*Keeps breathing* I'm alive…somehow. Time to write! I'm not sure if the fight here is going to be M or T rated in the end… Shit is really going down here…or flying up... O.O :P

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail. Only the OC's and this story.

Have fun reading ^_^)/

Chapter 25 – Going down or Flying up!

Zero smiled wickedly. He caught Natsu's fist with his bare hands and kicked Natsu a couple meters back. The Fire Dragon Slayer landed on his feet. Gajeel, Wendy standing next to him while Happy, Charle and Lilly were flying in the air above them.

'I have waited for this, Natsu…Show me…! SHOW ME YOUR POWER! THIS IS THE DAY… That I will defeat you!'

'Huh, I like to see you try,' said Natsu with a cocky grin. He stretched his arms and raised his right hand in front of him. On his fingertips was the word 'Come on' visible in form of his own flames.

'I'M ALL FIRED UP!'

-0o0-

Flemeth cursed. Her wounds were maybe healed, but her magic had received a fierce blow from that fight with that noisy Lightning Dragon Slayer. She had no moment for rest, thought. Fairies were flying her way in the hope to save their comrades. They were faster than she had anticipated. Time was ticking and parts of her defenses were a mere bluff. All her research had let her, to her final creation, the demon core. She had no doubt about the function, but it was the first time they were going to be used in the battlefield.

Flemeth was lying on her bed and started to concentrate. Her body was emitting a soft purple aura. She blinked a couple times and noticed the screens in front of her. She was now in her mind, controlling and seeing everything her minions saw. From the twelve images that were bestowed in front of her, were eight images still black. Five of those were from Lucy's spirits. Even if she was controlling them, the time difference between the Human Realm and the Celestial Realm made it impossible for her to make the connection. Maybe the images are going too fast for a human mind to comprehend or something…or someone in the Celestial World was interfering her. She know just the person…The Celestial King…

Flemeth had heard about him and even had seen him in the memories of Lucy. If her calculations were right…and only if…then she has nothing to fear of the all-powerful spirit. The Celestial King can't enter the Human Realm as he wish. He had only entered the Human World through the magic of The Maiden of the Stars. First time was when Lucy had been knocking on the Celestial World's door with her magic to save Leo and the second time was also by her magic, while breaking the key of Aquarius. The King needed enough magic and the link of powerful Celestial Mage to enter the Human Realm.

When Flemeth knew that, she took a gamble. Celestial Magic is about rules. Flemeth was no Celestial Mage and the spirit's mind are out of her reach in the Celestial Realm, but what if she took control of the keys? The spirits mind and very souls were in those keys and it was the only link the spirits had with earth. Flemeth had created a ritual and it had worked. The spirits who were bounded with the keys are now under her control and because the keys are bounded to earth it is also out of the reach of the Celestial King. It was still a gamble and hopefully would her gamble pay off.

Flemeth saw how Lucy and Laxus had made their first encounter. Sherria was on guard outside her room and an image of herself staring at the ceiling. Three more possible minions at her disposal. Should she take the risk? That she is able to control three more, was not the problem here. It was her limit of magic. The duration of the battle and the unknown amount of enemies. Maybe three was too risky, but one extra minion, couldn't hurt much. She rose her hand and purple magic was emerging from it, forming a butterfly. 'Just one extra mind,' said Flemeth with a grin on her face. The butterfly flew up and left Flemeth's mind, flying into the battlefield.

-0o0-

The flare in the sky had send a clear message to their guild members. Lucy and Laxus had been found and they are being controlled. They had a plan, but they needed the other group to set things into motion. They had split up, to set more ground. The flare was the sign, that they had found their objective. Now it was up to the team who had found the objective to survive and to not get too badly hurt before the others arrive.

Lucy, Laxus and the group of Gray stood there silently, watching each other carefully, waiting for the unavoidable. Laxus stood there with the clothes he had on the day before he disappeared. The only difference was the extra holes in his shirt. His jacked hanging on his shoulders. Lucy had different clothes on, clearly from the Celestial Realm. Her blue shirt with white and golden stars were completely covering her arms and chest, while her white skirt was barely covering her ass. Her keys and Fleuves d'étoiles were locked into her white belt. Her outfit was finished by some black brown combat boots.

