So this is a fight chapter so you might want to play battle music in the background to make it even more exciting.
An A Class Assault
A bracelet was broken and crashed to the ground.
The twin dragons of Sabertooth stood in the middle of an abandon warehouse. "Looks like we're done here, Sting?" Rogue said.
"Master Sting and Rogue did an amazing job taking down all those Crime Spree jerks," Lector said confidently.
"Fro thinks so too," Frosch said.
Sting and Rogue look back at their cats and nod. Rogue then looked over at his leader. "You better contact the others and see how their doing with their assignments."
"Yeah." Sting reached into his jacket to pull out the communication lacrima and called out to Rufus. The Memory Make wizard appeared on the screen of the lacrima. Sting smiled at him while Rogue came around to see as well.
"Yes, Master Sting?" Rufus asked.
"I wanted to know how things were going on your end," Sting said.
"Luckily none of our opponents seemed to be above D class so it was easy enough to finish. We also found a few documents," Rufus answered. "We planned on scanning them so we could get whatever information we could on Crime Spree and where the other bases are."
"That's good," Sting said. "We'll look around here to see if there are any documents too." Two strips of bandages came sliding across the floor. They shot off the floor and wrapped around Sting and Rouge, binding their arms to their sides and pulling them off the ground.
"Sting, Rogue, what's-" Rufus was unable to finish as the lacrima crashed to the ground and shattered.
Sting and Rogue were pulled high into the air and then slammed down onto the ground.
"Sting," Lector said in shock.
"Rogue," Frosch said frightened.
Sting opened one eye, looking back at the source of the attack. "What is that thing?" He clenched his teeth.
Eight lightning lacrima formed an outline of a tent floated around several Crime Spree. Bolt flipped back, landing on the ground. "Lightning Circus!" He threw his head out to the side. The lacrima set off, creating an electric circus tent, blasting everyone inside.
An explosion went off.
Smoke rose up until it cleared to reveal the crater that was created in the middle of the grass field.
Byakko charged forward, shooting wind off his feet to take out several more dark wizards. The men went flying into the air with their bracelets breaking.
The wind blew Layla's hair about. "Thank you, Byakko. You can return now." The wind king looked back at her and then faded away.
Bolt walked over to his sister. "So is that all of them for this area?"
Layla looked over at her brother. "It seems that way. Where do we go next?"
"I'm afraid you still have to contend with us," a voice came from in front of them. The twins looked forward to see five men walk up to them, still a few feet away from them. The one in the middle had white hair, crimson eyes, tan skin and wore red and golden clothing. The four people beside him all wore a cloak.
"So more have shown up," Layla said.
"It just saves us time," Bolt said.
Layla stuck out her hand. "Open Gates of the Kings." The tattoos appeared on her arms.
The white haired man stuck his hand out. "You four take care of the girl." The four cloak wizards leaped into the air.
"Open Gate of the-," Layla started. The first of the cloak wizards came down with his unsheathed sword that he swung down. Layla quickly requiped to have her shell shield and lifted it over her head to block the attack.
The sword wizard pushed Layla back. All four of the cloak wizards went after the girl.
Bolt looked back at his sister. "Layla."
"You should pay attention," the white hair man said. Bolt focused forward and looked up to see a large orb of fire above him and the other mage. The man curled his fingers and twisted. "Sun Ray!" The fire orb shot out like a beam down on Bolt.
Bolt leaped back out of the way.
"You can't get away so simply." The man looked where the lightning wizard was about to land and his eyes glowed completely red. A crimson color magic circle appeared at the spot. Just as Bolt landed an explosion of flames went off.
Bolt leaped to his right. He jumped twice more as two more explosions went off. Bolt got caught up in the last explosion, coming through it with burns. He clenched his teeth with one eye closed. "This level of power is he A Class? Just who are you?"
Laxus and Lucy stood in the middle of the park in Clover with a man in a mask standing in front of them. "So what do you say," the mask man asked. He lifted his mask over his head to reveal that he had carefree pretty boy face with deep purple eyes and short black hair that draped down natural around his face. He was only about a year older than what Laxus looked. "Do you want to join Crime and be my woman?"
A vein popped out of Laxus' forehead. "I'm getting sick of all these pretty boys hitting on you."
