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Chapter 14
"You shouldn't leave yourself open like that!" Laxus taunted as he hurled a lightning bolt directly at Mystogan's head. ZAP!
Mason jumped in front of the lightning and took the blast himself. "GAAAHHHAAA!" Mason cried out in pain, as the attack took its toll.
"What!?" Mystogan called out in confusion, the other two fairy tail wizards just stood back and watched with wide eyes.
"Hey!" Mason called back as he slowly recovered, straightening his legs out and standing tall to face Laxus. "If you're not gonna be helpful you may as well try and deal with the lightning palace I can take care of this myself." Mason said as he charged magic power to his fists.
Mystogan smiled under his masks before taking his leave. "I guess you're right, I'll see what I can do." Mystogan slowly exited the church leaving things to Mason.
"What the hell's with him!" Natsu yelled as Mystogan walked out. "And who are you?!"
"I don't know, but something about him seems familiar…" Erza added, watching the mysterious mage as he disappeared amongst the streets of Magnolia.
"Hey fairies! That goes for you too, if your not gonna go help Mystogan then go find something to do cause your just getting in the way." Mason growled as he glared down the lightning mage.
"Hey!" Natsu cried back with angry eyes, as he stepped up to fight. "I called dibs on Laxus! You get out of the way!"
"Don't worry." Erza followed holding her thumb up in support. "You're part of the guild now which means you don't have to fight alone."
The three wizards stared down a smirking Laxus before something came to Mason's attention. "Wait a second! There's three of us and only one of him! That's not fair at all!"
"What?..." Erza blinked in utter disbelief of what she was hearing.
"You're right!" Natsu called back in agreement. "But we have to stop Laxus. I guess I'll just fight him myself." Natsu smiled as his fists were set ablaze.
"I have an idea." Mason smiled as he slowly walked over to Laxus before turning to face Natsu and Erza. "Laxus and I versus the two of you."
"You can't be serious…" Erza didn't even blink this time she just stared at the inprobable scene playing out. "There's no way we would agree to…"
"FINE BY ME!" Natsu blurted out as his body began to smoke. "I'll take the both of you on! I'm all fired up!" Natsu's body erupted into flames as he prepared for battle.
"HAHAHA!" Laxus began to laugh as the scene began to play out before him. "Leave it to the Dragon Slayers to understand what I'm getting at! The final round of the battle of Fairy Tail begins now!"
"ALRIGHT! LETS GO!" Natsu roared as he charged forward, his fist engulfed in flames. "GAAAHHHHH! I'M COMING FOR YOU LAXUS!"
"Wait a second you idiot!" Erza called back to her ally but she was too late.
As Natsu charged forward Mason appeared in front of him seemingly from nowhere. "PHANTOM DRAGON'S VANISHING FIST!" Mason clocked his fellow dragon slayer in the face, knocking him to the ground. "Natsu…" Mason spoke in a serious tone. "I won't lie, I've been hoping to fight you. I decided to join Fairy Tail because of you. Because you beat Jellal all on your own. I want to experience that power to see just how far I have to go, so don't hold back!"
"If that's what you want!" Natsu growled back as he lifted himself off the ground with a massive plume of flames that blasted Mason away. "I'm all fired up! FIRE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!" Natsu smacked Mason in the face knocking him backwards.
"Ugh!" Erza groaned. "Those idiots! I swear any excuse to fight is good enough for them."
"Well with those two occupied looks like it's just you and me red…" Laxus smirked as lightning danced across his body. "I'm sick of standing around! Let's get this show on the road!" Laxus threw down a bolt of lightning at Erza and their battle began.
Mason stumbled backwards before wiping a bit of blood from his lip as he glared back at Natsu. "PHANTOM DRIVE!" Mason's eyes flashed purple before his aura exploded off his body. "PHANTOM DRAGON'S CANNON!" Mason shot a massive two handed blast at Natsu.
