Chapter 20

The Hell?!

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The Nullification Matter was cut clean through and destroyed by the onslaught of blazing silver Magic, until the attack hit the back of the creature square on.

The demon's roar of pain shook the entire forest to its roots, the bones settled at the bottom of the pit rattling from the noise.

Moon's eyes grew wide at the sight, Frea hit it... She actually hit it!

Laxus smiled a little, he was impressed at this at least, Nullification Magic was not easy to bypass, and especially not the Nullification Magic of a creature who could Nullify Etherion.

Yes, he had put together why the Council had not fired the cannon at the Demon, almost as fast as Frea had. He didn't act like it most of the time, but he was actually fairly smart.

Frea POV

Frea smirked, she had bypassed that damn Nullification Matter, and landed her first hit.

Absolute Magic Control. Nullification Mastery. Magic Protect.

This was Absolute Control of her Magic Energy to an extreme. A hold over her Energy so strong, that not even this Demon's Power could do anything about it. Because the Nullification Magic took control of her Magic Energy, and forcefully caused her Magic to disappear when it got close or made contact, the way to bypass it was, to take Absolute Control of her Magic Energy, so much so that the Nullification Magic wouldn't take control of her Magic away from her.

She had even put up a shield of pure Magic around her very being, just to help protect herself from the Nullification Magic.

Despite her feeling of victory, she also felt a little more strained. Taking Absolute Control of her Magic Energy had never been particularly easy to start with, and it was even harder against something so powerful as a Demon From the Book of Zeref.

This was just as hard as it had been to take Absolute Control when the Eclipse Gate had drained her. But back then, she had done so in only a few seconds, so she could honestly say she had more than adequate practice fighting to keep control with something this powerful. Even Asuma using the Land to drain her back on Tenrou Island had been extremely hard, mostly because she had been nowhere near Asuma himself to stop his theft, and because he had been using something as powerful as the Land to steal her Magic Power in the first place.

Also, she had been considerably weaker on Tenrou, and was now stronger since then, a lot stronger.

She could only keep the Absolute Control over her Magic for so long, she knew she would have to kill the Demon quickly before she lost control again. Using Magic while keeping Absolute Control was going to be a challenge too, but she had already promised herself she would defeat the damn thing, and become stronger for it.

Her attack had not broken the Demon's hide, or drawn blood, it had only bruised it slightly. It would seem the Demon was not accustomed to pain, considering no one had probably been able to touch it before.

Attacking it with normal attacks would take too long, and cause little damage. She needed a somehow less conventional way to finish it off, and now she was stuck with deciding on what she should actually do.

She didn't have to come up with any ideas, someone had done that for her.

"Heads up!" Her eyes snapped to the side when she heard the voice yell out, and she caught the shimmer of a pale blue Lacrima falling through the air toward her.

She quickly scrambled to catch the crystal, and blinked down at it in confusion. It was fairly the size of a large apple, shimmering a bright blue glow that meant it was full of Magic Power.

But... Why?

"What the hell am I supposed to do with this?!" She shouted up to Laxus, whose voice she had immediately recognized, and guessed he had been the one to throw the Lacrima Crystal down here. Laxus gave her a look that she assumed meant, 'figure it out yourself'.

"It's not like I'm just gonna eat it, I'm not Natsu!" She snapped, not wanting to take the time to figure out why he had actually thrown it to her.

Laxus rolled his eyes, "Look, you're gonna run out of Magic before you kill the thing, use the Lacrima as a Prison." He called back, and she stiffened, eyes narrowing. "You know, Seal the thing inside the Lacrima, then destroy the Crystal. Easy as that."

Frea growled, clenching the Lacrima in a fist so hard she might actually break it. "Easy?!" She yelled furiously. "What the hell makes you think I know any Sealing Magic?!"

Laxus shrugged. "Guess we'll find out, won't we?" He answered in a neutral tone. Frea looked away, jumping sideways to avoid a blast of Dark Magic that had been sent her way.

Out of all the stupid shit Laxus was doing today, that suggestion was the stupidest.

She had never, in all her life, ever, used any Sealing Magic of any kind. She did not know any Spells, she had never needed to use it before, nor wanted to. Why would he even assume she would know any? That wasn't her Magic, not even close to it!

With yet another aggravated growl, she shook her head in frustration.

He was right.

She hated that he was right.