Lucy looked over at Laxus, holding her fists to her chest. "It's not my fault."
Laxus glared at said pretty boy with sparks of lightning coming off his body. "Like Lucy would dump me for so freak like you."
"It's a shame she could have lived," the Crime Spree man said.
"Yeah, what makes you think I'm even going to let you touch Lucy?" Laxus questioned.
The man rubbed the mask on top of his head. "Well for one thing your twenty years weaker and for another I'm an A class member of Crime Spree."
"A Class?" Lucy repeated.
"The name is Damien and I use skeleton magic," he announced. He stretched his hands out to the side.
Standing near the steps of the abandon building behind Sting and Rogue was a mummy. Gauze had come off his arms to wrap around the two dragon slayers. "I am an A Class wizard of Crime Spree. My name is Shax the Mummy King."
Several places in the ground cracked and then broke as zombie like mummies rose out of the ground with dark auras around them. "And you have just walked into your very own demise," Shax told them.
The two exceeds held each other frightened.
Bolt slid back. He stopped and leaned forward toward his opponent. "If you're an A Class wizard why don't you tell me your name?"
The white hair man smiled. "I am Grilli of the Sun."
Bolt opened his eyes wide in realization. "The guys who's flames are suppose to be hotter than Natsu's."
Red magic circles expanded out of Grilli's eyes that spun. "Eruption!" Flames shoot out of the ground five feet in every direction around Bolt like a volcano, shacking the very ground.
Natsu stared up at the ceiling. He and Happy lied on Lucy's bed with his hands behind his head. "I'm so bored. I wonder if everyone else is having such a boring night too?"
Gray and Juvia were almost back to Magnolia. Juvia had begged Gray to come with her on a mission and almost flooded the guild hall with her tears until Gray agreed. The job was simple so it didn't take them long to complete and Gray was looking forward to getting home so he didn't have to deal with Juvia anymore and hopefully would get to see if Lucy came back yet with her new 'boyfriend'. It thought just seemed all wrong.
They walked down the hill when lightning crashed down in front of them just missing the pair. Gray instinctively stretched out his hand in front of Juvia and crouched as he looked around to see what was happening.
"It's a shame my aim must be off," a deep voice said. Lightning shined in front of them with a man appearing. The man had bleach blond hair and blue eyes and was taller than Gray dressed in various shades of yellow.
"Oh, well I'll just have to get it right this time," the lightning wizard said.
"Who are you?" Gray questioned.
"Asa the Lightning B Class wizard of Crime Spree," the man answered. "I was sent by Myra to execute you two."
"That woman," Gray started.
"Crime Spree's A class wizard," Juvia finished.
A dark purple aura wrapped around Damien. "I'll show you the power that will be capable in twenty years from now." Lucy and Laxus looked up to see bones come flying out of the sky, connecting together as they came down to become a monstrous size creature made from the bones of both humans and animals. The thing built itself behind Damien.
"So is he a summoner or a puppet type wizard?" Lucy asked.
"You think I'm going to send this thing out to fight for me how cute," Damien said. "No, this is my body for battle." The Crime Spree wizard turned his body into pure magic shooting himself into the bone creature that wrapped the bones in a dark aura.
"Now be crush under my wrath." Damien lifted his large skeleton hand and slammed it down toward the two blondes.
"Time to go." Laxus swept Lucy up in his arms and jumped out of the way.
Sting and Rogue struggled, trying to break free of the gauze they were tied in, but couldn't break free. "What's with this stuff," Sting complained. "I can't use my magic at all."
"It must repress magic, it's probably why he's one of the A Class," Rogue said.
Their exceeds ran over to them, slashing and tugging at the bandages that bond their friends. Sting looked at his red cat. "Lector, get out of here." The mummies that Shax created were coming for them.
Lector grinded his teeth and kept on pulling. "I won't leave you, Sting."
"Fro won't leave either." The small frog costume exceed pulled on Rogue's binds. The mummies had reached the group ready to attack, coming down on them. Lector and Frosch looked up frightened. Just then the gauze snapped.
Rogue and Sting blocked the attacks, standing in front of their partners. Sting looked back at his friend. "Thanks for your help, Lector."
Lector smiled as tears gathered his eyes. "Sting."
"Thank you too, Frosch," Rogue said.
