The previous chapter. Read it if you haven't. This is chapter 11. I replaced chapter 9 sneak peak with chapter 10.

Chapter 11

As soon as their eyes met, Ichigo realized what was going on between them. Well, not too deeply, but enough for him to understand that they had a history before. But personal thoughts could wait after he bound Jellal in rope and sealed his magic-using ability until he turned him in.

Ichigo shot forth and began to pummel Jellal again.

"No, you can't do this to me!" Jellal roared as Ichigo showed him hell with his punches alone.

Erza watched in amazement as Ichigo took down someone from the Ten Wizard Saints. She knew that Ichigo was insanely strong, but this was ridiculous. She fought him, but she was only a lower-tier S-rank mage. She was close but nowhere near the rank of the Ten Wizard Saints. She still had a lot of training to do, which meant that without some miracle, fighting Jellal by herself was a suicide run.

'But ... Ichigo is beating Jellal up without sweating a drop,' she thought as she saw the man's arms and sword move at a pace faster than she could muster. It was like watching light pierce through the darkness, and with each beam, the darkness roars and fights back in vain.

"But it's too late!" Jellal shouted when he got a pause. "I already had permission to fire Etherion! And when that happens, all I need to do is -!" Another punch. Jellal flew away like ragdoll.

"Fire Etherion."

There was a bright light open up in the sky, and everyone's attention flew to it.

"It's over for you!" Jellal grinned as the square magic runes opened up high above them.

Ichigo cursed. Yes, that attack that was about to come down at the Tower and all of those within had a hell lot of power. Ichigo could just feel it. The refined yet insanely powerful concentrated of mana particles and energies. It was a ticking bomb, just waiting to rain down on a helpless target. And that target happened to be him and everyone within. He looked back down at Jellal. "You're nuts, you know that?" Ichigo asked.

"I went mad a long time ago!"

Then the magic attack fired directly at them, and everything went white.

Erza gasped as the attack fell down. She didn't expect her life to end this way, but … she was okay with it. At least she died with Jellal.

Acnologia was not so sure about dying. Yes, she was also caught up within the attack, but she was infinitely more experienced with magic than any of the humans on this tower.

She felt the energy of the attack slowly just pass by her. It was like any other attack that she took from a human mage or warrior; they just bounced off. However, the cause of the refraction of the attack was something within the tower, not her scales. She doubted that her scales would stand up to the force of the attack.

Then … her vision returned to normal.

Nothing.

"So that's what it was," she whispered as her vision came back not to the pale bricks but the blue lacryma. She didn't feel the hidden structure's presence before, but now with magic literally glowing within it, it was easy to feel it. However, that messed up her "radar" for magic.

Natsu looked about. He had defeated the owl head moments before the entire structure was struck by something white. His vision had been taken away for a moment before it returned to him.

He screamed his head off when he found the blue lacryma that had replaced the tower. It was enough shock for most of the Fairy Tail mages and others who survived the onslaught of their enemies and the Etherion, and they screamed as well.

Ichigo blocked his ear, lest they bleed and fall off of him from the crescendoing screams.

Jellal and Erza was doing the same.

"...This is weird," Ichigo muttered.

Erza nodded.

Jellal removed his fingers from his ears and quickly made a magic seal in front of him. It was too quick for even Ichigo to intercept and it caught the two Fairy Tail mages off guard.

It was Abyss Break.

Erza's eyes widened. "Jellal! Are you trying to kill everyone on this tower?" she hissed as she took her hand off of her ears and pulled out her swords.

Jellal smirked. "I already realized that I can't win against that monster of a friend of yours without it," he said as Siegrain appeared. Without words due to the necessary quickness required on his part to perform Abyss Break, they merged.

'Illusion!'

"H-He disappeared!" Yajima, who had been stalking Siegrain for the purpose of finding out exactly what Siegrain was doing, shouted when Siegrain disappeared like some sort of mirage right before his eyes. "He betrayed us!" he shouted.

"What?" Org growled. "Who?"

