Well here's the next chapter and there's definitely a lot of action in this one. We're also slowly heading to the end of this little story here. Wow, can't believe we got this far. Anyway... all I have to say for this is enjoy!
SulliMike23: Hope it was a good twist for you ;)
huishensiwang: Yes of course I have to hold up my title, but I promise to you that there won't be a cliffhanger in this chapter. I think after three of those you deserved a nice ending... well... if you see it as nice hehe
Luca: Yep Crystol's and Kera's soul are connected! That's why there wasn't just Kera or just Crystol.
Lucretia lashed out towards the red head. "Give that back!" She shouted ready to kill off the Requip mage with her magic.
"Natsu catch!" Erza shouted throwing the orb towards the pink haired Dragon Slayer before summoning a sword to block off Lucretia's attack.
Natsu ran back a few meters before jumping up and catching the soul orb. "Got it!" He shouted. Severina's eyes narrowed down as she saw Natsu holding the orb. "You little bastard, give it back!" She shouted thrusting her hand forward.
The pink haired wizard gasped as the air wasn't going into his body. Gritting his teeth he quickly threw the orb towards his friend. "L-Lucy!" he shouted.
The blonde's eyes went wide as she saw the orb heading straight towards her. She quickly took a few steps back before catching the soul orb with her hands. She stumbled slightly but still held the orb in her hands. She sighed slightly. "Got it!"
Lucretia growled slightly as she saw Lucy with the orb. Erza was holding her back and it irritated her. Couldn't they do one thing right without someone interfering!? In one of her hands dark magic collected, growing in power.
The woman kicked Erza in the knee making her hit the ground. With her hand she slammed the magic into the red head, sending her flying. Roaring the black haired woman send a black orb flying towards Lucy.
"Lucy!" Gray shouted seeing the attack. Lucy shrieked slightly before throwing the soul orb towards Wendy. The little girl saw this and quickly caught the orb. Severina tried attacking her next but the little girl was quicker. She had thrown the orb towards the blonde Dragon Slayer. "Sting!" She shouted.
Watching the orb fly yet again, Kera grabbed her head and pulled, almost ripping her hair out. "What the hell are you idiots doing!? That's my soul! NOT A BALL! STOP PLAYING CATCH WITH IT!"
Sting jumped up catching the orb in his hands and quickly rolled to the ground, avoiding a deadly attack that Lucretia had thrown towards him. He stood up right next to the brunette and quickly grabbed her.
Yet she resisted. "What the hell are you doing!?" She shouted trying to push him away, but Sting had other ideas.
"No time to explain." He said before suddenly pulling the brunette into a kiss. Yet again surprised she was paralyzed to do anything. Why did he do this anyway!?
Then she felt pain. She gasped pulling back and looking down. She saw Sting's hand against her chest. Wait… where was the…
Something flooded through her body and made her gasp in pain. Her knees went numb and she grabbed Sting by his shirt. "Whoa!" Sting called before catching the brunette so she wouldn't hit the ground.
He noticed that Kera was in pain, but why? Did he do something wrong? Oh god he hoped he didn't do anything wrong. He was just acting on instinct and… what if he had hurt her? What if he had dealt unnecessary pain to her?
He cradled Kera in his arms. "Come on Kera talk to me. Are you okay? What's wrong?"
Kera coughed gasping for air. She was clinging at her chest where he had pushed the soul orb into her. Sting was worried that he had done something wrong and it was clear on his face. She looked up at him catching his attention. "Kera is there anything I can do? Tell me where it hu…" He stopped when he was suddenly pulled into a deep kiss, this time him being surprised.
When they pulled back Sting noticed Kera's eyes turning from gold to her usual sharp green. The brunette smiled at him. "Thank you."
"WILL THE TWO OF YOU STOP MAKING OUT AND HELP US!?"
Both turned their heads and saw that it was Erza who had yelled at them. She was fending off Lucretia's attack with the help of Natsu but they were easily being pushed back, having to stay on the defensive. The woman was furious and looked about ready to kill.
Kera got back to her feet with the help of Sting. "You alright?"
"Oh yea, feel like this new magic energy is running through my body. It's amazing! Well not amazing that I had my soul ripped from my body, but you get what I mean." She said with a huge grin on her face. The blonde Dragon Slayer chuckled.
They're old Kera was back.
A loud yell was heard and they watched Gray being thrown across the room. They both flinched when they saw him crash into a wall and slump down. Sting turned to the brunette. "How are you? Can you still fight?" He asked.
