Dammit, damn, fuck, shit, ah! God Damb! Yes, yes, I know what you're asking "WHY DID THIS TAKE SO LONG TO GET UPDATED?!" I know, I know it did...really long. And I apologize heavily for the long delay. Let's just say the past couple of weeks College has been a bitch and it's been homework after homework after quiz after quiz after test after test and so on and so on with all this stupid school shit getting in my way of working on this story. So I am really sorry BUT with any luck now school begins chilling off so I can work on the stuff that really matters here. SO without further ado, here are the TWO Neo-Heisei Riders Tail Chapters that conclude the Tower of Heaven Arc, enjoy!


Insert Opening Theme: R.P.G. ~Rockin' Playing Game

(Starts off with a cloudy, bluish background as then purple runes begin to appear, spelling out two unknown words before flying off into different directions as a bright light appears behind them, from it more purple rune letters fly out from it, two rainbows which fly out to the sides of the light, four purple magic circles and finally Natsu's red magic circle as it flies forward towards the screen. The circle changes the scene to a half blue with ice markings, and mix of green and dark purple with markings from the Gaia Memories of Double background with a black Fairy Tail symbol between them, now showing a battle ready Gray to the left with no shirt on, his hands held back to his left together with cold mist emitting from them as he prepares to cast a spell gritting his teeth, and Double to the right as he stands sideways and points forward with his right hand striking his pose as his scarf blows behind him. Behind Gray is a dark blue image of himself as he looks forward and smirks, behind Double on his Cyclone side is a green image of Philip also looking forward smiling while behind the Joker side is a dark purple image of Shotaro also smirking. The scene then switches to a normal purple with slash marks and mix of red, yellow, and green with the symbols of the Core Medals background with again a black Fairy Tail mark in the middle, Erza on the right with a serious face as she prepares to launch herself forward with two swords, one in each hand in her Heart Kreuz armor, and OOO on the left also striking his pose crouching down with both of his arms held out, his right arm farther out then his left as behind Erza is a light purple image of herself, and OOO is a yellow colored image of Eiji as both of them look forward smiling. Switches to now an half orange-yellow background with the celestial constellations, and a white background with floating astroswitches with the Fairy Tail symbol in the middle again, Lucy in front of the orange background with a serious look on her face and whip out at the ready for an attack as she is carried by Happy, and Fourze in front of the white background with his arms and head raised up into the air, behind Lucy an orange-yellow image of herself smiling with her mouth open a bit, and behind Fourze a light grayish image of Gentaro with a wide smile on his face. Scene switches to a background half mix of normal and light green in the way of a chessboard with squares for the two different colors with various purple and reddish fish floating by diagonally upwards, and half red with red, blue, green, yellow, and white magic circles on it, on the right is Happy flying away with a joyful look on his face with his eyes closed, and on the left is Wizard holding his left arm out to his side, behind Happy is an image of him looking up a bit with his mouth open and a happy look on his face with his paws raised up to his chin, and behind Wizard is a silver image of Haruto smiling. Then switches to a background with half of it red but covered by flames so barely seen, and the other half orange with various Lockseeds floating around, the fire covering the red background coming from a battle ready Natsu as he has his arms out, his hands formed into fists and seems to be yelling as in front of the orange background is Gaim bending down with Daidaimaru shouldered, behind Natsu a red image of himself giving his signature toothy-grin and behind Gaim an orange image of Kouta with a toothy-smile on his face. We then see glowing yellow eyes and reptilian skin of what appears to be a dragon, followed immediately by a claw, and then finally the entire dragon itself revealing to be Igneel as he lets out a roar.)

Yo Ho kaji wo kire torikaji ippaide

Neo-Heisei Riders Tail

(The Title appears in front of the rebuilt Fairy Tail Guild as it begins to zoom in towards the building, the Title remaining the same size until eventually fading away)

Yo Ho uousaou ikina jinsei

(Scene switches to the inside to show all of the main members of the Guild looking towards the doorway, smiles on their faces with some cheering as from left to right Levy stands, Nab, Warren who raises his right arm into the air continuously, Max, and Macao sit at a table, behind them Vijeeter jumps up in the air cheering as Alzack and Bisca are to his left continuously raising one of their arms into the air, Bisca her right arm and Alzack his left, Reedus has his left arm held up, Wakaba holds his cigarette with his right hand and has his left hand in his pocket, and Laki has her left arm up waving. Then switches to the stage, Makarov stands in front of it with an open smile and his eyes closed, on the stage is Plue dancing beside Mirajane who plays a guitar that looks like a pink bird and Elfman beside her with his arms up slowly waving them from side to side. Switches to Natsu, Happy, Kouta, and Gentaro letting out their own cheers at the others as Natsu closes his eyes and throws his right arm into the air, Happy throws his paws out to his side, Kouta jumps up with his left arm thrown up in the air, and Gentaro throws both of his arms up into the air)

Hi ga ochiru koroni wa shukkou no utage

(Scene switches to a mountainous area, a bolt of lightning strikes downwards as four figures standing on top of a flat-top mountain are illuminated by it, then an image of a crazed right eye with a blue pupil appears as the view slowly pans up it, the wind blowing a lock of blonde hair above it. The four figures are then revealed to be Laxus and his Thunder God Tribe as behind him stands Freed, Bickslow, and Evergreen, two more bolts of lightning flashing them up behind them one at a time as the wind blows their hairs and clothes, Laxus, and Bickslow with toothy-grins on their faces, Freed with a serious look, and Evergreen smirking as they all appear to be looking down at something from the mountain.)

Sabishiku nanka nai ikiterya mata dokkade aeru

(Scene switches to show Mystogan, his eyes covered by shadows as he appears to be looking down at something as the wind blows away at his cloak, a clear blue sky to his right as then an image of Porlyusica appears behind him, tears in her saddened eyes before disappearing. View changes to show his entire body from behind to show he's standing on the edge of a cliff overlooking Magnolia as then a whole bunch of purple runes appear in front of him coming upwards. Scene then switches to show all of Magnolia, hovering high in the sky over the town in a massive circle were a number of large lacrimas with lightning bolts in them and metal bars wrapped around them.)

Mukai kaze buchinuki tabidate

(Scene switches to a close-up of Bickslow with his tongue sticking out before zooming out away from him as he throws his arms out to his side, revealing he is standing on a tall pole as his five wooden dolls float in a circle in front of him. Switch to reveal Loke, Lucy, and OOO who look ready to fight him, OOO in his usual pose, Lucy gritting her teeth with a determined look and her fists raised, Loke in front of the two with his right arm raised, his left hand around his wrist and a serious look on his face. Happy then pops up in front of them with one of his mischievous faces with pink blush dots on his cheeks and his paws to the sides of his face as he stares backwards at Lucy with his eyes, Lucy suddenly throwing herself forward with luminescent blush on her face, her eyebrows narrowed in anger, eyes turn blank with black circles in them, her mouth drops open and goes thin as she frantically waves her right hand in front of her with panicked sweat flying out from her head. Scene then switches to Levy on the wooden floor of the guild, surrounded by books and papers with glasses on and a pencil in her right hand as she suddenly looks up.)

Namida namida kareru made otoko nara tsuyogatte

(In a street in Magnolia, Gaim and Fourze stand a few feet away facing each other when suddenly purple runes come out from the ground behind the both of them, catching their attention as they turn around and then look up towards a nearby building to Gaim's right/Fourze's left to see Freed materialize from flying runes, an image of his face looking down at them appears over his body. Scene switches to an explosion bursting out from Kardia Cathedral.)

Tomo yo tomo yo itsuno hi ka waratte

(Scene switches to Evergreen jump flipping backwards into the air, crossing her arms with a fan in her right hand before throwing them outwards to fire her Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun magic attack as the scene changes to show Erza in a goth-like dress and Double in Fang/Joker charging forward together, Erza blocking the incoming attacks with a sword and Double just taking the shots and shrugging them off as they charge forward. Switches to inside Kardia Cathedral to show Laxus standing in a battle ready stance as Natsu appears charging at him, throwing a punch at him which Laxus blocks putting his left arm up and retaliating with a reverse roundhouse right kick as Natsu quickly jumps backwards into the air to dodge, the kick producing a blast of wind.)

Katai katai kizuna wo sa tashikame aeru youni

(Gajeel suddenly appears in the air behind Natsu alongside Wizard in Flame Style, Natsu throwing himself over Gajeel as he blasts fire out from his mouth, blasting him into Gajeel's back and sending Gajeel flying down towards Laxus as he transforms his left arm into a iron club while Wizard flies down at Laxus with a flame-enveloped Rider Kick. Laxus jumps up in the air to dodge the attacks as they impact into the ground sending up a lot of dust and debris. Laxus has a smirk on his face as he holds out both of his hands and fires balls of lightning down towards the two Dragon Slayers and Kamen Rider, Gajeel retaliates firing his Roar of the Iron Dragon, as Natsu jumps above him and releases his Roar of the Fire Dragon attack, followed by Wizard jumping and floating above the both of them in his All Dragon Style as he spins around and fires a blast of fire from his Drago Skull towards Laxus.)

Ima kagayaki dasu mirai no chizu wo saa tsukami tore

(Scene switches to a rocky landscape outside of Magnolia where Mirajane stands with an her eyes widened in complete shock and anger before they turn blank and she screams up into the air, her hair blasting upwards as purple light erupts from beneath her also destroying the rocky landscape around her as pieces of rocks fly up into the air, a large purple magic circle appears high above her. Switches to night time as fireworks are going off as then a hand is thrown up into the air, the index and thumb upwards in the Fairy Tail hand symbol as the view zooms out to reveal Makarov being the one with a serious look on his face, eventually zooming out far enough to show he's standing on the bell tower of the new Guild building, the Fairy Tail flag hanging below him as fireworks continue to explode off in the night sky behind him.)