"Siegrain! You can see him on the screen!"

Everyone turned to the screen where the mages were spying upon the Tower of Heaven starting from the moment when Etherion struck. And Siegrain, or rather Jellal, was there.

With Abyss Break.

All of a sudden, the screen shut off and dust began to fall off of the ceiling of the Magic Council's supposedly grand structure. Then the ceiling began to collapse and the floor began to rot, despite the fact that both were made out of bricks.

"W-What's going on?" Org shouted. '...Wait, this is -!'

"Yes," Ultear said as she raised her hand. "This is what my Master wants."

"Damn you, Ultear! You were with Siegrain?" Yajima shouted.

"From the start..."

Ichigo realized how powerful the spell was, and how everyone aside from him would die if the spell was fired. Even he would not get away unharmed. He could stop Jellal, but the magic seal had already began to count down on the countdown sequence until fire.

Which was exactly 5 seconds.

Unable to think of anything else, Ichigo launched himself towards the Abyss Break. Jellal saw Ichigo coming and fired multiple Meteors in an attempt to stop the charging mage. But Ichigo was faster and he reached Jella, placing the magic seal of Abyss Break right between him and the caster. "Seal Grab!" Ichigo shouted, remembering one of the spells from a particular magic book. A magic seal of blue appeared for a split second around Ichigo's free left hand. He used it to grab the Abyss Break's seal.

2 seconds.

Unable to throw the seal, Ichigo used shunpo, dragging it and himself to the sky. When he came out of his first shunpo -at the height of ten kilometers above the sea level- he forced the seal to flip 180 degrees, directing it towards the sky.

0 seconds.

From the tower, one could see a very black streak of ominous light erupt seemingly out of nowhere. But Natsu -who had just arrived out from within the lacryma's structure just before Ichigo disappeared- and Erza knew what had happened.

"Damn you!" Natsu roared as he charged towards Jellal, who took the fight with a smirk.

Ichigo hissed as the Abyss Break fired off its attack and his skin began to burn. It was a strong magic, one that was on par with Yamamoto's shikai.

There was noway to escape this. The vector of the attack was too strong. If he let himself go with the flow, then the attack would take a huge toll, but he can't slide out of the attack; the vector was too strong, and it would obliterate any passive (hierro) and active (multiple magic barrier layers) defense he had up because of the change and the added current's pressure.

Overall, at this rate, he was literally going to be hurt bad. Like really bad burns along his arms. Or thrown into space. The latter was most likely outcome at how fast he was being pushed back with his defenses in place.

And he had already released all of his power moments before Abyss Break fired.

While his body was dealing with the magic attack, his consciousness was dealing with how to stop this without creating a huge distortion in the fabric of reality. Though Abyss Break was powerful, it was not as powerful as Aizen's Kurohitsugi had been in the said man's hogyoku-fused form. It was close though. Close enough to tear a rip in the fabric of reality.

'Maybe I can go back home with it...' he thought as he slowly shifted his body around, exposing the full power of Abyss Break unto his back.

"Gah!" he shouted in pain before he shut himself off.

This was the plan.

He was going to fire off a seriously charged up Getsuga Tensho at the same speed of the Abyss Break attack. If the Getsuga Tensho was strong enough, then a tear will form in the fabric and he will be able to go through it to escape. However, if he fails to make a tear, then the full force of Abyss Break will tear him apart. Not literally, but it would hurt like hell and he would be rendered defenseless.

"Getsuga..." he hissed as the spiritual attack black as Abyss Break formed around his black zanpakuto. "Tensho!"

Below where Abyss Break fired off -WAY below- and on the top floor of the Tower of Heaven, Natsu roared as he struck Jellal.

Jellal took the hit and flew off before he used his magic Meteor to make a counter right back at Natsu. Natsu, without nawn sort of aerial support, flew backward and struck one of the pillars. Jellal grinned. He may have been weakened by that bastard black robed mage from another world, but he was still strong enough to take down a mage of Natsu's level. He smirked when Natsu trembled, trying to stand back up. He walked over to him and raised his right leg.

