Chapter 10:
One week later:
Mira burst into the guild's basement rushed over to her communication lacrima. Master had been dropped to the healing wizard in the woods.
Her name was Porlyusica if Mira's memory served. Hopefully he'd be alright. However Mira was more concerned about the guild and its members. If master was injured that meant she and Erza were the only S-class wizards left. Mira cursed herself. She was no help as she was and Erza couldn't fight off the element four, Gajeel and Jose all by herself.
She may have Natsu and Gray but that wouldn't cut it. They needed their strongest three back. She would be highly surprised if Mystogen came. The man had never contacted the guild openly before and they had no way of contacting him. Laxus and the thunder legion were also on a job and Mira doubted Laxus would be willing to help. That left Malacant who still hadn't returned with Boaros. He also wasn't answering the last two nights. Rushing over to the communication lacrima she dialed in his number and waited.
"Please pick up please." She prayed to any god that might answer. The lacrima beeped negatively and Mira cursed under her breath.
"No luck I take it." Cana said standing beside her. Mira shook her head and rubbed her eyes.
"I'll try and get Laxus to help. Will you please use your cards to find Mystogen?"
"I'm on it, Mira." Cana confirmed. Mira pressed the lacrima again. As she waited she prayed that Phantom lord wouldn't attack again until they had at least one of their strongest back. Her prayers went unanswered.
Thirty minutes later…
Cana couldn't see how this could get any worse. They were fighting an infinite army. Erza was unconscious, Mira was captured in the giant, and the robot was drawing a magic circle that would destroy them.
She threw a magic card at another phantom but didn't turn in time to see another attack her from behind. She turned and raised her hands to protect herself from the impending strike.
However she was swept off her feet as the phantom struck. Cana opened her eyes and found herself staring at Malacant's mismatched eyes. He looked much the same as he looked two weeks ago. However he now sported a large black scythe that caused Cana to stare for a second.
"Nice save." Cana joked. Malacant smirked as he put her down.
"I try. What happened?" Cana gave him a quick run down of the situation. Malacant's eyes fared each time she mentioned someone getting hurt. When she was finished Malacant had activated his six demon claws, grabbed the handled of his scythe and unlatched it from the holster on his back. Cana's eyes grew as she looked at the massive curved blade. Malacant chuckled slightly at her reaction.
"It's a long story..."
"ATTENTION FAIRY TAIL WIZARDS." Jose's voice announced from the guild. All the guild turned to the giant building.
"ALL YOUR EFFORTS HAVE BEEN IN VAIN. WE HAVE CAPTURED LUCY HEARTFILIA." Malacant growled savagely.
"YOUR MASTER HAS FAILED YOU, TITANIA, MIRAJANE AND YOUR DRAGON SLAYER HAVE ALL FAILED. WHO WILL YOU TURN TO NOW?" Malacant slammed the bottom of the scythe into the ground and large amounts of blood began to come out the bottom.
It pulsed and surrounded him. He started sparking with red bolts of energy. Jose stopped, noticing the figure glowing trough the viewer of his machine. He frowned. He had never seen this kind of magic before.
"YOU THERE!" He called through the loudspeaker. "THE FAIRY WITH THE SCYTHE. WHAT IS THAT MAGIC?" Malacant smirked.
"This is blood magic." He yelled. The master of Phantom Lord's eyes doubled in size. "A blood wizard." He murmured. Gajeel looked at him.
"We need to fire soon." Jose said worried.
"What is the status on the Element four?" He demanded off one of the controllers.
"Three of them have been defeated. Aria is still undefeated." Jose's gaze returned to the viewer.
"Gajeel, guard the girl. I need to ensure the magic circle is complete." Gajeel nodded and smiled. Jose moved to back up Aria.
Malacant turned to Boaros.
"Throw me up there." Boaros nodded and grabbed Malacant's back.
"Good luck my friend." He murmered. Then he bellowed.
"EXTREME STRENGTH." Then he hurled Malacant skyward towards the top of the Phantom guild.
When Jose reached Aria and found him defeated at Erza Scarlet's feet he felt a chill run down his spine. Panic clouded his mind.
"If Aria was gone then the magic circle would fail and that blood wizard would come after him." Then he remembered who he was. He was master of Phantom Lord the strongest guild in the land, he was a member of the ten wizard saints, he was the one who had brought the great Makarov Dreyer to his knees and left him on his death bed. He was not afraid of one insignificant boy. Even if he was a blood wizard. He smiled sadistically at the pair before him.
First he would destroy the Fairy queen and the dragon, then he would go after the blood wizard. Erza shifted into a fighting stance but Jose noticed her winch in pain. She still hadn't recovered fully. And the Salamander was no real threat to him.
