Chapter XXVIII
Thoma was running all over Magnolia trying to find Laxus and along the way he ran into some members of Fairy Tail. Thanks to Freed's enchantments, Thoma was forced to defeat them.
"I'm sorry, but I must find Laxus and your in the way." Thoma said then used his Gravity Magic to easily defeat the members he ran into. "These enchantments of Freed's are getting annoying. After I defeat Laxus, I'm going to have a little chat with Freed and the Thunder Legion." Thoma continued then ran off to find Laxus.
Yui and Asuna arrived to where Thoma defeated the members shortly after.
"I believe Thoma was here." Asuna pointed out.
"It is likely." Yui said then walked over to a follow member who was still conscious, but unable to move and asked, "Did Thoma do this?"
"Yes he did." The member said.
"Where did he run off to?" Yui asked.
"He ran that way. Please you have to stop him before he finds Laxus. When he does and those two fight I have a feeling that Magnolia would get destroyed in the cross fire." The member said then passed out.
"He's right, if Thoma and Laxus fight, Magnolia and everyone will be is serious danger." Asuna said.
"I know that, which is why we have to hurry." Yui said.
Yui and Asuna then ran off where the member said Thoma went.
Back at the guild Happy, Natsu, and Makarov were reading who was fighting and Happy said,
"Looks like Thoma defeated three more members."
"I hope Yui and Asuna stop him before its too late." Makarov said.
"I know Thoma is strong, but how bad could it be?" Natsu asked.
"You don't get it Natsu. The way Thoma is acting right now, if he finds Laxus, the whole city and everyone in her will be in serious danger." Makarov said.
"Really!?" Natsu exclaimed in shock.
"Yes. Things will only get worst the angrier Thoma gets." Makarov said.
"Why is that?" Happy asked.
"Thoma isn't like normal wizards, for whatever reason he has an almost unlimited amount of potential. He doesn't know how to use this potential, but when he gets angry he unconsciously taps into this power and when he gets angry enough he transforms into a demon form, you've seen it before." Makarov explained.
"Then how do we stop him?" Natsu asked.
"Normally Thoma does a good job of keeping his anger in check, but when he needs help, Erza steps in and manages to calm him down, but when he transforms and won't listen to reason we have to beat him down." Makarov said.
"How many times has that happened?" Happy asked.
"Twice. The first time was in X783, Thoma got into a big argument with Laxus. They fought and Thoma transformed. Laxus managed to beat Thoma, but had a hard time defeating him. After that I had Laxus promise to keep it a secret. Then the second time was recently when you went to Akane Resort." Makarov said.
"Laxus had a hard time defeating Thoma!?" Natsu and Happy exclaimed.
"Yes and how things are going, I fear what will happened." Makarov said.
Then some new words came up and Happy read them,
"Thoma versus Yui and Asuna."
"Looks like Yui and Asuna managed to find Thoma." Natsu said.
"Let's hope that they can stop him." Makarov said.
In the city of Magnolia Yui and Asuna finally managed to catch up with Thoma.
"What are you doing Yui and Asuna? Step aside, I need to find Laxus." Thoma said with a low tone of voice.
"Not how your acting Thoma. You need to calm down." Yui said.
"I can't calm down! Not while Sis is in danger of being smashed to pieces!" Thoma shouted.
"And we'll save her, but with you acting like this, your putting everyone in Magnolia in danger." Asuna said.
Thoma grunted then in his head he heard The Master's voice,
'Its only a matter of time before everyone you love will die. Either by your own hands or by mine.'
"I will not let my friends die. I will protect them!" Thoma shouted.
"Who said anything about dying?" Yui and Asuna asked looking confused.
'Your too weak to protect anyone. You couldn't save Misao. You couldn't save Evvie. You will fail to save your dear little sister. You were born a failure and you will die a failure. Hahahahahahahaha.' The Master's voice echoed in Thoma's head.
"shut up. Shut up. Shut up!" Thoma yelled.
"We didn't say anything." Asuna.
"Looks like he's having a breakdown." Yui said.
"I'm not weak. I'll show you, I'll protect everyone from you and you'll see I'm not a failure." Thoma said picturing The Master standing in front of him.
'You are weak.' The Master said.
"Stop saying that!" Thoma exclaimed.
"Uhhh. Yui? Do you think we should stop him now?" Asuna asked.
"I think your right Asuna." Yui said.
Thoma turned to Yui and Asuna, believing them to be servants of The Master and said,
"Your Master sent you here to kill me? Well, your going to be the ones to die."
