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The Assassins of Fairy Tail

Job Twenty Four: The Assassin's Weaknesses

Ajeel yelled out in pain as Erza struck him with her sword in the chest while passing him by. He looked back while looking at Erza with a pained look in his eye. "Im…possible…" Erza came back at him and took another swing at Ajeel with her sword. Ajeel tried to block the attack with his arm but he felt pain once again. What happened to him recently didn't make any sense to him. "Everything that touches me should've turned to sand! I haven't heard of a sword that could hurt me!" He finally got a good look at the sword Erza was using and was surprised what kind of sword it was. "A water sword?"

Erza swung her sword down at Ajeel but he managed to avoid it. "Neptune's Sword has the power to harden sand!"

Ajeel jumped back to the broken mast of his ship and he wasn't happy with how the fight was turning out for him. "Dammit! How dare a lowly soldier like you…" He threateningly glared at Erza. "Make me, the great Ajeel, this angry!" He sent a whirlwind of sand at Erza.

The sand surrounded her but Erza came prepared for this kind of situation. "It's useless. Your magic will no longer work on me." She requiped to another sword and swung it to blow the sand away from her. "The Wind God's Sword can blow the sand away! Sand just has too many weaknesses."

Ajeel grinned at Erza's words. "Oh, but what about a sandstorm then?"

Erza gasped and in the next second, a powerful giant sandstorm engulfed the ship they were on. "The entire ship…"

Ajeel was just getting started. "That's not all…"

The sandstorm spread throughout Magnolia and the areas beyond them. Natsu and the others caught up in the sandstorm. "Huh? A sandstorm out of the blue?"

Wendy struggled against the sandstorm. "Could this be the work of that sand wizard!?"

Happy didn't like the situation they were in. "I can't see!"

Their situation was about to be a lot more difficult as Lily saw. "This is bad! The enemy's still coming!"

Gajeel growled as he thought up something to do while being in the sandstorm. "Back down cats! We'll rely on our dragon noses to find the enemy and destroy them!"

The other Fairy Tail members felt the effects of the sandstorm at the guild. "What is this?!"

Mavis pointed at the doors where the sand was getting in. "Close the guild doors please!"

"We're getting weird weather!"

Lucy and Cana were struggling in the severe weather they were in. "What is this!?"

Brandish, unfortunately, was also caught up in the storm. "Tsk, Ajeel's giving us unnecessary work again."

Gray and the others were struggling against the sandstorm. "I can't see anything at all!"

"My love! Where are you!?"

Leone snarled at the situation they were in. "The hell is all this sand coming from?!"

Akame had a pretty good idea what was causing this. "It must be from that sand wizard from before!"

"That guy can make a sandstorm this powerful?!" Chelsea screamed.

Badd, who wasn't being affected by the sand, just smiled. "Sand Word. So someone's finally forced him to use it."

The Thunder Legion were having their own problems with the sand. "The enemy's flooding in from the Jutsu Shiki's cracks and entering the town!"

That wasn't something Freed wanted to hear. "Damn it!"

Evergreen held up her fan to her face. "Just when I thought Magnolia's hay fever was a problem, now we've got sand?! Gimme a break!"

Team Osprey was having their difficulties with the sandstorm. It was especially a problem for Bisca since visibility was now nonexistent. "No, now when it's finally recharged! I won't be able to aim at this rate!"

"The sand's getting in my eyes!"

"Close your eyes, Asuka! It'll be okay!"

Erza was able to grab a brief glimpse of the state the entire town was in and couldn't believe what she was seeing. "No way…the entire town's in a sandstorm too!?" She could scarcely believe the power her enemy was capable of. "The power to shrink an entire island and to control a sandstorm of this size…they really are on a different scale compared to the enemies we've before."

"Welcome to my Sand World where I am…" Ajeel's face appeared above Erza who switched to her Neptune Sword to counter. The sand swirled around him and fired countless sand blades at her. "Ramel Sayf!" The attack pelted Erza and was pushed back while yelling out in pain. "The fear of not being able to move freely and the fear of an invisible attack…I see it all. That fear of yours when you're up against us…"

Erza was able to pinpoint where Ajeel's voice was coming from and swung her sword in the general direction. "There!" Her attack managed to divide the sand apart but there was nothing there.

"Yeah, like that'll work!" The sand swirled around Erza and Ajeel grabbed her by the throat. Erza struggled to breathe while Ajeel held her up. "Revere me like a god and maybe, I'll forgive you. At least I'll promise to end you in one blow to save you from this pain."