They looked maybe completely fine on the first glance, but some clues of unwashed hair and marks they haven't had a good rest was visible for anyone who could see them. The moment of silence had felt only for a second. Finally, Laxus had made the first move and charged with lightning speed towards Evergreen. Evergreen eye's widened, by the speed of the attack. There was no doubt in Laxus's attack, it was full murder intent. He wasn't holding back and Laxus really wanted to kill her. Everything happened so fast for Evergreen to respond. The only thing she could do was embrace herself for the impact. However, a large body made of green scales ran before her and had caught Laxus's Lightning Fist.

Evergreen's mind felt frozen. Pain, disbelieve and fear was filling her head. Laxus…Their Master…Her friend, she had known for more than ten years, had tried to kill her. She had seen him in pain, in anger, in disgust. She had seen him in his struggles, but nonetheless they had followed him. She had seen him fall and rise. After years she was finally able to detect a smile on his face and just a couple days ago she had finally seen him in love…But now…that person had tried to kill her. Really kill her…and he could… Evergreen looked up when she noticed blood falling on the ground. Then reality was hitting her. She is still alive. Someone had protected her. The large body made of green scales was from a man she had learned to love more than anyone.

'Elfman!' Evergreen screamed.

Elfman stood before her in his Lizardman form and was still trembling by the impact. Electricity was crawling around his green scales and blood was coming out of his mouth. The pain was immense, but he was glad he was on time. His reaction and instinct had saved Evergreen's life. The force behind that attack would have killed her… Lizardman had the highest defense of all the Beast Soul he had. The highest defense on the outside….On the inside, however, he could feel the damaged that had been inflicted on his organs by Laxus's lightning. Blood had started to leek from his mouth and he smiled, while he looked down at his hands. Laxus's fist was now stuck in his hands. Laxus tried to pull his hand back, but Elfman was using all his power to keep Laxus into place. He knew that Laxus could teleport away in any seconds, but the surprise effect could give his team enough time to make the best out of the situation.

Gray had seen how Elfman was able to catch the fist of Laxus with his body and he knew what he had to do. He placed his fist in his other hand and his magic started to form. 'Ice Make: Pillar!' yelled Gray.

Ice were forming on the ground and charged his way towards Laxus. In a second before impact, a wall of wool started to form before Laxus and took the impact of Gray's attack. The wool wall changed into ice and broke into million pieces on the ground. Gray looked up and saw Lucy standing with a golden key in her hand. Gray cursed. The whole neutral pose of Aries had giving him all the information he needed. Flemeth could even control Lucy's spirits. Aries was standing next to Lucy with her hands secure next to her body. No sound of 'I'm sorry' had left her mouth.

Elfman saw that Gray had failed and knew now that his life was in danger. He looked at Laxus closely and noticed how electricity was building up around Laxus's body. He released Laxus's hand and jumped a couple meters back. Elfman flinched, when he felt the pain of his damaged organs.

'Elfman,' said Evergreen worried. She looked at Laxus, while pulling her glasses of her face. Laxus knew what was coming and used his Lightning Form to escape her vision. When Evergreen had lost sight of him, he knew he could safely charge at her. Elfman saw Laxus's Lightning Bolt attack and wanted to jump in between them but fell with one knee on the ground. The pain was too much and there was no time for him to save Evergreen now.

'Evergreen! LOOK OUT!' Elfman yelled in desperation.

Wings became visible on Evergreen's back and she jumped into the air to dodge the Lightning Bolt. Her eyes widened when she noticed that the lightning had changed direction towards her. The lightning was faster than her wings could carry her.

'Water Cyclone!' yelled Juvia

Water in form of a cyclone had interrupted the attack. Evergreen took advantage of the interruption and flew back towards Elfman's side. Laxus smiled and launched another Lightning Bolt attack, but this time it was focused on Juvia. She took her stands and raised both of her arms.

'Water Nebula!' Two columns of water shot from her hands and collided with the lightning, but her water got vaporized by Laxus's attack.

Gray made his stance next to her and his fist went to his other hand.

'Ice Make: Shield.'