She was going to run out of Magic before she managed to kill it, she was using up so much just to allow herself to actually touch the damn thing with Magic. She couldn't keep fighting like this forever, but she couldn't kill it so easily.

What better option than sealing it away?

But she didn't know any damn Sealing Magic. She was stuck without a Spell to use with the Lacrima. How the hell was she supposed to do this?!

... Making a Spell might work.

Though, to be completely honest, she always had more luck creating a successful spell, when she actually had a base idea of what she was trying to do. Usually she had an idea of the sort of Magic that is usually used to have as a base-line for creating a Spell for the same purpose as that Magic.

She didn't know a damn thing about Sealing Magic.

She let out an aggravated growl, hating herself for her lack of knowledge again.

She scrunched her eyes closed, let's start with a base... Why not the Purifying Sphere? That Spell was considerably large, she may be able to make the Pillars bigger in order to enclose the Demon, and then change the Spell in order to seal it...

"Alright, Pillars." She murmured, eyes opening as she looked toward the Demon. Pillars would have to do, she didn't have any other ideas.

She swept her hand out in front of her, fingers extended as a silver Pillar shot up from the ground on the other side of the Demon, and was quickly followed by more as they began to appear. These Pillars were much larger than the ones she had used for fighting against Senna, naturally considering they would have to enclose the entirety of the Demon in order for this to even begin to work.

Three… Four… Five….. Si-

The tail of the Demon swept out around it, its red eyes fixing onto her Magic as she had begun to set it up.

In an instant, all of her Magic had been destroyed, a resounding chatter echoing within the pit as every single pillar she had thus far created was destroyed with ease, no matter how hard she had tried to keep them up. She panted at the action the sudden drain of wasted Magic knocking the breath from her.

FUCK!

"Damn it! Fuking Damn it!" She cursed aloud, fangs grinding down on one another in irritation. Pillars were not going to work, especially if the Demon could destroy them that easily. What the hell else was she supposed to use as a base then?!

Magic Circles could be used as a Base, but for this instance, that was not really going to work. She needed something to hold the Demon in, something to surround it completely…..

Maybe a box?

….

"My turn!" Frea said cheerfully and quickly flicked her hand four times, four pillars made from her energy appeared in a box shape around the two. "Energy Trap!" She called out and they were trapped in a box made of her energy.

Frea held up five fingers, "Five, Four, Three, Two.." She started counting down and paused when she only had one finger up. "One!" She called and swiped her hand out in front of her. The ground where the two had been standing inside of the Energy Box suddenly crumbled and fell apart under their feet. The box disappeared and they fell down, Frea had managed to take off another ten feet from the edge of the cliff, and send the two into the water…..

…..

"You've given me quite a bit of fight, for a human." Naraka's head flicked a little, and both Moon and Rified collapsed on their knees, wincing a little as they were released from Naraka's hold.

"Grim Reaper's Death Box."

Black Magic sprung up around Frea in a see-through box shape, trapping her inside as she glanced around warily.

"Activate."

Frea let out a short yell of pain as small blasts of Magic began to go off around her on all sides, before she silenced herself and crossed her arms in front of her, taking the hits and wincing. The box was to small to put up any sort of protection around herself, and she doubted she could even put when up when the blasts kept pounding relentlessly without stopping anyway….

…..

"I hate to be a copy-cat..." She muttered. She straightened her arms out in front of her and opened her eyes, "Energy Lance!" She shouted, and a lance made from her silver Magic streamed out toward the scratches she had already made in the box, breaking clean through, and it hit the shocked Naraka square in the chest, slicing the necklace of human skulls around his neck, so they feel to the ground and rattled. The force of the lance hitting Naraka wasn't enough to break his hard scales this time, but it did drive him backwards a ways.

Moon and Rified stared with wide eyes, even Naraka looked as if he couldn't believe it.

"Did she... Just copy my move...?" Rified breathed and Moon sweatdropped….

Frea caught her breath as the memories flashed through her mind, one after the other.

The first, catching Gajeel and Natsu unaware in an Energy Trap she had specifically designed to be a box,

The second, when Naraka had caught her inside his own Trap, The Death Box.

And the third, when she had more or less copied the concept of Rified's Death Lance, to create her own 'Energy Lance'. Something she had been interested in trying out, she would admit, and it had been quite effective.

She smirked, whoever said she wasn't smart?