(A vast array of swords is shown floating in the air, an image of an enraged Erza appears over them with the headgear on her showing that she must be in her Heaven's Wheel Armor. Somewhere in Magnolia Max, Macao, and Warren are seen blasting their respective magic up into the air before Gray suddenly appears, putting his hands together and throwing them out upwards to send a blast of his ice magic as well. In Kardia Cathedral Mystogan has four of his staves planted on the ground behind him as he plants another one of his on the ground in front of him as he holds it with his right hand, an image of his face with his left eye and some blue hair is seen as it appears in front of him. Standing deep inside the Cathedral Laxus raises his lightning covered arms above his head before then throwing them down to his side as his whole body explodes as lightning shoots out and covers him as he cries out in anger, the view zooming in to show lightning covering and even shooting out from his eyes and mouth. As rubble flies upwards into the air, Natsu, Gajeel, and Wizard in Infinity Style charge forward to put a stop to him as Natsu covers his right fist in fire and is about to throw it at Laxus. Final image shows Laxus leaping towards Natsu with lightning shooting out from his hands, eyes, and mouth, Natsu yelling out as he prepares to throw his fire-coated punch, Gajeel to his left throwing his left fist forward, and Wizard to his right with AxCalibur in sword mode in his right hand as he swings it towards Laxus.)


Dark clouds began to form above the Tower of Heaven, the sound of thunder boomed in the air as the final battle at the Tower of Heaven was about to come to a close. "What is your real goal?" Erza questioned Jellal as she sat on him, pinning him to the ground with the tip of her sword pointed at his throat. General Shadow was still kneeling on the ground as he and Gaim looked over at the two wizards to see what was happening.

"You haven't really completed the R-system, have you? I haven't been doing nothing for these past 8 years. I researched the R-system myself. It's true there were no errors in the construction or theory of the blueprints back then. But there is something essential missing from the R-system." Erza continues.

"I told you, remember? You are the sacrifice." Jellal says.

"A problem more basic than that." Erza says making Jellal grunt as he looks at her questioningly "The thing you lack is, magical power!" Erza states.

"Huh? Magical power?" Gaim questions.

"Tch, are you that much of a fool, Kamen Rider? Have you yet to realize that most if not everything in this world requires the need of magical energy to work? Especially something as big as this." General Shadow says turning his head to look at Gaim.

"To activate a magical spell of this magnitude, you need a tremendous amount of magical energy. Even if you assembled every wizard on this continent. I'm not sure it would be enough. So of course there is no way an individual could store enough energy in this tower. And moreover, you know about the Council's attack but are not trying to escape. What are you thinking?" Erza questions.

"Three minutes until Etherion." Jellal says in his calm demeanor.

"Jellal!" Erza says with an angered look in her eyes.

"Your dream is already over! Do you simply wish to die like this?" Erza questions as she tightens her grip on his right hand's wrist making him cringe a bit from the pain.

"If that's the case, then we go together. I will not release this hand until the final moment!" Erza declares.

Gaim grunts in shock hearing this "Erza…" he quietly says not liking what he was hearing.

"Sure...That doesn't sound too bad." Jellal says making Erza's eyes widen in shock "My body was possessed by Zeref's spirit. No words will reach me. I'm nothing but a puppet used for the purpose of resurrecting Zeref." Jellal says.

"Possessed?" Erza asks.

"I wasn't able to save myself. Not friends nor anyone else could save me. There is no Heaven...There is no freedom anywhere. Everything was over before it even began."

Outside the Tower in the Ocean…

Some distance away from the tower was the rowboat carrying the rest of the Fairy Tail wizards sans Natsu, the other Kamen Riders, as well as Erza's friends sans Simon, both of who were still on the tower as the group looked at the tower for signs of what was going on. "What in the world's going on in there?" Gray questioned.

"Haven't seen or heard anything for a while. Hope the others are alright." OOO says.

As he continued to look at the top of the tower, something caught Double's attention just above it "Hmm?" Philip hums.

"Shotaro!" Double/Philip says.

"Yeah, I see it." Double/Shotaro says.

"Huh? See what?" Happy asks.

"The clouds, look!" Double/Shotaro says making everyone do just that and look up at the clouds, just as they began parting directly above the tower and a light began shining through brightening up the night sky a little bit. Lucy gasps in shock seeing it "That light!"

"What is it?" Wizard asks.

"It's Etherion!" Wally answers.

"Eh~!" Millianna cries out in fright.

"Natsu, Kouta, Erza...Hurry up and escape…" Happy says with tears in his eyes.

Back inside…

The entire building begins to violently shake and cracks slowly form on the ceiling and walls making small chunks of debris fall from them. "What?!" Gaim says in shock as he looks around the room.

"It's begun…" General Shadow says looking up.

"I knew that the R-system wouldn't be able to be completed. But the spirit of Zeref wouldn't let me go. It's too late to stop it. I'm a broken engine that he's driving...Erza, you win." Jellal says, a saddened but also happy look on his face. "Please put an end to this." Jellal asks taking her back as her eyes widened.

"That's why you came here, yes?" Jellal says to her as Erza continues to stare down at him, her eyes shaking in shock as just looking at him, all she can think about is the little boy who saved her and became her friend so many years ago.

The entire building continued to shake as the rubble of the ceiling continued to fall down all over the place "This place is getting too dangerous. We gotta get out of here." Gaim says to himself. Turning and raising his left arm forward as he uses his Overlord powers to create a crack.

"Erza! We have to go, now!" Gaim says with urgency.

Erza doesn't move or make a sound.

"Erza!" Gaim calls out to her again.

Just then she lowers her sword to her side, Jellal seems to become confused by this as is Gaim as the two wonder what she's doing. "There is no point in delivering the final blow. The Satellite Square is already deployed above." Erza then removes her hand from Jellal's wrist "It's over. For me...and you...Jellal." Erza says placing the sword on the ground as it vanishes.

"What? Erza!" Gaim yells.

"Kouta...please...just go. Leave me here to perish with Jellal." Erza asks without turning towards him.

"Do you even realize what it is you're asking me to do?! You're asking me to let you kill yourself! After everything we've done to rescue you, to protect you! And you just expect me to let you do this? What about the others Erza?! How do you think they'd feel if they were here right now?!" Gaim angrily yells at her.

"Kouta...please." Erza pleads once again.

"No...No way in hell! I'm bringing you back, whether you like it or not, whether you ever forgive me or not I don't care! I'm not going to let you do this to yourself!" Gaim says as he begins approaching Erza. Suddenly however General Shadow launches himself back up to his feet and charges towards Gaim, making the Kamen Rider quickly raise his Sonic Arrow to block Shadow's sword "What's this? Don't want to listen to your friend's wish Kamen Rider? If she wants to kill herself, then you should grant her what she wants." General Shadow says in a sneering tone.

"Out of the way Shado~w!" Gaim angrily yells as he pushes upwards throwing his and Shadow's weapons into the air. Shadow however uses this opportunity to then wrap his arms around Gaim's stomach and begin pushing Gaim back as the Kamen Rider slides backwards across the ground. Gaim raises his right foot and plants it back down on the ground managing to stop him and Shadow as they are now right in front of the crack, Gaim pushes Shadow off him and swings his Sonic Arrow at the Dai-Shocker general who ducks under the swing and retaliates by swinging his sword upwards striking Gaim and sending sparks flying from the Kamen Rider.

"Let's go for a little trip, Kamen Rider." General Shadow says as he suddenly backs up a little and then charges into Gaim, sending both him and Gaim flying into the crack. On the other end of the crack Gaim and Shadow both crash onto the ground a few feet apart from each other in what appears to be a forest, Gaim lifts his head and looks forward to see Erza on the other end of the crack still in the tower "Erza!" Gaim yells out as he pushes himself up. Though once again before he can do anything Shadow gets in between him and the crack with his sword at the ready.

Shadow chuckles as Gaim looks past him to see as the crack zips back up and disappears "ERZA~!" Gaim yells out in terror.

Back in the tower Jellal sits himself up with his eyes closed, seemingly accepting what was about to happen "Always the awkward one…" Jellal says as he opens his eyes and sits up the rest of the way as he and Erza look away from each other and accept their fates.

"You're also a sacrifice to Zeref, yes?" Erza asks.

"This is my punishment for giving in to my weakness. My heart wasn't able to handle the huge gap between dreams and reality." Jellal replies as Erza looks at him.

"Didn't you have friends there to fill in for your weaknesses and deficiencies?" Erza asks making Jellal look at her with a saddened look in his eyes "Erza…" he says.

"I am also repenting for my sin of not being able to save you." Erza says.

"I was...saved." Jellal says as the two turn their bodies towards each other and embrace one another in their arms, the entire tower continuing to shake violently with debris falling all over the place as then suddenly a light shines through a hole in the ceiling right onto the two.

Outside in the ocean the light from Etherion shines brighter then ever as its immense power seems to affect the sea and small waves begin to throw the rowboat the others are in around, everyone looking on in shock as they know what's about to happen. "Here it comes!" Happy cries out.

All of the Riders grunt out in shock at what they see "Kouta!" all the Riders yell.

"Natsu! Erza~!" Gray yells out as above the tower and in the opened up sky, the magic circles and square of Etherion appear and a massive bright beam of light shoots down from them towards the Tower of Heaven.

Inside the tower Simon leans against a wall next to a window with his right hand over his heart as the bright light of Etherion radiates through the window "This light...They didn't make it?" Simon questions.

Elsewhere in the tower Natsu continues to run up a flight of stairs as the light of Etherion shines through some more windows alerting him to what was going on, but that didn't make him stop one bit as he continued running as fast as he could up the stairs "ERZA~!" Natsu yells out.

Back in the throne room Erza and Jellal continue to embrace each other as the light of Etherion becomes brighter and brighter, both of their eyes closed as then suddenly Jellal opens his eyes. One of his hands flinch and then suddenly a sadistic look in his eyes along with a sadistic looking grin appears on his face, Erza completely unaware of it. Etherion's beam then reaches the Tower as everyone looks on in shock and awe "It's over…" Simon says as the light fully engulfs the entire tower.

The impacting blast sends a massive wave shooting outwards as it hits the rowboat and sends everyone aboard it flying into the air. Luckily however Juvia manages to cast a giant Water Bubble to catch and hold everyone inside of as the waves continue to rock around outside until finally the light of Etherion dissipates and the sea calms down. Though all that remains of the Tower of Heaven, is a massive pillar of rising smoke.