His arms stretched wide into the air and a large shield of ice had formed in front of Juvia and Gray. Lightning crashed into the ice shield. Little cracks were forming and a large explosion had followed it. In result, Gray and Juvia were pushed back a couple meters, by the force of the impact. Both were able to keep standing on their feet and prepared themselves for the next attack. Juvia looked suddenly at her right when she noticed some movement. Lucy was running towards them with full speed in her Taurus form, ready to attack.

'Gray-sama!' yelled Juvia in warning.

Gray who was standing next to Juvia was looking at his right, but saw too late what was coming for him. The punch of Lucy went right through Juvia's Water Body and made contact with Gray's face. The Ice Mage flew into the air blasting right through a couple of trees, before he finally could hit the ground.

He cursed behind his teeth when blood was flowing from a wound of his head. His body felt numb for a couple seconds, due to the impact and his head was started to pound. A lot had happened, but he wouldn't be surprised if his team had endured for only two minutes. They needed the other team to survive this. His team wasn't made to fight Laxus. Evergreen and Juvia would have died if it wasn't for Gray's and Elfman's protection. Juvia is made out of water and Evergreen strongest point isn't her defense. They are outmatched right here. The biggest issue here is that Laxus and Lucy weren't holding back. Their punches are made to kill someone. If they hadn't been mages in the first place, then they had lost the match on the first contact. Furthermore…there was something…off. Laxus and Lucy are responding too well towards each other, like they know what is going on, on the battlefield. Like they can see and know what the other is going to do. That is only possible if they had trained years and years with each other. Knowing each other weaknesses and each other strengths. He had trained a year with Juvia, but still their timing is still sometimes off. In Lucy and Laxus case that is impossible as far as Gray know. He doesn't have much knowledge about Mind Magic, but he was guessing it was because of that. It was the only explanation he could find why Lucy and Laxus were working so well with each other, like they were a one-man's army. One person was controlling them and knew were the other was. The linking part wasn't a good thing. The possibility of capturing their friends is therefore getting smaller. You can maybe surprise one person in their blind spot, but if the other can fill that blind spot up…then the surprise moments are limited.

Although, in the end, this new information wouldn't change their plan. It made their plan only more difficult to execute. They had wanted to separate Laxus and Lucy from the start. Firstly, because Laxus is already a powerhouse on his own. It is already hard enough to handle him alone, let's stand if Lucy would help him. Secondly, because Lucy was the support type of mage and then in a very annoying kind of way. She could react fast to the surrounding, knowing what kind of spirit she needed to use to change the situation into their hands. And because of her spirit, she was able to form Unison Raid with most of the mages.

Gray's train of thoughts were interrupted when he saw lightning charging at him. He stood up and grabbed at his head. His vision became blurry and the pounding of his head had become worse. 'Shit,' mumbled Gray.

Nonetheless, he placed his fist in his hand ready for the unavoidable, when suddenly Erza had made her stance before him, ready to receive the blow. She had her Adamantine Shields in her hands, while her body was emerged in her Lightning Empress Armor. The lightning crashed into the shield and only a small scent of melting metal was able to reach Gray his nose. Erza opened her arms and didn't even pay attention to the slight glowing shields in her hands, keeping her eyes on the enemy. If it wasn't for her Lightning Empress Armor, she definitely would have taken some damage. No matter how high her armor defenses are, her armor is still made out of metal and metal can conduct electricity towards her body. The shield was there only to divide the force of the electricity in an equal amount, so that her Lightning Empress Armor could absorb Laxus's Lightning in a more friendly matter.

Erza was checking her surroundings. Laxus was standing straight in front of her with lightning crawling around his body and Lucy with Aries were on her right. Gray and Elfman were wounded. Gray had probably a light conscious while the damage on Elfman was unknown. The amount of sweat on his face and the amount of blood he was coughing, made it clear that Laxus was able to hit him with full force.

'Erza!' said Gray.

'Sorry, I came as fast as I could. Are you ok, Gray?'

'Nothing to worry about…the others?'

'They are coming this way,' said Erza.

-0o0-

'She is really Titania,' said Sebastian laughing sheepishly. At the moment they had seen the flare, was the moment Freed had given the go for Erza to run before them. It was a smart move. Every second could be fatal and knowing the teams. That team could use some little help.

