Conquesta continued to shoot her arrows at Cobra, but he kept catching them and eating the poison off of them, throwing the powerless vessels to the ground. The white maiden wouldn't let up, even though she knew her attacks were useless against the dragon slayer. She could at least try to wear him out. Then she got an idea.

She loaded another arrow while holding a backup in her hand, and shot it at Cobra, as he caught it she turned and shot the other arrow at another unsuspecting target. She chose the busty white haired woman helping out the old man by the bar. The arrow flew at her, a smile on Conquesta's face.

"MiraJane!" Cobra yelled.

Mira turned around at the mention of her name, but she was too late. The arrow pierced her shoulder, sending her backwards into the bar. She put her hand to it, a shocked expression on her face. Cobra rushed to her side, and Lisanna called out to her from across the guild hall.

"Mira, don't worry, I'll just suck the poison out." Cobra said, trying to comfort her. She looked up at him. At first her blue eyes were swimming with sadness, but then something inside her snapped, and they were angry.

Magic energy burst out from Mira, knocking Cobra off his feet. He landed hard on the wood floor and shook the shock off of himself, looking at Mira with awe and admiration. She had used her Takeover magic, and she stood before him in her Demon Halphas form. Her long white hair cascaded down her back in waves, turquoise scales and claws on her arms legs and face. There were cracks in her skin, and she was wearing a striped bodysuit that matched the color of her demon scales.

She looked down at Cobra and smiled. She began sucking the poison out of the arrow that was in her shoulder, and out of the wound. When there was no more poison left, she grabbed the arrow with one of her clawed hands and tore it out of herself, and then threw it on the ground. Cobra got to his feet and stood beside her, they both looked at Conquesta.

"Two against one. Both of us immune to poison. I say our odds are pretty good." Cobra said, winking at Mira. She smirked.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Conquesta cried out.

Warsaw pushed himself away from Erza again and re-quipped his armor. This time it was a beautiful blue color with white accents, white wings at his back. His sword was longer than normal and curved at the end, and it looked like it was made out of transparent crystal. He started to hover in the air, and his hair was blowing around him as if he was in his own wind vortex. Erza immediately knew that he was wearing Wind Emperor Armor. She didn't have anything specifically to counter it.

The red haired wizard re-quipped into her Flight Armor. The cat ears on her head were spotted like a leopard, just like the accents on her armor. She had two short swords, one in each hand. This was her fastest armor, and she would need it to battle someone in wind armor. She flew at Warsaw with so much speed it was hard to see her. She was just a blue.

But he was faster.

No matter how hard Erza tried she couldn't catch up to him. She made a mental note in her mind that she had to get her hands on some Wind Empress Armor for herself.

"Erza!" a small voice called out.

Erza stopped chasing Warsaw and looked towards the voice. It was Wendy, her blue hair blowing in front of her face as she held her hands out in front of her. The wind around her started to build, getting stronger and stronger. Erza started to glow with a blue and green aura as Wendy cast her supportive sky magic on her. The spells Wendy used would give Erza both speed and stronger attacks. All she had to do was catch Warsaw and he was done for.

"Thank you Wendy!" Erza called to the young girl. And then she launched herself into the air even faster than before.

This time she caught up to him, and his face contorted in shock as she locked her arms around him and smiled. Her face was right in front of his, and she re-quipped her armor as she held onto him tightly. This time she changed into her Lightning Empress armor. She pointed the tip of the giant staff she now held right at Warsaw's armor, and lightning began to spark all over them, getting stronger and stronger.

"No!" Warsaw cried out.

"Yes!" Erza shouted.

She blasted him with an electric current, his armor taking in all of the electricity. He started to shake as the electricity started to run through his body, screams escaping his throat in desperate cries. Erza let the wizard go as he fell to the ground in a flurry of sparks.

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Cana didn't understand what was going on. All of a sudden she wasn't at Fairy Tail anymore. It was as if the battle she was just in the middle of was all a dream. But now she was in a nightmare.

She was in the middle of a large field, the sun shining brightly overhead, but feet in front of her was her father, Gildarts, being attacked by the black dragon Acnologia. Gildarts was the most powerful wizard in the guild, but he was no match for Acnologia alone. Tears started to stream down Cana's face as she dropped to the ground.