"Wha!?" Natsu crossed his arms to block, but it wasn't enough the force of the blast knocked Natsu backwards sending him crashing into a wall. "GAAHH!" He cried out before falling back to the ground. "Ugh… What the hell, your magic power the out put is almost doubled…"
"The phantom drive…" Mason explained. "There are three types of dragon slayers in this world, there are those like you and gajeel who are natural born wizards trained by living dragons, then there are those who have dragon slaying attributes given to them via a lacrima. Finally there's me I am wizard who was trained by a dragon, but at the same time I have a dragon slaying lacrima implanted in my body. Drive allows me to use both at the same time, doubling my dragon slayer abilities." Mason's aura flashed once more as he began to breathe in deep. "PHANTOM DRAGON'S ROAR!" Mason blasted a mouthful of purple phantoms that completely consumed Natsu. KABOOOM!
"FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" A blast of flames flew out from the smoke plume and Mason quickly blocked the fire. "AAAAHHHHH!" Natsu jumped out of the smoke his foot cloaked in flames. "FIRE DRAGON'S TALON!" Natsu slammed his foot down hard shattering Mason's barrier and kicking him in the stomach.
"UUUFFFF!" Mason slumped over and grabbed his stomach in pain as Natsu moved to attack.
"I don't care if you're some super dragon slayer or whatever! I'm gonna take you down and then I'm coming for Laxus!" Natsu's arms burst into flames as he stepped forward. "FIRE DRAGON'S WING ATTACK!" Natsu threw his arms forward with streams of flames following them. "What?!" He stared shocked as Mason caught his flaming arms with his hands which were cloaked by glowing purple claws.
"PHANTOM DRAGON'S CLAWS!" Mason called out as he threw Natsu's arms away and striking with his claw. He swiped threw Natsu's Body leaving three long purple scratch marks on his chest that shocked his body, but didn't leave a visible scratch.
"AAAHHH! What the hell was that?!" Natsu grabbed his chest in pain.
"My claws don't harm the physical body, they hurt the soul.." Mason smirked at Natsu's shock. "A living soul can regenerate itself, so don't worry this won't leave permanent damage, but man it's gonna hurt.."
"GRRRRR!" Natsu growled as he looked down on the painful mark on his chest. "AAAAHHHHHH!" Natsu yelled as flames erupted around him seemingly burning the mark off. "Is that the best you got?"
(Meanwhile with Erza and Laxus)
"HAAAAAHHHHHH!" Erza called out as she brought her sword down on Laxus who vanished in a bolt of lightning.
"HAHA! Too slow red!" Laxus taunted reforming on the other side of the church. "You'll never hit me with that dinky sword, and to think the old man decided you were good enough to be considered S-Class! He really is losing it, I should've done something about you losers much sooner!"
"Shut it Laxus!" Erza growled back at the gloating blonde as her body began to glow. "REQUIPPED! LIGHTNING EMPRESS ARMOR!" A light blue armor with golden highlights formed on her body, with a strong breastplate and massive shoulder pads. Her hair was put into a long braid and she summoned a massive staff to her hand. "Lets see if you enjoy a taste of your medicine!" Erza blasted a blue lightning bolt from the tip of her staff directly for Laxus.
"Hehe…." Laxus chuckled before inhaling through his mouth and swallowing Erza's electrical attack. "Tasty…" Laxus' body began to surge with an even more magic power.
"Well this isn't good." Erza said as she reaquipped her traditional armor. "NATSU! SWITCH!"
"Huh?" Natsu called back, his hands full dealing with the powered up Mason. "Hell yeah!" Natsu back flipped away from his fellow Dragon Slayer switching fighting partners with Erza.
"Hey! What the hell!? We aren't done yet!" Mason whined like a kid who was told to stop playing outside.
"Quit being a baby!" Erza called back as she lunged forward sword in hand. "If you must fight then I'll be your foe!" She swung forward with her short sword but the blade just passed Mason's body. "What?"
"Sorry Erza but an attack like that can't hurt me. Hate to say it but you'll never be able to beat me using swords." Mason looked disappointed for a split second before a devious smile sprouted on his face. "But me on the other hand." Mason joked as he blasted Erza away with an energy ball. "HAHA! What were you saying earlier about me never beating anyone, well looks like things are about to change."
"We'll see about that! REQUIPPED!" Erza's body began to glow bright and her armor transformed into the robes of a traditional Japanese priestess including a bright red Hakama and white Kosode. She pulled out a long katana with a hilt that looked like a ritual candle and the blade became cloaked in a holy blue flame. "HOLY ARMOR!" Erza leapt forward in her new armor and swung her sword at her foe.
