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Last time: Cayden and Gray became bros while they waited for the rain to stop.

Now: Everyone meets up, but still must deal with Grievous.

Chapter 24- Rendezvous Point

Once the rain was done, the exceeds went out to search the area for any of the others. Jac remained with the girls down by the lake side. He had removed his tunic and tabards to wring them out of all the water. He didn't wear an under shirt like most Jedi. So his bare torso was showing as he dried out his clothes. Wendy was bright red and looking the other direction. Lucy was blushing but was surprised on how ripped he was.

Rustling in the bushes near them, startled Lucy and pulled her from her thoughts. Jac turned around, shirtless and saber suddenly in his hand. Natsu appeared a moment later.

"Natsu!" Lucy cried as she threw herself at him.

Natsu was startled by the sudden hug.

"Hey, calm down Luce. I'm okay," Natsu said with a smile.

The others appeared.

"Erza, Master Kenobi, Master Skywalker," Wendy said happily.

"Thank goodness all of you are alright," Obi-wan said as Anakin set him down on the log that Lucy was sitting on.

"Are you guys okay?" Jac asked. "How's the ship? Is it in one piece?"

"More or less," Anakin said.

"We are okay, but why are you shirtless?" Ahsoka asked.

"Yeah, I though Gray was the only stripper here," Natsu said.

"NATSU!" Lucy and Erza said snapping at him.

Jac chuckled. "Hey if it's an excuse to show off my rocking bod to the ladies then it is worth it." He flexed his muscles as he said that.

Obi-wan rolled his eyes. Anakin face palmed himself. Wendy turned red again. Erza, Lucy, and Ahsoka all sighed.

"NATSUUUUUUUU!" A voice cried.

Suddenly, Happy and Carla flew down from the sky. Happy tackling right into Natsu's chest.

"Hey buddy, great job with protecting everyone," Natsu said with a grin.

Happy smiled up at him happily.

"Have you found anything?" Wendy asked as she started using her healing magic on Obi-wan.

"No, the trees are too thick," Carla said.

"Any word on Sasha and the others?" Obi-wan asked.

Jac shook his head as he pulled his tunic back on.

"No, nothing yet," Jac said.

"Well since you guys got here so quick then they must not be too far behind," Lucy said.

"True," Anakin said. "Does anyone have any idea which direction their escape pod landed?"

Everyone shook their head.

"Well Sasha and Cayden are strong," Ahsoka said. "We shouldn't worry about them."

"Don't cut Gray out of that equation," Erza said. "He can hold his own too."

Meanwhile…

"General, we have lost contact with a few of our squads," the droid said. "I think they've been attacked."

Grievous growled in anger. Dooku had sent him and his droids to the surface to hunt down the Jedi and the Wizards. He sent out several squads of droids to search the forest for them. They had searched the ship and found it abandoned. They found the escape pods and they too we abandoned. The planet of Takodana isn't very populated, but some how it was hard to find a group of Jedi and wizards.

"I don't think they are in the forest sir," the droid said.

Grievous punched a tree and left a large dent in the side of the tree. Pieces of bark and wood was pointing in multiple directions that one more punch like that could break it in half.

"I'm tried of these stupid droids," Grievous growled before coughing. "Scan the area! Find them! Use the tech we have you dumb droids!"

The droids hurried around like a bunch of scared animals in order to start scanning the area.

"Sir," one droid piped up. "I picked up three signals coming from the south east. It looks like they are headed West toward the large lake."

"I'll take care of them myself," Grievous said before turning to a couple of commandos that were standing by. "You two come with me."

"Roger, roger," they said in unison.

Gray was leading the way as they walked through the forest. Cayden was behind him, walking along side Sasha. Gray pushed some bushes out of the way.

"Hey!" Gray said with glee.

"What is it?" Cayden asked.