Kera smirked. "Oh I can fight, I got this new amount of energy running through my body, it's unbelievable!"
Her eyes narrowed down, flashing gold for just a moment as she had her sight set on Lucretia. A grin formed on her lips. "We're going to end this right here and now."
Erza swung her sword upward, trying to block an incoming attack from Lucretia. Unfortunately for her, the magic attack missed her and hit the ground, blowing up as well. She jumped back trying to get out of the blast radius.
Lucretia suddenly dashed through the explosion right at the red head, surprising her. Erza felt pain in her stomach as the woman in front of her slammed her fist into her. She was about to retaliate but the force behind Lucretia's attack knocked the wind out of her. She was too slow…
Next she could feel another hit to her head, her vision going black for just a second. In that second Lucretia's hands started to collect black magic. Right when Erza regained her senses she thrust both her hands forward, the magic blasting right into the red haired mage sending her through a wall and out the building.
Erza wheezed as she hit the cold dead ground outside the building. Coughing and spluttering out blood she tried to get back to her feet, but the pain in her stomach and chest was giving her some difficulties.
The Requip mage saw Lucretia jumping out of the hole she just flew out. The black haired woman held a smirk as she walked towards her. Erza noticed the black wings on her back twitching slightly. Those wings are giving her an advantage… especially now that we're outside. If I could just get close to her…
Her thoughts were rudely interrupted by pain flaring up again. Lucretia's hand was spread out in front of her. "You my dear have been a thorn in our side for a very long time." Her eyes narrowed down at the red haired mage on the ground. "If you had just left things alone, if you had just accepted her disappearance and just let things be, we wouldn't be in this situation at the moment. But no, you had to go looking for her, you had to help her, you had to stop her from doing the wrong things."
Erza glanced up at Lucretia, but something behind her caught her eyes. Narrowing down slightly she saw Kera standing at the wall with Sting behind her, giving her some cover. Was she… collecting magic? For what?
Wait…
Lucretia was now standing right above her, giving her one hell of a glare. She looked like she was ready to kill, which she probably was. "This time, it's over for you." She said grabbing the red head by the neck and hoisting her up. Using her wings she flew up high into the air, tending to drop the red head to her death if needed. "Any last words before I kill you and drop you to your death?" She asked her grip tightening slightly.
Erza gasped but still a grin formed on her lips, confusing Lucretia. "In f-fact… I do… " Her eyes went down for a quick second. Oh crap we're high up... gritting her teeth she still held on. Here goes something.
A light surrounded her hand and before Lucretia knew it, the red head summoned a sword and stabbed it through her left wing. Lucretia let out a pained cry, before dropping the red head. Fear filled her as she was falling through the air. "KERA NOW!" She shouted. I hope I'm right about this… Her eyes went wide when she saw something white fly past her.
Lucretia gritted her teeth as she held her wing as she tried to settle down to the ground. "That damn bitch…" She sneered puling out the sword. She had stabbed the sword right through a nerve, giving her more difficulties to fly. It hurt like hell as well…
Her eyes almost popped out of her head when she saw a giant white Dragon headed straight towards her. "Oh shit…" she muttered. She could fell a hard force slam right into her, knocking her out of the air.
Meanwhile Erza was screaming as she fell through the air. She could see the ground coming closer and closer and knew this was going to end badly. This is not the way I wanted to go… She thought closing her eyes.
She hit something hard, but not as hard as the ground. At least that's what she thought… or it didn't hurt so much to die. Opening her eyes slightly she was immediately met with white… Was this heaven already? She wondered.
She blinked when she felt air hit her face and a roar was heard. "What the…" She muttered. Looking around she noticed that she was still in the air, but was on something white and scaly, that had a tail and wings…
"Kera?" She asked looking down at the Dragon she was riding on. She had a feeling that this was her little sister as a Dragon… at least she thought it was a Dragon.
The head at the front moved slightly and Erza could notice a small smirk plastered on her face. "You okay up there?"
Erza smiled as she sat on Kera's back. So she wasn't dead. Kera had caught her just in time. "Yea I'm fine. Thanks for catching me."
"Well I couldn't just let my sister be a pancake on the ground." The Dragon smirked at her again. Erza rolled her eyes simply, but then saw something coming at them. Her eyes went wide. "Uh Kera."
The brunette turned her head and saw Lucretia charging… no more like falling straight towards them. Erza cursed slightly knowing that she should have done a lot more damage to her wings. She was still able to fly…
"Hold on!" Kera suddenly shouted. Erza blinked slightly in confusion, but when she felt the brunette quickly move she immediately grabbed hold onto her. She did not want to fall off, especially at this height.
