Chapter 8: Battling Acnologia

"Natsu be careful" Wendy whispered as she watched her boyfriend and best friend stare down Acnologia from atop a building. Neither of the two made any move, only stared each other down sizing each other up. Wendy then heard footsteps approaching and glanced over her shoulder to see master Makarov approaching her before stopping at her side.

"If anybody can put up a worthy fight against Acnologia, it would be Natsu. Believe in him just as I do. That boy doesn't understand defeat or the meaning of giving up" he gave her a small smile before turning back to the scene before them.

"I am Natsu Dragneel and I will be your end" Natsu said as he raised his sword to Acnologia who only seemed to smirk if it was possible at Natsu's words. "You smile now, but you won't be soon" he then requips his armor away before his skin began to take on scales. Acnologia now seemed to take an interest in Natsu as he moved his body in to a battle stance. "Here I come!" Natsu shouted before shooting at Acnologia.

An impact hit the dragon under the chin, but it barely made his body rock. It then shoot its chin down sending Natsu to the ground creating a small crater. The dragons body rocked with what seemed to be laughter as he looked down at Natsu who was looking back at him. The dragon slayer growled before jumping to his feet and squatting as he allowed flames to cover his feet before shooting off like a rocket.

"Fire Dragons Iron Fist!" He shouted as his hand became encased in flames before making impact with the dragon face, but once again the dragon was unaffected. He moved his head quickly hitting Natsu sending him into a building which then collapsed in on him.

"Is this all you have pathetic human?" Acnologia asked Natsu who he knew could hear him from within the ruble. Acnologia's voice was deep and powerful it held so much power it caused Natsu's head to ache. "I feel bad for Igneel. To have his power go to waste with such a weakling" as soon as those words were said the collapsed building blew away and in place of the ruble stood Natsu encased it flames. "Did I hit a nerve?" Acnologia's mocking voice asked followed by a chuckle.

"You'll regret taunting me" Natsu growled out before launching himself again. Like before Acnologia simply sent Natsu somewhere crashing into something else. It continued like this. Natsu appeared to others like a ball of flames that continued to attack and get reversed, but everyone could agree on one thing. Natsu wasn't giving up or slowing down. He took every hit and just kept on going.

'Geehee' Gajeel chuckled in his head as he watched the battle from his spot. He knew Natsu wouldn't stop, and that was the reason he respected the pink haired dragon slayer.

'Dragon versus dragon' Laxus thought as he caught a glimpse of the battle.

'I can hear your will' Cobra thought as he glanced over at the scene.

'Such power' Sting looked on in amazement.

'Such will' Rogue looked on in amazement just like Sting.

Natsu was once again sent into a building that crashed in on him and like the times before he shot out of it, but this time he didn't move in for an attack. Instead he landed on a building a ways away from the dragon who watched him in curiosity. 'Time to bring out the big gun' Natsu thought before beginning to conjure all the power he could.

"Giving up already son of Igneel? He'd be disappointed" Acnologia mocked though he made no move to attack.

"Time for me to shut you up… Unleash!" Natsu shouted the last part as a geyser of flames with a hint of blue shot towards the sky completely obscuring Natsu from view as the geyser surrounded him. "Igneel lend me your power" Natsu whispered as he then pushed his magic energy not caring if he would be completely out of magic once his attack was done.

"He's doing it" Wendy stated as her eyes went wide. Natsu had only tried to do 'that' once and it drained his power in seconds, but for those seconds he was completely indestructible. 'Natsu make it count' she thought to herself as she watched the geyser grow wider and wider.

"What's he doing Wendy?" Erza's voice reached her as the red head appeared beside her.

"He's going into elemental force" Wendy replied without looking at her guild mate.

"What is elemental force?" Makarov asked this time as blue began to appear more and more in the geyser.

"It allows Natsu to become fire and wind since he and I have been training together. He's indestructible, but it drains his magic energy quickly. Last time he did it he lasted half a minute, but in that time period he destroyed so much in just one strike. I don't know for how long this time will last, but hopefully it's long enough to do whatever it is he has in mind" Wendy explained as the geyser then simply collapsed in to a blue and red ball at a high speed creating a swirl of dirt around it.

Natsu was so concentrated on pushing out as much energy as he could, he didn't feel the surge of power he body exerted or the piece of red dragon scaled armor that began to appear over his body. It wasn't like the one he was given in the other world, it was more the armor of a warrior. Something only Acnologia in his time had been able to do. His wings then took solid form appearing as those of a dragon.

"Elemental force!" Natsu's shouted his voice deep and predatory as the ball of flames exploded sending out a shock-wave pushing everything back even Acnologia. Once the wave was over and everyone could now see Natsu, they all went into shock at the sight of his arm. His pink hair which ended in blue tips flowed out from beneath a helmet that appeared as a roaring dragon.

'I can feel Igneel... Within' he whispered at he looked down at his hands now seeing the armor over his body. He turned to look at a window that was smashed but still showed his reflection and he smirked. 'I can feel you Igneel... We are one' he thought before turning his gaze back to Acnologia. 'I can control this for a few minutes with Igneels boost and can even land that spell twice' Natsu then crack his neck and knuckles before charging at the dragon of the apocalypse disappearing into thin air.