Mason stood pat as he planned to avoid the attack the same as earlier but something felt off. "BARRIER!" In the last second Mason put up a magic shield to block Erza's attack, but his barrier wouldn't last long as Erza shattered it using sheer force but Mason managed to jump out of the way before she could strike him. "What the hell is that!"
"My holy blade can cleave through any spirit or demon with ease you're phantom powers are no match for me!" Erza stood prideful with her sword in hand as if she'd already won the fight.
"Fine! If you wanna fight with a magic sword, I'll use one of my own!" Mason smiled as his black wristband started to glow purple before transforming itself into a long black katana. Mason began to funnel his own magic power into the blade and it began to glow with bright purple magic energy. "En Guarde!"
"HAAAAHHHHH!" Erza lunged forward and swung her holy blade forward. KLANG! It was met with Mason's own sword cloaked in unholy magic. "HAAAAHHHHHHH!" KLANG! CLASH! KLANG! KLANG! CLASH KLANG! A flurry a slashes and strikes erupted between the two sparks of blue and purple flying off each collision of blades but it looked as though the battle had become a stalemate which began to frustrate the red haired wizard. "What the hell do you think you're doing? The more time we spend fighting amongst ourselves the less powerful we'll be when it comes time to face Laxus! If he wins he may activate the thunder palace, don't you care what happens to all the innocent people or did that explosion from the Tower of Heaven really fry your brain!?"
"Relax!" Mason said with a smile. "Laxus isn't gonna win, Natsu hasn't even gotten serious yet. If things ever really went south then Natsu could just use his Dragon Force again like he did against Jellal and wipe the floor with Laxus."
"Wait…. You were banking on Natsu's Dragon Force this whole time?" Erza lowered her guard as the two Fairy Tail stopped fighting.
"Yeah, as long as Natsu's here we're fine he's probably the strongest wizard in the country with that in his back pocket." Mason said scratching the back of his head. "So I figured if Natsu isn't taking things seriously and going all out to win, then why should I? Was that wrong?"
Erza face palmed at this. "Two things. First no matter how dire the situation, Natsu never takes things seriously. Second the power boost from the tower of heaven was temporary was achieved by consuming a small amount of Ethernano and he can't access it on his own."
"R-Really?" Mason asked before looking over to find Natsu struggling with his fight with Laxus. He was having trouble avoiding the speed of the lightning attacks and missing far more of his own attacks than he was landing. "Uh oh…. I've made a terrible mistake." Mason admitted as he transformed his katana back into a wristband. "Now I gotta fix it…" He said staring back at Laxus.
"Hey wait I can help!" Erza said as she transformed back into her standard armor.
"No.." Mason answered finally getting serious. "We already saw that you aren't a good matchup for him. You should go help Mystogan deal with the Thunder Palace just in case Natsu and I aren't enough to to deal with Laxus. Like you said the priority is keeping the civilians safe." Erza nodded before running out of the church as Mason prepared to face the foe.
"GAAAHHH!" Natsu cried out as Laxus slammed him down. "GRRR! GGRRRR!" Natsu tried to struggle free as Laxus held a fist full of lightning over him.
"HAHAHA! I told you Natsu! Weaklings like you don't deserve a place in Fairy Tail! You shoulda just walked away when you had the chance! Now I'm gonna teach you a lesson you'll never forget." Laxus prepared to slam down his electrified down on the fire dragon's chest but before he could move a massive blast of magic energy knocked the blonde off of the young wizard.
"Hey, you okay?!" Mason asked as rushed over to help his guildmate to his. "Sorry this is all my fault!" Mason bowed apologetically. "I overestimated you, I thought you could take Laxus down on your own like you did Jellal but I put you and the rest of the city in danger!"
"HEY!" Natsu growled back sounding more insulted than relieved to have the help of his fellow dragon slayer. "You didn't overestimate crap! I can take Laxus down all by myself! I had him right where I wanted him before you butted in and ruined everything!"