Thoma charged towards Yui and Asuna then jumped high into the air and came down with a kick.
"Heaven's Spear!" Thoma yelled as he came down.
Yui and Asuna manged to dodge Thoma's attack which caused Thoma to make a cloud of dust when he hit the ground. Asuna drew her sword and yelled,
"Ice Wave!"
Asuna slashed her sword towards Thoma and shot a little wave of ice. The attack made the dust go away and Yui and Asuna saw Thoma holding his sword and Asuna's attack getting absorbed into the sword.
"Won't work." Thoma said then stabbed his sword into the ground and yelled, "Ice Dragon Encroaching Fangs!"
Then ice started to cover the ground starting from the sword and moving outward in all directions. Once the ice passed a broken off piece of the ground, an ice pike came up and broke the rock into tiny pieces.
"Asuna! Don't the ice near you!" Yui shouted.
"I can see why!" Asuna responded.
Yui and Asuna backed away from the ice.
'We can't let this ice cover anymore ground.' Yui said to herself then got an idea.
"Electro Cannon!" Yui yelled holding both hands towards the ice and fired a ball of lightning.
The ball of lightning crashed into the ice and there was a hole in the ice where the lightning hit, but the hole was quickly covered up with more ice.
"It didn't work!?" Yui asked in disbelief.
Yui then looked at Thoma's sword and got another idea.
"Electro Cannon!" Yui yelled firing another ball of lightning, but this time she aimed at Thoma's sword.
Thoma stepped between the ball of lightning and his sword then yelled,
"Gravitational Barrier!"
Yui's attack smashed into a invisible wall and exploded.
"I was right. Asuna! We have to remove the sword from the ground." Yui said.
"How are we suppose to do that. We'll get skewered by ice pike if we step on the ice." Asuna said.
"Just ran as fast as you can." Yui said then made a mad dash towards Thoma and his sword.
Once Yui stepped onto the ice, ice spikes came up from the ground,but Yui was able to move before she could get hit. Asuna took a deep breath then did the same.
"This is crazy. This is crazy. This is crazy." Asuna said as she did her best to outrun the ice spikes.
"Gravity Finger Beam!" Thoma shouted pointing at Yui, who was closing in on him.
Yui then felt a small little poke in the middle of her chest and got knocked back a few feet.
"What was that?" Yui questioned.
A ice spike then came up from under Yui and she had to time do anything, but jump at the last second. Thoma then appeared right in front of Yui and said,
"Gravity Beam Barrage."
Thoma shot a barrage of gravity beams from his fingers at Yui and Yui couldn't defend herself. After a few seconds Thoma knocked Yui to the ground and followed up with a Heaven's Spear to her back.
"YUI!" Asuna shouted worried for her sister.
Thoma looked up and saw Asuna about to reach the sword and dashed, at full speed, towards her. Thoma grabbed Asuna, by the throat, and smashed her into a building. Thoma then smashed Asuna into the ground and begun to punch her in face over and over.
"Thoma...Stop...It's me...Asuna...Remember?..." Asuna said in between punches.
"Don't try and trick me. Your a servant of The Master." Thoma said then begun to punch Asuna harder.
Then something hit Thoma in the back. Thoma turned to see Yui barely standing, holding out her right arm and said,
"Don't hurt my little sister."
Thoma dropped Asuna then walked towards Yui and he pulled his sword out from the ground.
"Ice Dragon Freezing Fang!" Thoma yelled then charged towards Yui holding his sword out.
Yui couldn't move, but before Thoma's attack could connect, someone pushed Yui out of the way.
"Whoever you are thank you." Yui said once she hit the ground.
Yui saw that it was Lucina.
"Just because I saved you doesn't mean we're friends. Now sit back, I'll handle this." Lucina said standing up and facing Thoma.
"Something is wrong with Thoma and are you sure you can handle him alone?" Yui asked.
"Thoma has some lingering effects from the Nightmare Mist and I'll be fine, I have Rel to help." Lucina said.
"How do you know?" Yui asked.
"It will take too long to explain. Ready Rel?" Lucina asked.
Rel, who jumped onto Lucina's head, gave Lucina a sign that she was ready to fight then Lucina charged towards Thoma. Asuna walked over to Yui and asked,
"Are you alright and will Lucina be able to handle Thoma alone?"
"I'm fine, just a little banded up. I don't know, but we can't just sit back and watch. We have to help her." Yui said.
"I agree. The three of us working together will have better chance on stopping Thoma then just one facing him." Asuna.
Yui nodded and stood up then her and Asuna charged towards Thoma as well.