"Well it looks like it is the end for you. I am impressed you managed to defeat my element four but now you are faced with a wizard saint." Erza reequipped into her black wing armour.
"Natsu go find Lucy." She commanded.
"Erza you can't you're all beat up…"
SMASH!
The roof collapsed in as a dark figure smashed through it. Dust was sent high into the air clouding the figure for a few seconds. When it settled Malacant stood
"You have two seconds to return Lucy and I'll make sure I leave one of your bones unbroken." Malacant snarled. Jose glared at him.
"You have some nerve speaking to me like that." Malacant glanced back at Erza and Natsu.
"Natsu find Lucy. Erza sit down before you kill yourself." Natsu glanced at Malacant then at Erza who nodded. He nodded back and raced past them. When he was gone Erza moved beside Malacant.
"Didn't you hear what I just said?" Malacant asked angrily. Erza glared at him that would have sent any other person running for the hills. Malacant would have run normally as well but he didn't. He never ran when he was protecting the people he loved. No matter how many glares Erza gave him, for her sake he would not back down.
"Sit. Down." He said slowly. Erza returned his hard look before a phantom exploded behind Malacant sending him flying. Malacant twisted in mid-air and landed on his feet. Jose was furious.
"Do you not take me seriously?! You had a fully conversation with your back to me and expected me to do nothing." Malacant smirked.
"True that was a little foolish. But you know what's funny?" Jose smirked as well.
"What?" Malacant's smirk grew.
"You're having a full conversation with me." Jose's smile faded in confusion.
"What…?"
SLASH!
Erza's sword shot across his chest sending him flying. Jose got to his feet and snarled.
"Well aren't you cle…"
"HELL BEAM X6." Malacant bellowed. Six balls of energy formed in front of each of his claws and blasted forward. The beams fused together as they shot forward forming a massive beam. Jose transformed into a phantom to avoid the blast. Erza shot forward again but was blasted into a wall. Malacant slashed at Jose with his scythe. Red streaked across the air and shot at Jose. Jose shot his own blast to cancel out Malacant's blast.
"Blood daggers!" Malacant roared. Hundreds of tiny daggers formed from the blood that was constantly leaking out of his scythe. Then he launched them at Jose who oved to avoide them however Malacant closed one of his fists and the daggers exploded into blood. Jose closed his eyes to prevent the blood from getting in his eyes. Malacant shot forward claws beared and he struck Joses and started pounding on him.
"This is for Master!" He said slaming his fist into Jose's gut. Jose gasped and threw a punch of his own. Malacant ducked underneath it and slashed Jose's back with his scythe.
"That was for Lucy." Jose spun around and met Malacant's fist.
"That was for Erza. And this…" His claws pointed at a spot just in front of him and began to glow red. A ball of energy began to form in front him.
"GREAT BLOOD EXPLOSION!" A blinding red light filled the room. When it faded Malacant was standing over Jose's beated body.
"That was for Fairy Tail."
Malacant reattached his scythe to the holder on his back and he retracted his claws into his back. He oved away from Jose and picked up the unconscious Erza.
BOOM! An explosion went off behind him. Jose had managed to get to feet and had sent a blast at Malacant's back. However the blast was stopped by…
"Gramps!" Malacant cheered smiling. Makarov snarled at Jose.
"You have hurt my children I will never forgive that." Makarov's eyes began to glow and white aura began to swirle around him.
"FAIRY TAIL SECRET ART: FAIRY LAW!" The look of pure fear on Jose's face was priceless. Malacant shut his eyes as a blinding white light. He was suddenly overcome with a great warmth and comfort. Then the light faded and Malacant opened his eyes. Gramps glared at Jose for a second then turned and faced Malacant.
"Is she alright?" Malacant nodded.
"She's more tired than anything else." Gramps nodded.
"Good."
"Malacant! Erza! Gramps!" Gray Elfman and Mira yelled in surprise as they rushed into the room.
"Hello." Malacant said smiling. Mira rushed over to him and planted her lips on his.
"Why didn't you call?" Mira asked after they broke apart. Malacant smiled sheepishly.
"Bandit broke the lacrima."
"How did you get here before us gramps?" Gray asked. Gramps smiled.
"Boaros' extreme strength comes in mighty handy." Suddenly the whole building shook. All of them looked at each other.
"NATSU!" they yelled rushing to get out of the now collapsing building.
Author's notes:
I know I played around with the arc a bit but I hope you don't mind. Anyway thanks for your support and review if you can.
Until next time.
Ninja-Cat Sif