The battle between man and god begun. It was one fierce battle with the safety of the world at stake. If we lose here, who knows how would Atmos destroy the whole world? Wait.. even we were defeated here, I'm sure someone else could defeat Atmos with a bigger group of people.
But, giving up on a fight before it started ain't Fairy Tail's style.
Atmos was shooting multiple beams at us. It's targeting at us perfectly, not letting us getting any closer to us. Maybe that time where Tatenashi-san and I slipped past it was just a fluke or it was just warming up? That thing is intelligent too. When Natsu launched strong, powerful fire attacks at him, they were all stopped by Atmos using its water powers from the water orb. The hand of Atmos can use the elemental orbs according to the position of the orbs in the tablet. The one on the left of the tablet is what it's left hand can use and the one on the right shows which power it's right hand wields. Even Erza with her Requip was slower than Atmos switching orbs. It isn't a god for nothing.
"Maybe co-op attacks work?" Tatenashi-san suggested. Everyone tried that out. Gray and Wendy shot ice lances and wind blasts towards it together as Lucy summoned Loki to do a triple attack with Natsu and Erza in her Heaven's Wheel Armour. Tatenashi-san cloaked me with powerful currents as I jumped up and used Seiun Sword Style: Spiralling Orbit. A powerful offensive move by spinning with high speeds while having the sword outwards to slice things down with tremendous force. When I'm in Tatenashi-san's magic and having my swords charged with my flames, it's definitely a very strong attack. But, I missed and sliced up an small floating island created by Atmos. I lost my momentum and thus my attack was stopped. With lighting-speed, thunderbolts were shot at Gray's and Wendy's magic, disarming them. By releasing walls of fire and earth, the other three's attack were halted too. It was able to use all orb's power in the same time! It's like a formidable fortress with no flaws at all.
"What do we do now?" Gray shouted.
"Take down the orbs." I randomly suggested that.
"Good idea! How do we do that?" Natsu asked.
"Errmm... Let's see... Maybe everyone distract it away from me and I will slice the orbs in half." I gave myself a bet. Everyone agreed.
"Tatenashi-san, I need some water please." I asked before I head out.
"Give it back or I won't forgive you,' she smiled and blast a gallon of water at me. With my emptied stomach, I ate it. She actually gave too much to me...
Everyone shot Atmos several times. I was waiting for it to get used to them while ignored me. In other words, I'm trying to hide my presence. Guess that won't work. It detected me within seconds. That's where I realised, it only attack those with magic presence so it won't ignore me. So I had to wait for another chance. When Natsu blasted an attack from Atmos and created a lot of smoke, I saw my opportunity. Without any delay, I charged. Both of its arms were attempting to sweep me but it failed as I created multiple copies of myself. As they were made from magic, those guys were good decoys. It distracted it perfectly. I jumped onto Atmos's arm and dashed. When an orb was in sight, I jumped down. There were beams shooting at me but I managed to deflect it. But it's hand was approaching me too! It's too late! I'll get hit!
Sorry Hailberd for not being to find you again. Sorry Tatenashi-san for not being to return the water. And I love you.
"Zane-kun watch out!" A tornado of water blew the hand away. Tatenashi-san saved me. I"m so grateful to her. Then it's my turn now.
"Dragon Slayer's Secret Art: Final Force, KAI!" a votex of water and ice energy were compacted into a small ball each in my hands. Then I released one of it on the orb. Nothing happened for a while. But after a few seconds, the orb cracked! Wait? That's it! Atmos reacted by groaning in agony. I quickly remove my hand and released the second strike. It cracked further more, but it didn't break.
"Ice Make: Excalibur!" I summoned my sword and stabbed it into the cracks. Next I charged it with my combined flames and water of both Tatenashi-san's and my magic. It formed a white, big and linear sword inside the cracks I made. With a swift movement, I sliced the orb in half. The orb broke! Just doing that was exhausting. I jumped down with the orb falling down.
"What are you trying to do!" Tatenashi-san shouted as she went to check on the girls. I accidentally let the orb crashed down without looking. That almost hit the spirits and Kanzashi-chan. If it wasn't for Tatenashi-san blocking that, they will be crashed to pieces! Thank god that didn't happened.
One down, three to go. If taking down one of this is that exhausting, I wonder will we last for the other three.