"Dust Lance!" Lucina yelled then made a lance of Dust and threw it at Thoma.
Before the lance made contact with Thoma, Rel shot a fireball at it and when the fireball hit the lance the lance exploded.
"Not bad, but not good enough." Thoma said after he blocked most of the damage from the explosion.
"Dust Wave!" Lucina yelled.
Then a wave made of dust come from behind Lucina and charged Thoma.
"Fire Dragon Tail Whip!" Thoma shouted and shot a little wave of fire at the dust.
The wave of dust exploded when Thoma's attack hit it and Thoma came charging through the smoke cloud slashing his sword at Lucina. Asuna managed to stepping between Lucina and Thoma and blocked Thoma's sword with her sword.
"What are you doing?" Lucina asked.
"Yui and I are helping you." Asuna said.
"I don't need your help." Lucina said.
"Thunder Shot!" Yui yelled then a bolt of lightning came from behind Lucina and stuck Thoma in the face.
Thoma recoiled back and Lucina turned to see Yui.
"From the look of things, I say you need us." Yui said.
"...Fine, but just this once." Lucina grunted.
"I'll take it." Yui and Asuna said.
The three of them were now facing Thoma as a team.
"Three on one? I like those odds." Thoma said then charged towards the three girls.
Thoma slashed his sword, but Asuna blocked it. Thoma quickly punched Asuna in the gut and sent her back a few feet, Yui then stepped in and gave Thoma some punches enhanced with her lightning. Asuna came back an helped Yui with some ice enhanced sword attacks. Thoma was blocking and countering Yui and Asuna then a ball of dust came from behind Yui and Asuna and stuck to Thoma's face.
"Get back!" Lucina yelled at Yui and Asuna.
Yui and Asuna jumped back just in time for a fireball from Rel hit Lucina's ball of dust and exploded. Before Thoma could recover Yui and Asuna both held onto Asuna's sword and yelled,
"Frozen Thunder Shot!"
Then a bolt of ice surrounded in lightning shot from Asuna's sword and stuck Thoma square in the chest and Thoma was sent flying backwards into a build. Thoma didn't emerge from the cloud of smoke and dust.
"Did we do it? Did we beat Thoma?" Yui questioned.
"I think so." Asuna said.
Yui and Asuna begun cheering, but their cheering was interrupted by the sound of a monstrous growl.
"What was that?" Yui and Asuna asked holding each other and shaking a bit.
"We're not done yet." Lucina said preparing for round two.
Yui and Asuna looked at the build Thoma flew into and saw two piercing red eyes. Then a demon emerged from the building and let out a loud roar. The roar was so loud that the whole city of Magnolia could hear it.
Back at the guild Natsu and the others heard the roar.
"What was that? Sounds like a monster." Natsu asked.
"That was Thoma. He's transformed into his demon form." Makarov said with a worried look on his face.
"That sounded scary." Happy panicked.
"That can't be daddy." Mugino said with tears in her eyes.
"You mean to tell me that roar was Thoma?" Gajeel asked.
"Yes and he doesn't know how to control his demon form yet, which means the whole town is now in serious danger." Makarov said.
Happy, Natsu, and Gajeel had shock and some panic looks on their faces.
Erza was fighting Evergreen when they heard the roar.
"What in the world is that?" Evergreen asked.
"On no. Thoma has turned into a demon." Erza said with worry and panic in her voice.
Freed and Bickslow met up when they heard the roar.
"Do you have an idea what that is Freed?" Bickslow asked.
"I don't know, but it doesn't sound good." Freed said.
Laxus was sitting in Kardia Cathedral when he heard the roar.
"That isn't Thoma normal roar. I wonder what it is." Laxus said.
Back to where Thoma, Yui, Asuna, Lucina, and Rel were. Yui and Asuna were panicking at the sight of the demon standing in front of them.
"Is that really Thoma?" Yui asked.
"Yes it is and he is even more powerful then he was before." Lucina said.
"Last time Thoma transformed into his demon form, he didn't look like that." Asuna pointed out.
"That form you saw before was a incomplete form. This is his true demon form." Lucina said.
"How do you know all this?" Yui and Asuna asked.
"As I said, it will take too long to explain everything. For now we need to do our best to put a stop to Thoma before he destroys Magnolia." Lucina said.
"If what you say is true about Thoma being a lot stronger then before, I don't know how we're going to do that." Yui said.
Thoma charged towards Lucina, Yui, and Asuna. Lucina charged towards Thoma.
The final battle with Thoma had begun.