Frosch lifted its paws up. "Go get him, Rogue."
Shax stared at the sight. "You escaped one attack, but you're far from winning this fight and I don't take to people taking down my men." His eyes glowed red.
The two mummies that Rogue and Sting were blocking unwrapped to become complete gauze two separate prisms that surrounded the dragon slayers in a crisscross twister.
Damien stuck his arm down at an angle. "You won't get away from me so easily. Every dead bone is my plaything." He shot off hundreds of bullet sizes bones through the park as Laxus cut through the trees with Lucy on his back.
The bones tore down everything in sight. Laxus held out Lucy's legs while Lucy had her arms wrapped around his neck. "What do you think he meant by that?" Lucy said.
"He must not be able to manipulate the bones of still living things," Laxus replied. "I guess that's a lucky break for us."
"You think so," Damien said. "I can still lock on to your bones as targets even though I can't personally control them and I can always restock my power." More bones came out of the sky and replaced the bullets he already shot off, reshaping to fit the monster. He fired off human size bullets at the couple.
Laxus transformed into lightning to weave in between the bones that crashed into the ground. He returned back, resting his hand on a tree he stopped beside. "This isn't going to work." He looked up at the creature that was in the middle of the park.
"We have to switch to offensive," Laxus said. "Otherwise this guy will never go down." He raised his fist. "Resounding through the air, the roar of thunder, plunge from the heavens and reap destruction. Raging—"
"Bolt!" Bolt yelled. He swung his fist down. A lightning bolt shot down from the sky striking Grilli that caused an explosion. The smoke quickly cleared to reveal the A class wizard was perfectly fine. Bolt landed on the ground.
"Then try this." He slammed his hand on the ground. "Lightning Eruption!" Lightning shot up out the ground from below Grilli.
Grilli leaped up just as the lightning came out of the ground. He swung an arch of flames down to counter the spell. He raised his head to look over at Bolt. "And here I thought I would see one of Bolt's famous original spells instead I get the little lame spells he copied from his father."
Sparks of lightning shoot off of Bolt's face. "You want original then hear my song." He held out two fingers and raised them to his upper right side. "Six rings of dark symphony play." Three black and dark purple magic circles with two horns crossing each other in the middle of them appeared on the left and right sides of Grilli.
Bolt swung his fingers across his chest. "Tragic Song!" The circles glowed and turned into a dark orb that was surrounded by musical notes. "This spell sends one into their deepest nightmare and tears their body apart at the same time."
"Interesting," Grilli's voice came through the sphere. Beams of flames shot out of the sphere breaking it. Grilli landed down on the ground. "However you are going to have to do a lot better."
Layla brought her shield up to protect from another sword swing. "Now, Open Gate of the-" A whip flung out behind her, wrapping around her leg. The owner of the whip pulled on it to lift her leg up and stretch out her body, breaking her concentration.
Layla looked back to see another of the hooded wizards. She then caught a glimpse of a third man trying to attack her from the side with his sword. Layla turned her shield on the side to block the swords.
Another whip lashed out and grabbed Layla's free arm and pulled it in the other direction. "Feeling the stress, Layla?" the last of the four said. "We are four of Crime Spree's best C class wizards with Grilli's plan you and your little pals are through."
A drop of sweat ran down Layla's face as she glared at the man. "Who else are you attacking?"
"Ice Make: Floor!" Gray slammed his hands on the ground, turning it to ice in front of him. Asa charged his fist with lightning, cracking the ice before he leaped forward. He kicked Gray across the face that sent him flying.
"Gray! How dare you hurt my beloved!?" Juvia shot a burst of water at Asa.
Asa turned in the direction of the water and jumped back. He stuck out his hand with a ball of lightning forming in the palm of his hand. "Didn't anyone tell you not to use water against lightning? Lightning Burst."
Asa shot a beam of lightning, cutting through the water and engulfing Juvia in the blast. Juvia let out a hell raising scream.
Laxus' lightning struck the giant skeleton creature. Sparks moved across the beast. "That didn't do a thing. Is that the best you could do?"
Laxus growled in irritation.
Virgo popped out of the ground beside the two blondes. "Princess, I've finished."
"Thanks, Virgo," Lucy said. The maid spirit disappeared.