"Combination time, I suppose." She murmured, "And then Spell Creation…. Hopefully this'll work out just as well as it does in my head, hmm..?" She sighed, sweatdropping slightly.

Step One: Create the Box

This would be a lot like creating an Energy Trap, but she would have to make it without the pillars, as she hadn't done the first time. That meant it would be less stable once she created it, before she was able to harden her Magic to the point it was almost like solid steel. The only down sides, it would take up a lot of Magic creating it without the pillars, and there would be a small lapse of time where the Magic would be unstable enough, it would be easy to destroyed until she had the chance to harden it.

But really, it couldn't be that hard could it? Naraka had done the same thing with his Death Box, and he hadn't needed Pillars…. Then again, he was a Dragon, a very powerful Dragon at that. One who had proven it didn't take him much effort to use his Magic at all.

Frea took a deep breath and let her eyes fall closed for a minute,

Step Two: Keep it from Moving too much

That would be why she needed to 'copy' Rified's (And Naraka's) Death Lance Spell again, though at this point it wasn't really copying any more, she had more or less just made another move to add to her arsenal.

Step Three: Make the Spell

…. She had no idea what to actually do about this step, she was going to rely on her instincts in the moment she was ready to use the Spell.

All of this was going to take up the last of her Magic Power, which was already draining rapidly as she continued to keep Absolute hold over it and repel the touch of the Nullification Magic, so she had to make it count.

Her eyes snapped open, and she clapped her hands together in front of her, her Magic blazing brighter.

"Energy Trap!" She growled, in a flash of light, a massive silver box materialized and began to rise up around the Demon to enclose it within. Her Magic blazed brightly as it continued to grow, before the box was whole, and she managed to finish the creation, so the box would stand tall.

The Demon growled in protest at her actions, and threw it's weight into the side of her Trap, causing her to flinch at the force, and effort of keeping it intact. She growled in irritation,

"Stop moving….!" She hissed, her hands pulling apart as she thrust her arms forward, dozens of Magic Cirlces appearing to hover around the top of the box, on the inside.

She winced, the Nullification Matter was trying to cancel her own Magic, she could feel it trying to pull at her Magic Energy, and panted even more from the effort of keeping it at bay.

"Energy Lance Storm!" The Magic Circles within the box suddenly turned into the streaming silver Energy Lances, bearing down upon the Demon at terrifying speed.

Dark Blood rained down upon the ground as her Lances tore through the Demon's hide, her Magic going straight through various places on its body, to hit the ground beneath it. The creatures roar of pain shook the forest to it's roots, it was enough to wound it, but definitely not enough to kill it.

But it did stop it from moving, with her Lances holding firmly after connecting from the top, and sides of the box, and the ground.

Step Two down, one more to go.

She tossed the Lacrima up in the air, her arm stretching toward the sky, where her Magic circled the stone, causing it to remain within the air before her. She let her eyes fall closed, and forced her breathing to steady.

This was a matter of locking onto the Demon's Lifeforce as a whole, and manipulating it enough to make it shrink, and become a pure Magic form that could be stored away within the Lacrima, at least, that was what she more or less was assuming was involved in Sealing Magic.

Easier said than done, right?

But she had successfully made a Spell to fix the Balance, and another to save her own Life, which she had done without any Magic Power. This couldn't be too much harder than those, she wouldn't ever say it out loud, and nor did she think it of herself, but Frea was rather god at creating her own Spells to fit the occasion. In fact, she was much better at Spell Creation than any other Energy Mage that had lived before the present day and age, though she was unaware of it.

Her Magic began to swirl up from her feet, circling her arm closely before reaching the Lacrima and swirling around it. Her Magic also began to spiral around under the feet of the Demon within her Energy Box, glowing with silver light that shone throughout the already dark forest.

"Energy within the land,

Within the Air,

Within every body and thing,

Energy now change,

Become small,

Flow within thy Magic,

And swirl within the air,

Come now Demon,

Be sealed away,

Until I shall wish it,

Energy be locked away,

Without key,

Without bars,

Become pure Magic,

Enter without resistance,

Demon Energy,

Seal and Lock!"

Frea's eyes shot open as her Magic's glow reached an all time high, and the demon began to glow silver.

"New Energy Dragon Slayer Secret Art: Sealing Trap!"

