Finally the climax of the fight between Natsu and Jean. I hope the outcome is suitable in your opinion as well.

Reviews are welcome.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any character I borrowed from Dragon Ball, Negima, The World God only knows, Yugioh!, One Piece, Bleach, Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Soul Eater.


CHARLE'S VISION

Jean was battling with Natsu.

-…-

"STOP IT!" she shouted at Jean jumping right between the opponents. With spread arms she shielded the weakened Natsu.

Jean hesitated a short moment but then he pierced Lisanna with his sword through the chest impaling Natsu as well.

-…-

REALITY

Lisanna was still looking for Natsu and Jean. "Where could they be?" she talked to herself. Now she was sure that something bad must have happened. Suddenly she saw the mountain area. 'Could it be?'

"Take Over Animal Soul: Bird!" Lisanna transformed into a bird and flew off.

Chapter 11: Challenge the future – Part III

[Several minutes later]

Erza, Gray and Nat went out of the academy building. They were looking for Natsu who was missing for a while now. Suddenly Juvia crossed their path.

"Juvia!" Erza called her.

"Ah! There you are! Juvia was looking for you." the blue haired replied. "Juvia saw Lisanna transforming into a bird and flying outside the campus." she explained worried.

"Lisanna? I guess she was looking for Natsu as well." Nat assumed. "Maybe she has already an idea were Natsu could be."

"Have you seen in what direction she was flying?" Erza wanted to know. 'I won't allow her to get close to my friends as long as she doesn't prove me to be able to control her magic!' she thought determined.

"Juvia thinks she was heading towards that direction." Juvia pointed to a desert mountain area close to FT.

"We should hurry!" Gray commented. "But how are supposed to keep up with her?"

"Leave this to me!" Nat suggested. "I'll see what I can do with my magic." He put both hands to the right behind his body and concentrated his magic. Magic waves surrounded his hands – similar to when Erza uses her magic. He then put his hands forward and the waves now engulfed the place in front of him. He made sure that no one was standing too close to that place as the engulfed area became larger. The waves disappeared and an off-road vehicle with two seats and without a roof appeared in front everyone.

Everyone was speechless.

"It resembles my re-quip magic but I've never heard that something of this size can be stored in a pocket dimension." Erza noted amazed.

"Well, my re-quip magic is called 'The Driver'. Because of the size of my 'Fireball' [- the name of his car -] I can only store three more objects in my pocket dimension." Nat explained. "So, let's go!"

"How can we drive this?" Erza was the first to take a seat. "I don't see any SE-plug."

"My vehicles can only be used by me. My second magic is called 'Power Link Magic'." Nat's right hand transformed into a lucent cylinder and he fused it with a part of the car below the steering wheel.

Juvia and Gray took their position on the back of the car. With a sudden extreme speed they went off.

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After the attacks of Natsu and Jean had collided the whole area had been engulfed into a large cloud of dust. Jean slowly regained his consciousness. The dust slowly settled in front of him. He tried hard to at least get on his knees again. He suddenly noticed a shadow standing in front of him. Then Natsu emerged out of the dust cloud. 'That can't be!' he thought grinding his teeth.

An wounded and exhausted Natsu was standing in front of Jean. "Looks like I've won." he gasped and looked at his opponent who wasn't even able to get on his feet again.

"I admit defeat. Kill me!" Jean demanded from Natsu looking to the ground.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Natsu was confused. "I don't intend killing you. Our battle made me realize that our reasons for fighting aren't that different, you know." he was smiling at Jean. "You want to protect someone precious to you as well, don't you?" he then reached his hand to help his opponent up.

Jean was at first affected by these words. But then he realized that it wasn't the outcome of fight he had originally planned. "If you really think that way …" he suddenly jumped back on his feet. "… then our battle isn't finished yet!" his wounds started bleeding stronger by his sudden movement.

"H-hey! You're severely wounded and you shouldn't have any magic left." Natsu wanted to stop him from resuming the fight.

"Well, the same goes for you and I have other possibilities." Jean remarked. "Presence Negation Break!" he suddenly wielded a katana in his right hand. He then ran towards Natsu and charged a horizontal slash at him.

In the last moment Natsu avoided the attack by jumping to the back in the air. This way he was able to increase the distance between him and his opponent. "What the hell is wrong with you? Why do you want to fight to the death so badly?" Natsu was mad again. He created flames in his hands demonstrating that he had still some magic left.

