Finally, I managed to finish this chapter. Again, sorry for the long inactivity. Enjoy the new chapter!
"Can you defeat me, I wonder?" Grandeis jumped, and fired a purple laser from his index finger.
"You'll know the answer later," Marcus dodged the laser, and threw a fireball towards him.
Grandeis teleported, the fireball exploded, and Grandeis appeared behind Marcus, preparing to strike him. Marcus sensed his presence, and back flipped behind Gradeis. He then made a fire sword, and charged towards Grandeis. However, Grandeis teleported once again, appearing above Marcus. He then charged downward with his legs covered in a purple energy shaped like a lance.
Marcus dodged with his speed. "Damn you teleporting coward…"
"You can call me whatever you want. That won't change the fact that I'm better than you." Grandeis stood up.
"You might regret saying that," Marcus fired bullets of fire from his fingers, and Grandeis teleported in order to dodge the attack. Marcus then turned behind quickly and landed a punch charged with fire to Grandeis. "I know you'll pop up here."
"Not bad," Grandeis recovered. "I think I've been teleporting to the same location too much…."
Grandeis teleported again, now appearing in front of Marcus. "Time for round 2….."
After a brief moment of silence, Grandeis charged towards Marcus in a flash. He stroked Marcus with a powerful punch on the skull, which caused Marcus to be sent flying.
"Oh man," Marcus rubbed his head.
Grandeis charged forward, Marcus jumped up quickly, he made a giant fire hammer and he smashed the ground with it. It caused a shockwave around. Grandeis, however, can't be seen. "Where'd he go?" Marcus made the hammer disappear, and looked around. He then looked above him, and found Grandeis striking down with the Lance of Death. Grandeis landed with the attack.
"The end," Grandeis grinned. However, as soon as he looks forward, Marcus shot an arrow of fire with a fire bow while in mid air. Grandeis got pierced by the arrow in the chest. "Guh!" Grandeis fell on his knees. Marcus then made a fire katana, and pointed it towards Grandeis. "So, who's the winner?"
Grandeis grinned again: "Me"
He teleported, appeared behind Marcus, and swung his arm covered with a dark energy shaped like a giant dragon's claw.
Marcus swung his fire katana, but it got destroyed by the claw. As the result, Marcus got slashed by the attack.
"What the…Heck," Marcus fell on his knees.
"I got the Dragon's power, which not only increases my strength and durability, but also grants me new powers," Grandeis raised his Claw of Death. "I'm the winner."
Grandeis smashed the ground with the claw. Marcus managed to dodge the impact with his speed, and then he charged toward Grandeis with a fire knuckle attached to his fists. Before he could land a punch on him, Grandeis teleported. With the Claw of Death, he slashed Marcus' back. "Gwah!" Marcus fell onto the ground.
"You can't defeat the power of Dimension and Dragon," Grandeis jumped up high, and used the Lance of Death, which penetrated downward towards Marcus. Marcus couldn't dodge the attack in time due to the injuries.
"Now then, I shall complete my other objectives," Grandeis walked away from Marcus.
Before Grandeis could walk away, Marcus regained the strength to talk. "Wait….The battle is…Not over….Yet!" He shouted.
Grandeis turned around. "You really want to die? I guess I'll grant your wish."
"Do that if you…Can!" Marcus' body is covered in flames. "Blaze Possession"
"Flame Rex" The fire covered Marcus entirely, and then formed into a creature like the fiercest predator in the Cretaceous period.
"Heh…Another interesting thing to witness," Grandeis said.
Flame Rex fired a huge fireball towards Grandeis, and he dodged it by jumping.
The fireball then exploded a short while after.
"That is dangerous," Grandeis remarked.
Marcus lowered his skull and charged forward. Grandeis knew what kind of attack he is going to use on him. He stretched his right arm, and as soon as Marcus got near him, a purple barrier appeared.
"You're too predictable." Grandeis remarked. "I thought this will be more interesting…..This certainly disappoints me." He swiped his right arm, which caused the barrier to burst, stunning Marcus.
"This is the end." Grandeis stretched his right arm and dark energies seemed to gather around him."Death Blast"
A huge explosion can be seen and heard below the cliff. Marcus reverted back to his human form, lying unconscious.
"There, I won." Grandeis turned back. "To be frank, that was a brief fight."
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Quite far from the cliff, a carriage was heading towards the village.
"Did you hear that?" Gajeel asked the group.
Wendy nodded."Yeah, sounds like an explosion."
Natsu just lay there, while holding himself not to throw up.
"I wonder how Marcus-san is doing…."Wendy worried.
"Dunno….That Grandeis is pretty tough." Gajeel stated.
Natsu suddenly regained the strength to sit. "If he didn't teleport every now and then, I would've beaten him! Urgh…" He lay down again.
"Still, his strength is crazy. We should've stopped him from absorbing that dragon." Gajeel regretted.
"We didn't know what he was going to do that time." Wendy let out a sigh.
Soon afterwards, the carriage stopped.
"Finally, it stopped." Natsu slowly recovered.
"We've arrived to the village" The carriage man told the Dragon Slayers.
"Thank you" Wendy thanked the person.
The three got out from the carriage, and proceeded to the village elder's house.
Wendy knocked the door.
The village elder opened the door. "Oh, it's you people. Has peace returned to us? If so, I'd like to thank you properly."
"We have something important to tell you!" Wendy said in a panicked way.
"Oh?"Then please come in."The village elder then went inside the house.
The Dragon Slayers saw a familiar figure inside the house."Huh?" Gajeel was taken aback.
A red-haired female mage looked towards them."There you are,"
"Erza-san?" Wendy was wondering what happened.
At the top of the cliff…
"Looks like I should carry on with my plan, there's no time to waste." Grandeis then walked away.
That's for this time's chapter. As usual, sorry if it's too short. Stay tuned for the next chapter!