Erza felt that she was beginning to weaken and starting to feel a little dry. "My energy's…draining…"

Ajeel laughed at Erza's soon-to-be demise. "Feels shitty, doesn't it? My magic has the power to suck the moisture in one's body dry. Do you really want to suffer like this? Feeling your body dry up?" Erza struggled to talk. "C'mon…call me God already."

Instead of doing that, Erza just gave a raspy yell which Ajeel made Ajeel's grip on her throat tighter. "Even if you actually…do become a god…my guild, my comrades will not fear you…and that's because they know well enough what to believe in and what not to…" Erza changed into another one of her armors that gave off a bright, shining light. "Morning Star Armor!"

Ajeel didn't see the point of his opponent's move. "This is pointless!" He created a double edged ax made of sand. "Ramel Fa'as!" Ajeel swung the sand ax right at Erza's neck. "Your head is mine!"

While this was going on, Bisca saw the light beaming through the sandstorm. "Light…that must be…" With a target now visible, Bisca took aim and fired the second Jupiter Cannon shot at the light. "Erza's light!"

The shot traveled fast to where Ajeel and Erza was and Ajeel turned to see it coming right at them. He couldn't avoid it in time and the shot blasted him away while dealing massive damage to him. "Im…possible…"

Erza kneeled on the deck and transformed into a powerful set of armor. She jumped to where Ajeel was and delivered an overwhelming final blow to the Desert King as well as destroying his ship. "Nakagami: Starlight!"

Her attack caused the sandstorm Ajeel to cease and Wendy and Gajeel saw a bright twinkle in the sky. "The sandstorm…"

"Disappeared."

Natsu smiled at the victory Erza had won against one of the Spriggan Twelve. However, out of the wreckage of the ship, he saw Erza falling and out of her Nakagami Armor. "Erza!" He started to run where Erza was going to crash.

Wendy saw him run to save Erza. "Natsu!"

"You should go too. She looks all kinds of messed up." Gajeel advised.

Wendy agreed with him. "Okay!"

Lily looked at the remaining soldiers the rest of them had to fight. "We'll take it from here."

Carla looked over at Happy. "You too. Get going."

"Aye!"

Natsu saw Erza getting closer to the ground and jumped over to her. He managed to catch her just in time before both landed on the ground. Natsu was worried about her. "Erza! You okay? Hang in there!"

Erza groaned weakly and looked over at him. "Natsu…"

The fire dragon slayer was relieved Erza was alright. "Phew! You had me worried there for a sec. Don't move, Wendy will be here before you know it." He saw Erza raise her fist up which confused him at first but then saw the smile Erza had and smiled back at her.

With Ajeel's sandstorm over, everything in Magnolia cleared and that meant the battles throughout can continue. One of them being Lucy and Cana resuming their fight with Brandish. "The sandstorm stopped."

"Sheesh, that didn't take long."

Lucy looked around and noticed that Brandish wasn't in front of them. "Wait a sec, where's Brandish?"

"Ah-choo!" They heard a sneeze and turned to see Brandish sneezing a lot. "Ah-choo! Ah-choo!" She groaned at the amount of sneezing she was doing. "What's wrong with this stupid city!? There's this weird pollen everywhere!" Brandish continued to sneeze.

Lucy and Cana were finding this quite hard to believe this was happening before her. "She has…hay fever…"

"And that sandstorm just now stirred up all the pollen throughout the city."

Brandish couldn't stop sneezing while her back was turned to her opponents. "Now I'm getting really annoyed!"

Cana took the opportunity and struck Brandish on the head from behind. Lucy thought it was savage. "No mercy…"

Cana couldn't pass up an easy chance to one-up the enemy. "She left herself wide open. It's like she was begging me to do it."

They both looked at Brandish and saw that she wasn't moving. "Looks like she's out cold."

Cana had to admit she was a tad disappointed in her opponent. "Dang, I guess the Twelve aren't everything we cracked 'em up to be."

Now that Brandish was easily defeated, there was one question on Lucy's mind. "What are gonna do with her?"

The answer was obvious to Cana. "Take her prisoner. Bring her to the guild."

The same situation occurred with Gray and the other Fairy Tail members. "The sandstorm's over!"

Leone sighed in relief. "Finally! That was freaking annoying!" The dust began to clear on the enemy's side and both Gray and Leone noticed something odd. When the dust fully cleared out, they saw eight strange metallic beings standing in front of them in a line. "Who the hell are these guys?"

