The ball of energy came flying towards Sherry. She had a few seconds to say her last words. She couldn't tell Lyon how she felt but she could still say the one word that meant the most to her.

"Love." Sherry said.

BOOM!

An explosion occurred on impact but it wasn't on impact with Sherry.

"SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRYYYYY!" Sherry heard Lyon cry out.

The explosion left behind a huge dust cloud. Sherry could see a figure standing right in front of her. She wasn't dead. Somebody saved her. A million thoughts raced inside of her head. She was incredibly grateful to still be alive. Sherry reached out her hand and placed her hand on the figure's' shoulder. She could feel them breathing heavily.

"YOU WILL PAY!" Sherry could hear Lyon say.

Zalty cackled in response. Sherry was infuriated. The dust partially cleared and Sherry could make out who was standing in front of her. It was one of the guild wizards with blonde hair. He had a shield out in front of him with several cracks in it which must've been created because of the impact.

"Jaune?" Sherry asked, not sure what his name was.

"That's my name." Jaune responded. "There isn't a lot of time. On my go you attack Zalty, alright?"

"Okay." Sherry said.

Jaune tossed his shield to the ground, shattering it. He then replaced it with a new one.

"What exactly is your magic?" Sherry questioned.

"I transform my aura into tangible shields." Jaune tried to explain as quick as possible.

The dust was almost completely gone but Sherry and Jaune were still hidden by it.

"Ready?" Jaune asked.

Sherry nodded confidently.

"Let's go!" Jaune commanded.

Jaune and Sherry both charged out of the dust cloud. A feeling of glee filled her as she saw Zalty's shocked face. While Jaune was charging at Deliora, Sherry charged at Zalty. Sherry noticed Lyon and Natsu being pinned down by Zalty's orbs.

"DOLL ATTACK: PUPPETEER!" Sherry exclaimed.

"Sherry?" Sherry could hear Lyon ask surprised.

Sherry stretched out her arms and two magic circles appeared, one at each hand. She took control of the orbs and made them stop.

"What?!" Zalty asked angrily.

It was then that another comrade made an appearance. Happy flew straight at Zalty and clinged onto his face, blocking Zalty's vision.

"Happy!" Natsu said happily.

Sherry directed the huge collection of orbs to go straight towards Zalty. Seconds before they reached him Happy flew out of the way. Zalty could finally see again, but what he saw wasn't pretty. He was pelted with his own orbs and was sent flying straight into the deep pit which Deliora had crawled out of earlier. His screams were the last thing that could be heard as he fell into a deep pit of darkness.

"Sherry!" Lyon said happily as he ran towards her and embraced her. "I'm glad you're okay."

"So am I." Sherry said with a smile.

At the same time Happy flew towards Natsu and embraced him.

"Where did you come from?" Natsu asked.

"An egg!" Happy joked.

Natsu just looked at him with a deadpan expression.

"It's a long story. I was coming this way with others but I saw Jaune flying straight through the air and decided to go after him." Happy explained. "Jaune then told me about Deliora so we flew back here."

"Well you arrived just in time." Sherry said.

While Lyon reunited with Sherry and Natsu reunited with Happy, Jaune was charging straight at Deliora. Jaune rammed into the demon with his shield, forcing the demon to slide back. Deliora tossed one of his energy balls at Jaune. Jaune held up his shield. An explosion occurred on impact and Jaune skidded backwards. Jaune noticed that the shield he had up had many cracks in it and was on the verge of breaking. Deliora charged at Jaune. Jaune quickly replaced his cracked shield with a new one, ready to block Deliora's attack.

Before Deliora could attack him a giant wall of ice appeared between Jaune and him. Deliora didn't care and just plowed through the wall. A magic circle then appeared underneath Deliora and an ice flower sprouted from it, catapulting Deliora high up into the air. An unknown figure did war cry. Soon enough the unknown figure became known as Yang who propelled herself through the air through the use of fire. Yang then kicked Deliora down with a flaming foot.

Deliora crashed into the ground creating a cloud of dust near the crash site. Yang fell back down to the ground and landed on her feet near Jaune. Natsu, Happy, Lyon and Sherry joined the group and they all faced the cloud of dust, waiting for it to clear.

