Author's note: Alright! Time for the epic climax!

Chapter 25: Escape from the Isle

The cave began to rumble and shake, causing some small stones to fall to the ground before the quakes finally subsided. Gajeel blinked owlishly before looking around and spotting something; a small leak of water coming from the cave wall. This wasn't good.

"Gajeel!" he heard a voice call out to him. Gajeel looked to his left to find Levy, Mavis, Zeref and the rest of the crew making their way to the Fairy Tail, climbing up to the ship and meeting with him.

"LEVY!" he hollered before running to the lorist and kissing her passionately.

"You did it!" she cried after breaking apart from their kiss "You defeated Acnologia! It's over!"

"Wasn't easy either." Gajeel admitted.

"Now we can finally get out of here and just live happily!" Natsu smiled.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Gray suddenly spoke out.

"The hell ye mean ice nuts?" Natsu growled.

"Didn't ye feel that rumbling earlier?" Gray asked "That didn't sound so good."

"I'm with the stripper on that one." Gajeel suddenly spoke out. He pointed his finger at the cave wall and pointed to the leak "Anybody noticed that? Looks like it's leaking."

"Any idea what it could be?" Lucy pondered out loud.

"Only one way to find out." Natsu smirked. He jumped off the Fairy Tail and made his way over to the leak in the wall. He held out his hand and made a small cup, allowing the liquid to touch his hand, drenching it. Natsu took his hand to his mouth and tasted the liquid before spitting it out.

"It's sea water!" he hollered "Definitely sea water!"

"Sea water?" Mira realized "If it's sea water... than that means-"

"The Isle is getting ready to move again." Zeref finished, causing a horrific silence among everyone.

"I-it's getting ready to move?!" Erza hollered.

"This is what it does." Mavis explained "The Isle moves from place to place by sinking itself and rising from the waters. Zeref and I originally came here to escape from the public eye, our love was considered forbidden in the pirate world. We went here to start a life here and never be found."

"But what about the fact it sinks?!" Cana pointed out the obvious "Didn't ye think it was going to cause some problems?!"

"We would've used Mavis's magic to handle that." Zeref shrugged.

"Seriously though," Gajeel suddenly growled out "how long do we have until we're under the fucking water?!" Mavis calculated the answer in her head before finally coming up with something.

"About three hours." Mavis surmised.

"We need to evacuate." Levy said "If we don't, we're going to drown!" Gajeel thought for a moment before deciding what to do next.

"Oi, Captain Mavis, Captain Zeref!" he hollered to the two legendary Pirate Lords "Get yer crews together and help us out. We got some prisoners on the front of the isle that need to be brought on board, also get them to help get the treasure on board. Once everything's settled, get everyone on board and we get the fuck outta here!" the Lords nodded to Gajeel, realizing his strategy and made their ways to their respected crews.

"Alright ye bildge rats of the Metalicana!" Gajeel hollered "Help Zeref and Mavis's crew out and get the damn treasure into the ship! We need to dig this ship outta the treasure and into the river and get the hell outta here!"

"YES CAPTAIN!" the Metalicana's crew hollered before splitting up and getting to work.

An hour past and the Metalicana's crew took buckets they found on board the Fairy Tail, dug it into the mountain of treasure, passed it to each member and poured it into the ship. Gajeel and Levy helped Mavis and Zeref prepare the ship for sailing by checking the sails, hoisting the anchor, doing everything they can before joining the others in putting the treasure into the ship. They also tossed Acnologia and Jose's corpses off the ship since it was the best way to get rid of them.

Jellal decided to help Erza out with carrying some of the treasure chests that were skewn around the pile of gold and jewels, they eventually got all the chests into the ship and joined the rest in getting the gold into the ship.

Two hours passed and about half the collection of treasure was in the ship. Another cave rumble occurred and they looked to see the seawater sinking in even further to the cave.

"STEP ON IT!" Gajeel hollered "We gotta get outta here!" the crew's pace doubled and before he realized it, he was witnessing a golden aura surround a good chunk of the gold and place it into the ship. Mavis was using her magic and getting all the gold into the ship.

The ship was finally dug out of the gold and soon landed in the nearby riverbed. The pirates lined up into the ship and made it to the main deck, prepared for the next step.

"How long until this place collapses?" Levy asked.

"Ten minutes." Zeref replied.

Bam!

They all looked over to find Mavis had collapsed on the deck.

"Mavis!" Zeref hollered in worry. He rushed over to her and helped her up.

"I-I'm fine." she coughed "I used too much magic. I haven't done that in years, the problem is we need magic to get us out of here. WIth my levels so low right now, we may not make it."

"Shit, we're done fer at this rate." Gajeel grumbled.

"We may not be." Mavis suddenly spoke out "Only option is to transfer ownership of the ship to ye Gajeel." Gajeel looked at her with shock.

"C-Can't that wait?!" he asked "Cant ye rest up and get us outta here?"

"No." Mavis replied "At this rate we'll be trapped. It's our only option."

"Bu-"

"Gajeel," Pantherlily looked to him "Ye can do this."

"He's right." Levy smiled "You can." Gajeel was hesitant hearing this but sighed, they didn't have time to argue.

"Fine." he spoked "I'll do it."

Zeref carried Mavis over to the helm and both Gajeel and Mavis placed their hands on the helm. A golden aura surrounded Mavis, Gajeel and the ship, causing everyone to look around in awe.

"Oh River of light and songs of Fairies. Hear my prayers!

I, Captain Mavis Vermillion do solemly decree that Gajeel Redfox will be the Captian of The Fairy Tail! Fairy Tail here me out! As my final decree, I order you to follow Gajeel's orders!"

The light shined brightly and brilliantly until finally dimished. Mavis collapsed in Zeref's arms and fell fast asleep. The cave began to rumble and the water levels were beginning to rise.

"ALRIGHT EVERYONE!" Gajeel hollered, now feeling the power of the ship coursing through his veins "LET'S GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!" The ship moved on it's own and Gajeel could feel as if he and the ship had developed a bond.

Go fast! he hollered in his head to the ship Get us outta here! Let me and me crew be able to cause chaos, and let me and the woman I love be together. As if the ship heard his pleas, it went faster and faster. Almost making it out of the cave, a rock that was falling from the ceiling almost hit the front entrance until the distinct sound of a KA-BOOM! could be heard. Natsu was at the cannon and looked in total shock.

"I didn't even have to fill it." he admitted.

The ship went faster and faster until finally reaching the outer world, just in time for the whole isle to sink into the ocean again.