"DAD!" She called out. She remembered that her friend Ember had been raised by Acnologia, and began to wonder if she could stop him. "EMBER! HELP! STOP! STOP HURTING MY DAD! I KNOW YOUR DAUGHTER! PLEASE!"

Evergreen was drowning. She was underwater and no matter how hard she kicked she couldn't get to the surface. She grasped at her throat as she struggled to not breath in the water, knowing it would kill her.

Her life flashed before her eyes. Her childhood, when she joined Fairy Tail as a teenager, fighting her comrades during Laxus's rebellious stage, the Grand Magic Games, the fight with Apocalypse Keyes. It all appeared in her mind like a movie put on fast forward. Her heart pounded in her chest and she could feel that she was crying, even though under the water her tears could not be seen.

She could see the light from the sun shining through the water's surface, but no matter how hard she tried, no matter how bad she wanted to live, she couldn't reach it.

Elfman looked on in horror. Famina was standing above Cana and Evergreen, one hand over each of them with a black spell circle. Cana was on her knees screaming and crying for her father, Ember, and for someone to stop. To please stop. The pleading and pain in her voice sent chills down Elfman's spine. Evergreen was writhing on the ground with her hands to her neck. She wasn't breathing, and her face was turning blue from the lack of oxygen. She was kicking furiously as if she was trying to ward off an enemy. This filled Elfman with rage.

Famina's back was turned to the towering and over muscled wizard. He let his rage take over and he used his Takeover magic, Beast Soul. He transformed into a horned and scaled red and black beast, with hungry eyes and flowing white hair. He ran towards the three female wizards, the ground shaking from his power and weight.

"CANA! EVERGREEEEENNNN!" He roared, sending a shockwave towards the women in front of him.

He grabbed Famina in his gigantic beast hands and started to squeeze her. The spell circles broke and she started gasping for air and struggling against his clawed hand for release.

The illusions Cana and Evergreen were seeing broke as soon as Elfman grabbed Famina. His strength was squeezing the life out of her, and there was no way for her to keep up the spell.

Cana looked around her. She was no longer in a field. Gildarts and Acnologia were no longer in front of her. She was at Fairy Tail, and a battle was raging around her. It was total chaos, and she was sitting on the floor crying. She balled her hands into fists, her knuckles turning white. She started to grind her teeth. How could someone be so cruel? How could someone force someone to falsely see their father dying?

Evergreen gasped for breath. She sat up straight, coughing, feeling at her throat and chest and entire body. She wasn't wet. She wasn't under water. She was on the floor of the guild hall, and her friend Cana was next to her, shaking with anger and tears streaming down her face. Evergreen had no idea what had happened. It all felt like a dream, but moments before she knew that she had thought she was going to die.

The two Fairy Tail wizards looked towards the labored screams of the woman who had just tortured them with illusions. She was in Elfman's grasp, but he wasn't just Elfman, he was in his Beast Soul transformation. They knew that if they just sat by and watched, that Elfman would kill her.

"Elfman!" Evergreen called out to him. He didn't look at her.

"No! Let him kill her!" Cana snapped at Evergreen.

"No Cana! That's not the right way to go about this!" Evergreen said shaking her head.

"Since when are you so sensitive?" Cana sneered.

"I'm not the same woman I was before! And I know that killing someone is wrong! Especially when they don't have to be killed! He's not in his right mind!" Evergreen cried.

Cana let the words sink in. Evergreen was right. How could she for even a second think it was okay to let Elfman kill that woman? No matter what she did? Cana wiped the tears from her eyes. She was not the type of person to let someone die. Even if they made her think her father was dying. She got to her feet and ran at Elfman.

"Elfman, stop! It's me Cana! Can you hear me?" Cana pleaded at Elfman's giant feet.

He didn't look down at her, he just kept squeezing. The screams coming from Famina were enough to make Cana shake all over. She hated the Black Horse, but she wouldn't let her die. She didn't want to attack Elfman with magic, so she started punching his leg, begging him to stop. Evergreen got up and slowly walked towards Elfman. She made sure she was in front of him, so that beyond the woman he was killing, he could see her.

"Elfman…..please." She said in a low voice, tears falling down her face.

"Help me! Someone stop him! PLEASE SOMEONE STOP HIM HE'S GOING TO KILL ME!" Famina cried out. She had a look of pure horror on her face.