Kera flew around, smashing her tail against Lucretia sending her flying, but it seemed she was still able to catch herself, even if she had an injured wing. Lucretia growled. "You think a little wound will stop me!?" She shouted glaring at the two, especially at the person who caused the injury to her.
Lucretia raised her arms, black magic surrounding them, crackling like lightning. Kera gritted her teeth. This is not good… "Erza hold on!"
"Wait! Just let me… oh damn it…" The red head muttered as she clung to the Dragon. She could feel Kera diving down. She felt the black magic shooting above her head, nearly missing the two from being killed. The red head gritted her teeth. This couldn't get any worse.
Kera used her wings to fly around before charging straight at Lucretia, but she quickly got out of the way. While the woman was above her Lucretia sent a blast of dark magic towards the Dragon.
Erza saw the attack coming and growled. Not on my watch. Light surrounded her body and before anyone could say anything, lightning shot out hitting the black magic attack before it could even reach them.
Lucretia sneered as she saw her attack getting blown up. When the smoke cleared she saw Erza kneeling on the Dragon while one of her hands kept a hold on one of Kera's scales while the other one held a staff that was crackling with lightning. "You little…" Lucretia sneered.
"Erza you alright?" Kera asked, but Erza simply smirked. "I'm fine, I'll have your back."
Kera smiled, of course she would have her back. There was no doubt about that. "Thanks."
Lucretia growled. "No matter! You will both perish!" She shouted raising her hands up in the air yet again.
"Should we… you know… help them?" Gray asked as he glanced over at Sting. The two were watching the fight between Dragon and… well… Death Angel? Seeing Erza in her armor on Kera's back kind of looked like a Knight on a Dragon.
Well that was what the two were.
Sting smirked slightly. "Nah, those two can handle it. We on the other hand have to deal with Severina."
Gray waved his hand. "Natsu and the others are dealing with her. We got a breather at the moment."
"You sure about that?" Sting asked as he looked back to where the Fire Dragon Slayer was fighting Severina with the help of Wendy and Lucy. Juvia was on the side catching her breath still slightly injured from Kera.
Gray snorted. "Natsu's the best candidate to fight someone who can control your mind and mess around with it."
"How's that?" Sting asked.
"Because the idiot has nothing in it."
Sting had to laugh at that one but quickly got back on topic. "You might be right with that one but she's still powerful. We should help."
"Alright, whatever you say."
Kera let out a breath attack towards Lucretia, but the black haired woman easily dodged it. She flew up higher in the air, ready to dive into the Dragon, but lightning stopped her from coming any closer. She gritted her teeth as she saw Kera fly by with Erza on her back. That little… there's no chance I can get close to her. I'll just have to hit harder.
The Dragon slammed one of her claws into her sending her tumbling back again. Lucretia gritted her teeth before she had to block another attack. These damn persistent pests!
The next attack Lucretia dodged and flew up higher in the air. Erza being on Kera's back noticed her charging up an attack. "Kera!" She shouted catching her attention.
"I see it." She said getting ready to counterattack.
Lucretia grinned as her body started to surround itself with dark magic. She charged straight towards the pair. Kera was ready to strike back, but then she disappeared all of a sudden.
"What the…" Kera muttered. Where the hell did she disappear to?
Something caught Erza's eyes and immediately turned around. Her eyes went wide when she saw Lucretia only mere meters away. "Oh shit…" She muttered.
Kera saw it coming too late as well. Lucretia successfully slammed herself into Kera's side, knocking the red head down to her feet, causing her to slide around. The red head gritted her teeth as she slid down Kera's back, trying to catch herself, but she was having a lot of problems. She wasn't able to catch herself.
She groaned when she was able to finally catch herself on Kera's tail. She had almost fallen through the sky yet again.
Kera had to catch herself in the air after that sneak attack. She saw Lucretia giving her an evil smirk, but something else came to her mind. "Erza!?" She shouted trying to see where the red head was.
"On your tail!" She shouted trying to climb her way back up, which was not an easy task if she had to say.
"You're not getting out of this alive." Lucretia sneered.
Kera gritted her teeth. She could fight her but she knew Erza couldn't hold on. Ugh… she's going to hate me for this. "I'm sorry about this Erza!" She shouted.