"No…" Lucy says with tears in her eyes as everyone looks on in shock and grief.

"Natsu...Kouta...Erza…" Happy says.

Meanwhile…

Unknown to the others, inside the pillar of smoke, was something entirely different. The stone and metal works of the tower continued to fall all around, however as the pieces fell in their place were lacrima crystals, a lot of them, all of which were designed to be covered up by the metal and stone. Now at the bottom of the remains of the tower were still Erza and Jellal who were still in an embrace of each other, that is until Erza opened her eyes and noticed that somehow, she and Jellal were alive as Jellal stood up while Erza wondered what was going on.

"I'm alive?" Erza questions.

Just then a crack opened up nearby, one from which Shadow came flying out from as he hit the ground and slid back across it for a few more feet. Not that long after Gaim came out as well landing crouched down on the ground as he quickly stood up, and then took notice of everything around him "Hm? What in the world?" Gaim says wondering what was going on. He then looked over to his right, and noticed Erza "Erza!" he calls out as Erza hears this and turns around to see Gaim run over to her "Kouta?" Erza says.

"Erza, you alright?!" Gaim quickly questions kneeling down beside her.

"Y-Yeah...but...I don't know how." Erza replies looking at the palm of her hands.

Just then the two begin to hear someone chuckle, that chuckle coming from none other then Jellal who was still standing in front of them "Jellal?" Erza asks, until then Jellal explodes out into a crazed laughter with his face thrown up into the air and his arms held outwards.

"What the hell's so damn funny?" Gaim angrily questions as the two hear another chuckle and look over as General Shadow picks himself up from the ground "You fools…" General Shadow says.

Back at in the Ocean…

"Hm? Wait a minute...there's something in the smoke." Double/Philip says.

"What the, there is!" Wizard says as everyone begins to notice something with the smoke finally dissipating away.

"Crystal?" Happy wonders.

"No, it's magical crystal...Lacrima!" Gray says.

Sure enough as the smoke finally clears away, where once the Tower of Heaven now stood, was nothing but a spindly tower made up of the magical crystal, Lacrima. The one main trunk of Lacrima shooting upwards into the sky with a few limbs protruding irregularly from it. "Hey, they're okay right? Natsu, Kouta, Erza, and Simon too?" Lucy asks with concern.

Back at the tower of Lacrima…

Somewhere inside the lacrima-made tower, Natsu was knelt down on the ground picking himself up as he groaned in pain and had his right hand on his face "What the hell is going on?" he questioned moving his hand away.

Elsewhere Simon was lying in a pile of lacrima "Etherion fired...So why am I still alive?" he questioned while looking at his body to see it completely unscarred.

"HAHAHAHAHA! Finally...Finally, the time has come!" Jellal says with a crazed look in his eyes.

"Why you…" Erza says, now seeing that he was pretending the whole time to have accepted his fate and returned to his normal self.

"This is the true form of the Tower of Heaven! It's a giant lacrima! And thanks to the attack by the Council's Etherion, it has absorbed an incredible amount of magical energy! Now the R-system is complete!" Jellal announces.

Erza stands up with a shocked expression as Gaim stands up alongside her, his fists tightening up in complete anger at what was going on. "Why you…" Gaim says with a sour tone.

Jellal lowers his arms and turns away almost immediately though turns his head back and looks at Erza who now stares at him with anger "You tricked me?" Erza questions.

"You were really cute there, Erza." a voice that sounds a lot like Jellal's says behind her and Gaim as the two turn around and gasp in shock at who they see. Before them was the member of the Magic Council, Siegrain, the man who looked a lot like Jellal but was just his twin brother "Jellal was not able to produce his true power. He was in mortal danger, so he had no choice but to trick you."

"Huh? Who the hell's that?" Gaim questions.

"Siegrain!" Erza says.

"Eh?! Siegrain? As in that magic council guy who looks like this Jellal guy?" Gaim questions having of heard about him from Philip on the Riders' research of the Magic Council.


Siegrain approaches the three and walks to Erza and Gaim's side as the two stare at him "Why are you here?" Erza asks.

"Remember the first time we met, Erza?" Siegrain replies before walking over and standing beside Jellal. "That time you came with Makarov to deliver a written letter of apology to the council, yes?" Jellal says somehow knowing about it.

"You mistook me for Jellal and attacked me." Siegrain says. "Well, we look identical so it's to be expected. After you heard we were twins, you were finally pacified. However you always treated me as your enemy." Siegrain continues.

"Obviously! Instead of behaving as an older brother should, you tolerated what Jellal was doing! Or rather, you were spying on me!" Erza states.

"Yes." Jellal says.

"That was my mistake. I should have said something like "I will find Jellal and make him stop, no matter what." I have finally become a member of the council, so meeting you at all was my greatest mistake." Siegrain says.

"The lies we tell in an unplanned moment cause us the greatest pain." Jellal adds in.

"So you two really did plot this together." Erza says.

"Together?" Jellal questions with a straight face.

"No." Siegrain says.

"That's no it, Erza." Jellal says.

Just then Siegrain closes his eyes and his entire body becomes translucent, shocking Erza and Gaim who gasp in shock at what they are seeing. "We are a single person. From the very beginning." both Jellal and Siegrain says. As then the translucent Siegrain steps into Jellal's body, making Jellal glow a rainbow outline around him as the two become one. Or rather…

"No…A thought projection?" Erza says in shock.

"Yes. Siegrain is me." Jellal calmly says.

"Or more like there was never a Siegrain to begin with. Only you making people think there was and manipulating them while you were over here!" Gaim says.

"So you yourself fired Etherion? That's why you infiltrated the Council?" Erza questions.

"Did you enjoy your fleeting freedom, Erza? Everything went according to Zeref's scenario for resurrection." Jellal says.

Erza lifts her right clenching fist up as it shakes full of anger "You fiend...How many people have you deceived in your life?" Erza angrily says.

"Power…" Jellal says raising his right hand forward and clenching it as his body is outlined by purple magical energy "...my magical power has returned!"

Back out in the ocean "That's the R-system?" Gray questions.

"Yes, that's the true form of the R-system we built, got it?" Wally says.

"You think you could've told us that before!" Double/Shotaro says.

"It's activating…" Millianna says.

"Activating? You mean it's resurrecting Zeref?" Lucy asks looking back at her.

"I don't know. We've never seen it operate." Sho says.

"And Natsu, Kouta, and Erza are inside of it?" Gray questions.

"Simon as well...And Jellal…" Sho adds in.

"Now we know why Jellal wasn't so worried about the council firing Etherion down onto the tower." Wizard says.

"It's because he wanted it to fire so he could use the lacrima to gather up all that magical energy, to activate this R-system." OOO says.

"And the council fell right into his trap doing that." Fourze says.

"If anyone's going to be able to stop this thing, it's Natsu, Kouta, and Erza." Double/Philip says.

"You can do it guys." Double/Shotaro says.

Back at the tower…

Erza is blasted back, hitting the ground and rebounding back into the air farther away "Erza!" Gaim yells.

"What happened to your previous strength? Did you use up too much of your magical power in the battle with Ikaruga?" Jellal wonders.

"Bastard!" Gaim yells as he readies his Sonic Arrow and charges at Jellal. Swinging his weapon Jellal simply jumps up and over Gaim and lands a few feet away but facing away from him, Gaim is about to charge after him when he is hit from behind by a few exploding cards, drawing his attention back around to General Shadow who is standing up with some cards in his right hand and sword sheathed away.

"Did you already forget about me Rider? Now that I no longer need to keep up with this whole charade. Allow me to go all out so that I can finally put an end to you!" General Shadow yells.

"Let's see you try!" Gaim yells as he pulls back on his Sonic Arrow and fires a few energy arrows. Shadow however spins around deflecting the shots away and then transforms into a giant card, this time however he disappears. "What?!" Gaim says as he quickly begins looking around trying to figure out where he'll pop up, when suddenly a large group of spinning giant cards appear around Gaim.

"Now what?" Gaim questions trying to figure out what was going on, as then the cards all come to a stop facing away from him. Looking cautiously at all of them with his Sonic Arrow at the ready, Gaim fails to notice the card behind him spin around as on it was General Shadow who held five cards in his right hand at the ready and then throws them at Gaim. The cards stick onto his back, glow, and then explode sending Gaim jumping up into the air and then falling back down to the ground crying out in pain as General Shadow then laughs and turns his card back around. Gaim pushes himself back up and charges at the card Shadow is on, when suddenly all of the cards begin spinning around in a circle making Gaim lose track of which card it was that Shadow was on.

"Let us see how good you are at this little game of cards, Kamen Rider. Figure out which of these cards I am in, and you have a chance at beating me, fail, and you get a little surprise." General Shadow's voice echoes out making Gaim unsure of which card he is in.

"Jellal!" Erza cries out full of anger as she launches herself towards Jellal with a massive broadsword in her right hand, swinging it at him as Jellal throws his body sideways to dodge the attack. Throwing her left arm out, Erza summons up another red magic circle from which she pulls another massive sword from swinging both of them at Jellal and then following up with a kick which Jellal just barely manages to dodge all of them. Erza attacks again and slams both of her swords on the ground sending some debris flying after Jellal dodges again jumping to his left.

"Right now the Council should be completely paralyzed. I must be grateful to Ultear. She did quite well. She said, "If in heaven all are seen as one, then we need not fear even death." For my ideal, for my dream, she said she'd gladly lay down her own life. I truly must be thankful to be given stupid women." Jellal says landing on a platform of lacrima.

"You fiend!" Erza yells launching at him again and bring her swords down, only for Jellal to jump away and cause her to destroy the platform as he then lands on another platform a few feet away.

"You should die from the curses of all those you've used!" Erza yells out as she launches herself again at Jellal, when suddenly Jellal grunts with a smirk on his face and what appears to be a dark red snake tattoo appears on Erza's back from her bandages. Snaking its way up her upper back before then going onto and wrapping itself around on her right arm as Erza's eyes go wide in shock upon noticing this "What is this?"