The ground under Damien's right foot collapsed, pulling the foot in and unbalancing the large creature. "What!?"
Laxus raised an eyebrow. "Now, I see what you were planning."
"This won't stop me," Damien yelled. He stuck out his hand to fire off more bone bullets.
Laxus brought his head over to the side. "Roar of the Lightning Dragon!" He threw his head forward and shot a breath of lightning straight at the creature. The lightning covered over the giant beast with several cracks appearing in the beast, but the monster was still standing.
Laxus wiped his mouth. "Well, looks like some of those bones are fragile."
Damien's eyes glowed purple. "If this form won't work how about this?" A purple orb appeared around the head of the monster and all the bones were pulled in, including the ones he already shot off. Lucy and Laxus watched to see what was happening.
The sphere vanished and Damien came out with his normal body covered in bones with only his left eye showing through the skeleton armor. He landed down on the ground.
"Holy Breathe," Sting shouted. He blew the holy magic to wiped cut through the number of mummies that were coming at them. When the light of the breath cleared there were only two mummies left along with Shax.
Sting then charged forward, rushing through the last two mummies and head-butted Shax in the head who wasn't affected at all. "Did you really think that would work?" Shax questioned.
Inside of Shax's shadow, Rogue came out to attack Shax's bracelet. Shax's eyes shifted over to the shadow mage and struck him, sending him out of the shadows. "That's the most obvious strategy I've ever seen."
He grabbed both dragons and threw them forward. Frosch and Lector flew passed their friends. "We have to grab that bracelet," Lector said.
"Fro thinks so too," Frosch responded.
Shax wrapped the two flying cats in gauze. "If your master couldn't reach it how did you think you could?"
"We're not their masters," Rogue said.
"They're our friends," Sting claimed. "Roar of the White Dragon."
"Roar of the Shadow Dragon." Both dragon slayers shot their signature breathes that combined together into a unison raid.
"Move aside," Shax instructed his remaining mummies. The mummies did as ordered and Shax moved just barely out of the way. "You're too slow even for a mummy. Learn your place below royalty. Steel Gauze!"
The A class wizard stuck out his arms. He shot off several strips of gauze that went through magic circles hardening them. The gauze struck the two dragon slayers while they were still in mid air. Both yelped out in pain.
The gauze hit the wall behind them, cracking it before bouncing off. Sting and Rogue managed to land properly, sliding back. They both wasted no time going into Dragon Force so they could fight at full strength as soon as they did the harden gauze struck them again from different angles, cutting through their flesh.
Both dragon slayers threw their heads back and screamed, coughing up blood.
"Rogue," Frosch said with tears in its eyes.
"Sting," Lector replied worriedly.
Bones shaped like spider legs came out of Damien's back along with bone blades came out of the skeleton armor on his elbows. "Let's see you try to handle this." Damien launched himself forward, balling up his hand into a fist and thrust it forward.
Laxus clenched his fist and thrust it forward with all his strength to collide with the other man's with lightning going through it. As soon as Laxus felt his fist make contact he felt a bone crack and stepped back.
Damien performed a cartwheel and kicked the dragon slayer across his face, sending him crashing to the ground to the side away from Lucy. Damien then focused on Lucy. "Now it's time for the princess to taste some pain."
Lucy held out a golden gate key. "Open Gate of the lion, Loke." The lion spirit instantly appeared in front of her.
"I won't allow anyone to hurt Lucy," Loke declared. He charged both his fists with light and thrust his first straight at the other man's fist that collided. The two then kept swinging blows, canceling the other out with their fist.
Both of them took a small jump back to give themselves some space. "Not bad, I guess being a celestial spirit gives you a little more of an advantage compare to a human with it comes to striking fist. Still that won't be enough to defeat me."
"It sounds like that's all I need," Loke said. He shifted his gaze over to Lucy. "You better leave this to me because it doesn't sound like your boyfriend is going to me much help."
Laxus slammed his hand on the ground. Lightning exploded the ground around Damien. Laxus stood back up. "What did you say, Loke?"
Damien leaped out of the smoke. Laxus pulled his fist back with a magic circle surrounding it then thrust it forward. "Lightning Dragon's Breakdown Fist!" He shot the lightning shape fist at the bone covered mage, hitting him head on.