Erza had finally gotten her upper body laying on the tail. She looked a little confused. "Sorry? Sorry for wha…" She suddenly screamed when she was flung into the air by Kera's tail. She flailed her arms around as she was flying through the air. "KERA!" She shouted… well half shouted half screamed. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
While the red head was being flung high up in the air, Kera charged straight towards Lucretia. The woman quickly dodged the attack and blasted magic into the Dragon yet again. Kera was flung back but quickly dashed towards her again.
Lucretia laughed. "You're not going to win!" She shouted collecting dark magic between her hands. Kera noticed that the magic was collecting fast and the magic power behind it was big. "Let's see how you can deal with this! Angel's Death!"
Kera's eyes went wide when the orb of dark magic grew bigger in size. She let out a breath attack trying to destroy it, but it did nothing. The attack blew up consuming Kera completely. Erza's eyes went wide. "KERA!"
Out of the ball of explosion a Dragon was smashed to the ground. She groaned, pain flaring through her body. Ow… Kera groaned again trying to move. Her head went up and saw Lucretia turning her gaze on the falling red head.
Gritting her teeth Kera tried to get back up on her feet, even though it was painful. "Don't… you… even… dare…" She sneered slightly. Her back started to glow… more importantly her wings started glowing. Using more of her energy her wings started to change. Instead of two normal wings she was now having four wings, a second pair laying on top of the others. Kera smirked feeling them around. "Hope this works…" With immense speed she dashed back up into the air.
Erza saw Lucretia heading straight towards her, so she quickly changed into Black Wing Armor so she could at least maneuver around the air without getting killed. She tried flying past the woman with her swords but Lucretia was faster than she expected.
Lucretia was able to dodge the swords before grabbing the red head from the back. With a sick smile she broke the wings of her armor before kicking her in the back sending her to the ground faster. Erza grunted before turning around and throwing both of her swords at her.
One sword passed her but the second one scratched her cheek. Lucretia growled as she felt the blood running down the side of her face. "You're going to pay for that." Moving her arms a seal appeared in front of her. "I hope you die painfully." She sneered.
The magic collected in the circle before being released straight at the red head. Erza gritted her teeth knowing she couldn't dodge this one. She raised her arms and braced for the pain.
Instead she felt something smash into her, but no pain.
Opening her eyes she could see a claw around her body. Turning her head she saw Kera flying up in the air holding her. Erza smirked. "You know I'm going to kill you after all this is over."
"Truthfully, I don't blame you." Kera told her. "But let's deal with this crazy psycho first and then you can go at me as much as you want."
Erza smirked. "Let's do this."
The red head was able to climb back on Kera's back, but still stumbled around. She noticed the change of her wings and raised an eyebrow. "Four wings? That's strange."
Kera looked down at Lucretia who was staying in one spot. "I think it gives me more maneuverability. You might want to hold on."
"And how do you expect me to do that?" She asked with a frown. "It's not like you have seatbelts or anything."
Kera flew above Lucretia, keeping the woman in her sight. "Use one of your lances and wedge it between my scales. It should hold and give you a place to hang on."
Erza's eyes went wide. "Are you crazy!? That might hurt you!"
"I can take it." She simply stated. Erza knew this wasn't a good idea, but it seemed the brunette wanted her to stay on her back. Deciding, even though reluctantly, she summoned a lance and stabbed it between a set of scales. If she remembered correctly, even the Dragon Slayers had troubles getting even a scale off of a Dragon during the Dragon Invasion. So these should keep a good hold on her.
Kera closed her eyes as she felt the slight sharp pain in her back, but quickly pushed it aside. "Ready?" She asked.
Erza nodded. "Ready."
The red head noticed the four wings spreading and got ready, keeping a hold on the lance. With incredible speed she dashed right straight towards Lucretia. Erza kept a tight hold on the lance with one hand while with the other she summoned her lightning staff again.
Lucretia smirked as she saw the Dragon coming straight towards her. "Oh, more fun." She created another seal in front of her, where magic started to collect again. The beam of dark magic was released straight towards the pair.
Kera quickly dived and dodged the attack with ease. Lucretia's eyes went wide as she saw her coming at her faster than before. Using her wings she flew back missing a sharp attack of her claws. Damn that was too close. She thought.
Turning her head she saw Kera flying away but she quickly followed her. "You're not getting away!" She shouted sending a couple of blasts towards them.
Erza used her lightning staff to destroy the balls of magic before they got too close. Every time Lucretia sent another blast of magic towards them, the red head used her lightning staff to destroy them before they made contact. If only one of those hit them it was all over.
Erza ducked a blast that had gotten a little too close for her liking. "Kera if you have a plan, now would be a great time to execute it!"
