and saw Natsu and Erza standing side by side each covered in blood, dirt, and sweat. "Damnit Salamander, I was fighting them."

Natsu smirked and said, "Got to be quicker then tin head."

Then Natsu and Erza jumped down landed next to him and Erza said, "The entire main entrance and midsection are whipped out, and by the looks of it I'd say so is this area. All that's left is Juvia."

"Damn that was pretty quick then, we've only been at this for about two hours, three including Salamanders time to set up the distraction, which by the way was pretty damn good. What the hell did you do?"

Natsu smirked again and said, "That was a technique I had invented while out on my training trip and I had only perfected it recently, this was my fire time using it out in the field. I call it Fire Dragon's Fire Bomb."

"Impressive, how does it work?" Erza asked.

"I concentrate a very large amount of fire magic into a ball and compress it as much as I can, then I surround it with more energy to basically act as a fuse, it also makes it possible for me to dentate it whenever I want if the energy doesn't run out first. I then can attach it to any solid surface and well you've seen firsthand for when it explodes."

"Huh, I wonder if I could do something similar with iron, which would be good for taking out a large amount of enemies and not damage a structure too badly." Gajeel said while rubbing his chin.

"Well anyways, we should go assist Juvia if she needs it." Erza said getting their attention back.

"Won't be necessary Erza she's walking over to us as we speak." Gajeel said while rubbing his nose.

"Yeah I can smell her to; I'm still trying to work on recognizing her scent since I don't know her too well." Natsu said while sniffing the air.

At that moment Juvia came up to them while walking slowly and mumbling under her breath looking at the ground. Erza, Natsu, and Gajeel all looked at her slightly concerned and Erza asked, "What's wrong Juvia?"

"Juvia only ran into five people…Juvia has no way of impressing Gray now…Juvia is a failure." Juvia mumbled.

Everyone else just sweatdropped and Natsu said, "Right then, let's go meet up with Gray."

The four of them started running off towards Gray with Natsu in the lead and Juvia still mumbling under her breath.

With Gray and Happy:

Gray was standing shakily; he had been fighting the enemy's leader for several minutes now and was losing badly. He was also was covered in bruises, cuts, and black looking burns. 'Damn, this guy is fucking strong. I've tried everything I know except one attack and I'd rather not use it unless absolutely necessary and Happy is out cold. I'm on my last legs here, I can't hold out much longer.'

Gray then looked over to a cage and saw Lucy passed out again. She was chained upside down and was covered in magic repressing seals. He then looked back to his opponent who was grinning evilly, he was a tall man; easily 6'5", very well-muscled and was wearing black combat boots, black camo pants, a tall black shirt with a white skull on it, and a black cloak with a hood pulled over his face. His opponent then said, "Did you really think you had a chance at beating me? Considering whom my master was I am amazed you even attempted to fight me after my little introduction."

The man then raised his hand above his head and a black ball appeared in it and he said, "Well it's been fun Fairy Tail wizard, goodbye."

He then prepared to throw his attack and Gray braced himself waiting for the sweet release of death to come but just as the man was about to throw the ball he was suddenly kicked in the face by Natsu who sent him flying into a wall. Gray stared at him in shock and saw everyone else there now to, he then did the only thing he could think of; he dropped to the ground in exhaustion. Juvia immediately ran over to Gray and put his head on her lap trying to give him some form of comfort.

The man Natsu had kicked chose this moment to burst out of the wall and landed in front of the group with his cloak torn off and he was pissed now. Natsu looked at him in shock and said, "No way…you should be dead."

"Oh so you know who I am?" The man said cockily.

"Natsu who is this man?" Erza asked curiously.

"He is known as Shikage…it literally means Death's Shadow…it's not his real name but a title he earned by his magic and ruthlessness."

"So you know of me at least…but do you know who I truly am?" The tall man asked.

"The sole apprentice of Zeref…"

And there's the end of chapter four, and before anyone says it, I know the actual translation for Death's Shadow, or Shadow of Death however you want to say it is actually Shi no Kage, I just didn't want to put it like that. I hope you all enjoyed and I'm still not sure on if I will stop this story for now or all together because of what happened but depending on the reviews I get I'll probably continue it, if not I'm going to do a different fan fiction if I start to write again. Until next time if there is one.