"Nice to see you, Yang." Natsu said.

"Happy to be here to kick some butt." Yang said.

"Let's finish this." Jaune said.

"Question," Lyon said suddenly. "Who used ice magic just now?"

"Me." An unknown but familiar voice said.

Lyon recognized the voice. He remembered it so clearly. However, he shouldn't be able to hear the voice he heard. The voice he heard belonged to a dead person. Lyon turned around slowly and gasped when he saw who the voice belonged to. Summer Rose. Half sister of Ur Milkovich. Ur's only sister and the one person Lyon attempted to murder.

Summer's short hair blew in the wind. She unclipped her hood and it flew away with the wind. She was wearing white leather boots, white leggings, a silver belt, a white corset with red outlining and long white gloves. The most impressive part of her appearance was her silver eyes though.

For a while Lyon was at a loss for words.

"I'm sorry." Lyon managed to say.

"It's okay." Summer said calmly.

All was quiet as everybody waited for somebody to make the next move.

"You were the one that had been interfering with our plans…" Lyon was at a loss for words.

"I was." Summer said. "I wish I stopped you but I couldn't risk breaking your heart."

"I…" Lyon started. "I killed Ur." He admitted sadly.

Tears went down both their faces. Lyon ran towards Summer and hugged her.

"Does Gray know you're alive?" Lyon asked.

"Yes." Summer answered.

The two embraced each other for a while while the others watched. Jaune noticed a green hue coming from the dust cloud. He went wide eyed.

"LOOK OUT!" Jaune yelled.

An energy ball came from the dust cloud and made its trajectory towards Lyon and Summer. Jaune leaped in the way and summoned a shield as quickly as possible. Jaune managed to do so just in time. The energy ball came in contact with his shield and exploded. Jaune was sent flying backwards and landed on his butt by Lyon and Summer.

The dust cloud cleared and Deliora was standing again.

"Bring it on!" Natsu said determined.

"Let's avenge Ur!" Summer and Lyon said in unison.

Yang and Natsu did a battle cry as they both charged at Deliora with flaming fist. The demon dodged Natsu's fist but was hit by Yang's. Unfortunately it had zero effect. Deliora grabbed Yang's arm and slammed her into Natsu, causing the two to fall to the ground. Before he could end their lives a giant ice rose came from seemingly nowhere and shoved him away. Deliora was pinned against a tree.

Happy flew towards Natsu and picked him up before ascending high into the sky.

"What are you doing?!" Natsu asked angrily.

"You shouldn't be fighting!" Happy argued. "You're wrist is broken."

"I can't stand by and watch!" Natsu argued.

"You'll get more hurt in the process of fighting!" Happy argued.

Before Natsu could present his next argument, Happy noticed an energy ball coming their way. Happy did his best to dodge but soon noticed more coming their way. He swiftly dodged them all. Deliora was still pinned to the tree but he could still use his arms.

Sherry watched as Deliora was tiring out Happy. Sherry extended both arms towards the demon and the tree he was pinned against.

"DOLL ATTACK: TREE!" Sherry exclaimed.

The tree Deliora was pinned to came to life thanks to Sherry's magic. It used one of it's branches to grab Deliora and tossed him as far as he could. An ice gorilla stopped Deliora in it's tracks and punched the demon down straight to the ground. The ice gorilla was Lyon's. Lyon had a smug expression on his face. To everyone's surprise the ice gorilla then exploded and Deliora stood back up.

Deliora screeched at all of them. Jaune then rammed into him with his shield. Deliora was forced into the middle of a circle. Jaune had his shield at the ready. He glanced at Yang whose fist was engulfed in fire. Yang glanced at Sherry who sat on top of her tree monster, well seated in the leafs. Sherry glanced at Lyon who extended one arm. A magic circle appeared underneath him. Lyon glanced at Summer who did the same as Lyon but she had her hands placed together. Summer then looked upwards at Natsu and Happy. Deliora was trapped. Summer nodded at Natsu.

"FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" Natsu shouted as he inhaled.

Natsu exhaled fire from his mouth and spewed it down towards Deliora.