"Bind Snake. I put it on you when we hugged before." Jellal says as the tattoo has now coiled itself throughout her entire body and causes her to not only drop her swords but make her cry out in absolute pain as she becomes frozen in place.

"Erza!" Gaim yells out seeing this "Dammit! Show yourself, Shadow!" Gaim yells as he pulls back on his Sonic Arrow and releases a few energy arrows towards three of the giant cards. Hitting them as the energy arrows stick out from them which causes all of the cards to suddenly stop.

"Gotcha!" Gaim says.

Just then however, the three cards begin to glow brightly and then in a split second then turn sideways and launch themselves at Gaim as inside his helmet his eyes widened and he grunted in shock. The corner of the cards stick themselves onto Gaim's armor and suddenly explode, the three combined cause a massive explosion which propels Gaim far back into the air crying out in pain before impacting into a pillar of lacrima and embedding into it.

"Kouta!" Erza yells out as all of the giant cards begin to become part of one which then transforms back into General Shadow who chuckles lightly.

"I have the magical power to activate the R-system. All I need now is the human sacrifice to resurrect Zeref." Jellal says as he begins approaching Erza, the snake tattoo tightening its grip on her making her clench her teeth and grunt in more pain. "I have no more time to play with you, Erza. The tremendous amount of magical power this lacrima now stores, will be fused into your body. Your body will be deconstructed, and then reconstructed into Zeref's." Jellal continues as he raises his right hand forward, causing a slab of lacrima to come up from the ground behind Erza.

"Er...za…" Kouta says, full of pain and unable to move.

"Don't worry, you will soon be joining her yourself in the afterlife. But first, I will allow you to watch, knowing full well that you failed to save one of your new friends...Kamen Rider. And soon, your fellow Riders will follow with you." Shadow says standing a few feet away from Gaim with his right hand on the hilt of his sword that is still sheathed away.

Jellal then lightly pushes Erza back, making her fall into the lacrima as it seems to liquefy and begin to absorb her into it making her cry out more "I loved you, Erza." Jellal says in a cold tone.

"Damn it! Damn!" Erza cries out with her right arm held forward as she continues to slowly get pulled into the lacrima.

Jellal turns and walks a few feet away before closing his eyes "O Great Zeref...I give to you this woman's body!" Jellal yells with his arms thrown outwards, the lacrima of the tower begins to glow seemingly powering up as Erza gets closer and closer to becoming engulfed by the lacrima.

"Jellal!" Erza yells out, but to no response from him "Jellal!" she yells again as his eyes are still closed. Just then he opens them and turns his head slightly, to see Natsu appear from nowhere and pull Erza out from the lacrima "Gotcha!" he yells.

Erza having her eyes closed with a tear coming down only her left eye, opens them upon hearing Natsu's voice as she notices she is being pulled out and away from the lacrima.

"Hm?" Shadow hums as Jellal turns calmly around to see this.

"Natsu…" Gaim says overjoyed to see him.

"Erza is a Fairy Tail wizard. You can't have her." Natsu says with a toothy grin as the two land on the ground, Natsu sitting down as he slowly sets Erza onto the ground in front of him.

"Natsu…" Erza wearingly says.

"Sheesh." Natsu says looking down at her with a smile.

"Hmph, allow me to deal with this pest." Shadow says unsheathing his sword and holding it up in front of him. Suddenly however he is struck from his side and sent flying by a recovered Gaim, having of gotten himself out of the pillar as Gaim quickly begins making his way over to the others.

"Natsu…" Gaim says approaching the two before falling onto his knees.

"Kouta, you alright?" Natsu asks looking at him.

"Y-Yeah...I'll be alright. It's Erza we need to be worried about." Kouta says.

Natsu nods his head in agreement and looks back down at her "What are you doing? We need to get back and do some work, or the rent won't get paid this month. Lucy's rent that is." Natsu says.

"Sorry, I can't move." Erza says, the snake tattoo having of now disappeared from her body.

"Oh yeah?!" Natsu says for some reason surprised by this, as suddenly a mischievous sharp toothy grin appears on his face and he chuckles.

"Eh? What's with that look?" Gaim questions.

And just like that all of a sudden, Natsu is all over Erza tickling her at different parts of her body while hopping around with the mischievous look still plastered to his face "You used to work me over pretty good! So take some of this!" Natsu says as Erza can't help but laugh as the tickling seems to have a pretty good effect on her, making her close her eyes as all the anger and sadness she had goes away.

Gaim seems to be taken back by this, but then comes to accept this as he grunts and chuckles happily. Eventually Natsu does stop making Erza regain her composure as she looks up at him "Natsu, Kouta, the two of you get away from here as soon as you can."

"Not a chance." Natsu says.

"What he said." Gaim agrees.

"If you can't do it, then I'll do it for you." Natsu says.

"And I still got things to finish with General Shadow. And if he thinks I'm going to fall for that little trick of his again he's got another thing coming. And once I'm done with him, if Natsu hasn't finished beating up Jellal by then I'll help out." Gaim says.

"Tch, yeah right. I'll beat up Jellal first before you can beat your guy up and then I'll have to come and help you out." Natsu says looking at Gaim.

"Oh really?" Gaim humorously asks.

"Stop. Jellal's got the advantage, you two don't know enough about him." Erza says making the two look down at her.

"So I can't win unless I do?" Natsu questions.

A tear gets ready to fall from Erza's left eye "Please, listen to me." she says as then the tear goes down her cheek.

Gaim looks up at Natsu who remains quiet, until he stands up picking Erza up with him "What are you?" Erza wonders.

"Erza, I don't know anything about you either. But...I can win!" Natsu says before suddenly pulling his right hand back and clenching it into a fist, and throwing it right into Erza's gut with enough force that almost immediately knocks her out.

"Natsu!" Gaim yells as Jellal gasps in shock at seeing this. Natsu drops Erza to the ground as she lays forward completely unconscious while her head looks to the left.

"You're even more outrageous than the rumors say." Jellal says.

"No shit even I have to agree with that! What the hell'd you do that for?!" Gaim angrily questions as he stands up and gets in Natsu's face.

"For her own good." Natsu says looking at Gaim with an unwavering look of determination in his eyes. One that takes Gaim back as he gasps, but then seems to accept what Natsu is saying with a nod.

"Had enough of hurting your friend when she can't move?" Jellal asks.

"Erza...was crying." Natsu says, clenching his right fist and engulfing it in flames. "She was giving up...And her voice was shaking...I don't want to see Erza like that. Erza should be strong and ferocious!" fire embers begin to blow around Natsu, his eyes closed and his hair waving in the wind that picks up due to his magic powering up "I want her to be her usual self when she wakes up from this nightmare." Natsu opens his eyes, his pupils having shrunk down as a gaze of absolute hate looks towards Jellal with his eyebrows furrowed and his veins popping out above his nose and his teeth clenched.

"I will fight!" Natsu declares as he and Gaim look towards Jellal.

General Shadow approaches Jellal's side as the two stare back at the two. "Interesting…" Jellal says as he raises his right hand with his palm facing upwards "Show me the dragon wizard's power!" Jellal challenges, bending his fingers backwards as a gesture for Natsu to come fight him.

"Let us finish this once and for all Rider." General Shadow says straightening his sword out and holding it in front of him.

"Let's do this Natsu, for Erza." Gaim says as he stands at the ready.

"Yeah…" Natsu says in agreement.

The two then launch themselves forward at the same time, Natsu throwing a massive fire engulfed fist forward and Gaim swinging his Sonic Arrow forward. Jellal turns sideways to dodge Natsu's attack while Shadow blocks Gaim's weapon causing the two to become deadlocked. As the Rider and Dai-Shocker general are deadlocked, Natsu swings around and throws a fire engulfed roundhouse kick at Jellal who seems to be taken back by the attack as it actually comes into contact with the side of his face and sends him flying, Natsu jumping after him. As Natsu gives chase both Gaim and Shadow push off of each other and jump back a few feet sliding to a stop.

"I've had enough, time for one last game that will finish you once and for all!" General Shadow states as he spins around and turns into a giant card. Just as more giant cards duplicate from it and form a circle around Gaim and begin spinning around at an incredible rate making Gaim already lose track of the card Shadow was in.

"What's it going to be Rider? Will you find the one card I'm in, or will the combined explosive power of all of my cards put an end to you!" General Shadow yells out as his voice echoes out from all the cards.

"Great, just what I needed. Okay...think. Gotta think, can't mess up now. Erza's life depends on this, and I won't let her down." Gaim says as he stands straight up and takes in a deep breathe before releasing it to calm himself down. Gaim takes out his Kachidoki Lockseed and unlocks it "Kachidoki! Lock On! Soiya! Kachidoki Arms: Iza Shutsujin! Ei, Ei, Oh!"

Transforming into his Kachidoki Arms Gaim takes out his DJ Gun and Musou Saber and combines the two into Taiken mode, following up by taking his Kachidoki Lockseed and placing it onto the weapon "Lock On!" The blade of Taiken mode becomes engulfed in flames as Gaim bends down, closes his eyes and readies his weapon. The cards continue to spin around Gaim who does not make a single move "Hm, fool." General Shadow says from the card he hides in.

"Time to end thi~s!" Shadow yells as he suddenly sends his card and all the other cards flying towards Gaim. Inside his helmet Gaim opens up his eyes, Gaim then turns around while swinging his DJ Gun Taiken mode and lets out a battle cry as the blade cuts across the giant card farthest away from the rest, sending sparks flying from the card as suddenly the rest of the cards disappear and the cut card flies past Gaim a few feet before coming to a stop. The card spins around and reverts back into General Shadow who stands with his hands to his side, the Dai-Shocker general drops his sword to the ground and slowly lowers his head to look down at the orange energy cut at his mid-section.

Gaim stands back up and shoulders his weapon "This...is far from over...Dai-Shocker...will rule the multiverse. And you Riders...will be no more…" General Shadow says. His last words before he drops to his knees and falls forward, a massive explosion erupts as the Dai-Shocker general is no more.