Acnologia looked around for Natsu as did everyone and everything though nobody could catch sight of him. "Up here!" A voice shouted causing everyone to look up. "Fire Sky Dragons: Elemental brilliant flame!" Natsu shouted as he threw a ball of red and blue flames at Acnologia. Once the ball made contact with Acnologia's back the black dragon of the apocalypse roared in pain as his legs wobbled a bit and bending.

'Where did he get such power?... I can feel Igneel flowing through him' Acnologia thought before his face went to the right and he felt a pain in his jaw. He didn't even see Natsu coming. He didn't sense him at all. "Enough games!" Acnologia shouted after receiving another blow to the jaw sending him crashing into a building, but still on his feet. He then spread his wings and took to the sky.

"He's doing it!" A voice shouted from within the crowd of mages in front of the castle as they watched Natsu land punishing blows on the black dragon. "Natsu!" They shouted and soon an uproar of cheers began, but immediately died in its tracks as Acnologia took to the sky.

"Come on Natsu" Wendy whispered as she watched the body of her beloved dragon slayer take to the sky after the black dragon. "Take him down" she growled lowly enough so that the others who didn't have enhanced hearing could hear.

Soon the image of Natsu collided with the black dragon and another shock-wave occurred from the impact. When the wind hit the mages those who couldn't stand it were pushed back, but those like Wendy, Erza, Makarov and a few others simply stood there as the wind washed over them. Though the wind to Wendy held the comforting scent of Natsu as well as some of his warmth.

Natsu's head had collided with Acnologia chest and the dragon held in his roar of pain this time, not going to allow his opponent the pleasure of thinking he could defeat the dragon. 'Enough' Acnologia thought as he hit Natsu with his claw sending the dragon slayer crashing to the ground at high speeds.

Natsu roared at the contact of the ground, but quickly got back to his feet ignoring the large size crater his body created. "Fire Dragons Secret Art:..." He gritted out as he launched himself at Acnologia "Sword Horn!" He shouted as his head made contact with Acnologia chin sending the dragons head jerking back. "Fire Dragons Roar!" He shouted aiming at the dragons chest and with more power than it usually held it pushed the black dragon back in the air.

'I'm almost out of magic' Natsu thought as he began feeling the strain of his body exerting such measures of his magic. 'It's now or never' he thought before rocketing to the sky above Acnologia and the dragon followed after him with his gaze. Once a good distance above the dragon Natsu ignited his fists, one blue and the other crimson.

Acnologia at the sight of the dragon slayer igniting his fist began charging up about to let out his roar attack. Natsu seeing this had to speed up his attack. "With sky magic in my right hand and my fathers flames in my left hand, I put them together to create" he started as he smashed his hands together creating a ball of magic almost the size of Acnologias claw. "Fire Sky Dragons Dazzling Blaze!" He shouted throwing the ball of magic at the black dragon.

Acnologia opened his mouth unleashing his roar attack with was like a high powered beam of complete power appearing like an Etherion blast. When the two attacks met Acnologias roar was pushing the ball of magic back. "Elemental Dragon Force Elemental roar!" Natsu shouted sending a blast of fire and sky magic which appeared as a unison raid from his mouth.

When his roar connected with the ball of magic being pushed by Acnologias own roar they both fought for dominance and sadly Natsu's power began to falter. 'I'm losing power' Natsu thought as he felt his magic starting to disperse and his gaze beginning to falter.

"Iron Dragons..."

"Lightning Dragons..."

"Light Dragons..."

"Shadow Dragons..."

"Poison Dragons..."

"Sky Dragons..."

"Roar!" Natsu heard from beside him as roars of all colors were fired in the direction of his roar and magic ball and connecting along the way creating the first ever dragons slayers unison raid. When contact was made with the ball all the roars of the dragons slayers roars began pushing the ball of magic towards Acnologia dominating his roar and in no time their roars won the battle and the ball of magic connected with Acnologia getting a roar of complete pain from the dragon.

After his roar finished Natsu felt his body go limp in exhaustion and began falling down towards the ground. The armor his was wearing disappeared and every he could feel the air rushing over his skin as he fell. He watched as the ground grew closer and closer and before he reached the ground his sight went dark.

He gaze went from darkness to a little lighter setting and his mind could make out the city around him, but he couldn't see it all. His eyes were barely open and most of the image he was seeing was being blocked out by his eyelashes. Though what he did see was Acnologia crash into the ground destroying a metal gate (blink), then the black dragon getting up with his body beaten and scathed before spreading his wings which appeared to be a bit damaged as well (blink), he flapped them once or twice before taking to the sky and flying off away from the city. His body no longer in shape for a battle and when the dragon was gone Natsu's gaze was once again consumed by darkness.

A/N: Sorry for the long wait on the update. My laptop got a virus and deleted all the stories I had on it including the new chapters I was about to post up, but now it's going to take longer for that to happen since I have to go back and write them all after reading the stories to get perspective of what I'm going to write. So I had to go back and re-read all the chapters for this story before writing this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it, I actually feel it's way better than what I already had written. I will try and update my other stories as soon as I can. Until Next Time. Hope I get good reviews on this chap.