"ICE MAKE: EAGLE!" Lyon shouted.

Endless ice eagles were created and flew towards Deliora.

"SEMBLING DISC!" Jaune exclaimed.

Jaune threw his shield like a frisbee at Deliora.

"ATTACK!" Sherry shouted.

The tree monster extended one of its branches towards Deliora.

"LITTLE DRAGON FIRE!" Yang exclaimed.

Yang punched the air which sent fire in the form of a fist towards Deliora.

"ICE MAKE: ROSE TRIO!" Summer exclaimed.

She shot forward three ice roses towards Deliora.

All the six attacks came in contact with Deliora at the same time. A colorful and huge explosion occurred, sending them all flying. Happy and Natsu stayed in the air but felt the force of the explosion. They witnessed everybody being sprinkled around like confetti. A huge thick cloud of smoke was left behind by the explosion.

Happy descended and landed with Natsu next to Yang who had just gotten up. Yang's attention went to Summer who was coughing. Yang rushed over to her and helped her up.

"Are you okay?" Yang asked.

"Yes." Summer said.

On the other side of the smoke layed Lyon, Sherry and Jaune. Sherry was clinging onto Lyon's arm. Jaune was panting beside them.

"Do you think it's over?" Sherry asked silently.

"I… Don't know." Lyon answered. "It has to be."

The smoke slowly cleared. Lyon was proven wrong as Deliora was still standing there with a grin plastered across his face. Everybody went wide eyed.

"How?!" Yang asked angrily.

"What are we going to do?" Sherry asked.

"I'm out of magic energy." Natsu said.

Deliora readied himself to attack.

"I…" Summer started. "I have a final trump card."

"NO!" Lyon shouted suddenly.

Everybody turned to Lyon, curious as to why he seemed against Summer's trump card.

"I'm not going to let you use that spell!" Lyon exclaimed. "I'm not going to let you use Iced Shell!"

Summer didn't expect Lyon to figure it out. Summer could only assume Ur had said something similar when she had performed the spell.

Yang went wide eyed and turned to her mother.

"Mom?!" Yang asked angrily. A hint of fear could be heard in her voice.

"I'm sorry Yang," Summer said. "It's the only way."

"We can figure something out!" Lyon argued.

"You can't quit like that!" Yang agreed with Lyon.

"I'm NOT quitting!" Summer yelled as tears came from her eyes.

Deliora charged towards Summer but a rock monster stopped him right in it's tracks. Deliora punched the rock monster, chipping away some rock. The two started fighting. It was the work of Sherry who was keeping Deliora occupied.

"We don't have the luxury to argue right now!" Sherry said.

"Agreed." Lyon said.

To Lyon's surprise a giant rock hand clasped him. Lyon was lifted up and couldn't move his arms. This was also the work of Sherry.

"I'm sorry, Lyon." Sherry said saddened.

"Sherry, let me go!" Lyon commanded her.

"Face reality, Lyon!" Sherry yelled. "We fought this monster with SIX wizards and it still seems as healthy as a peach. This is the only way!"

"NO IT'S NOT!" Lyon yelled. "Let me do Iced Shell!"

"No!" Summer disagreed. "You're young, you have too much to live for!"

"But I just got you back!" Yang argued. "And so did Ruby!"

Summer was at a loss for words. Everybody was. For a while everything was silent, besides for Deliora fighting the rock monster in the background.

"Yang," Summer started once more. "I will will always live on in your hearts."

"Mom…" Yang trailed off with tears in her eyes.

Summer embraced Yang tightly. Both were crying.

I wish I could say goodbye to Ruby one last time. Summer thought to herself.


Summer finished explaining what happened to her to Gray. Gray was leaning against a tree. Summer, Yang, Ruby and Happy were sitting in the grass beside him.

"That bastard!" Gray said referring to Lyon. "I can't believe he tried to kill you too!"

"It's fine. He could never kill me." Summer said.

"He did attempt to do it." Yang said angrily.

"I don't like him one single bit." Ruby pouted.

"I know he isn't in the best state of mind right now," Summer said. "But I need you guys to not give up on him. We can all have a brighter future, together."