"And as long as Kamen Riders are around, you guys will never rule anything." Gaim says.

Just then Gaim hears Natsu cry out in pain making him turn to his right "Natsu?" Gaim calls out, just as then Natsu's body flies and crashes into the ground right next to Gaim. Gaim looks down to see Natsu's eyes blanked out, his body full of bruises "Natsu!" Gaim yells as he looks back forward to see Jellal. His coat gone as he wore a skin tight black tank top and was covered in a golden aura of light and was hovering just a few inches in the air.

"Hmph, so Dai-Shocker really is weak. How pathetic. However, if even the mighty Natsu Dragneel cannot defeat me. Then you should be no problem as well." Jellal says looking at Gaim.

"We'll just see about that!" Gaim yells taking his Musou saber out of his DJ Gun, reverting it back to normal as he quickly aims at Jellal and pulls the trigger. "Meteor." Jellal says.

Gaim's gun fires a shotgun-like burst, however in the blink of an eye Jellal disappears causing the shots to impact into a pile of lacrima. "Whoa, he's fast!" Gaim says in shock seeing what just happened, just as then Jellal appears behind him with a smirk "That's right." Jellal says as Gaim quickly turns around and fires again, only for Jellal to use his now immense magic speed to disappear again from Gaim's view and make his shots miss. Jellal comes in from behind Gaim and throws a punch into the back of his head knocking him forward a few inches, Gaim recovers however and fires at Jellal only to miss again. Jellal then comes in from his right throwing a punch across his face and continues to attack Gaim from multiple directions throwing Gaim all over the place as the Kamen Rider finds himself unable to keep up with this speed. Following a punch straight from the front which sends Gaim stumbling back a little bit and faltering onto his knees, Gaim pushes himself back up and changes the pitch of the DJ Gun to high and scratches the DJ Table as it plays the high pitched tune.

"Come on!" Gaim yells out as he begins wildly firing his gun rapidly like a machine gun at wherever he sees Jellal, holding his trigger down continuously as even with the increased speed of his gun he cannot land a hit on him. "Enough!" Jellal angrily yells as he appears behind Gaim, making the Kamen Rider throw his gun around though only for Jellal to grab and stop it before he can turn it all the way towards him.

"Now fall like your friend!" Jellal yells as he throws an uppercut into Gaim making him fly high into the air. Jellal chases after him and reappears in front of Gaim as he begins to deliver a speedy barrage of punches to Gaim who finds himself unable to do anything as he is continuously punched over and over again all over his body making him cry out in pain. Jellal's final downward punch sends Gaim blasting back down to the ground and crashing right beside Natsu.

"This is the end. I will show you true destructive magic." Jellal says as he puts his hands together. His right hand on top of the palm of his left hand as he holds his index and middle fingers up in his right hand "Be judged under the seven stars! Seven Star Blades! Grand Chariot!" Jellal yells as seven golden magic circles appear in the sky in front of him, forming the pattern of a constellation, almost like the big dipper as electricity surges from one to another connecting the magic circles. Each of the magic circles then fire down individually towards Natsu and Gaim, impacting into the ground and creating the same pattern before all of a sudden they explode, sending Gaim and Natsu flying up into the air as the two come right back down hard.

Lacrima debris falls all over the place from the attack as the smoke clears and Jellal lands back on the ground. Natsu is on the ground facing down with Gaim on his back as the both of them are unable to move from Jellal's attacks.

"That's a spell that destroys with the power of falling meteors. I'm impressed your bodies are still intact. Perhaps I went a bit overboard. It would be dangerous to damage the R-system any further. The magical power is starting to leak out." Jellal says as he looks at all the destruction caused from the fighting. Then looking over at the still knocked out Erza "I must hurry. Isn't that right, Erza?" Jellal sarcastically questions as he begins to walk over to her.

That is until a small pebble of lacrima lands next to his feet catching his attention. Turning around he notices the battered up Natsu have another pebble of lacrima in his right hand as he begins to push himself up, as is Gaim who also attempts to sit up as well using his Musou saber as support. Both of them are heavily beaten up, and almost completely out of energy as Natsu finds himself barely able to throw the pebble as it lands and bounces past Jellal, nevertheless he picks up another one and throws it hitting Jellal in his chest as he continues to just look at the two.

"That attack hit." Natsu weakly says.

"Hey, Natsu...you hear what he said though?" Gaim asks.

"Yeah...So breaking this tower or um, lacrima...That's bad huh?" Natsu asks with a mischievous look in his eyes as he looks at Jellal. Upon hearing this Jellal's eyes widen and he gasps in shock, knowing exactly what Natsu was getting at.

Natsu lifts himself back up onto one knee "Rotten luck for you!" Natsu yells as he raises his left fist and slams it down into the ground. Destroying the ground and sending some cracks splitting into different directions.

"Don't!" Jellal yells.

Gaim switches the tone to low and scratches the table as the tune now plays very lowly. Gaim then aims it at a nearby pillar and fires a massive shot, one that impacts into and causes a lot of damage to the lacrima.

"Didn't you hear Jellal…" Gaim says as he and Natsu stand back up.

"Breaking things happens to be Fairy Tail wizards' specialty! I'm all fired up! More than I've ever been!" Natsu states with his right hand engulfed in a big ball of fire.

"And right now, one of Fairy Tail's best people known for his destruction, is standing right here on this very important lacrima of yours. And, while I've never really done any destruction of my own, well except for one time perhaps against a tower almost like this one, I'm pretty sure it can't be that hard...right? Now then, time to destroy this stage!" Gaim says.

Jellal stares at the two full of complete anger "You bra~ts!" Jellal yells.


Back out in the ocean…

The sea remains calm once again as Juvia's Water bubble floats in the air giving the group inside of it a view of the new Tower of Heaven "I wonder if Natsu, Kouta, and Erza are okay?" Lucy says.

"They're fine. Because they're both Fairy Tail wizards." Happy says.

"And Kouta's a Kamen Rider, I'm sure they're all doing just fine." Fourze says.

"You've got that right. All we can do now is believe in them." Gray says.

Back at the tower…

"You little brats! I'll end this in an instant! I'll send you to Hell regretting the fact that you ever stood up again!" Jellal states.

"Heh, you act like that's the first time I've heard that. And every punk who's said that always ends up getting their ass kicked in the end. So you think you're different, you're wrong!" Gaim says raising his DJ Gun up.

"One thing I know is that I can be real stubborn. If you're gonna do it, then give me your best shot!" Natsu eagerly challenges.

Jellal summons a golden magic circle in front of him and sends a barrage of golden magic blasts towards the two "Split up!" Gaim says to Natsu as Gaim goes to his left and Natsu right.

The magic blasts split up as well as a few go after Natsu, the Dragon Slayer jumping to his right to avoid some of the blasts "Whoa there!" he yells as he continues running to avoid more of the incoming blasts. Gaim runs to his left jumping from side to side to dodge the magic blasts flying at him.

"Bring it!" Natsu yells as he launches himself into the air towards Jellal. Jellal swings his left arm across his chest and throws it outwards, sending a massive magic blast into Natsu which sends him sliding back across the ground. Natsu digs his feet into the ground to keep himself from flying as he tries his best to blow off the attack causing more destruction to the lacrima as his feet slides through the ground, just then nearby due to the bright light of Jellal's attack seems to stir up Erza as she opens her eyes to see what is happening.

Jellal waits to see what happens to Natsu when suddenly he is pelted from his right by a barrage of energy bullets driving him back to his left a little. As he turns to see who it is it turns out to be none other than Gaim as he stands on a block of lacrima "Didn't forget about me already did yah?" Gaim questions with his DJ Gun still aimed at Jellal.

"That all you got?!" Jellal questions as he sends another barrage of magic energy blasts towards Gaim who jumps up at the last second to dodge them. In the air Gaim changes the pitch of the gun to low and scratches the table to play the low tune. Gaim then aims at Jellal and fires a cannon-like blast forcing Jellal to jump up into the air to dodge the attack, but doing so causes a massive amount of damage to the lacrima "Go ahead and dodge all you want. But I'm still doing some damage to this place no matter what!" Gaim says angering Jellal as he clenches his teeth.

"Natsu!" Erza yells out catching Gaim and Jellal's attention as the two turn to see just as Natsu finally comes to a stop and breaks through Jellal's attack shocking him.

Natsu then charges forward towards Jellal with a grin while chuckling "What's wrong? That all you got? You scared of breaking' the tower so you're holding back? That ain't going to work on me bub!" Natsu yells.

Gaim meanwhile takes out his two Kachidoki Bata, twirling them around before then charging towards Jellal "Hold back all you want, fine with us since it means kicking your ass will be just as easy!" Gaim yells.

"You ain't gonna talk so big for long you brats!" Jellal yells holding his left hand outwards and angling it towards the center between the two as he casts another magic blast which sends Natsu and Gaim flying back. The two however recover as Gaim lands on his feet and comes to a sliding stop while Natsu rolls backwards onto his feet.

"Dazzling Blaze of the Fire Dragon!" Natsu yells as he creates a massive fireball and slams it into the ground causing more destruction to the lacrima as a pillar of fire erupts into the air.

"Let's go!" Gaim yells out with his Kachidoki Lockseed placed onto his DJ Gun "Kachidoki Charge!" Gaim then begins to fire one massive ball of energy shot after another all over the place causing even more destruction to the tower. Jellal covers his eyes at first but then lowers them and watches in horror as his tower of lacrima is destroyed piece by piece, lacrima debris flying everywhere and being destroyed due to Natsu and Gaim's attacks.

"They're...the tower…" Erza says realizing what the two were doing.

Eventually the pillar of fire disperses and Gaim stops firing his gun. Natsu lands back on the ground crouched down on one knee and breathes heavily from the use of all his attacks combined with the hits he's received from Jellal's previous attacks, but nevertheless has a massive satisfied grin on his face as nearby Gaim raises his gun upwards towards the ceiling while also in a tired state. Seeing what is becoming of the tower he worked so hard to build over the past eight years begins to make Jellal furious as he clenches his fists.