That process kept on going for the next few orbs. We had to launch multiple attacks without crashing into each other. Natsu and Gray still had time to fight between themselves. I was a bit worried about Tatenashi-san too but after she saved me form a pinch several times, I knew that I have to stop worrying about her and worry myself as I was slowly losing magic and stamina. Tatenashi-san on the other hand got back into Dragon Force. I released my new form and rested for a while before continuing the fight. I also had to eat the ice lacrimas I have to replenish my magic. I always carry a small amount of them in cases like this. Those stuff are expensive and luckily I was able to pick up some of them for free during the mission to the desert to chase away the Sand Busters.
"This is the last orb! Everyone, put your last drop of magic and destroy it!" Erza called out to us.
After all that fighting, we only managed to take down three only?
"Let's go Zane-kun!" Tatenashi-san moved forward as I supported her by shooting down Atmos's arms with two big ice cannons. It's attack were all deflected by everyone, opening up a clear path, giving Tatenashi-san opportunity to attack.
Amos quickly reacted by firing big chunks of rocks towards her. I rushed in and broke them using ice meteors of my own.
Tatenashi-san begun caring her big move.
"Dragon Slayer's Secret Art: Hydro Tornado Lance!" Mysteltainn was cloaked with large amounts of Tatenashi-san's water while spinning to create turbulence and Tatenashi-san was moving swiftly as she glided through the water. It happened so fast that Tatenashi-san thrusted three times continuously within seconds. The last orb was the fire element, so Tatenashi-san's magic had the advantage and was able to deal massive damage to the orb. The orb just split in half after her third strike! Yes, we did it!
With all the orbs destroyed, Atmos was rendered powerless. It couldn't create anything anymore and lost it's rights as a god. Without doing anything, slowly Atmos disintegrated and the light it's emitting dimmed down as it was slowing collapsing. After that, the pieces all vanished into thin air. We defeated Atmos, a god! What a relief! The whole place was in a mess after the fight. Quickly, I went ahead and looked around for Tatenashi-san. She was with Kanzashi-chan and the two spirits.
"Are you okay? How's the two doing?" I asked. She nodded. Glad they were okay.
"Big trouble Zane-kun! The guy is gone!" Tatenashi-san came reporting to me.
"It's all right. Let him go for now, we will deal with him later." I told her.
Funny thing was we didn't knew his name. I just hope we don't see such a troublesome guy ever again.
We all left the place and head back home.
When I woke up, there were a lot of noise around me.
"Huh? Zane-kun, you woke up. Good morning." Tatenashi-san greeted as she sat on my bed.
"Good morning. What is going on here?" I slowly opened my eyes, and to my amazement... There were FOUR girls in my house! What? I quickly got up and rubbed my eyes to see if I was seeing things. Nope, that's reality.
"Woah! What are you guys doing here? And... Wait, what time is it now?" I so confused.
"Oh, it's around 10." Tatenashi-san frankly replied with a mischievous smile. She must have played with my clock. Now that I looked clearly, it's the spirit girls were in my house. Why are they still here?
"Master, please stay away from that witch there, it's dangerous." Gabriel said in a grumpy look. She's the spirit I fought. She looked gentler that before when I first met her.
"Wait, who do you mean by witch? And why are you calling me Master?" I'm even more confused.
"She's been calling me witch since we met. When she knew that we are in a relationship, she was even mad, that weird right?" Tatenashi-san pouted.
"Everyone, please calm down and explain!" Kanzashi-chan shouted on the top of her lungs.
Kanzashi-chan finally mustered up enough courage to step up. She explained everything to me as I have a light breakfast. Gabriel and Diana were sisters but they were seperated because of thier powers enabling the summon of Atmos when they're together. They were used to control Atmos and preventing it from going berserk. Now that we saved them, they recognized us as their masters. Tatenashi-san already made a contract with Diana. After hearing all that, I'm amazed.
"Hey Gabriel, it's bad to call people names. Sorry for my little sister's bad attitude." Diana scolded Gabriel. In my opinion, Diana actually resembles Tatenashi-san. Just that Diana may be a bit more mature and nicer than Tatenashi-san.
"I'm sorry.." Gabriel apologized unwillingly.