Gray moved aside and showed them what was behind the trees. It was the lake. Sasha and Cayden smiled as they saw the lake. The way the sun glistened off the water was beautiful. They moved their way over to the lake side and stood at the shore line. However, their smiles dropped.

"What's wrong?" Gray asked.

"This lake is massive," Sasha said. "Who knows where the others are and it's going to take a while for use travel around the whole thing to find them."

Gray smiled with a cocky grin. "Well I guess it's a good thing you have an ice wizard on your side."

Sasha and Cayden looked at him confused at first then gleamed when they realized that he was going to be their way across the lake.

"Alright, now that we've figured out the transportation," Sasha said. "Let's see if we can locate them from here."

Cayden pulled out the electro bincos from his bag. He scanned the area. He stopped when spotted something directly across the lake.

"Found them," Cayden said. "Right over…"

His sentence was cut off when suddenly a blast flew past his head. Cayden dropped the bincos into the water and turned on his heel. Sasha pulled out her saber and activated it. A moment later, figures appeared from the tree line. It was Grievous followed by two commando droids.

"Found you, Jedi," Grievous said.

"Alright, you two take care of the commandos,' Sasha ordered. "I'll take the head tin can."

Grievous laughed. "You underestimate me child!"

He then pulled four sabers from his cloak and then his two arms spilt creating four.

"No way!" Gray freaked out.

"Sash, we can take him together," Cayden said worried.

"Take out the droids, Cayden," Sasha demanded as she charged forward.

The two commandos swung at her. She leapt over them and launched herself right at Grievous. Their sabers clashing as she came down.

"You heard the girl," Gray said as he took a battle stance. "Ice Make Excaliber!"

A large sword of ice appeared. Gray swung it at the droid's head. The commando ducked and kicked for his legs. Gray was ready and jumped in time to miss them. He then stabbed his sword toward the droid only for the droid to roll out of the way. Gray's ice sword stabbed into the ground where the droid once resided. He used the velocity of that attack to swing his body around the sword like a trapeze artist and land a kick on the droid's head.

Cayden charged the other droid with his saber out and ready. He blocked the droids vibro sword with his lightsaber. He kicked at the droid's arm, knocking it aside and went for a stab to the droid's chest. The droid caught his arm and managed to flip the Padawan onto his back. Cayden snarled and switched the saber to his other in a quick motion that as the droid came down with his fist, Cayden's saber went through it's head. The droid slacked as it died. Cayden used the force and threw it at the droid Gray was fighting.

It hit the other Commando square in the back, knocking it forward. Gray made an Ice Prison that trapped the droids. He then ice made a hammer and smashed the prison with the droids along with it. Right as he did that Sasha then flew past them heading right for the lake.

Sasha closed her eyes preparing for impact with the water. However, the landing was a lot harder than she thought it would be. She let out a gasp as she landed then skidded for about a foot. Whatever she landed on was cold. She opened her eyes only to realize that she landed on ice. She looked up to see Gray, squatting at the lake's edge. He turned part of the lake into ice just before she landed. Behind him though, loomed Grievous.

"Gray look out!" Sasha cried.

Gray didn't even turn as ice sprouted from left elbow and right fist. Suddenly, as if he was a dancer, he turned on his heel and slashed at Grievous. The droid general was taken by surprise as the blades of ice sliced up his armor. He then swung his lightsabers at Gray to back off. Cayden force pulled Gray back just in time for him to block Grievous' four sabers with his own saber. Gray slid back onto the ice. Sasha got an idea.

"Cayden! Get him on the ice!" Sasha cried back.

Cayden knew what she was thinking, and force pushed Grievous back before leaping back onto the ice. Gray was on the same train of thought as they were and created ice skates on the bottom of his shoes. He also did the same for Sasha and Cayden. All three stood on the ice, looking back at Grievous. The droid general, who was clearly pissed, charged them. However, not in the way they imagined. Grievous put two of the sabers away and turned almost spider like with the way he was charging them on his hands and feet. The remaining two sabers were waving above his head.