"The...The tower I spent 8 years constructing...How dare you!" Jellal furiously questions with a crazed look in his eyes with clenched teeth and sweat running down his face.

Natsu picks himself up, albeit stumbling around a little bit before regaining his balance "Well, what a shame...I told you remember? My specialty is destroying stuff. And by the looks of it, my pal Kouta has a knack for it to when he deems it necessary." Natsu says.

"Hehe, yeah. Ain't so bad when the place you're messing up happens to be the bad guys place. Can really be a fun way of taking your anger out on something." Gaim says.

Erza noticed however the way the two of them were panting, their shoulders constantly rising up and going down from their breathing "Natsu...Kouta...they can barely even stand…" Erza says in her head.

"You won't get away with it!" Jellal yells out, crossing his hands together into an X and then raising his arms above his head as another golden magic circle appears. Suddenly all the air around Jellal seems to be sucked into a vortex around him, and then blasted outwards in a strong gust of wind that continues to blow around forcing Natsu and Gaim to cover their eyes with Erza on the ground closing her eyes as their hair and clothing blow backwards from the tremendous force of the air. Erza opens her eyes and gasps at what she sees "What the?" Gaim questions.

"What's with this magical power? It's making me sick…" Natsu says.

In front of her Erza notices how "The shadows are extending backwards to the light source! Oh no! This magic is…"

"Fall into the infinite darkness, dragon wizard! Kamen Rider~!" Jellal yells as what appears to be a small black hole appears a few feet above his head sucking in the air around him.

"Jellal!" Erza yells at him as she suddenly appears in front of Natsu and Gaim with her arms extended outwards shocking the two. "Will you let me be killed as well?!" she questions, Jellal seeing this gasps in shock. Noticing the determined, unwavering look in her shaking eyes he knows for a fact that she is willing to take his attack to protect her friends as he powers his magic attack down.

"You need a body to resurrect Zeref correct?" Erza questions.

"Yes...It's a general requirement that the body be of a wizard about as powerful as one of the Ten Wizard Saints. But at this point, it doesn't have to be you anymore." Jellal says making Erza grunt in shock to hear him say that. "Die together, all three of you!" Jellal yells immediately resuming powering up his attack as above his head a giant black ball of dark magical energy reappears, one which seems to be getting much bigger as the air continues to get sucked in around it.

"Erza!" Gaim yells.

"Erza move!" Natsu yells.

"You have nothing to fear. I will protect you." Erza says.

"Stop i~t!" Natsu cries out.

"Erza don't!" Gaim yells.

"Heavenly Body Magic: Altairis!" Jellal yells as he throws his arms forward, sending the massive black magical energy ball flying towards Erza causing a path of destruction in its wake.

"ERZA~!" Both Natsu and Gaim cry out in horror.

Erza closes her eyes and crosses her arms in an attempt to try and block the attack, but also as to accept her fate...that is until suddenly a figure appears in front of her. A silver magic circle appears in front of the figure who turns out to be none other then Simon as he uses his magic to try and block Jellal's attack, seeing this shocks everyone including Jellal as they look on at him, Simon grunts in pain in his attempt to hold the attack back.

From the view outside a massive explosion suddenly erupts from the tower.

The others seeing this become worried for what has happened and continue to look on wondering what that was "It exploded!" Happy yells.

"Th-They're okay...Right?" Lucy questions.

"Depends on who or what caused that explosion." Wizard says.

Suddenly Sho puts his right fist to his heart and groans as if he was in pain "Sho, what's happening?" Millianna asks with concern noticing this.

Sho looks back at the tower "What is this unsettled feeling I have…?" Sho questions.

Back at the tower the smoke of the explosion begins to clear, showing Simon badly injured from the attack, his clothing torn to shreds with all his upper body clothing completely gone as he has a look of anger and determination on his face. Behind him Erza, Natsu, and Gaim look at the bruised and beaten Simon with shock "You're…" Natsu says.

As Erza looks at the way Simon stands, what he just did, it reminds her of what happened to Grandpa Rob all those years ago in the same Tower.

"Simon…" Erza says.

Simon leans back a little as he begins grunting in pain "Erza…" he says in a weakened tone before suddenly collapsing onto the ground "Simon!" Erza yells as she quickly rushes over and kneels beside him.

"Still crawling around here?" Jellal nonchalantly questions walking forward a few feet "You worm…"

"But, why? Didn't you escape?! Simon!" Erza tearfully questions as she can notice the weakened...no...dying look in his eyes as every breathe of his seems to be slow and painful.

"I-I'm glad...that I...c-could be...of help...t-to you...at last…" Simon coughs in pain. "I understand! Now, no more talking!" Erza pleads as tears appear in her left eye.

"You were...always...so kind…" Simon continues, his voice becoming quieter and his breathing raspier.

"Simon...Simon!"

Simon looks at her out of the corner of his eye, suddenly tears appear in his eye as then it closes and the tear drops down his cheek and his breathing...comes to a stop. His body goes limp and his head falls to the ground as Erza gasps in complete shock, horror, and sadness. Simon was dead. Natsu looks on silently with widened eyes, as does Gaim as behind his helmet his eyes are also widened in complete shock "Simon…" Gaim quietly says.

Tear drops begin dropping onto Simon's body, all of which come from Erza as her tears stream down her face with an absolute look of pain and agony as she whimpers, until she bursts out into a painful cry that echoes through the air and her head collapses onto Simon. All is quiet except for Erza's crying, that is, until Jellal begins chuckling, which then turns into full on laughter as he puts his right hand to his forehead and continues to laugh into the air.

"How pointless! How incredibly pointless!" Jellal throws his arms back "They call that throwing away your life Simon! This doesn't change a thing! Because there is no way anyone is leaving this tower alive!" Jellal says.

"SHUT UP!" Natsu cries out in absolute fury as he suddenly appears in front of Jellal and slams his fist right across Jellal's face, sending him flying far back and crashing into a slab of lacrima. The immense power behind the attack makes Jellal gag out in pain.

Gaim suddenly gasps, Erza then lifts her head and looks at Natsu and is taken back by what she sees as a wavy pillars of blue light suddenly appear around Natsu. Jellal recovers and looks forward, and gasps in shock at what he sees "He's...The crazy bastard is eating Etherion!" Jellal says as in front of him Natsu has a rock of lacrima which is imbued with the power of Etherion in it, and is eating the rock causing his body to be outlined with a blue aura of light.

Upon swallowing the lacrima, Natsu's eyes shoot open as they are completely glowing blue. Natsu lets out a battle roar and bends down with his fists raised up to his side as the air begins gathering around him until he throws his body up and lets out another battle cry with the air exploding outwards. Beams of blue light shoot out from some nearby cracks and gather around Natsu, as then everything dies down and Natsu slams his fists into the ground sending a powerful shockwave blast of blue magical energy towards Jellal which tears up the ground as it goes towards him. Jellal however jumps aside to dodge the attack.

Suddenly blue liquid comes out from Natsu's mouth as he seems to choke on something, Natsu puts his hands to his throat and begins gagging as he falls onto his knees and then plants his head on the ground, then falling over as he begins rolling around like he was in pain. "Natsu!" Gaim yells out.

"That's insane! Ethernano is fused with other elements than fire you know!" Erza yells at him.

Natsu sits up on his knees and continues crying into the air in immense pain "Did you seriously think you could power up by eating such powerful magic energy instead of flames? That kind of pea-brained thinking, will lead to your own downfall!" Jellal yells as he launches himself towards Natsu and throws his left fist out.

However Gaim appears in between him and Natsu and throws his right fist outwards, the two fists connect causing a massive shockwave that blasts outwards between the two.

"Out of my way!" Jellal yells.

"Unforgivable...How could you do that? Simon...HE WAS YOUR FRIEND!" Gaim yells in anger as he headbutts Jellal knocking him back a few feet and dazing him. Jellal recovers and looks back at Gaim, when his eyes go wide at what he sees as Gaim has closed the distance and throws another punch right into Jellal's face sending him flying back to the ground.

"HE WAS YOUR FRIEND! And not only do you kill him, but you have the guts to laugh at his death?! What the hell has happened to you Jellal?! Where's the Jellal that Simon, Sho, Wally, Millianna and Erza knew?! Where's the Jellal that saved Erza, the one that befriended her, the one that Erza loves?!" Gaim yells out.

"Shut it! That Jellal is no more! Only this one, who seeks to have his freedom from this accursed world!" Jellal yells as he stands back up.

"No more...No more deceiving people, your friends! No more deaths! This ends now!" Gaim yells as he takes out his Kiwami Lockseed.

"Fruit Basket!"

"Lock Open! Kiwami Arms: Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai Shogun!"

"This ends when Zeref is revived! Meteor!" Jellal yells as he is surrounded by a golden aura of light and launches himself at Gaim. Gaim tilts his head up a little as his visor suddenly glows, Gaim then reaches down and flips his Kiwami Lockseed "Melon Defender!"

The Melon Defender shield flies into Gaim's hand as he uses it to block Jellal's punch which still has enough force to make him slide back a little "What?!" Jellal says shocked to have had his attack blocked.

"Budou Ryuhou!" With the Budou gun coming into his left hand, Gaim aims it underneath the shield and blasts Jellal sending him flying back a few feet before then raising his gun forward and firing a few more shots hitting Jellal even more sending him further back through the air as he cries out in pain. Gaim discards the two weapons and flips his Lockseed again "Duri Noko!"

Summoning Kamen Rider Bravo's weapons into his hands Gaim launches himself after Jellal, Jellal recovers mid-air and throws his arms outwards sending a barrage of magic blasts at Gaim. Gaim however dodges them in the air as they fly past him and impact into various places with Gaim quickly closing into Jellal as he swings his right Noko at Jellal. Jellal quickly stops in the air and launches himself upwards making Gaim miss, Gaim looks up and quickly gives chase after him the two flying up into the air as Gaim soon manages to catch up. Jellal looks at Gaim and throws a left hook which Gaim blocks throwing his right arm up, Jellal does the same with his right fist only for the same result as Gaim blocks it with his left arm, the two then both throw a kick into the other's stomach sending them spinning backwards away from each other as they both then recover.