"Wow…" Mason blinked twice. "You ARE stubborn…" Before they could continue their argument the rubble on top of Laxus began to move and out from it emerged a massive shirtless Laxus at least twice the size of his previous form with scale like markings decorating his arms.
"HEY YOU! SNOWFLAKE!" Laxus roared. "PICK A DAMN SIDE WILL YA! LIGHTNING DRAGON'S ROAR!" A mouthful of lightning flew from his massive jaws as Mason created another barrier just in time.
"LAXUS IS A DRAGON SLAYER!" Natsu sounded totally stunned by this new development.
"Yeah, you didn't know?" Mason said, his eyebrow raised slightly. "Anyway that's not important you want take down Laxus yourself, that's fine." Mason's body erupted with magic power enough to send his hair spinking upwards and to cause his eyes to be taken over entirely by a powerful purple glow. "My Drive technique drains my power like crazy so I'm about to use everything I've got left to loosen him up for you and when my power runs out that's when you step in." Mason jumped into the air his hands glowing bright with magic power.
"HEY!' Natsu called back. "WHY DO YOU GET TO GO FIRST?!"
"PHANTOM DRAGON'S CANNON!" Mason put his hands together creating a massive energy blast aimed directly for Laxus.
"LIGHTNING DRAGON'S ROAR!" Laxus countered with a blast of his own and the two magic attacks created a massive explosion in the middle of the church shaking the old building.
When the clouds from the explosion faded Mason had vanished. He quickly appeared behind
Laxus, his fist charged with Magic energy. "PHANTOM DRAGON'S VANISHING!"
"I don't think so!" Laxus called out before he flexed his muscles and generating a massive wave of lightning that zapped Mason out of the air and onto the ground. "You think I'd fall for the same stupid trick twice!" Laxus moved so fast it was almost like he teleported, he quickly readied a powerful punch charged with lightning and began to slam it down into the Dragon Slayers face but before he could attack Mason phased through the ground below him causing Laxus to punch down and shatter the concrete.
Mason then appeared hovering above Laxus both hands charged with Magic energy. "PHANTOM DRAGON'S SHOT! RAPID FIRE!" Mason threw down dozens of energy blasts that collided with Laxus' massive back. BOOM! BOOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"GRRRR!" Laxus growled as his back began to smoke from the damage. "I'M SICK OF YOU TRASH!" Laxus yelled as lightning rained down on top of Mason blasting him to the ground with Laxus who quickly scooped him up by the shirt in one hand. "I'M GONNA FRY THAT DAMN PRETTY BOY FACE OF YOURS!" Laxus threatened but before he could do anything Mason phased through his giant hand and in the same movement phased his arm into Laxus stomach.
Laxus looked down in terror but before he could make another move Mason made his arm tangible for a split second before pulling his arm back out. It was brief but Mason's attack was like a sucker punch to Laxus' internal organs, sending him reeling back in pain.
"GAAAHHAAAHH! You little bastard! You could've killed me!" Laxus quickly grabbed Mason's arm. "Let's see how you like it!" Before Mason could phase through Laxus' lock, the Lightning mage sent volts of electricity shooting into Mason's arm.
"AAHHHHAAAAHHH!" Mason cried out but through the pain Mason managed to grab hold of Laxus' arm and started to grit his teeth as a large magic circle formed beneath the dueling wizards feet. "DRAGON SLAYER'S SECRET ART! CURSED SOUL UNHOLY SWARM 10,000 PHANTOMS!" Both Mason and Laxus' bodies were devoured in the swarming phantoms as the erupted through the roof of the church and into the air above Magnolia.
KAABOOOOMM! A large explosion erupted from Mason's attack knocking both Mason and Laxus into different areas of the church. "AAHHHH OOFF!" Mason called out as he bounced across the hard ground and landing behind Natsu. "Okay… That's it I'm out, it's your turn…"
"What do you mean my turn? There's no way he can still fight after all that." Natsu replied almost on cue as Laxus pushed a pile of rubble off of himself and stood up to continue the fight. "Crap…"
"Sorry bout that Natsu." Mason said through a groan. "I thought I did more damage than that but it looks like it's up to you. I just hope Erza and Mystogan have found a way to stop the thunder palace."