Kera tried to think of something that could help. Lucretia was on her tail and it was just time before she got in a lucky shot. At this speed I can't just stop and turn around… I just…
An idea popped into her head.
"It could work."
Kera's eyes went wide. "Crystol?" She asked shocked. So she was still with her and it seemed she was also fine. A smile formed on her lips. "Let's do this." She grinned.
Erza gave her a confused look. "Everything alright?"
The brunette grinned. "Hold on tight and if you fall I'll catch you."
"What the hell are you doing!?" Erza shouted but it was too late to wonder about it.
Two of her four wings moved, suddenly stopping the Dragon and almost throwing the red head off of her. At the same time the other two remaining wings, with the help of a little air magic helped her turn a 180 degrees stopping right in front of Lucretia, charging up a breath attack.
Lucretia's eyes went wide as she saw Kera suddenly turn around so quickly. She tried to stop herself, to use her wings to stop but it was too late. There was no way she could move, get out of the way… nothing.
"Oh fuc…"
She couldn't even finish her sentence as Kera blasted her breath attack at point blank causing devastating damage to Lucretia. The woman screamed out in pain as she was blasted to the ground, leaving a crater around her as the dust settled.
Meanwhile back up in the sky Erza couldn't believe it. Kera had shot Lucretia at point blank. That would have been painful, probably excruciating painful. A breath attack from a Dragon Slayer was already dangerous at long range, but to get hit by a breath attack from a Dragon at point blank.
Even though she hated the woman, there was a little bit of pity for her. Erza was just lucky she doesn't have to feel that attack ever in her life.
The red head smirked. "We did it Kera! Well… mostly you did but that was amazing!"
There was no answer.
Worry flashed across her face as she looked down at the Dragon she was still standing on. After that maneuver she was surprised that she was still on her. But now she wasn't responding to her. Was everything alright?
"Kera? Come on talk to me." Erza spoke again, but still she got no answer.
All of a sudden Kera started to glow and her body turned back to her normal size. In a matter of seconds the two were falling through the sky.
"Kera!" Erza shouted as she tried to catch her attention but the girl wasn't responding to a thing. She wasn't even moving, just falling through the air. Gritting her teeth the red head tried getting to her as she put her arms and legs together so she would be falling a little bit quicker.
When she reached the brunette, she grabbed her pulling her close to her body. Immediately she noticed that Kera was unconscious. She tried slapping her to get her awake but she wasn't responding at all. Erza turned her gaze down and noticed that they were getting closer to the ground.
While holding Kera with one arm she used her other arm to summon one half of her Adamantine Armor Shield. She held it beneath her hoping that her plan would work.
She held Kera closer to her as they hit the ground, the shield taking most of the impact. Erza groaned as pain flared through her body. She coughed slightly. "Never… flying… again…"
Erza turned her head to the unconscious brunette and grew worried. She moved slightly and tried to shake her. "Come on Kera. Come on, wake up." She grew worried when she still couldn't get any response out of her.
Her shaking grew rougher as the fear grew inside of her. "Come on Kera! Please wake up! Don't you dare leave me now!" She decide to slap her hoping that would work. She was not going to lose her sister again after finding her and getting her back to normal.
Hitting her against the cheek again she was able to get a groan out of the brunette. "Geez… stop yelling."
The red head smiled when she saw the loving green orbs she missed so much. For a moment they closed again but Kera groaned this time louder. "Ow…" She muttered opening her eyes again and looking up at the mage above her. "Ugh… can we go to a spa?"
Erza burst out laughing and pulled the brunette in for a hug, resting her head against hers. Kera gave a small chuckle, even if it hurt slightly. "I'm so glad you're back to normal." The red head whispered in her ear.
"Yea… me too." Kera said with a smile on her face.
Erza moved and helped the brunette back up on her feet. She looked like hell. Her hair was a mess and her clothes were ripped and dirty, scratches and bruises littered her body while some blood was smeared all over her as well.
"Could you do me a favor?" Kera suddenly asked as Erza put one of her arms around her shoulder. "Sure what is it?" She asked helping her walk back towards the ruined building.
The brunette sighed. "The next time I have such a stupid and idiotic idea knock some sense into my head."
Erza chuckled. "My pleasure."
And that's that! Lucretia is down for the count only leaving Severina left standing. Will the others have a chance to stop her? And what did you guys think about the fight? Good? Bad? Any comments? Also this time no cliffhanger for you guys. Let me know what you guys thought about this chapter!
Until next time!