Only a few of Specter Avengers now remain. Raio has also been free from their control. The battle between the two guilds come closer and closer to an end. At the moment, Sasha and Simon have found Totomaru. Sasha has decided to face him alone like Simon did earlier.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Simon asked.

"I'm certain. Besides, if he spent most of his time teaching, his fighting skills must be weak." Sasha said.

"I won't deny it. I haven't actually done battle in a long time, but I have been doing my best to keep myself in shape." Totomaru said. "Let's just see how well you do."

"Let's. Magic Bazooka!" Sasha said and called out one of her weapons. Sasha pulled out a bazooka and was ready to fire. She launched concentrated blast of magi power, but Totomaru jumped over the attack.

"So you specialize with weapons. It's always good to have one handy." Totomaru said. "Of course, you're going to need more than weapons to get the better of this fight."

"I'm just getting started. Let's see what you've got." Sasha said.

"You asked for it. Blue Fire!" Totomaru unleashed a blue flame at both of them, but Sasha and Simon jumped away. "I'm not done yet. Orange Fire!" He unleashed an orange flame, but Sasha shot another blast and had the attack defuse. She did catch a whiff of the flame's scent.

"Gross!" Sasha said.

"Its awful smell is to help make my enemy's immobile." Totomaru said. "You made the right choice with that attack. You might have stopped those two flames, but can you stop this many?" Totomaru used his magic and formed multiple flames and each one was a different color.

"I've never seen so much fire in a variation of colors before." Sasha said.

"He was Romeo's teacher and Romeo is capable of such feats." Simon said.

"That still doesn't scare me. You just sit back and look pretty." Sasha said with full confidence and sent her bazooka away.

"You sent your weapon away? Was that really so smart?" Totomaru said.

"It was too heavy." Sasha said as she stepped forward. "It's not going to help me here. So are you just going to stand there like a strange candle or are we going to fight?"

"I'll give you this much, you certainly are a brave little girl." Totomaru said. "Let's see if you are capable of such actions with all that talk." Sasha charged right at Totomaru and unleashed multiple flames at her.

"Here they come!" Simon called out, but Sasha didn't seem concerned. Sasha was able to dodge each one of those attacks. What made it more impressive is that she isn't getting a single burn and she did it with such grace and finesse.

"What?!" Totomaru said as he couldn't' believe what he was seeing. He kept unleashing multiple flames, but Sasha was able to avoid each one of them.

"Wow!" Simon said as he thought what he was seeing was amazing. Totomaru stopped unleashing all his fire attacks and Sasha didn't get a single burn on her. Not a single one of those colored flames even hit her. Sasha kept going at Totomaru and nothing was stopping her.

"Unbelievable. Not a single attack hit her. How did she move like that?" Totomaru said. Sasha requipped again and pulled out her Magic Gatling Cannon.

"That was just the beginning. Here's the finale." Sasha said as she fired all the rapid shots at Totomaru. It appeared she got him, but he suddenly vanished. "What?!"

"You're not the only one who has some special tricks." Totomaru said as he appeared right behind her.

"Sasha!" Simon called out. Totomaru pulled out his katana and was about to attack, but Sasha was able to use her weapon and blocked the attack.

"How did you do that?" Sasha said as she pushed Totomaru back.

"If you thought fire was all I had, you were at a disadvantage." Totomaru said. "What you shot at was just an afterimage. With my enhanced speed, I was able to create one."

'He's got more tricks up his sleeve than I thought.' Sasha thought. Simon looked ready to jump in, but he was holding himself back.

'As much as I want to jump in the fight and help her, I have to respect her wishes.' Simon thought. 'She respected mine when I faced my opponents. I have to respect hers.'

"I'm not afraid to admit that you do have some skills." Totomaru said. "You are talented, but you still won't be able to beat me. If I keep myself as close to you as I can, those weapons of yours won't be much help."

"Don't bet on it." Sasha said as she requipped again and brought out dual swords.

"What's this?" Totomaru questioned.

"Swords? She usually uses guns to fight like Asuka. I've never seen her fight without them before." Simon said.

"Are you trying to mock me or test me?" Totomaru questioned, but Sasha wouldn't answer. Totomaru took a good look at her and found something a bit strange. "I must ask something. You don't appear to be related to any of those we captured. So why are you trying so hard to rescue them. Unlike the others, you don't appear to have a strong desire of vengeance for a family member. So why are you fighting so hard?"

"You don't know anything about me." Sasha said as those questions had her think of her past and all that she recently learned. This battle was the perfect opportunity to use what she's learned. "As a child, I suffered through things no child should ever go through. I was place in slavery and had to survive in the wild on my own. Those were some of the worst experiences in my life and it became so hard when I had to leave the people I cared so much about while they suffered. I utilize guns because it kept people a distance from me and I kept it like that. It was so I wouldn't have to deal with the heartbreak of losing someone precious to me. Yet, no matter how hard I tried, someone died because of me and it was too painful despite the fact I haven't seen him in ten years."

"What are you talking about? What does this have to do with what I asked?" Totomaru asked.