"Elfman! Please! Stop!This isn't you Elf!" Evergreen pleaded, sobbing and falling to her knees.

Meredy and Bickslow had joined Jellal in his fight against Dea, but they still couldn't stop him. Jellal had tried hitting him with everything he had, but the dragon slayer just ate his attacks, getting stronger and stronger with each one. Bickslow couldn't control Dea's soul, it was as if he didn't have one. He knew that the wizard had one, but something was keeping him from controlling it. And his totem babies were no match for the guy, so he didn't even try, they would only get wrecked. Meredy's sensory weapons also didn't affect him, and there was no way for her to do a sensory link. She had tried with his other guild members, but he had no real connection to any of them. He was like an empty vessel.

"This guy is crazier than me!" Bickslow gasped.

"No kidding!" Jellal said, trying to catch his breath. He was running low on magic power.

"Don't stop! KEEP GOING!" Dea shouted, lunging at the three wizards. Bickslow grabbed Meredy and tackled her to the ground, getting her out of the way.

Dea was on top of Jellal. He was choking him with one hand and holding his scythe in the air with the other.

"JELLAL!" Meredy called out, trying to rush to his aid, but Bickslow grabbed her.

"No!" Bickslow said, wrapping his arms around the pink haired wizard.

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Natsu was shaking with anger. He could hear the screams of his guild mates. The bangs and booms of magic clashing. He wasn't only angry that he wasn't out there in the fight with the rest of them, but he was angry that his family was being hurt and there was nothing he could do. Even if he tried to get up, Freed had sealed the door with runes, for extra safety. No enemies could get in, and no one injured could get out.

Lucy held onto Natsu, tears pouring down her face. Her body shook with her sobs. She felt so weak, so helpless, but she knew there was nothing she could do. She had been ordered to stay put. But she couldn't get the thoughts out of her head, that if she was down there with her guild, then maybe things would be different.

Gray had his arm around Juvia as she shook. She wasn't crying, but she was clearly distressed, and he was doing his best to comfort her. He shook with his own anger and not being able to help. He was biting the side of his cheek so hard it was bleeding and he could taste the iron.

Ember shook as tears poured down her face. Nunu licked the salty tears as they fell and whined at her distress. Laxus gripped her hand tightly. He was not only worried about his friends, but about his grandfather. He was too old to be battling in these types of battles. Freed just looked at the door with a blank expression on his face. He was fighting with himself to not undo his own runes and run out there to help his friends.

"Is...is that Cana yelling for Gildarts?" Lucy whimpered.

"Why would she be yelling for him, there is no way he is here. This building and everyone in it would be rubble." Laxus said.

"She's calling out for Ember too." Gray said.

"Why is she calling out for me? Why did she say 'I'm friends with your daughter'?" Ember asked, shaking.

"It's got to be a trick. There's no way Zeref, or even Acnologia is here." Freed said calmly.

"We have to get out there." Natsu growled.

"We can't. Master's orders." Freed sighed.

"You are all also injured." Porlyusica interupted.

They had all forgotten she was there. The old pink haired woman had been so quiet in the corner. She stood up from her seat and took a vial out of her bag. It was a pale blue, a calming color. She pulled the top off of it and the air started to turn the same shade of blue around them. The smell of chamomile and vanilla filled their noses.

"What is…." Gray started, but quickly fell asleep.

"Are you poisoning us? No...don't...pl…" Natsu cried out, but fell asleep also before he could finish.

Porlyusica sat down as all the young wizards in the room drifted off into a calm sleep. She felt her own eyes getting heavy. She knew that sleeping was better for them than hearing the screams of their loved ones. And she knew that they were safe because of Freed's runes. She drifted off to sleep herself.

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The Seven Sins watched the Fairy Tail guild hall as the battle raged on inside. They could hear the chaos from where they were, which was no far. They had moved closer, waiting to see if anyone came out. The screams caused them all to get goosebumps on their skin. It was horrifying. They recognized some of the screams, but most of them they did not.

"It sounds like Mistress Famina is dying. I know that's her." Invidia said, fixing her long black hair.

"Maybe Fairy Tail is winning." Gula said.

"No. There's no way if Master Dea is in there. No way." Ira said shaking his head. He was wringing his hands together in his lap.