"Just die already!" Jellal roared as he stomped down on Natsu's head. Natsu's head cracked on the crystal floor and blood splattered out. Erza gasped, but she was too weak to move. Tears were running down her eyes and her hands were covering her trembling mouth. Jellal smirked and walked away, speaking things like how Erza was going to become the sacrifice now and that Natsu was too weak.

But that was when Natsu slowly raised himself back up.

With Etherion-rich lacryma in his mouth.

The two S-class mages gawked at him. "W-What? That's a suicide!" Jellal shouted, actually worried a bit for the fire mage's mental stability. Or was he dumb?

Ichigo grinned as his Getsuga Tensho flew out at the necessary speed. And then...

As he wanted, a rip in the fabric of reality appeared. 'And that's my escape route!' he thought before he jumped into it.

When Ichigo made that rip, Jellal, being the most sensitive of the closest three mages, whirled around as to look for it, and he found himself drawn to the pillar of black light that is his Abyss Break. All his magics were specials. They lasted much longer than anyone else's, which was why he was able to quickly rise up to the ranks of Ten Wizard Saints. However, when he felt that rip occur, his face blenched.

'H-He made a rip in the fabric of space itself to escape my Abyss Break..? Just what kind of monster is he-?'

"Jellal!"

Jellal whirled around and saw Natsu... with a huge dragon made out of flame behind him.

"You're dead!"

When Ichigo turned around to exit the rip once he escaped the damn magic attack, his eyes widened as he saw no such rip. Instead, he saw a very clear blue sky with a few clouds dotting the horizon. The trees below him took all shades of green, brown, and red, and the cries of monsters were very much like those of hollow's, only without the double echo.

He was in a completely different place from where he expected himself to be.

"Fuck!" he roared as he realized that he was lost. "FUCK FUCK FUCK!"

AoL

Two months later...

Acnologia stood at the entrance of the guild and sighed. Ever since he was labeled as a MIA during the Tower of Heaven fight, she haven't seen him. Not even once.

"Ah-chan."

The tall lady turned around and she saw Wendy pulling on her shirt. Wendy was the only person that she allowed herself to be called 'Ah-chan' from. She smiled and knelt down, placing her hand on Wendy's hand after kneeling. "Hello, Wendy-chan," she greeted softly.

"It's already night. Come in," she said. Though Wendy joined the guild far after Ichigo's disappearance, she was aware of Acnologia and her lover. She was told that Acnologia was constantly standing there, waiting for Ichigo to come back. Of course, Wendy had not seen him even once, but she was sure that Ichigo was a man that knew how to slowly thaw something hard and rough as hatred. At least just by being himself.

Acnologia smiled. "Sorry, Wendy-chan. I'll be standing here throughout tonight as well. You go inside," Acnologia said before she stood back up. Wendy put up her best puppy eyes, but the taller lady only just smiled and turned around.

Wendy, having failed at her quest, turned around and turned around. She went in, leaving Acnologia all alone once more.

*Whoooo...* Acnologia sighed. It was a hard for her, especially after Ichigo disappeared. The Rune Knights and the damned Magic Council has been snooping their noses in Fairy Tail's buisness. Other guilds were looking down on them. Above all, though, there were assassin after her. "Where are you, you bastard...?" She just sighed again after. "Imma take a walk," she muttered to herself before she put power to her legs and jumped high into the air, flying like a dragon she was. Or … jumping. With that single jump, she cleared half of the town, and landed on the cobblestone street. She landed with a cat-like grace, and with a succession of the same jump, she cleared the entire town. Ever since Ichigo went missing, she was training herself; one such training was the jumping skill she so chreished now. IT was very useful, and cut time where her wings could not.

So she was now at the edge of the town.

"Oh, it's you."

She looked about, and found someone she was somewhat familiar with.

"Yo, Mystogan."

"...Acnologia."