"I have no other choice." Jean noted without explaining any further. "You had your chance to finish me off. I've still some magic left for my final attack. You won't be able to avoid it." he pointed forward with his left forefinger and middle finger. "Negation Magic: Room Link!" he created an almost invisible magical sphere with a diameter of about ten centimeter in front of his fingers. A similar sphere appeared next to Natsu's left shoulder. "Room Cutter!" Jean slashed through the air cutting the sphere in front of him with only the edge of his sword.

"Aargh!" Natsu's left shoulder was cut in exact the same moment. "W-what the hell was that?" Natsu was holding his wounded shoulder.

Jean then created nine spheres and again nine spheres appeared close around Natsu's body. "Massacre!" With fast movements Jean cut every sphere like he did before.

"Uaargh!" This time Natsu was cut at several parts all over his body and sank to his knees.

'It's over.' Jean thought satisfied. He then felt a dizzy spell and noticed that he was completely out of magic. 'I should finish it soon.' he thought to himself. Suddenly he saw Natsu was getting up again. 'This is impossible!'

Natsu managed to stand up again. His whole body was engulfed into flames now. He was completely in rage and charged towards Jean. He attacked him with his burning right fist.

'Shit!' Jean was hardly able to deflect the attack with his sword.

Both opponents attacked simultaneously. Natsu hit Jean with a left kick in the face. Before falling to the ground Jean managed to cut him at the chest. Both combatants fell into opposite directions.

Then they went up again at the same time. Both started for the last attack. But suddenly Natsu lost control of his body caused by an injury he received during their fight.

Jean was charging towards Natsu but he slowed down his movements. 'What the hell am I doing here? I'm totally obsessed with the idea of killing him.' Jean realized shocked and finally stopped. He then let his sword drop.

Natsu was able to recover and charged at Jean again. He didn't notice yet that Jean had cancelled his attack.

Lisanna entered the scene out of nowhere. "STOP IT!" she shouted jumping right between the opponents. With spread arms she shielded Jean.

"Lisanna!" Natsu was surprised but managed to stop his attack in the last moment.

'Lisanna!' Jean thought taken aback. 'She is protecting ME?' he was completely out of power and his mind was distorted. "Sorry." he stated with a smile and fell to the ground unconsciously.

"Jean!" Lisanna immediately went down to him.

"Wait, Lisanna! You should stay away from him!" Natsu tried to warn her. "He is …"

"Evil? Dangerous?" Lisanna interrupted him. "That's not true. He might be different sometimes but I know that he isn't a bad guy. What ever happened between you I'm sure you two had your reasons." Lisanna took care for Jean.

"Lisanna…" Natsu then suddenly noticed an off-road car arriving at the scene.

Lisanna turned to Erza and Gray who left the car first and then she turned to Natsu again: "Do you have the slightest idea how it feels when people consider you to be evil or dangerous and try to avoid you?" Lisanna had tears in her eyes. "This shouldn't have happened; he should have talked to me."

At her words Natsu felt a bit guilty as well.

"Natsu, are you ok?" Erza shouted over to him. She was shocked seeing Natsu being pretty beaten up.

"What the hell happened to you?" Gray couldn't believe that someone would be able to injure Natsu that much.

"I think I'm ok so far." Natsu said although no one would believe him seeing the wounds all over his body.

"We need to bring Natsu and Jean to the hospital as soon as possible!" Lisanna turned to Nat.

"You can leave this to me." Nat replied. "Unfortunately I won't be able to take everyone back to the academy. There is at most place for one more person."

"Juvia thinks that Lisanna should accompany you." Juvia suggested.

"I don't agree with Juvia." Erza intervened. "You will be faster if you only take Natsu and the other one with you." she said to Nat.

"That's ok." Lisanna agreed. "If I fly back to the academy I will almost be able to keep up with you."

"And we three have to walk the whole way back then? Why has the flame-brain always to cause that much trouble?" Gray mocked Natsu trying to ease the situation.

"What did you say?" Natsu was about to get of the car again.

"Stay in there!" Erza prevented Natsu from moving too much. "You're pretty injured. You should make sure to rest for now."

"Ok, we leave now." Nat started his car after everything was prepared.

Lisanna transformed into a bird again and followed them.


After this intermezzo I'll carry on with the main plot in the next chapter.

Additionally I'm planning on an extra chapter where I can give you further explinations about the magic of non-FT-characters. But I'll only publish it if you are really interested in, so please review about this issue.