"KRIFF!" Cayden cried.

"HE CAN DO THAT?!" Gray cried.

"Move!" Sasha shouted as she started to skate away.

The three of them skated out onto the lake as Gray continued to spread the ice.

"We need to break the ice around him," Cayden said as he was skating behind them.

"On it," Gray said.

Gray skidded to a halt and slammed his hands on the ice. The ice started to crack all the way to Grievous. It then broke away underneath him causing him to fall into the lake. Gray smirked. However, the water didn't keep him at bay for too long. Grievous grabbed the ice and started to pull himself up.

"Damn," Gray cursed as his teeth clenched.

Once Grievous was back up on the ice, Gray launched more ice at him and managed to freeze the monster in place. Sasha and Cayden then skated closer with sabers held at the ready. They swung at the froze droid. However, even Gray's ice didn't hold him. Grievous shattered the ice sending Sasha and Cayden backwards into the lake.

"Sasha! Cayden!" Gray cried. He snarled. "Alright that's it. No more holding back."

Gray summoned two ice swords and charge Grievous, who now was weaponless.

"Ice Make Unlimited: One Sided Chaotic Dance!" Gray cried as he used the duel ice swords and all his ice magic to stop Grievous.

An endless amount of ice, attacked the droid general bring him to his knees. Once the ice settled, Grievous was nothing more than scraps of droid. Gray huffed and puffed as he turned to face him. Gray readied himself for one final attack when….

"FIRE DRAGON ROAR!" A voice cried.

Suddenly a wall of flames blew down from the sky and attacked the spot where Grievous was. It also melted the ice and Gray fell into the water. When Gray resurfaced, he looked up to see a smiling Natsu and Happy flying up above.

"DAMN YOU, FLAME BRAIN! HE WAS MINE!" Gray raged.

"Hehe, too slow stripper!" Natsu gloated.

"COME DOWN HERE AND SAY THAT TO MY FACE!" Gray shouted practically freezing the ice all around him and shaking a fist at Natsu.

"Brrrrr, why is the water cold?" a voice said to Gray's right.

He looked to see Sasha, shivering. He calmed down and the ice around him disappeared, warming the water back up.

"Are you okay?" Gray asked concerned.

"Yeah, I'm okay," Sasha said. "Where's Cayden?"

As if on cue, Cayden emerged from the water.

"Are you guys okay? Where did Grievous go?" Cayden asked as he swam over.

"I blew him away," Natsu said above them with a grin.

"Yeah, after I brought him to his knees!" Gray said as a vein in his head popped out in anger.

"He's still alive," Sasha said.

"Huh?" both wizards said confused.

"I can still sense him. You didn't kill him, but you definitely defeated him," Sasha said.

"Well if he is still alive," Gray said. "Then why don't we go after him?"

"He has to get out of this lake to escape," Sasha said. "Let's get over to the others and then we can worry about how to capture him."

Gray nodded.

"Ice Make Boat!" Gray said and an ice boat appeared.

Gray climbed aboard. He then reached in and gave a hand to Cayden then both boys aided Sasha in. Natsu came up behind the boat and grabbed the edge.

"Hang on!" Natsu said.

The fire dragon slayer shot fire out of his feet and the boat took off like a rocket toward the others. However, the power he gave was too much and he didn't slow down in time.

"LOOK OUT!" Erza cried.

The others leapt out of the way as the boat and Natsu crashed into the trees. They hung over logs and branches with their eyes rolling in their heads once they finally stopped. Everyone sighed in relief as they were all okay.

On the other side of the lake, Grievous crawled out. He was torn to bits by that Ice wizard, but if he hadn't jumped out of the way in time then he would have perished from the flames. He crawled back in the direction of his ship.

"This… is not over… Jedi scum…" Grievous snarled as he crawled. "I will defeat you… and those blasted wizards…"

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