"Yes?" she asked nonchalantly. Her name used to strike fear in the hearts of all men and women, but now for the Fairy Tail mages, it was just another name.

"I need your help..."

"...Eh?"

"Oh," she muttered a minutes after she uttered 'eh.' In that minute, Mystogan had revealed who he was -Edolas's Jellal-, what he had been doing, and what was going to happen. About anima. About Edolas. About the event.

"Then what are you waiting for?" she hissed as she grabbed the collapsing man, and ..jumped.

They flew across the entire town to the gates of the guild itself.

'Holy shit, she's jumpy!' E. Jellal thought in shock as he and Acnologia flew across the town. Then they landed... without a scratch.

"Hurry it up! I won't have them all-!"

"Too late..." E. Jellal said as his form began to dissipate into gas. Acnologia's eyes widened in shock. Human turned into gas? She then whirled around. It was true as he said, the entire town was being vaporized and then sucked up into the sky.

"Shit!"

"Don't worry. You'll have the dragonslayers to help you," E. Jellal muttered just before he disappeared as a whole.

"Damn it!" she hissed. She was once again powerless to stop this.

"Ah-chan!"

She turned around just as the town finished .. disappearing. It was Wendy, the Wind Dragonslayer. "Wendy-chan!"

"W-What's happening?"

Before he could tell her, the ground cracked up and a hand shot out from a place that the guild's building used to be.

It was Natsu.

"W-What just happened?"

Acnologia helped Natsu out of the ground and she explained what Mystogan told her … until Charlie interrupted.

"This happened because of us two," Charlie said.

"...Eh?" Happy muttered. "W-What?"

"It's true..."

Charlie explained her side of the story. How she and Happy were sent here to capture the Dragonslayers because they were going to invade the Edolas. Of course, Natsu was the most vocal of the objections. Charlie ignored the fire dragonslayer and went on about how she was sent along with other Exceeds to kill the dragonslayers. Lure them into Edolas if possible. Wendy refused to believe, while Happy just trembled... And his stomach grumbled. Natsu didn't believe it as well. He trusted in Happy and Happy did not recollect anything like what Charlie recalled. Charlie accused him. Happy just … looked down by the accusation.

"Well then, let's go," Natsu said.

"You … still want to go even when you know that we were -."

"Ya ya ya. I don't care. We still have to go save our friends."

"... Alright," Charlie said. "But if we show any sign of betraying you two, eliminate us."

The other three stared at her. Happy's stomach then proceeded to growl, pissing Charlie off. "Will you do something about that stomach?"

"I can't!"

GGGRRRROOOOWWWWLLL.

"Excuse me..."

The four whirled around, expecting an enemy. Instead, they found a man in a cloak. He was familiar, especially to Natsu.

"...You!" Natsu recognized the man after a while.

It was Ginjo, or better know on Earthland as the Prophet.

"Weren't you in league with that bastard Gerard?" Natsu asked. HE was obviously pissed about someone like Ginjo coming here.

Ginjo shrugged his shoulders. "I was never serving nor in league with him. He came to me for advice, and I gave them. Well, that and a few facts about the future from some random tome that I found when I arrived in this world..."

Natsu didn't get it. The rest of the group did not get it as well. Hack, they all didn't know the man!

"Umm... Excuse me, but who are you?" Wendy asked.

"I am Ginjo. I was a former enemy of Kurosaki and a former advisor of Jellal's," he replied kindly, ending it with a bow. "Pleased to meet you."

"What are you here for?" Charlie asked.

"I'm here to help you. I want to speak to Ichigo, after all."

"You speak as if that man is alive," Acnologia growled. She hadn't been in the conversation, though she had listened to them all. Now that Ginjo was here, her attention was back on him.

Ginjo looked at Acnologia.

"Ah, the famous dragon of apocalypse. It is an honor ... of sort to meet you like this without having Ichigo between us. May I say-."

"Cut the crap. You talk as if Ichigo is alive. Now tell me why you do before I decide to break off a bone or two," she hissed.