"Bananspear!" Gaim discards the Duri Noko for the Bananspear and then pulls up on the cutting blade "Soiya! Kiwami Squash!" Gaim flies towards Jellal as Jellal raises his hands and sends more magic blasts at Gaim. All of the magic blasts fly towards and impact into Gaim sending up a cloud of smoke, however Gaim flies out from the smoke without a scratch taking Jellal completely off guard as Gaim lets out a battle cry and jabs his Bananspear forward sending a banana shaped energy beam towards Jellal as it impacts into him causing an explosion which sends Jellal crashing back down into the tower.

Gaim lands back on the ground crouched down on one hand and knee and looks at the cloud of smoke as it disappears showing Jellal pushing himself back up panting "Im-Impossible…" Jellal says.

Just then the two hear Natsu cry out again as Gaim turns and looks towards him with worry "Natsu!" however suddenly when his eyes open back up they are now glowing red and fire erupts from the ground all around him. "What?" Gaim says wondering what's going on.

The fire suddenly takes the shape of a dragon which even lets out a roar, as then Natsu is now bent down and his eyes still glowing red, Natsu clenches his teeth as all of a sudden the skin around his eyes seem to begin turning almost scale-like! Jellal, Gaim, and Erza all gasp at what they are seeing "He's actually absorbing Etherion?" Jellal questions in complete shock.

In a split second Natsu launches himself forward and knees Jellal right in his face as a trail of fire blazes behind him. "Natsu…" Gaim says as he watches what just happened.

Natsu jumps onto a stalagmite and jumps off it towards Jellal "You're the reason…" Natsu slams his hand into Jellal's throat, breaking through the floor as then one floor after another Natsu has Jellal crash through each and every one while holding onto him "...that Erza is crying!"

Jellal cries out in anger and pain "I made a promise!" Natsu yells.

Flashback…

Simon turns and looks at Natsu with a smile on his face "Natsu, take care of Erza."

Flashback Ends…

"I MADE A PROMI~SE!" Natsu yells.

"You cocky bastard! Meteor!" Jellal says as he disappears from Natsu's grip, Natsu turns around to see Jellal flying away back up the tower. Coming upon two giant slabs of lacrima, Natsu slides in between them and plants his hands and feet into them making him slide to a stop as he quickly launches himself back upwards after Jellal.

"The Kamen Rider might've been able too, but I doubt you will ever be able to catch me at this speed!" Jellal says with a grin.

Natsu jumps from one falling piece of debris to another, until he reaches a certain distance that he launches himself off another debris and blasts himself upwards at an incredible speed using flames blasting out from his feet. This takes Jellal completely off guard as he is unable to react in time and Natsu slams his left fist straight into his stomach making him gag out in pain.

Back up top elsewhere the ground erupts upwards as Natsu and Jellal fly out from it "Impossible! I can't lose!" Jellal yells having recovered from the punch. Jellal knocks Natsu's fist away and twists around kicking Natsu in the chest sending him flying back downwards into a slab of lacrima. Jellal lands on and kicks off of another slab of lacrima into the air "I'm making a kingdom of freedom! Zeref whispered to me in my pain and fear…"Do you desire true freedom?" Zeref beckoned...That's right, only I can sense Zeref! I am the chosen one! Zeref and I will create a truly free kingdom together!' Jellal yells.

"And you'll make it by taking away other people's freedom?!" Natsu yells.

"Only ones with the will to change the world can make history!" Jellal yells sending slashing energy blasts at Natsu and Gaim who dodge the incoming attacks "Why can't you understand this?!" Jellal yells.

"And is all this worth throwing your friends' lives away?! The very people who love and care for you?!" Gaim yells.

"If they stand against me, then they are no friends of mine!" Jellal yells as he throws his right arm around in a pattern. Suddenly creating a massive magic circle that seemed quite familiar to the Fairy Tail wizards and Kamen Rider as Natsu and Gaim gasp in shock.

"Abyss Break? You fiend! You plan to destroy the tower as well?!" Erza yells up to him.

"8 more years. No, this time I'll finish it in 5. Zeref, wait for me!" Jellal says with a grin. When suddenly. Something happens to Jellal's stomach that causes excruciating pain to him, so much pain that it makes him stop in place before he can cast the spell "What is…" but then it hits him. Back to when Erza slashes him across the stomach, somehow it was affecting him now!

"What? I don't know what just happened but, Natsu!" Gaim yells.

"Yeah!" Natsu yells as he lights up his feet and blasts off towards Jellal.

Gaim pulls up on the cutting blade "Kiwami Squash!" Gaim then jumps upwards.

Jellal begins to fall back, the deconcentration of his causing the Abyss Break magic circle to disappear as he looks down and gasps at what he sees as Natsu and Gaim fly towards him "You will never find freedom!" Natsu yells.

"And if you're willing to cast your friends aside for it then you don't deserve it!" Gaim yells as he tilts back and aims his glowing right foot at him. The two fly side by side as suddenly Natsu's flames take the form of a dragon and an energy sphere shaped like an orange surrounds it.

"There is no such thing as freedom for somebody taken over by ghosts!" Natsu yells.

"If you wanted freedom you should've seeked it alongside your friends!" Gaim yells.

Jellal's eyes widen in terror as all he can see before it is a dragon made of fire inside of an orange-shaped energy sphere flying towards him "Free yourself first, Jellal!" both Gaim and Natsu yell out at the same time as Natsu throws his right fist forward and Gaim extends his right leg out. Natsu slams his fist into Jellal's face while Gaim slams his foot into his stomach, the two let out a battle roar as their attacks cause a massive explosion in the air. From the smoke Jellal flies out of it as he begins falling towards the ground crying out in anger and pain until he crashes into the ground again with so much force it sends him crashing through all the floors into the very bottom of the tower. The force of the impact also causes explosions throughout causing more destruction to the tower of lacrima and sends a massive pillar of smoke rising into the air.

"What in the world?" Sho questions as the others see this from Juvia's water bubble.

"What's happening?" Wally wonders.

"Heh, what else but our boys kicking ass." Double/Shotaro says.

"It has to be Natsu and Kouta." Happy says.

"Yeah, I agree." Lucy says.

"Nobody else could've caused something like that." OOO says.

"But, is that gonna be okay?" Millianna asks worryingly.

"It'll be okay...Or so I'd like to think. But they sure are going wild there." Gray says.

"Just means if anything the poor bastard must've done something to anger them a whole lot." Fourze says.

"Yeah, the problem is, what if that's the case?" Wizard says.

Back at the tower, at the very bottom of the place lies the defeated and knocked out Jellal in a smoking crater. After an attack like that, there was no way he was going to be getting up, and that was good. Meanwhile back at the top Gaim lands softly on the ground as nearby Natsu crashes back onto the ground on his hand and knees sending some dust and debris flying around him. Erza looks at where Natsu landed in awe as Gaim stands up and looks over at Natsu as well "This is...Natsu's true power. This is...a Dragon Slayer!" Erza says in awe in her head as Natsu stands back up with a serious look in his eyes.

"So...this is what Simon meant by Natsu's true power." Gaim says looking at Natsu.

"When Natsu obtains the true power of the dragons, he will destroy all evil before him!" Simon's words rang through his mind.

"The true powers of the dragons...with it he really can destroy all evil before him...Don't worry Simon, you're sacrifice was not in vain." Gaim says.


The smoke finally cleared away, the battle of the Tower of Heaven was finally over. "He even defeated Jellal…" Erza says as she continues to look over at Natsu just as Gaim walks over to him and puts a hand on his shoulder. The two nod their heads on a job well done before then turning and looking over at Erza, Natsu gives her an open mouth smile while Gaim gives her a thumbs up. Erza looks back at the two with an open mouth smile of her own, one of relief to see the two were okay and happiness for what they did for her "The battle I've been fighting these 8 years is now over."

Erza closes her mouth and looks down "Now, everyone is truly free."

"Hey!" Erza looks up upon hearing Gaim's voice, to see as Natsu begins to collapse to the ground which Gaim is able to quickly catch him putting his arm around his shoulder to hold him up.

"Natsu!" Erza calls out as she quickly rushes over to him.

"He's alright, just worn out is all. After all he did use a lot of power today, not to mention that stuff he ate probably didn't help things out in the matter." Gaim says.

"What about you?" Erza asks.

"Eh, I'll be fine. Let's get out of here first and I can get some rest later." Gaim says.

All of a sudden Erza puts her arms around the both of them, embracing the two in a deep hug taking Gaim off by surprise "You two are really incredible...Really…" Erza says quietly.

Gaim quietly grunts still in surprise, but warms up as under his helmet he can't help but blush a little "Hey, that's what friends are for. Everyone else would've done the exact same thing, no matter what." Gaim says.

As Erza continues hugging them, the entire place suddenly begins to violently shake and a blue light begins to brighten up from within the lacrima making Erza and Gaim both gasp in shock.

Back out in the ocean the others see as all of a sudden bright blue beams of light shoot out from the Tower of Heaven "Eh, what's with the light show?" Fourze asks.

"Meow, how pretty!" Millianna says.

"No, that's…" Wally says.

"I can feel a terrible magical power coming from that light!" Juvia says.

"Wait, what?" Wizard asks sounding concerned hearing this.

"Wait...Then that means…Could Etherion be going out of control?" Gray says.

"Out of control? Why?!" Lucy questions looking at Gray worryingly.

"The magical power of Etherion…" Sho says.

"Keeping that great amount of magical power in one place can never be stable for long." Happy says.

"And I'm guessing all that fighting just now didn't help out in keeping it stable for much longer." Double/Shotaro says.

"A turbulent vortex of magical power with nowhere else to go will burst out, causing a giant explosion." Juvia says.

"And with so much magical energy absorbed, when it goes off…" OOO says.

"Whoa! We'll be caught in it as well!" Wally says with tears and sweat streaming down his face while Millianna has terrified tears in her eyes.

"What about Sister and the others still inside?" Sho questions.

"This isn't about who's saving who anymore! We're all going to be wiped out together!" Gray states with clenched teeth.