Chelsea had a more prominent question. "Never mind that. Where did they come from!?"

Akame wagered a guess. "They must've appeared during the sandstorm."

All eight of the metallic soldiers came at the group head on. "Here they come!" Elfman warned.

One of them tried to punch Juvia but its attack went through her body due to it being made of water. "Such an attack won't even faze Juv-" Steam came out of the soldier's arm and it was able to burn her.

Gray heard Juvia scream in pain. "Juvia!" He turned to the metallic soldier he was fighting against. "Shit!" He put his hands together. "Ice Make…" His opponent had fire appear around its hand and sent it right at him. The attack struck Gray and sent him back. He was surprised by what his enemy could do and so was Juvia. "Fire?!"

"Juvia's enemy uses steam…"

Elfman tried to grab his opponent but it was too quick for him. "What's with this guy!? He's super fast!"

Lisanna's attacks weren't even scratching her enemy. "I can't even put a dent in this guy!"

Gray realized something about their opponents. "A flame user for me, a steam user for Juvia, for Elfman who's all brute force, an incredibly agile type, and for Lisanna, a power type. Are you telling me these guys were specially designed to exploit our weaknesses?" Gray had a passing thought about one more. "Wait a sec, Mira doesn't have any weaknesses!"

He turned to Mirajane and saw that she was being attacked in a jokingly matter by one of the soldiers that had Elfman's face on it while looking sad. "Mira! Mira!"

"Stop it, Elfman!"

Gray really couldn't believe what he was seeing before him. "That thing's so obviously fake!"

This was to be expected to Badd. "My magic, Weakness, allows me to construct soldiers that exploit my enemy's shortcomings. The good and the bad of humanity…I have the power to see through it all, I do."

It wasn't any easier for Leone and the other two former assassins. Leone and the metallic soldier she was fighting with slammed their fists together and were dead even. "You gotta be kidding me! The bone armor I have makes my attacks hit harder! How the hell are you keeping up me?!" The soldier didn't say anything and instead had speakers appear on its arms. "What the hell are you-" She didn't finish her sentence and screamed loudly in pain while covering her animal ears. "What the hell is this noise!? It feels like my head's going to split in half!" She left herself wide open and the metallic soldier punched Leone square at her jaw. The attack sent her away and groaned but was in still in pain by the noise she was hearing. "Can someone shut this guy up already!?"

Chelsea didn't understand why Leone was screaming about noise when she didn't hear anything. "What's going on with Leone?" Chelsea noticed her enemy's attack at the last second and jumped back to dodge. She summoned multiple needles around her that emitted electricity. "Shocking Needle!" Chelsea sent the needles at her opponent. If it was metallic, her electric needles could damage it. As the needles neared the soldier, it held out its hand and a mirror appeared in front of it. The needles struck the mirror and sent them right back at Chelsea. She gasped and crossed her arms to defend against the counterattack. Chelsea screamed as she felt the needles not only pierce her skin but also felt the shocks they delivered.

Lisanna heard Chelsea's scream and turned to see she was injured. "Chelsea!" She saw her opponent attack her and jumped out of the attack's range.

Akame's opponent slammed its fist into the ground and Akame avoided the attack while seeing that the ground itself was browning from where he struck. She landed back on the ground and assessed her opponent. "So my opponent can rust anything that it can touch. If it grabs Murasame…" She quickly glanced at the opponents Chelsea and Leone were having trouble with. "Leone's opponent must be using ultrasonic sound waves that only she can hear and Chelsea's opponent reflects any attack she throws right back her." She looked back at the opponent she was fighting against and past it at Badd who continued to smile. "This must be his doing. If I can just get Murasame to cut him…" It was a gamble but if it paid off, the enemy would have one less ally. Her opponent tried to attack Akame again and took the opportunity. Akame dodged to the side and as soon as the soldier missed, Akame sped past it and right at Badd.

Badd saw what Akame was planning to do. "So you're going after me now, are you?" Just as Akame neared Badd, her opponent jumped her from behind and slammed its fist at where Akame was. However, the soldier's attack went through Akame and struck the ground instead. Badd knew what Akame had done. "I see. An afterimage. Then that means…" He calmly turned around to see Akame with Murasame drawn back. Akame leaned forward and slashed Badd across the chest with Murasame. Everything went still for just a second and it seemed Akame had done it.