Ginjo reeled a bit. Acnologia was on par with him on strength alone, trying to fight her would result in a catastrophic … loss of time to be spent on both healing and recuperating, and such a loss of time was not an ideal thought for a situation such as this. "When Fairy Tail struck at the Tower of Heaven, I was watching over the scene with a certain survelliance magic, one that I will not be revealing because it is one that I specifically made for my own use."

"You made your own magic?" Wendy asked, shocked by the news.

Magic that everyone used was at one point created far in the past by a group. Only few magic were made by individuals, and they tended to have more flaw. It was like a myth or a story. One that existed for a longer period of time tend to be more wide spread and have more influence. 'For example,' Ginjo thought. 'On Earth, not Earthland, the movie Thor originates from the Norse god Thor, god of Thunder and Smithery, but not all knows about that manhaw God of Highschool. Ah, I wonder what chapter they are on now...'

"Yes, I did. Several of them, in fact," he replied. "But that is beside the point. Through my magic, I saw that Ichigo disappeared through a gap in the fabric of space that he himself tore open using the power of both Abyss Break and his Gentsuga Tensho. That was, however, almost a ifferent version of Anima with the same gap frequency-" And Ginjo talked on.

Most of the details were nonsesnse to Acnologia. She cared for no frequency of magic and the effects of it. Magic was instinct to her. She used magic by it and that was that.

"- That and-!"

"Shut up!"

Everyone did and turned to Acnologia, who looked very pissed off. "Save the explanations for later. If Ichigo is alive, I want to go find him, now."

Ginjo felt cold sweat fall off. "Of course. The way is easy for us though, unlike Ichigo. All we have to do is … simplify fly up." He then pointed to the swirling Anima. "But I'm not going to lie. It's going to hurt. A lot."

"Alright then," Acnologia grinned as she let her wings sprout out of her back. It looked like a painful process, though her face suggested otherwise. The wings opened up out of her skin and convulsed on a three second interval. Then the wing reached its widest span and she took to the air.

Happy got on Natsu, sprouted his own wings, and they were off as well.

Wendy looked at Ginjo after those three took off. "How are you going to fly up?" she asked as Charlie attached herself to her back and sprouted her wings.

Ginjo smiled. "I have my own ways, girl. Off you go," he replied.

They took off.

Then when Wendy went through, Ginjo began jumping up with the Fullbring light behind him.

Acnologia was waiting for them on the other side. Natsu and Happy came out first, followed by Wendy, and then Ginjo with purple light under his feet.

"Alright. We got the entire squad here," Ginjo said as he approached them. "I'll take the lead in finding Ichigo. You coming, Acnologia?"

Acnologia looked dissatisfied but nodded anyway.

"We'll go find our guild members," Natsu replied. "Well-. Woah! What the hell are those?"

The 'squad' turned around and their jaws dropped. A river was in the sky with fishes swimming within it.

"...The fuck?" Acnologia muttered.

"Keh. That's an interesting river. Is everything in Edolas like this?" Ginjo asked.

"I-I don't know. I was never given any sort of information on Edolas, only about Earthland and dragonslayers. Even this is … new to me," Charlie replied. "I think-."

Suddenly, everyone's wings disappeared. For a second, they stood in midair. Then they fell.

"WAAAHHH!"

"KKYYAAHH!"

"... This is crazy."

"AHHH!"

Ginjo just looked at them fall and hit the ground from where he first stood. "Well, that was weird."

"You bastard!" Natsu shouted at Ginjo, who merely gave him the "hand of awkward 'hi's'."

"We can't use magic like you did in Earthland. I already told you this," Charlie said as she dusted herself off. She then looked around, and found herself at the top of the pile of people with Wendy below her, Happy squashed between Natsu and Acnologia. "Hmm." Then she got off the pile. Then she looked up and saw Ginjo slowly descend down towards them. "Let's get moving."

"Easy for you to say..." Acnologia growled from the very beneath of the pile. "Now, get off!"