"Fuck that!" Gray spat. "He killed Ur!"

"I know that too!" Summer exclaimed. "Which is why Yang, Happy and I are leaving now." Summer said in a calmer tone.

"What?" Gray asked.

"We're going to help defeat Deliora once and for all. After that, we'll smack some sense into Lyon." Summer said.

"You can't just leave!" Gray said. "I want to help too!"

"You can't." Ruby suddenly spoke. "You're injured, and so am I. We'll only get in the way." Ruby said.

"But-" Gray was cut off.

"Gray," Summer said as she stood up. "It'll be okay." She said with a smile.

"We'll kick Deliora's butt, no problem." Yang said confidently.

Gray sighed. Yang got up as well.

"Fine." Gray said. "Make sure to land in an extra punch for me too."

"Of course." Yang said with a smile.

"Don't forget me!" Ruby said with a smile.

All five of them laughed.

"Please stay put and don't do anything reckless." Summer said.

"Yes-" Gray was cut off once again as Summer leaned in and gave him a small peck on the forehead.

"We will avenge Ur." Summer then whispered into his ear.

Gray felt warm inside. He hadn't felt like this in a long time. Like he had somebody he could confide in. Gray smiled.

Summer then walked over to Ruby who also stood up. The two embraced one another.

"We'll be back in a few." Summer said.

"I know you will." Ruby said confidently.

"When we get home I'll bake you chocolate chip cookies." Summer said with a smile.

"I know you will." Ruby repeated with a smile.

Summer was on the verge of tears. It felt good to have her family back. Summer and Ruby separated.

"Good luck." Ruby said.

"Thanks." Happy of all people replied.

Happy flew off ahead while Yang and Summer followed. On the way Summer ripped off her cloak, revealing her outfit underneath. It was similar to how Ur used to strip. Gray smiled.


Yang and Summer separated. A magic circle appeared beneath Yang and an ice hand was created, clasping Yang to prevent her from stopping Summer.

"Tell Ruby I love her." Summer said.

"I will." Yang said softly.

"Goodbye, Yang." Summer said.

"Bye, mom... " Yang trailed off.

Summer turned to Lyon and waved. She smiled. Lyon was crying.

"I hope you can start over from here on out." Summer said.

"I will! I promise I will!" Lyon said.

Summer nodded to Lyon, grateful that he would choose a better path from now on.

Summer took one last glance at her daughter and turned to Deliora. Summer extended her arms to form an "X" shape, her right arm being above her left.

"ICE MAKE: ICED SHELL!" Summer shouted with tears in her eyes.

Deliora destroyed the rock monster and as soon as he did, multiple magic circles appeared near him. One underneath him, one in front of him, one above him, one on each side and one behind him. The demon was completely trapped. A blue aura surrounded Summer. Blue beams then came from her and her aura and shot forward towards Deliora. Each blue beam connected with one magic circle. The magic circles all started glowing.

Deliora screamed in agony as he felt fear. He didn't want to be encased in ice again. Summer pulled her arms back and she herself started glowing. She became a blue silhouette. The magic circles glowed to bright that Deliora was completely engulfed in light. The silhouette that was Summer turned into a blue beam that shot forward. It started circling Deliora at a rapid speed, becoming thinner and longer until it became the ice that encased Deliora. Deliora was encased in ice once more.

The rock hand that kept Lyon trapped fell apart. The boy fell to his knees. Sherry kneeled down and hugged him. Lyon sobbed silently.

The ice hand that kept Yang trapped started to glow while Yang sobbed. Yang ignored it. The ice hand exploded and a patch of ice roses was left in it's place. The ice roses continued to expand until they covered up the whole area and covered up the hole, which was left behind when the temple collapsed in on itself. Yang fell into the field on her knees, still sobbing.

Natsu, Happy and Jaune were standing on the sidelines. All three were also devastated but couldn't relate to the amount of grief Lyon and Yang were feeling right now. All they could do was support them.

The sun then slowly rose up into the sky, providing light after a very long night. It seemed as if it was giving the message of there being a 'silver lining' but nobody could be happy about Deliora's defeat as he had managed to take one last life. The heroes had won the war but Deliora had won the battle.