"It took me a while, but I think I finally figured out why my mother wanted me to go to Fairy Tail of all places." Sasha said.

"Oh and why would that be?" Totomaru asked.

"She wanted me to have friends. She must have somehow knew what Fairy Tail was like." Sasha said. "My mother wanted me to be part of place that treats others like their family, but I kept distant because I was afraid of getting my heart broken from losing someone again. I recently learned that was wrong, but my friends were willing to risk a lot for me."

"Sasha…" Simon said as he was impressed of all the pain she went through and was able to pull through.

"I'm a proud member of Fairy Tail and I will defeat anyone who dares threaten it. Now, bring it!" Sasha said as she was ready to finish this fight. Totomaru and Sasha prepared themselves as they held their swords and were ready to attack. Tension was rising for those waiting for the first move.

"Hiya/HA!" Both of them jumped at each other and slashed at each other. To the untrained eye, it would be impossible to see who landed the first attack. Simon, however, was trained for this.

"It's over." Simon said.

"It is." Totomaru said as his katana shattered. "You truly are an impressive sword wielder." Totomaru dropped to the ground and was defeated as well.

"Amazing, Sasha. You're more skilled than I thought." Simon said.

"Thanks, but it's not over yet. We better hurry and find the others. There isn't many left. Surely by now they've taken care of the rest of them." Sasha said.

"Perhaps you're right. Let's get out of here and head for the tower." Simon said.

….

Asuka

Asuka made her way to the top of the ship after she got done with Obra. When she arrived, she found Raio and Ul.

"Asuka!" Ul said as she was happy to see her.

"Ul and Raio! You're both safe." Asuka said. "What happened, Raio? Are you hurt?"

"I'll be okay." Raio said.

"Ul, where are the others?" Asuka asked.

"We went in different directions. Storm told me to get Raio out of here and back to the guild." Ul said.

"You want to leave all of them? We can't." Asuka said. "I understand that Raio might need a little help, but we can't just bail on Natsu, Nashi, and everyone."

"Asuka, as much as I hate to admit it, my brother and the others are stronger than we are." Ul said. "We only get in the way. We should fall back while we can."

"You sure?" Asuka asked.

"I think she might be right. Jose might be powerful, but it doesn't seem like anything can stop those guys now." Raio said. Asuka hated to leave them all behind, but she knows how powerful Natsu and his generation is and she could see Nashi and her generation was catching up.

"Fine. Let's go back to the guild." Asuka said. She knew the three of them would only get in the way. So she heads back with them and hopes for the best.

Nashi and Gale

Nashi and Gale were the lucky pair. So far, they haven't come across anyone from the enemy's side.

"Nothing. You think we should just head for the tower?" Gale questioned.

"You might be right. Hopefully, the others managed to take out the enemy." Nashi said. Just as she said that, Gale felt something in his pocket go off. He pulled out a portable lacrima and answered it.

"Hello? Got it." Gale said and ended the call. "That was Simon. He says to meet at the tower. Storm already took one down and Sasha beat another. That means there should only be two left if Asuka won her fight."

"The tower…" Nashi said and looked right at it. Soon, they would face their most powerful opponent: Jose himself. "Let's go!" Both of them ran to the tower and were ready to end this. However, just as they were running for the tower, a white torrent came at them and bashed against the two of them with them being knocked down.

"What was that?" Gale asked.

"No idea." Nashi said. They took a look at what attacked them. Nashi got a good look and saw it was made out of paper dolls. "Paper dolls? What's going on?"

"So you two are the children of the dragon slayers." Both of them looked ahead and was met with another member of Specter Avengers: Ivan. "So far, I'm not impressed."

"Move it or lose it, old man." Gale said.

"That's not nice. Weren't you taught to respect your elders?" Ivan said. "That's the problem with the youngsters of Fairy Tail. You were never "disciplined" enough. Oh well. I'm here to bring your brats down and that's what I'm going to do." Ivan unleashed more of those paper dolls to attack. Nashi and Gale were about to defend themselves, but a flash of lightning blocked the attack. All of them were surprised to see Nova and Damien appeared.

"Nova? Damien? What are you two doing here?" Nashi asked.

"We weren't that far and we heard the commotion." Nova said and faced her grandfather. "You guys go on ahead. Damien and I will handle this."

"Are you sure? You want to take this old man on by ourselves?" Gale said.

"Yeah." Damien said as he cracked his knuckles. "This is family business." Nashi began to understand.

"That's right. Ivan is Laxus' grandfather." Nashi said. "Gale, let's do what they said." Gale agreed and the two of them went the other way around. Ivan kept his attention on Nova and Damien.

"So you two are my grandchildren? I'm impressed that Laxus was even able to have children." Ivan said. "No hug for granddaddy?"

"You've got a lot to answer for." Nova said.

"It's only fitting that we're the ones to take you down." Damien said.

"Is that so? Let's see if my awful father and good for nothing son have rubbed off on either of you." Ivan said. Members of the Dreyar family are on opposing sides? Will one even be able to bring themselves to harm the other?