The doors to the guild hall burst opened and someone stumbled outside. It took the group of wizards a second to realize who it was. The woman scrambled to her feet, her bow in her hands and all her arrows falling to the ground out of the quiver on her back. Her white hair was a mess and the crown was missing from her head. She looked incredibly distressed.

"Mistress Conquesta?" Acedia chirped.

The white maiden looked over at the young girls voice. She saw her guild and ran to them, almost tripping over her own feet. She dropped to the ground in front of them. They all looked at her shocked. This was one of their Master's. One of the people that had intimidated them and given them orders for so long. But now she looked just like any other ordinary woman in distress. She was disheveled and scared. She looked weak.

"My children…..you have to go in there and help! You have to finish this!" Conquesta pleaded.

"You want us to go in there and finish a battle you didn't want us to be part of?" Avaria sneered. She ran a hand through her dark green hair.

"Please, you must!" Conquesta begged.

"But I thought we were too weak for this battle, Mistress?" Bris asked sarcastically.

"No, we just wanted to let you rest. You must understand." Conquesta explained, a shaky smile on her face.

"Oh, is that right?" Ira asked, looking at her with his gray eyes.

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Conquesta was gone, she had fled. Cobra and Mira high fived, and then Mira turned back into her normal self. Cobra looked at her with a smile.

"You know, that Takeover of yours is pretty hot, Mira." Cobra smirked.

"Oh….geez. Don't be like that!" Mira giggled, pink roses blooming on her cheeks.

"JELLAL!" Cobra and Mira heard Meredy scream.

The two wizards turned towards the distraught shout of their comrade, and they saw the leader of Apocalypse Keyes standing over Jellal, one hand around his neck, and the other holding his scythe above him, ready to strike. Mira let out a gasp and put her hands to her mouth. Cobra bared his fangs and tightened his fists.

"He's almost out of magic power! There's nothing he can do!" Cobra said, his voice shaking with anger.

"What can we do?" Mira whimpered.

"If we attack he will kill him." Cobra gulped.

Warsaw was on the ground. He was alive, but he wasn't moving. Erza's lightning attack with her Lightning Empress armor had taken him out of the game. She had used his armor almost like a lightning rod. Her strategy and wits had come through for her again. She smiled down at her victory.

"JELLAL!" Erza turned towards Meredy's scream as fast as she could.

Her entire body went stiff and her blood ran cold. Jellal was literally in death's grip. One move and he could be killed. One wrong move and Jellal was out of her life forever. She didn't know what to do She knew in her mind that if she attacked, Dea wouldn't hesitate to kill Jellal right away. But she knew in her heart that if she didn't do anything, she could never live with herself knowing she let Jellal die in front of her.

She couldn't live if Jellal died. Period.

Elfman and Evergreen held each other on the ground. He had finally heard her voice and saw her through his anger. He had finally let go of Famina, and didn't kill her. He felt so guilty and so ashamed, but Evergreen was just happy he was back to himself. Cana helped Famina sit up. She knew that the woman was her enemy, but she was out of strength after almost being squeezed to death by Elfman.

"Why are you helping me?" Famina asked, coughing. She was still having trouble breathing. She probably had at least one broken rib.

"Because, my guild almost killed you. And something tells me that whatever you are fighting for, you aren't willing to die for." Cana said and smiled at her. Famina smiled back shyly.

"JELLAL!"

Cana, Evergreen, Elfman, and Famina looked towards the scream that rang through the entire guild hall. Famina gasped. Cana, Evergreen and Elfman could feel their hearts pretty much stop beating.

"JELLAL!" Meredy cried out.

"No!" Bickslow said, grabbing her around the waist and holding her.

"I….I have to help him!" Meredy whimpered.

"If you make any moved, that guy will kill him!" Bickslow growled at her.

She was struggling against him, but he was stronger. Tears were pouring down her face, and her pink hair was sticking to her face from sweat. Bickslow made sure to not loosen his grip on her, because he knew that if he did, she would go for Jellal, and it would be over. There would be no saving him.

The air was standing still in the guild hall. Meredy's scream had echoed through it's walls and everyone was watching. No one wanted to breath. No one wanted to move. Jellal's life was so delicately in the balance between life and death. Any second that scythe could come down and take his life away from him. He couldn't even defend himself. Not only because he was out of magic power, but also because his magic had no effect on the dragon slayer that was holding his life in his hands. A wizard of Heavenly Body magic against a Heavenly Body Dragon Slayer. There could be no winner, unless one of them killed the other with something other than their magic.

