Author's Note: Yuuki~desu! Hi guys, I'm baaack! You missed me? (Don't answer...) Anyway, I'm sorry for travelling around and I reeeally would like to tell you I won't leave anymore, but I can't promise you that. It is highly possible I will leave again on Tuesday for a week. That's why I'll be updating the story more frequently in the following days. Now, enjoy!

Chapter 10: Twins Of Chaos

I left the meeting for a very good reason. Good enough to breach every etiquette rule.

I felt the tattoo coming into contact with portal, but nothing else, meaning they haven't passed through it. Moment later I felt that mark take on defensive stance. That was what got me alarmed enough to ignore good manners and leave in mid-sentence.

Now that I was standing before the second portal, opening it in a hurry, I knew why the tattoo thought something was wrong and decided to protect its host and everyone else in its vicinity. There was no mistake about it – Acnologia was attacking the Fairy Tail members. I should have known he would find the portals when I was on the verge of death. I practically served him those kids on a silver plate!

I jumped through the portal at the same second the barrier shattered. I saw Natsu taking advantage of that surprising moment and standing up to attack the dark blue dragon. He won't make it... Dragons may be bigger than humans, but their movements and reflexes are much faster than one would expect.

I managed to sweep Natsu off the ground with my tail, rising him into air and out of the dragon's reach at the last second.

Unfortunately I wasn't as lucky as him. Acnologia's fangs sunk into my right front leg. I growled out my pain spiked with anger at the enemy dragon, and aimed my fangs right at the back of his neck. I only managed to scratch it when he withdrew.

He started sizing me up, trying to guess just how tough I am. I, on the other side was trying to think of a way to get out of this situation. Under normal circumstances, I would be more than delighted to fight the Dragon of Chaos and finally rid this world of his dangerous existence, but here I had 10 people I had to protect, I was hurt, and as if that wasn't enough, Natsu was trying to burn my tail off. I did my best to ignore the gnawing pain of his attempts to get free and concentrate on the matter of getting all those humans to safety.

While my gaze never left Acnologia, I could feel uncertainty looming over humans standing behind me. They didn't know whether they could trust me or not. Why is it always so complicated?! I couldn't blame them though. My dragon form looked very similar to Acnologia. The biggest difference between us was that I was white with violet ornaments on my back, while he was midnight blue with azure markings. I also had glinting black claws and violet eyes highlighted by black scales. Metalicana once told me it looked as if I was wearing a black eye-liner and I had to agree.

Then I thought of something. "Wendy, can you hear me?" I was trying to speak to her using telepathy, which wasn't one of my top skills. I really didn't want to think about what I was going to do if she couldn't hear me...

Acnologia's eyes now mirrored confidence. He would attack really soon.

"Y-yes." stuttered the little blue-haired dragon slayer. I let out a relieved sigh.

"Good, now I am going to tell you what to do so that we all get out of this alive." "I-I am listening." "I will put Natsu down on the ground right by Gajeel. Make sure he doesn't try to attack Acnologia again. Then, when I tell you to, take everyone with you and run to that big rock by the river. Can you see it?" There was only one rock by the riverside but I had to make sure she knew where it was.

"Yes." I grinned inwardly at the determination I heard in her voice. "That's the portal. I will do my best to buy you one minute so that you can tell everyone to follow you when I say so." "Thank you." I nodded my head and took one small step toward my evil twin brother.

"How long have you been camping out here?"I asked him angrily and was relieved to hear the Wendy's hurried murmuring behind me. He just snorted and continued pacing like a lion. "You don't even speak to me... Is that how much you treasure the time we spent together, Ace-niisan?"I hated hurt I could hear in my voice, but it effectively caught his attention. He let a low warning growl and glanced meaningfully at Natsu, whom I was still holding with my now blackened and aching tail. "You know I am against your killing any humans at all and now you expect me to just hand over my friends?" (I was really glad that the only one who could understand what I said was Wendy. Her, I could persuade to keep it to herself. Though it was the least of my problems now.)

Silence told me that Wendy has finished her explaining. Just as well.

I lowered my tail beside the iron dragon slayer and put Natsu on the ground. "Now, Wendy!" she didn't hesitate one second as she took off to the direction of the portal with the others right behind her. At the same moment, Acnologia jumped forward trying to go around me and get to the small figures I was doing my best to protect.

"Over my dead body!"I shouted and clawed at him. He turned back to me and his eyes glinted dangerously before he used the Sky Dragon's Roar at me. I blocked it with the Fate Barrier I created in a hurry and when the wind quieted down, he wasn't there anymore. I stupidly turned to the portal even though I knew Natsu (who had to be dragged by Gajeel and Erza) and the others passed through it long before my twin brother let out that last attack.

Then I turned to look at the sky. He was too far for me to follow him even if I wanted to, so I just limped back to the portal.