Sebastian, Leoric and Freed were still running towards the flare, knowing that it would take another five minutes for them to reach their destination. Leoric looked up noticing the difference of energy behind some trees before them. 'We are about to enter Flemeth's domain. Without a Mind Mage to cover us, she will know that we are here,' said Leoric.

Sebastian got a chill on his spine when Leoric words were finally reaching him. There were about to run in the domain of a lunatic. TWO lunatics….He really didn't wanted to be here, but Rose and Tyler were in danger. Stupid Rose…stupid Tyler. Leaving their friends and family behind for the so justice of themselves. He understood they wanted freedom. Hell he wanted freedom. He had fought for it in his own way. Helping other families under the leadership of Doranbolt. He wanted to live his own life and Doranbolt could give him that. This was a fight they needed to win. It wasn't the fight that was frightening him the most. It was the knowledge that he had a Sandman Minion of Flemeth in his head. Bickslow had found it, saying that he found it weird that Sebastian had two souls in his body. Leoric was Sandman Minion free apparently…something to do that he is actually undead…just his luck…Was that a reason for him to chicken out…uhm yes. A big YES, but Leoric guy here had convinced the others that they needed him. His powers could neutralize powers. Leoric needed him to keep himself in check. Had Sebastian tried his powers on himself, to neutralize that Sandman Minion? DUH of course! Unfortunately, like Bickslow said it is a soul. It is part of Flemeth's soul that is in his mind…It isn't just magic. That makes her the most dangerous human, maybe second to Zeref, in the world. Flemeth wasn't a person you should mess around with.

The idea of him entering her domain, that she could just control him in a snap…that…that was frightening him. Sebastian was looking at his gun on his hip. An Electric Paralyzing gun…A gun he is going to use when Flemeth want to control him. Not the most pleasant feeling, although, that is still better than to be controlled by a lunatic.

Leoric looked at his left, noticing a familiar magic. 'Rose?' he whispered.

Sebastian noticed how Leoric was slowing down. 'Leoric? What are you doing?' asked Sebastian.

Leoric looked at Sebastian. If he was going to tell him that he maybe had found Rose, then Sebastian would definitely follow him. Fairy Tail needed his power in this fight. Fear took over him. What if he was going to lose control and Sebastian isn't around? What was his part in Fairy Tail's plan? He could only absorb others magic into his own and he only knows how to kill people…Fairy Tail loves their guild members…In no way is he going to use his powers against them. He wanted his wife back. He wanted to bring Melanie's mother back home. If he needed to kill Zero and Flemeth in the process, then he probably would do it.

Memories of his past victims were playing inside his head. Their screams, their pain…If it was Zero or Flemeth…He probably would do it.

He had found Rose, but something was wrong. Rose's magic is so small…Sebastian was still looking at him with a confused face.

'Go ahead of me, I need to check something,' said Leoric while he took a sharp turn to the left.

'What! Leoric wait!' yelled Sebastian and cursed when Leoric was already a couple meters away from them.

Freed looked at scene behind him. 'Do you trust him?' asked Freed towards Sebastian.

'Huh, what do you mean?'

'Will he return for us?'

'Yes,' responded Sebastian without any doubt.

'Then keep moving, we can't lose any more time,' said Freed with no emotion on his face.

'Yes, sire!'

-0o0-

'They are coming this way,' said Erza, while changing one half of her shield into a sword that was part of her Flame Empress Armor. 'Elfman? Can you still fight?'

Elfman stood up, having trouble keeping his balance. 'Yeah.'

'You are out of your mind! You are in no condition to fight!' screamed Evergreen, trying to keep Elfman stable on his feet.

'A man knows when he needs to fight,' said Elfman with a grin on his face.

'Erza, it's going to be harder than you think,' said Gray. 'This Flemeth person, who is controlling them, knows where the other is. Lucy, Laxus and Aries are fighting now as a one-man's army. There are hardly any blind spots.'

Erza nodded in understanding. 'More the reason we need to split them up. I handle Laxus, you four will go for Lucy and Aries.' Erza started to run towards Laxus at the moment the word Aries had left her mouth. Fire had surrounded her Fire Empress Sword and she swung her sword towards him. Laxus stepped to the right, dodging her sword and pounded his fist into Erza's direction. His fist was easily caught by her Adamantine Shield.