Jellal looked into Dea's pale green eyes. He saw nothing in them. No emotion, no regret, no hunger, nothing. He was like an empty vessel. An insane empty vessel full of magic power. Jellal's chest rose and fell gently with his breath, he knew that any one of those breathes could be his last. But he wouldn't look away from the dragon slayer. He wouldn't break eye contact. All he could think of was the victory of the guild. The safety of the injured. And Erza.

The door to the guild hall slammed opened, letting in the light from the afternoon sun. Everyone jumped, expecting Dea's scythe to come down on Jellal's head like a guillotine, but it didn't. Instead, the dragon slayer looked over his shoulder to see who had joined the party.

The wizard that walked in, walked in slowly. His hair was red like fire, his eyes gray like storm clouds. A pair of brass goggles rested on top of his head, a large spike on each side, reminiscent of Laxus's headphones. He wore a leather jacket, the red Apocalypse Keyes guild mark on one of his shins.

"Iraaaa, my son of Wrath. You decided to join the festivities?" Dea hissed, a crazy smile spreading across his face.

"He's one of the Sins…" Mira whispered. She grabbed Cobra's hand in fear and squeezed it. He looked at her with a confused expression, but then looked at the red haired wizard now standing in the middle of Fairy Tail's guild hall.

"Master…" Erza said under her breath, looking over at Makarov. He was sitting on the floor next to the bar. He looked at her as if he heard her.

"No one move." A voice rang inside everyone's head. It was Warren's, the guild's telepath. He was hiding in a corner projecting his voice to everyone on his side of the fight. They all heard him, and the guild stood still.

"I came to finish it, sir." Ira, the red haired wizard said with a cocky smile.

"Ahhh, well since you are the only one of my children with any balls, I will let you finish it." Dea said proudly.

The Pale Horse lowered his scythe and stepped away from Jellal, allowing for Ira to come forward to and do the job he was so ready to do. When the scythe lowered it was as if hope returned to the Fairy Tail wizards in one fell swoop. They all tensed up and got ready to attack if they needed. They were no longer worried about a split second taking Jellal's life. They could defend themselves now.

Ira didn't walk towards Jellal. He took a firm stance, his feet spread apart, his hands balled into fists. He took in a deep breath, and everyone recognized what it was for. In that moment they all had a vision of Natsu. The wizard in front of them looked like an older and more mature version of the fire dragon slayer, of course with different hair and eyes. But there was a resemblance.

"Another dragon slayer?" Cana gasped.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Evergreen shouted.

"So many men! I can't handle it!" Elfman cried out.

"Oh shut up!" Evergreen growled, slapping him in the chest.

"VOLCANO DRAGON'S ROAR!" Ira cried out.

The roar of smoke, blue lightning and fire barreled towards Dea and Jellal. The heat licked at everyone's skin and the light made them all have to cover their eyes. They choked from the smoke and ash. Most of them had been thrown to the ground from the force.

Ash was raining down on them like gray snow. Erza wiped it from her face with a disgusted look.

"What the? Volcano magic?" She said curiously.

"Whoaa buddy. That was something!" Cobra coughed, wiping off his robe. Mira coughed next to him, and he helped her up, wiping some of the gray ash off of her hair. But it just smudged. "Oh, that's weird. Now your hair is gray, kind of looks like an old lady."

"What?" Mira panicked. Cobra laughed at her, her hair and pale face more gray than white because of the ash.

"Jellal!" Erza cried out. She stumbled to her feet.

"I'm fine!" Jellal called out. He was on the ground, coughing heavily from the ash and his close proximity to the attack. He was entirely gray and black from the smoke, ash, and fire.

Erza ran to him and threw her arms around his neck. His whole body shook with his coughs but she refused to let go. He hugged her back and laughed.

"Wait….but…." Cana stammered. And then she noticed. "Oh my god!"

Dea laid on the floor motionless. He had taken the attack at full power. He didn't have time to defend himself. His pale hair and clothing looked almost black. It was burnt and dirty. His scythe had been thrown away from him and laid on the floor about 10 feet away from it's wielder. Everyone's eyes turned to the red haired volcano dragon slayer. He smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

"Whoops. Looks like I missed."