"Don't you two want your freedom. You two are finally freed from your job and being together now. Isn't better for you to be free instead of serving a human?" I asked. Gabriel shook her head and said she actually wanted to do that first but Diana wanted to repay us for saving them. Later on, Diana suggested that they should follow us and help us out as much as they can. This way, they can learn about human culture and have a purpose to stay in this world.
"Anyway, Master... Please have a contract with me. I decided to follow you since you saved me. Please let me repay you." Gabriel bowed down.
Isn't this contradicting from the story she just told me?
"Woi woi, calm down Gabriel. And don't call me Master." I seriously don't know what to do.
"Well well, think about it. Maybe it's not that bad to have them around. They could be fun to be around with." Tatenashi-san said.
"Yeah, as you will have more targets to tease."
After some thinking, I decided something.
"Hey Gabriel, can you contract with Kanzashi-chan instead of me? Think of this as my request. She needs you help more than me. But don't worry, feel free object and I will listen to your requests too." I asked her. She's shocked for a second. Kanzashi-chan too.
"Umm... Zane-san, please don't worry about me. I can take care of myself." Kanzashi-chan muttered. Gabriel looked like she's thinking hard. Well, I can't blame her.
"I...I...want to be with Master! I'll only follow and acknowledge someone who's stringer than me!" Gabriel blurted out.
"Then Kazanshi-chan can fight you and beat the crap out of you so you'll recognise her." Tatenashi-san suggested as a joke.
"Impossible! I'll definitely lose!" Kanzashi-chan started shaking.
"Okay. So how you do a contact?' I asked Tatenashi-san. She's blushing now?! She paused for a while, staring at me...while giving me a grumpy look. That is no good.
"Let Gabriel do her chant and seal her with a kiss, that's all." Diana said
WHHAAT! A kiss? I looked back at Tatenashi-san. She's not looking good. Maybe she's angry... Wait, she's definitely not satisfied with it.
"It's fine... As long as you don't get seduced by her... I think." Tatenashi-san gave her answer. I was stunned! I patted her head and told her not to worry.
The contract started. Gabriel stood in front of me and she asked me to hold her hands. I just did that and she continued by saying a chant. The floor started to glow. A circle was formed under out feet. When she was done, she just stood there and closed her eyes. Is she trying to signal me to kiss her?
Uwah.. Do I really have to do this? I looked at Taenashi-san once more. She's staring at me hardly and singled me to do it.
In the end, I did it and she disappeared in front of me. A small red circle is formed on my hand. It looked like a magic circle.
"Now you can call Gabriel out anytime. That circle will glow and she will appear. She can signal you to summon her too." Diana said. As she said that, I got a weird feeling. It felt like something wanted to come out. Ohhh, it was Gabriel. I summoned her.
"Onee-chan, that was more stimulating than you said! My heart is racing, its like it wants to come out from me!" She's complaining it to her sister now?
"Anyway, I only have one rule. Don't call me Master." I warned her for the last time. She nodded rapidly. I gave back a small smile.
"So, do spirits need to eat or drink to survive?' I asked. She shook her head.
"But you can eat right?" I asked again. She nodded. Diana burst into laughter.
"You're just like Tatenashi-sama. Can't believe you two asked the same question." Diana said. Tatenashi-san laughed too. That's an interesting fact.
"Why do you ask that, mas... Zane..sama?" she tilted her head.
"Well, Zane-kun had the tendency to reward people who are useful to him. And he's a good cook, that's why." Tatenashi-san chirped happily.
"You know, you talking like I'm a slave driver." I looked at her.
"But, that's what you are right?" Tatenashi-san acted scared, trying to tell everyone I really did it. I just knocked her head.
"Hey you, how dare you mock Zane-sama!" Gabriel got up, looking angry.
"Why do you get so angry when it's about your beloved master? Aahh.. Don't tell me you like him?"
Gabriel's face turned beet red after hearing that. It's a little mix of embarrassed and angriness.
She pulled out her scythe, ready to swing at Tatenashi-san. Things were about to get worse.
"Well, guess I can't do anything. Zane-kun is so kind and good, any girl would fall for him." She continued talking while she hid behind me.
"Zane-sama! What is it you see in this witch? She's the essence of evil!"
"Hora, Tatenashi-san, that's enough." I told her.
"Hai hai. I was just testing her. Now, help me do some shopping. We don't have anything to cook already."
She pulled me and we left the house.
After this fight, it was those usual days again, but with two more members, Gabriel and Diana.