Or so she thought. Instead, Akame had a shocked expression the moment she felt her sword cut Badd. Not only she didn't see a cut from her attack on Badd, Akame was also having a familiar feeling. "This sensation…I felt it before. The moment Murasame came into contact with him, it felt just the same when I first struck one of Doctor Stylish's soldiers, Toby."

To make it worse, Akame remembered what Chelsea said about Badd before. "There's no doubt at the other end of this group is their leader and he's probably one of the Twelve but here's the weird part. I couldn't sense any aura coming from the guy."

Akame pieced together everything had learned and came to a shocking conclusion. "The fact his body is metallic and he doesn't have an aura…could only mean…" She stared at Badd with a bewildered look in her eyes. "You're…"

The soldier she was fighting before appeared behind Badd and delivered a kick to where she was. Akame jumped back and the attack missed once again. Badd chuckled at Akame. "Figured it out now have we? Unfortunately, it's too late for you and for your friends. I think I can just leave things here to my Weakness Soldiers. I'm must attend to the slaughter of the creator of this irksome Jutsu Shiki barrier." Badd launched himself from the sky and left the battlefield.

At Kardia Cathedral, Freed was still struggling to keep the barrier up. Evergreen and Bickslow were still cheering him on. "Freed, hang in there! The airborne enemies in the western skies have almost been wiped out."

"And it seems Erza and Bisca took out one of the Twelve."

"A shame upon the name of the Twelve, that he was." All three members looked to the entrance of the cathedral to see Badd arrive.

Bickslow and Evergreen didn't expect him to appear so soon or at all. "An enemy?!"

"How'd they managed to get here already?!"

Now that Badd was here, things were even worse for Freed. "While deploying a high-rank Jutsu Shiki, I can't move. I'm sorry! I'm going to have to ask you to cover for me."

The other two members didn't mind that at all. "On it!"

"Leave it to us!"

Bickslow crossed his arms. "Laxus' elite guards, the Thunder Legion…"

Evergreen smiled at their enemy. "If we drop the ball here, we'd simply be dragging his name through the mud."

Badd didn't seem worried at all. "I see it. To me, it is clear as day. The good and bad of humanity. Which includes your weaknesses as well." He held both his hands out and two of his soldiers began to appear. "Weakness Creation." The Weakness Soldiers appeared in front of bad. "Go forth."

Bickslow made the first move and pointed at his opponents. "Line Formation!" Before his babies could do anything, all of them just dropped to the ground.

It was due to one of the Weakness Soldiers in front of him. "Purification."

It made all the more sense to Bickslow. "White magic?!" The soldier came up to him and punched him hard.

Evergreen took on her opponent head on. "Fairy Bomb!"

Her opponent emitted a thick cloud out of its body. "Mist!"

The mist quickly surrounded Evergreen. "What's this stuff?! My scale dust isn't working!" The Weakness Soldier she was fighting struck her as well.

Bickslow realized why his attacks weren't working. "Damn it…white magic cancels out my black magic…"

Freed had an idea that his comrades could utilize. "Use your alternate magics! Your eye magic!"

Bickslow removed the cover of his helmet and Evergreen lifted her glasses and used their eye magic to deal with the Weakness soldiers. However, they didn't work on them. "It's having no effect!"

If that wasn't going to work, then Freed thought of going to the source. "Go for the one controlling them!"

Evergreen turned to Badd. "This is the end of the line!" She stared good and hard at her enemy. "Stone Eyes!" However, even that didn't seem to work on Badd which confused Evergreen.

Bickslow was also confused by this. "Why won't it work?"

The two Weakness Soldiers struck both of them which worried Freed. "Ever! Bickslow!"

Badd thought it was time and grabbed his jacket to widen it but his shirt also opened to reveal a strange core. "Too easy. Far too easy." The Thunder Legion members saw Badd undergo a machinal transformation and his entire body now became robotic. "I am a Machina. I am not human."

Freed couldn't believe what their opponent really was. "A machine…that uses magic?"

"Oh?" Freed, Bickslow, and Evergreen saw the Weakness Soldiers being affected by electricity.

Freed recognized what it was. "Lightning?"

They first thought it was Laxus who came in just time to save the day but…it really wasn't who they thought it was. "These things actually conduct electricity efficiently. Thanks for that. It's idea for my Thunder Perfume." And the Thunder Legion's hopes were crushed the second they saw none other than Ichiya arriving at the scene.