Damien flew back a few meters with smoke coming off of his armor that was undamaged by the attack. "I've condense over 100 different skeletons over my body. You think you can break through all of that."
The Crime Spree wizard stuck out his hand and fired a bullet size bone through Laxus' stomach. Laxus dropped down on the ground.
Four large curve shape fire blades that appeared volcanic hot flew toward Bolt. Bolt jumped out of the way as three of them collided into the ground and exploded. He saw the last one come straight at him while he was in midair.
Bolt placed his arm in over the side of his body, blocking the attack. Bolt flipped backward and landed on the ground, sliding sideways with his forearm badly burned. He bit down on his teeth to hide his pain.
Grilli landed in front of Bolt.
Layla's body was still being held in different directions. She requiped into her fire gloves and boots. She grabbed onto the whip and tried to send flames down the cord.
"Nice try, but we accounted for your requip magic," the man said. "Our weapons are specially design to deal with your fire, wind, and earth magic."
"So not water," Layla said. A confident smirk appeared on her face. A water magic circle appeared on her shield. "Water Cyclone!" A cyclone of water shot out around the girl, blasting away her four opponents and freeing her.
She landed down on the ground, returning her weapons back to their own realm. "Hear this I am Layla Dreyar I won't fall to some C class wizards no matter who they accompany." She lifted her hand straight up. "Open Gate of the Watery North, Genbu!"
The water of the cyclone swirled up and transformed into a large black tortoise with a snake wrapped around its shell. "The King of the North!" The tortoise finished forming itself above Layla with water blowing around. "Genbu, it's time to teach those who dear to challenge us."
Genbu blinked, getting a feel for the situation. "Who is challenging us?" The snake on his shell hissed.
Loke stuck out his fist. "Regulus Impact!" Loke shot out a lion's head of light to engulf Damien, knocking him off the ground.
"That little attack won't stop me," Damien said. His eyes then shifted up to see the wounded Laxus above his head.
Laxus interlocked his hands together and lifted them above his head. "Lightning Dragon's Jaw!" He slammed his fists down that were charged with lightning. The ground below Damien exploded into a crater that the dark wizard crashed through.
Damien's bone armor slightly cracked.
Genbu's snake sliced through the four C class wizard's bracelets, sending them back home. Layla turned back toward her brother to see how her brother was doing in his fight.
Bolt stuck out his burnt out hand while his other hand held the arm in support. "Two Clouds of Lightning." Two golden magic circles with clouds in the middle appeared one in front of the other in front of Bolt. "Eyes of a Dragon!"
A lightning beam shot from the first circle into the second one intensifying the blast as it shot into at Grilli. Grilli swept the spell away with his flames and cleared the air. "You think some second rate dragon spell could stop me. Maybe you should have asked your father to teach you real dragon slayer magic."
Bolt spread out his fingers from each other. "Four Verses of a chorus." A white magic circle with a musical note in the middle appeared on each side of the Grilli. "Sing the song that sends all nightmares fleeing, the song that brings hope."
A white glow surrounded Grilli. "What is this? Why can't I move?"
Bolt turned his palm straight up. "Heaven's Tower!" A pillar of white light shot straight up with angel wings spreading out of it. A wave of light shot out from the left and right side of the glowing, ripping through the ground.
"Sting," Lector said in concern.
"Rogue," Frosch cried.
Sting and Rogue were bond by the steel gauze like crisscross bar that cut into their skin to prevent them from moving. Shax looked at them. "This was the best the Twin Dragons were capable of. I'm disappointed even if this is the past. Kill them."
The remaining two mummies opened their mouths with a magic circle appearing in front of it. Magical energy charged up to be blast.
"Black Lightning Sphere!" A sphere of black lightning surrounded Shax, engulfing him. His mummies broke apart as his gauze softened and freed the dragon slayers and their exceeds.
"Looks like we made it just in time."
Sting and the others looked back to see Rufus, Orga, and Yukino. "You guys."
A lightning blast cut through Juvia's side. The water woman screamed, falling back on the ground.
Gray charged forward. "Ice Make, Ice Bringer!" He formed two large swords and leaped into the air, running passed the fallen Juvia and swung the large weapons down. Asa caught the weapons with sparks of lightning coming off of his hands. He smirked widely.