No One POV

In the darkening forest the pit in which the Demon and Frea fought began to glow, the light of silver beginning to reach up over the lips of the pit and bathe everything around it in soft light. As Frea continued with her Spell, the light began to grow brighter and brighter, until it was blinding to look at it.

At the peak of her Spell, The Light even shot up toward the sky and painted the clouds above with silver light, as a Huge Magic Circle appeared over the pit, and her Magic streamed down toward the Demon in a swirling pattern, creating intricate designs and even a few unrecognizable runes as it made its way toward the Trap holding the Demon inside.

The Magic flashed brighter than it ever had before, and disappeared instantly with the last remaining roar from the Demon, before everything went dark, and silent again.

Moon and Laxus stood still atop the cliff-side as they watched what happened below them, both of their eyes wide and mouths slightly open. Moon was speechless, as she had grown to be upon witnessing the acts she had thus far seen the Energy Dragon Slayer accomplish since she had agreed to be her Partner.

Laxus however, was completely, and utterly shocked. It hadn't mattered what he had been told, not of how Frea had caused the first Magic Anomaly, of how she had turned a dying human into a Celestial Key, how she managed to place a Spell over every Wizard within an entire city while fighting a Dragon, or how she had single-handedly mended the Balance of the World all on her own.

He had to see this supposed power for himself. He had seen a glimpse of it before, when she had cast the No-Magic Energy- Spell on herself to save her life.

But he hadn't been able to fully believe how strong she really was up until he had seen just how far along she had come in terms of power, for himself.

None of this had been his idea, in fact he hadn't wanted to go along with it at all. He was told to leave Frea to fight alone, that was clear, but he had been ready to jump in if she had been in serious trouble, but fortunately, that hadn't happened, and it was clear his help was not needed.

But.. He was now seriously impressed, and his image of Frea had changed drastically upon seeing her like this. A powerful Wizard capable of coming up with a strategy and adapting to fight a foe that could be very well near impossible to beat for any normal Wizard. Frea wasn't a normal Wizard, he reminded himself. The way she had adapted her regular way of fighting to go head to head with the Demon was astounding, he had hardly ever seen her think so much in battle. Frea wasn't one to come up with a plan, but damn, she wasn't bad at doing so when the time came for it…..

The light dimmed all the way, until the only source of it was the rising moon, and the glow of the Lacrima that had fallen into Frea's hand, from where she stood at the bottom of the pit, having caught the glowing stone as the Spell completed.

He smiled slightly, maybe this was a good plan after all….. He would admit, it had been long over-due…

His grip on Moon loosened enough that the Exceed was able to pull herself free and hover in the air next to him, smiling slightly as she held a paw to her chest with her eyes closed, letting out a long sigh of relief.

Frea looked to the Lacrima with narrowed eyes, before her grip tightened on it and she placed it in her pocket. Laxus looked to Moon, the Exceed blinked at him.

"I told you she could do it." Moon murmured with a slight smirk and he glanced away.

"Did I say I doubted her? Stupid cat…" He muttered, and he heard Moon huff in irritation at the comment.

"LAXUS!"

His head snapped up at the shout of pure anger, and he sweatdropped upon seeing a furious Frea charging toward him, fists clenched and blazing with what little Magic she had left. Her face was dark, and her eyes glowed with the light of a fire, he hadn't any time to react before-

WHAM!

Her fist made impact with his chest, and he was thrown backward several feet, stumbling from the force of the impact to land on the ground, the breath knocked out of him. He winced at the pain that shot through him as her fist made impact,

How the Hell did she get up the cliff that fast?!

Moon shook her head, sweatdropping, shrugging. "I told you she'd be mad…."

His attention wasn't on the Exceed though, it was on the seething Dragon Slayer coming at him again.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! BASTARD?!" Frea snarled, getting ever closer, she was going too fast for him to react, his mind was trying to catch up with all of it…

She was in front of him now, and her fist swung down.

"Frea!"

Her fist stopped about an inch away from his face, and he sweatdropped. Her eyes were fixed on him, but her ears were trained on the voice that had called her name in such a calm, demanding tone. She could smell them, and feel their Energy Signatures near them….. But why the hell were they here?

"That's enough child, do not take your anger out on Laxus." Frea slowly drew her fist away from Laxus' face, eyes narrowed and body tense. She slowly straightened up to glance sideways.

"It really isn't his fault." A softer, sweeter voice said and Frea's eyes widened.

"What in the hell is going on?!"

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