Lucy ran towards Gray's direction, still in her Taurus Form. Evergreen looked at Elfman, who she was still supporting to keep his balance. Elfman nodded in understanding. Evergreen let him go and started to run, ready to fly. Aries jumped before her. Evergreen was caught of her guard and her foot got stuck in Aries's Wool. More wool was shot out from Aries's hands and just like that was Evergreen, except for her head, completely covered in pinkish wool.

'Iiieel, what is this?' asked Evergreen in disgust. It felt like her hair was stuck in pink gum. In no hell is she going to lose her long beautiful hair. She tried to get free, but the wool was not only sticky but also strong.

'Evergreen!' yelled Elfman while he pushed his pain away, so that he could move. Aries blasted some more wool towards Elfman. He punched the wool out of his way and looked surprised when he noticed that some wool was sticking on his arm. More wool got stuck on his body and slowly he noticed how hard it got for him to move, until he was completely stopped. His whole body was covered in pinkish wool. Aries stood before them, keeping her concentration on the wool, to make sure it didn't lose any strength.

Gray had dodged Lucy's fist and looked at the crater, which had formed into the ground. 'Oy oy, you got to be kidding me,' said Gray surprised. He hadn't seen her fight in a year and even the description Evergreen had given them, wasn't in comparison, what he was seeing now. This almost felt like Erza 2.0. Lucy had jumped before Gray and was ready to attack him again. Gray smiled. 'No time to hold back, huh… Now Juvia!' yelled the Ice Mage.

Water was forming before him and caught Lucy's fist. This time it wasn't pushed out of Lucy's way by its force, this time the water emerged around Lucy's body. Keeping her into place. Lucy looked at the water and noticed Juvia's head coming out of it.

'Love-rival maybe had surprised Juvia, but this time you will not be able to go through Juvia's Water Body that easily,' said Juvia confidence. Juvia's body was now completely covering Lucy's body. It didn't matter how much Lucy tried to punch the water off of her. The water was responding like a second layer around her body, controlling the strength of Lucy's body and in this case also concealing Lucy from any oxygen. The Celestial Mage was already grabbing at her mouth. Her lungs were starting to burn, hungering for air.

Aries responded to that and knew that if Lucy was getting unconscious that she would disappear too. The spirit turned around and ran towards Lucy. Evergreen smiled, when she noticed that the strength of the wool around her had gotten less and she saw her chance.

'Elfman, embrace yourself,' said Evergreen with a mischievous smile.

Elfman, still in Lizardman form, had no time to respond. Little needles made out of light had formed above him and was shot at the pinkish wool. The wool got shredded and Elfman was able to move. He ripped the last pieces of wool from his body and walked towards Evergreen. The Fairy Mage did the same with the wool around her body and let Elfman remove the leftovers….there was only one little problem…

'AU! Elfman stop it! You are ripping my hair of my head!' Evergreen turned around and wanted to hit Elfman with her fan, but stopped when she remembered in what kind of condition he was in.

'Sorry…It's not getting lose…' Elfman didn't know what to do. He knew Evergreen was angry and even if his own hair was in the same situation, he didn't really cared about it as much as Evergreen. He would regret it for saying it, but if the wool wasn't going off and washing wasn't going to help either.

Evergreen pulled on the sticky pinkish wool in her hair and saw there was no way for her to remove it.

'You can wash it or…maybe we need to cut… those parts of your hair off.'

'Cut it!...CUT IT. MY BEAUTIFULL HAIR!' Screamed Evergreen with rage. 'Do you know how long it will take before my hair gets back to this length again?!' Evergreen turned and looked at the spirit who had almost reached Lucy. She jumped and flew in Aries's direction.

'Unforgivable! Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun!'

Evergreen had waved her arm and released torrent of energy needles towards Aries. Through the eyes of Lucy, was Aries able to respond. The spirit turned around and placed a wall of wool before her. The wool was able to absorb the needles. The wool could protect her, but the wool wall gave her a downside. Evergreen flew low, knowing that the wall was covering her. She flew around the wall on the left with massive speed, already with her glasses in her hand. Aries eyes widened. She was too late to respond and she turned into stone.

Erza had noticed that Laxus focus had changed. She was able to block his attack that was directed to Evergreen a couple times, but she knew it was a matter of time before his speed was getting the better of her.