"HA HAHAHA!" Laxus bursted out laughing. "You mean that whole time you were stalling, well it's good to know that you weren't stupid enough to think you could actually beat me with those lame attacks, but it's a shame that you're gonna die in vain. Even those two aren't strong enough to stop my Thunder Palace without killing themselves in the process. It was good try but it's hard to win when your opponent holds all the cards! It was nice knowing you snowflake!" Laxus threw a bolt of lightning at the powerless Mason, too fast for Natsu to intercept. But just before making contact with its target it suddenly changed direction and struck a familiar looking iron rod.
"Well those guys have nothing to worry about." The Iron Dragon Slayer Gajeel Redfox appeared suddenly out of nowhere, grinning like a madman and being followed closely by the blue haired Levy McGarden. "They aren't gonna need to take down the Thunder Palace cause I'll kick your ass myself."
"Gajeel…" Natsu said not sounding too happy to see him.
"Hey I thought you were a member of Phantom Lord! What are you doing here?" Mason asked as he struggled to sit up.
"Hey you, ghost boy…" Gajeel glared down at Mason. "Can you fight?"
"..." Mason paused for a moment reluctant to answer. "... No I'm out of magic power.."
"Then get out of here before you get hurt.." Gajeel walked passed the injured wizard to face the foe at hand.
"Here." Levy said kindly before writing out the word ghost in the air, causing a cartoony sheet-like ghost to appear out of thin air. "I hope your powers work the same as Natsu's and Gajeel's." She said before chasing after Gajeel to confront Laxus.
"BOOOO! I'm going to haunt you forever!" The ghost threatened Mason who simply bit down on its ghostly tail. "NOOOOO!" The phantom cried out as Mason slurped it down his throat and climbed back to his feet.
"Thank you." Mason replied as he wiped his mouth. "I'm gonna go help Erza. Good luck guys." With that Mason took off out of the church.
(WIth Erza)
"I'll take the 200 to the north!" Erza cried out telepathically to the rest of her guildmates. She was equipped in her heaven's wheel armor and was levitating a massive swarm of swords with her telekinesis. "You can take the rest! We can do this I believe in you! Now go forth my swords!" With a wave of her arm her blades went flying. Each of them striking and shattering one of the lightning lacrima's floating above the city and in doing so she caused a massive amount of lightning magic to strike down on top of her.
"AHHHHAAAAHHHH!" Erza shrieked in pain as the lightning surged through her, but she managed to fight through this pain. She dropped to one knee before looking back up into the sky. "No way…. There are still some left…"
Indeed there were more than a dozen of the lightning lacrima's left floating above the city. "Damn it… I'm totally out of Magic power…."
"Well then it's a good thing I'm here right…" Mason smiled as he limped closer to his old friend, he was indeed in a better shape than Erza was at the moment but that wasn't saying much. His body was covered in scratches and burn marks and even after the aid given by Levy he was still rather low on Magic Power.
"No way…" Erza seeming to defy all logic managed somehow to stand. "Just give me a minute to regain my power. It could kill you in your state, let me do it."
"Hmmm, not happening. It could kill me but it WILL kill you." Mason put his hand on the girls shoulder and gently pushed her back down to rest. "I didn't crawl all the way back to life for you to go and kill yourself. If I'm gonna be part of this guild then I need to make sure you're here with me. I've already died enough for one week I'm not gonna do it again."
Mason stepped back to make sure he kept Erza out of range before summoning as much magic power as he could muster, causing his red eyes to flash purple once more. "DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART! CURSED SOUL! UNHOLY SWARM 10,000 PHANTOMS!" Another swarm of purple ghosts flew from Mason's body into the sky above, groups of the purple phantoms swarmed around each of the floating lacrima's and one by one began to detonate.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOOM! BOOM! BOOOM! BOOOOM! BOOOM! Eventually all of the lacrima's were taken out and from them massive bolts of lightning struck down on Mason leaving nothing but a black ashy mark on the mongolian streets like.
"No way…" Erza couldn't believer her eyes. "He's gone…. Again…" Before she could even let out a single tear Mason floated up from the ground below without a scratch on him. "Nevermind he's fine." Just as she said that Mason passed out onto the ground completely unconscious. "Nevermind…"
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