Ch. 10

TAKARA'S POV

I see Aiko, as she looks back at me. She prepares herself for a move.

Tsuyo freezes, then I see her body relax as she uses the move that the Council had forbid, Cosmic Ruler: Desolation.

A massive magic circle forms under Tsuyo's feet; her hair lifting up in what seems like an overly dramatic way.

As you look into the sky, you can see planets surrounding us, coming closer together, even some that I have never even seen before follow in alignment with them. They all fall into a straight line above Tsuyo, and a massive blast prepares to fire.

TSUYO'S POV

Desolation

This takes whoever I find to be a threat, and drains them of all magic energy; in extreme cases… it kills my opponent.

It works by coming into an alignment with me, and moves over to my opponent, firing shots stronger than FACE.

Aiko gives me a look, almost as if she knows what this move is.

Then she smiles.

ERZA'S POV

Ferid and I are still fighting, and I've only managed to hit him a couple of times, while I can feel myself getting a bit weaker.

I can sense shock waves, most likely coming from Tsuyo and Aiko's fight outside.

What are they doing?

The whole ground begins shaking and it knocks me to the side. I quickly get back up.

So far, I've used tried my Purgatory armor, Flame Empress, and Morning star. I think I might have to use my strongest armor of all…

My armor changes once again.

The color nearly entire pink, except for a light purple, and a very faint yellow. Two swords propped up in both of my hands, my hair now pulled back, into a long braid, a few strands of hair falling down in the front along both sides, with matching accents on both sides as well.

Armadura Fairy.

TSUYO'S POV

She's smiling.

Why is she smiling?

Aiko looks up at the planets above her, and then gives me a slight smirk as she looks back at me.

"Oh, my dear Tsuyo," she pauses, "haven't I taught you anything?"

"What are you talking about?"

She slightly laughs. "You should always know your opponent's greatest move before a fight, that way, you have the upperhand and know what their breaking point is."

I don't understand, why is she telling me this?

"You see Tsuyo, I came across this little 'forbidden spell' of yours about a year ago. The Council keeps files on everything you know, whether open to the public or not."

She outstretches her hand at the last part, then looks over to me.

"Anyways," she goes on, "I discovered your strongest move. Well, not only that." She paused again. "I figured out a weakness in it."

Oh no.

She cocked her head and the alignment of the planets shifted.

"See, when you use this spell, it's directed at the person you think is a threat. But, I learned a cheat!" She started laughing again. "You can trick the spell Tsuyo! Rather than it hitting the person you find a threat, I can make it hit the person you find most dangerous!"

She laughs, maniacally.

I still can't figure out what she's trying to explain. I know that it hits the person I find a threat… But what does she mean by the most dangerous?

"You haven't figured it out yet, have you?"

I just stay quiet.

"No matter how hard you try Tsuyo, you can't hide the truth from a spell, no matter how hard you try to even hide it from yourself, even you know that."

And then it hits me.

A look of excitement and joy crosses her face.

"You finally realized it!" She yells. "Now, now, 13 years later and your own mother still knows you better than you even know yourself!"

I can feel Takara giving me a confused look from behind.

"Takara! Run!" I turn around and scream at her.

"What?"

She doesn't understand.

The circle shifts and moves to underneath Aiko.

"Oops." She says as she drops her hand to her side. Shots start to fire.

"Taka-"

She starts screaming with immense pain.

"No!"

I start to run towards her.

Light shines all around her as the explosion hits her body, her screams fill my ears, I feel like they're bleeding.

She's lifted slightly off of the ground, her head thrown back, arching her body. Her arms out to the sides, trying to grab something that isn't even there.

The blast continues to go on, multiple rounds firing.

Ame runs out of Tamura's house, Erza, Lucy, and Natsu shortly behind.

The blasts continue, they will until she becomes unconscious.

"What is she doing?! If she keeps this up she'll die!" Ame screams.

She's right, Takara's trying to fight it. If she doesn't stop it'll kill her.

Takara's in such pain, she normally hides it so well. But tears roll down her face in mass quantities as she tries to push her fire around her in an attempt to block some of the blast, but fails.

It's finally over, her body dropping to the floor.

I see Aiko and the others from her guild in the corner of my eye, as they grab their fallen guild mates and leave.

Fairy Tail runs over to her, along with Ame. Natsu carefully picks up her body and Erza leads the way to somewhere.

I follow behind them, all of us going as fast as we can.

This is all my fault...