"You've failed," Asa said.
"Juvia, now!" Gray shouted.
Juvia managed to sit herself up and swung her arm forward. "Water Slicer!" She shot off several water blades, slicing off the man's bracelet.
"Now we got you," Gray said.
Asa's face filled with rage. He scattered the swords with his lightning magic. "I'm not going back until I kill YOU!" He created a sphere of lightning between his hands, making it larger to come toward Gray as he still floated in mid air.
"Gray!" Juvia shouted.
Laxus was down on his knees in front of the crater. He held his stomach, breathing heavily from the pain.
The bone spider legs stabbed into the ground above the crater that pulled Damien out of the hole. He thrust his fist straight out in Lucy's direction. "Say your prayers, sexy!" He extended his bone blade out toward the celestial wizard going so fast neither Laxus or Loke could react in time.
"LUCY!" They both shouted.
Lucy saw the blade shooting for her at high speed.
Bolt's spell finally faded to see Grilli still stood with his body greatly damage. "Every part of my body is ringing," Grilli said. He stuck his palms out together. "Boil, and turn into ashes." An orb of flames surrounded Bolt.
Bolt looked around at the fire and could instantly tell he was trap inside a high level spell. He was down on his knees tired and beaten.
"Bolt," Layla shouted as she leaned forward. She quickly looked up at the king of water. "Genbu!"
Genbu slowly rolled his eyes down toward the girl. "Did you want something?"
Shax lifted himself up to everyone's surprise. "I won't be made a fool of. Steel Gauze!" He stuck out one arm to shoot off a strip of gauze that went through a magic circle hardening it that shot directly at Sting.
"Sting!" all the members of Sabertooth said at once.
Sting's eyes opened wide unable to react. The gauze shot into his forehead just as Shax was disappearing. The A class wizard's bracelet had been broken by Orga's attack.
Sting fell down on his butt with his hands supporting him. The other ran up to him. "Sting, are you alright?" Rogue asked.
Blood flowed down Sting's forehead. "I-I'm alive," Sting barely managed to get out the words. Only his skin had been cut through before Shax's gauze and all of his creations had disappeared.
Damien's bone blade just barely was an half an inch from touching Lucy's neck when the man disappeared. The man's broken bracelet was down in the crater.
Lucy, Loke, and Laxus were all still in shock. Laxus snapped out of his shock when he felt the pain from his wound growing worse. Blood spread across his shirt and leaked out of his mouth. He clenched on his stomach more, shut his eyes, and clenched his teeth. He let out a low groan that snapped Lucy out of her own brush with death.
She ran toward the dragon slayer. "Laxus." She kneeled down beside him, placing her hand on his shoulder. "We need you to get you to the hospital."
"I'm fine."
"Don't be stupid."
"Maybe we should knock him out and drag him there," Loke suggested.
The flame sphere disappeared along with its caster.
Bolt let out a breath of relief. He then felt the pain of his second and third degree burns and screamed out in pain, holding himself.
"Bolt," Layla said her brother's name in concern. She looked up at Genbu. "Can you use Fountain of Relief on my brother?"
Genbu lowered his eyes slowly down to Layla.
Just as the lightning sphere was about to hit Gray the man fully faded away. Gray hit the ground not ready to land. He picked himself up on all fours and rubbed the dirt off his face. "Well, wasn't expecting that. Guess we got lucky."
He looked back at his injured partner. He crawled his way over to her. "Juvia, are you alright?"
"Juvia, is more concern about you," Juvia said with her eyes full of tears and worry.
"I'm not the one who was hit," Gray responded. He shut his eyes and lowered his head ashamed. "I'm so sorry, Juvia." Gray really hated letting a friend get hurt. The ice make wizard opened his eyes when he felt a hand grace his cheek.
"No, my beloved stopped one of Crime Spree's strongest members from reaching Magnolia and harming others," Juvia told him. "Juvia couldn't be more proud."
"He was only B class," Gray replied. "I think he was only sent after us because of the type of magic we use. Look we need to get you back as soon as possible so Wendy can look at that wound." He picked up Juvia in his arms and Juvia fainted from the touch of Gray's shirtless self.
Whoa, that was a long chapter. So what did you think of this chapter? Love to know you all think I put a lot of work into this.