Juvia felt a little bit sorry, but she had to do this. The only way to stop Laxus's and Lucy's attack was to make them unconscious or to trap them in one of Freed's runes. Lucy knew how to rewrite runes, so making her unconscious was the only way. They had heard about Lucy's new powers. Heaven's Gate was one of them. As long as Juvia's body was like a second skin around her Love-rival's body, then it was hard for Love-rival to teleport to her own realm.

Gray was glad that Evergreen had handled Aries, now his only focus was Laxus. Erza was amazing in keeping him in line, but every mage had their own specialty. He kept on guard and tried to follow the battle in front of him.

Erza kept her adamantine shield in her hand. She was maybe less effective in attack, but she needed to absorb Laxus's lightning no matter what. There was a moment of silence in their fight. Laxus stood still and Erza kept staring at him, waiting for Laxus's next move.

'L...l-lucy…' whispered Laxus.

Erza's eyes widened. Laxus spoke! Was that the real Laxus, or was that Flemeth playing with her mind. Dragon scales were getting visible on Laxus's skin and dark clouds were forming above them.

Gray noticed the change. 'Elfman, Evergreen, stand ready to defend Juvia!'

The ground under Laxus's feet had started to grumble. "Here it comes," thought Erza. Laxus changed into his Lightning Form and made his way around Erza. "So fast!" The equip mage changed her Flame Empress Sword into her Lightning Empress Spear and threw the spear towards Laxus.

Gray stood on guard and was already placing his fist in his other hand, ready to make a shield. Evergreen, Elfman and Gray was standing guard between Lucy and Laxus, unknown what was happening behind them.

The keys on Lucy's hip was starting to shine. Virgo and Loke had forced their way through their own gates. Gray and Elfman fell into a hole, made by Virgo, while Evergreen was kicked in her back by Loke. Laxus went straight to Lucy. Loke had vision of the spear that was thrown into Laxus direction. The Lightning Dragon Slayer flew up, dodging it. The spear reacted to Laxus's lightning and was pulling on Laxus Lightning Form, absorbing his lightning. The Dragon Slayer looked at the spear that was pulling him in and fired a couple Lightning Bolt around the spear. The pull towards him disappeared and he made his way towards Lucy.

'Damnit,' said Erza knowing they had failed.

Laxus caught Lucy with enormous speed, while keeping Lucy's small body safely against his chest, protecting her by the sudden change of speed. Juvia couldn't hold the grip and she needed to let Lucy go. The moment they were separated, had Laxus charged a Lightning Bolt from above towards Juvia. The Water Woman screamed when Lightning was going through her body. She fell unconscious on the ground.

Gray had made his way out of the hole by filling it with ice and saw how Juvia was falling on the ground. 'Juvia!'

He made his way towards the water mage. He laid his finger on her neck, to make sure she was still alive. He felt some assurance when he was able to feel her heartbeat. 'She is alive,' he whispered towards himself. 'She is alive.'

He looked around him and noticed how Evergreen was carrying Elfman out of the hole. Both with a slight defeated look in their eyes. They had a moment…They had a moment to take Lucy partly or completely out of the fight and they had blown it up. Just because Flemeth is controlling the spirits, doesn't mean that they couldn't come to the Human Realm on their own.

Laxus was flying in the air with Lucy in his arms, giving her time to catch some breath. Lucy breathing was heavy and her whole body was completely wet, but Laxus's Lightning wasn't hurting her.

Erza grabbed her spear in her hand from the ground and looked at Laxus, who was still flying in the air. Loke stood right under them, while Virgo appeared out of the ground and taken her place next to him. Laxus looked at Lucy in his arms and finally turned his head towards Fairy Tail.

'L...l-ucy…' Laxus whispered again.

Lucy looked up. Laxus started to emit a purple glow. 'L...l-u…' Were Laxus last words, before his mouth turned into a devilish grin.

Evergreen gasped by the words she just had heard.

'Laxus-sama,' said Evergreen, unknown what just had happened.

'So I wasn't hearing things…,' said Erza with a straight face.

'What was that about?' asked Gray irritated, with Juvia in his arms.

