Inside of Thomas' consciousness, the smoke disappeared and the Jupiter Dragon was still standing and said, "Shit. You blocked the attack with your roar."

The Jupiter Dragon said, "Stop holding back on me dammit."

Ardunel said, "I'm not trying to die, you see."

The Jupiter Dragon sighed and then said, "You'll end up dying. Less than 20 minutes before the Jupiter Cannon is ready to fire again, whatever the hell you are."

Ardunel said, "Thomas Dragneel is who I am. And I'll finish you off before then."

The Jupiter Dragon laughed and said, "I doubt that very much. You haven't tried since you entered your consciousness to defeat me."

Ardunel heard that and then spun around twice and swung his tail at him both times and missed. As soon as he faced the Jupiter Dragon again, the Jupiter Dragon blew out a roar at him and then Ardunel did as well. An immeasurable explosion occurred again and then Ardunel sucked the smoke up and then the Jupiter Dragon flew toward him. Ardunel saw that and then flew up and the Jupiter Dragon saw that and then looked up saying, "You want to take the battle into the air, huh?"

Ardunel said, "That's why we got wings. We're badasses. Also, it's dangerous to be down there. So why not take the battle to the sky?"

The Jupiter Dragon laughed and then said, "I see. Let's do this then."

The Jupiter Dragon flew up after Ardunel and Ardunel disappeared and appeared behind him and then the Jupiter Dragon said, "Impossible. No Dragon is that fast."

Ardunel said, "Teleportation is a bitch, ain't it?"

The Jupiter Dragon said, "Agreed."

Ardunel charged toward him and the Jupiter Dragon turned around quickly and bit his neck and Ardunel roared loudly and then turned his head toward his neck and bit his neck as well and then the Jupiter Dragon roared loudly. Ardunel swung his head to the side throwing the Jupiter Dragon down toward where the hole that he created with Atlas and the Jupiter Dragon felt the gap and then held his ground before falling. The Jupiter Dragon said, "Phew. That was close."

Ardunel flew down after him and then the Jupiter Dragon said, "You gotta be kidding me."

Going back to the Phoenix's Tears Mages. They ran to the bottom of the front leg of the Dark Guild known as Manticore. Red Skull said, "Split up into 4 groups. I'll lead one, Alexia will lead one, Shelby will lead one, and Millicas will lead one. We're going to climb into the guild using the legs of the moving guild."

Alexia said, "And if they don't know how to climb."

Red Skull answered, "If you do not know how to climb or are afraid of heights, stay behind and make sure that nothing happens to the guild building."

Everyone heard that and then only a couple of them started moving back and then said, "Alright. We still got plenty of men on our side. Let's go. Lead your teams to one of the legs now. But this is my leg though."

Alexia said, "Lazy as hell."

Red Skull said, "Don't say that."

Red Skull started climbing up and then Alexia, Shelby, and Millicas' groups started running toward one of the other three legs. Alexia said, "I'll take the leg on the other side of Master."

Shelby said, "I'll take the one on the right."

Millicas said, "That means that we got the left."

Millicas and Shelby got to their destinations and then started climbing up slowly. Red Skull said, "Whatever you do, don't ever look down."

Alexia got to the final leg and started climbing up and then Red Skull said, "It's about 2,000 ft up. So we got a lot of work to go everyone."

George said, "Yippee."

Jordan said, "This'll be fun. We're getting a nice workout."

Millicas said, "Agreed."

Zung said, "Sir, smoke is starting to appear from Thomas' corpse."

Alexia said, "That means that the battle is still ongoing."

Red Skull said, "He doesn't know when to die."

Zung said, "He's a persistent one."

William said, "Well, not that many of us are strong like him. Or crazy like him. So we should be grateful that he's on our side."

Rachel said, "So true. We're going to try to stop Manticore before they fire the next shot of the Jupiter Cannon."

Red Skull said, "Exactly. That's how we're going to do this. We're going to destroy everything on this thing. That's how we're going to make sure that they can't harm Thomas or the Royal Family any longer."

George said, "And if that plan fails."

Red Skull answered, "We beat the shit out of everyone so that we could disabled the Jupiter Cannon manually."

Alexia asked, "Do you even know how to do that, Master?"

Red Skull answered, "Nope. But I'll figure it out somehow."

Shelby said, "We should be arriving up at the top in about 10 minutes. Maybe 15."

Rachel said, "We should have taken William up on his offer."

William laughed and said, "Too late now. We're already up on the leg."

Red Skull said, "Forgot all about that. But I rather have the element of surprise than fly up there alerting the enemy."

Shelby said, "Makes sense."

Alexia said, "Yep."

Millicas said, "So, if we encounter the enemy, we deal with them immediately, correct?"

Red Skull answered, "Correct. Deal with any threat that appears before you. That's how we'll do things."

Millicas said, "Good enough."

Jordan said, "I can't wait to get my revenge."

Millicas said, "Agreed."

Red Skull said, "Oh, you'll get your revenge soon enough."

Everyone started smiling and then said, "For Crocus."