'Laxus-sama is still there. Laxus-sama can you hear us!' yelled Evergreen in desperation. She wanted to fly towards them.

'Elfman stop her!' Commanded Erza.

Elfman rushed towards Evergreen and grabbed her arm. 'Evergreen stop! Look at his eyes, what you heard was a trick! Flemeth is still controlling them!' screamed Elfman while stopping Evergreen for going any further.

Evergreen looked at the empty eyes of Laxus while the Dragon Slayer's grin was still visible on his face.

'I don't care! They are our friends, our family! They are still there! You have heard him, just like me! He is there!' Tears were forming in Evergreen's eyes. She wanted this to stop. People have gotten hurt. Elfman had trouble to keep Evergreen in her place and he finally had pulled her in a hug.

Evergreen's body started to tremble and she knew she was an idiot, but she wanted to believe. She desperately wanted to believe that that was Laxus fighting for control.

'We get them back…don't worry, we get them back,' said Elfman while rubbing softly on Evergreen's back.

Evergreen eyes widened, when he heard the voice they wanted to save.

'How touching,' said Laxus.

Erza, Gray, Evergreen and Elfman looked up by his sudden voice.

'So this is the famous Fairy Tail? Is this…all you've got?' said Laxus with an evil grin.

'Or are you holding back, because of these…wonderful subjects,' followed Lucy while she was touching Laxus's chest up and down.

'Lucy,' said Gray in unbelieve.

'Are you in pain?' asked Loke with a mischievous smile.

'Or should I give you more?' asked Virgo with a grin of her own.

Erza noticed how the magical pressure was going up. The magic of Laxus and Lucy was combining.

'Unison Raid,' said Erza. She threw her spear towards Laxus, but it was kicked out of the air by Virgo. Erza started to run towards Lucy, but Loke jumped before her.

'Lion Brilliance.' Large amount of light was emitted from Loke's body. Erza needed to cover one part of her eye and blinked to keep her vision back. Virgo had used the time to kick Erza with force into a tree. In comparison with Laxus's strength, was Virgo kick lacking the power. Erza made a backwards summersault and she was able to land on the tree. Erza used the force of Virgo's kick to jump back up in the air and the Equip Mage needed to use all her power to stop Laxus's and Lucy's Unison Raid.

Two more members had finally reached the battle, but couldn't believe the scenery before them.

'Master Laxus-sama,' said Freed with his eyes widened when he took in the fight before him.

Lucy started her chant and a black gate had started to form above them. Wind was rising and black lightning was erupting towards the ground. Dark clouds were covering the sky and no one could tell if it was still day time.

All the stars that were lost

Open the Heavens to the wanderers

Claim the light of this realm

Open thy gate of the Blackness

Sebastian looked up and cursed. He ran towards a man who had an unconscious woman in his hand, while black lightening was charging at them. Sebastian stood before them and raised his arms. The black lightning evaporated into nothing.

Gray looked up and thanked the man, while he was trying to bring Juvia into safety.

He laid her down and saw how Erza was able to knock Virgo down into the ground. Only Loke was standing between her and Laxus's and Lucy's way. Lucy's right hand was folded in Laxus's left hand.

Dominate!

Unison Raid!

Erza punched Loke to the ground and used his body as a set up to come closer to the duo, but it was already too late.

Black gate!

'Take cover!' yelled Erza towards everyone who was standing on the ground. The Black Gate in the air shrunk and a black hole was formed. Enormous wind took Erza in mid-air towards the sky, with large blocks from the ground following her.

'ERZA!' yelled Gray.

Did you understood my hint at the start of this chapter: "Shit is really going down here…or flying up... O.O :P" I know, I'm mean to leave you guys here…come one just say it! I dare you. I double dare you! ;-)

Can I say that it is really exhausting to write a long action scene. My whole body is like POW PUNCH POW and the writing is going too slow, to follow that excitement from my own body. xD I see the images in my head, but I need to reread it so many times before the actions are going as smoothly as it should! MAN!

Hmm, Hmmmmm lets count. Four kinds of Fights, Rose part, Lisanna still looking for clues sandman minions. Uhm I'm guessing this story will be finished in 6-8 chapters. Q.Q Babies grow so fast. *Sniff* Maybe more, but it is a good guess.

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