Meanwhile inside the tower the magical power of Etherion begins bursting out of the lacrima all over the place as it continues to shake violently. "We gotta get out of here! Erza go, I got Natsu!" Gaim says as he lifts Natsu up onto his back, extending his left hand outwards to create a crack in front of them.

As the two begin to move, Erza suddenly stops and looks to her right making Gaim stop "Erza?" Gaim asks wondering what made her stop. Looking over where she is he then figures out why and gasps, off in the distance the body of Simon slowly begins to slide as the area he's in has already begin to collapse with his body heading towards an opened up crack in the floor.

"Simon…" Erza says with sadness.

Gaim doesn't like this, if they wait any longer they risk not getting out of the place before it explodes, but Simon… "Go…" Erza suddenly says catching Gaim's attention.

"What, but Erza." Gaim says.

"Just...go…" Erza says, herself knowing what unfortunately had to be done.

Gaim nods his head in agreement and the two begin making their way towards the crack. As for Simon, his body slides off and falls into the abyss below, a happy smile still remaining on his face as he disappears into the darkness. Gaim, and Erza approach the crack, when suddenly a massive amount of debris falls right onto the crack forcing the two to stop in their tracks.

"Damnit!" Gaim yells.

"Quickly, this way!" Erza says as the two turn to their right and start running.

All over them debris continues to fall and bursts of Etherion shoot out of the ground "Let's try this again!" Gaim says extending his right hand and using his Overlord powers to open up another crack. "Yeah! We're out of here!" Gaim yells as the two just about reach it, when suddenly a blast of Etherion erupts right next to them to their right sending the two flying into the air to the left as they cry out in pain. Erza hits the ground, followed by a still unconscious Natsu and then Gaim as Gaim rolls across the ground a few times and is forced out of his transformation letting out painful grunts upon coming to a stop on his back.

"Kouta!" Erza calls out.

Kouta attempts to get back up, his body bloodied, bruised, and batter, but unfortunately all of the fighting and damage he has taken finally catches up to him and he passes out.

"Kouta!" Erza yells out as around her and the two unconscious boys liquefied lacrima begins to appear swirling up around them. "Magical power strong enough to deform the container...The lacrima...That's even more destructive power than I had imagined. Even if we get outside, we'll be caught up in the explosion." Erza says in her head as the liquefied lacrima hardens up, and yet debris continues to fall and Etherion beams shoot up into the air.

"Damn it! Is this the end?" Erza angrily questions punching her left fist into the ground. Erza looks over at the unconscious Natsu, and Kouta, without Kouta's Overlord powers to create a crack there was no way they were going to get out of here, let alone if in her weakened state she was going to be able to carry the two anywhere to begin with. Erza looks at them with sadness in her eyes before turning away and then standing back up.

"No...There's no way I'll give up. Now it's my turn to save you, Natsu, Kouta." Another eruption of Etherion nearby forces Erza to cover her face from the force of the shockwave and flying debris. "But it's impossible to hold it back. What can I do?" Erza questions, when she gasps and remembers what Jellal had said before.

"The tremendous amount of magical power this lacrima now stores, will be fused into your body. Your body will be deconstructed and then reconstructed into Zeref's."

"Fused?" Erza says in her head with her eyes widening upon realization of something that could potentially be of help. She looks at a nearby slob of solidified lacrima to see her reflection "If I can fuse with Etherion, then can I control this power? Can I stop the explosion?"

A few seconds later, Erza plants her right hand on the lacrima "I've got to take the chance." Erza says in her head. Erza pushes onto the lacrima, at first nothing happens but then her hand passes through into it, seeming to cause her body some pain at first but she fights it and regains her composure.

"Good. The lacrima is still accepting me." Erza says as her arm begins slowly going into it.

Unknown to Erza nearby, Natsu begins to stir as his eyes open up and he notices what Erza's doing. Erza continues to push the rest of her arm into the lacrima, as then Natsu pushes himself up onto his knees with a worried look wondering what she was doing "Erza…" Natsu says.

Erza gasps hearing Natsu's voice, hoping that she would've gotten through this with him still passed out since she had a feeling of what was now going to happen "Natsu?"

"What are you doing? Erza...You're putting yourself into the lacrima?" Natsu asks.

"This is the only way to stop Etherion." Erza says.

"Stop Etherion?" Natsu questions since he had no idea what was going on, until a sudden violent shake makes him realize what is.

"Yes. Look around you. This tower will shortly explode as Etherion goes out of control. But if I can fuse with Etherion and suppress it."

Natsu gasps upon hearing what she was doing "What are you saying you idiot!? If you do that you'll-"

Erza cries out in pain, her right arm all the way in the lacrima "Erza!" Natsu yells as he gets up and attempts to run up to pull her out, but in his weakened state he falls right back down almost immediately.

"Don't worry about it anymore! I'll stop it for sure!" Erza says as she begins forcing the rest of her body into the lacrima.

"Don't!" Natsu yells out.

Erza now has her arms and lower half of her body in the lacrima, the process still causing her extreme pain as she cries out "Stop it! Erza!" Natsu yells now running towards her on his hands and feet but only managing to fall right at the feet of the lacrima she's in, still too exhausted to do much more.

"Kouta!" Natsu yells turning his head around, only to see the unconscious Kamen Rider making Natsu gasp and his eyes widen in shock.

"Natsu…" Erza says catching his attention. Natsu looks up at her as Erza manages to pull her left arm from the lacrima and put her hand to his chin, a sorrowful look in her eyes "I couldn't have lived without Fairy Tail. A world without my friends is unthinkable. You are all just that important to me." Erza says, sadness in her tone.

"Erza…" Natsu says.

Erza gives Natsu a saddened smile before pulling her hand away "If I can save everyone...then I do so without hesitation. Even if it takes this body…" Natsu's eyes widen in horror "...so be it!" Erza yells out one last time before being fully engulfed into the lacrima.

Erza's body begins to slowly float through the water-like insides of the lacrima, her hair flowing in the "water" of lacrima. "Erza! Get out of there, Erza!" Natsu cries out as he is on his knees pounding at the lacrima.

"Erza!" Get out of there!" Kouta's eyes begin to stir as he lets out a groan of pain, the voice of Natsu slowly awaking him as Kouta slowly opens his eyes wondering what's going on.

"Erza!" Just then Kouta's eyes shoot open upon hearing Natsu cry her name out, like something was going on. Quickly sitting up, Kouta looks over at where Natsu is and sees him pounding his fists against lacrima, though upon a closer look at the lacrima, he notices Erza inside of it floating away!

"What the, what's going on?" Kouta questions in shock.

"Erza!" Natsu stops upon hearing Kouta's voice and looks back at him "Kouta its Erza!"

Kouta pushes himself back onto his feet as best as he can, his body still weakened as he makes his way over to the lacrima "What's she doing? Erza!" Kouta yells.

Erza looks back at the two as they pound against the lacrima, screaming her name she knew but she could not hear them "Natsu, take care of everyone for me. Kouta, please, protect my friends, my family, my home. I'll always be by your sides." Erza says as she closes her eyes, accepting her fate and floats deeper into the lacrima.

Tears are in both Natsu and Kouta's eyes as they cannot believe what has just happened "No...this can't be!" Kouta says.

"ERZA~!" Natsu cries out as then all around them Etherion beams shoot up until one massive one erupts beneath them, fully engulfing them before it expands outwards.

Back in the ocean a massive bright light of Etherion shoots up into the sky as the whole place is glowing brightly "It's exploding!" Wally cries out.

Wally's eyes are widened in terror as Millianna clings onto him with the both of them crying out in terror while Sho, and Gray look on in shock "No, it's not! Etherion is heading up into the sky!" Gray states.

"What the hell's going on over there?!" Double/Shotaro questions.

"Forget that, where're the others?!" Fourze questions.

Lucy gasps in shock as just then a massive wave blasts outwards from the island towards them. The waves and shockwave from the force of Etherion sends the water bubble flying away "It disappeared!" Happy yells as everyone braces for the bumpy ride.

"Etherion went into the sky!" Sho says.

"Erza! Natsu~!" Lucy cries out.

"Kouta~!" all the Riders yell out.

The cries echo out as then the light of Etherion finally disappears and everything begins to calm down again.

Meanwhile…

In an unknown place…

Somewhere completely unknown, Erza who is now wearing a white dress with a yellow sash around the waist, slowly floats deeper and deeper in what appears to be water, perhaps the ocean? Bubbles meanwhile float upwards around her, and a bright white light shines above the water "Where am I?" Erza wonders. Deeper and deeper however Erza continues to float away, away from the light and down towards the darkness.


Q&A...A Really long one too considering XD.

To Commander: Depends on if I can see any opportunity for them to appear in this story or not. As of now I don't have any plans involving them but that may change depending so who knows.

To Tauros: I might have a planned arc involving them, though I haven't really given any thought to how it will go yet so we'll see what becomes of it or not. If I can think out a way for them to appear then yes, if not no.

To Guest: Uhm, no. I don't see that happening at all.

To Mr. 1000: 1)Depends on if it's possible or not. 2) Probably Juvia since non-physical attacks can't harm her and she has a lot more abilities. 3) Probably not. Haven't really thought about anything like that but if I see an episode or think of one with that involved maybe but as of now no. 4) Probably not since I plan on making this go through to the end of Fairy Tail and since the Riders are not with the wizards nor mentioned when they go to Middle-Earth obviously not. 5) Probably not. Depends again but as of now no.

To Mr. Goldenweek: Maybe...I was actually thinking of how I could do that since it would be awesome but as of now nothing. If anything it could be post-story as a sequel or something depending on how things go.

To Guest: Don't see how that's possible since I needed to conclude the Tower of Heaven Arc and stuff. And there aren't going to be any in the Battle of Fairy Tail arc, don't expect any cameos for a while that's all I got to say.

To Guest dv: Oh trust me I'm looking forward to that stuff too so hopefully I can reach it soon. Definitely hoping it doesn't take me till 2019, hopefully just late 2017 depending on how life goes.

To MaxGundam1998: If there's a place I will include it since I haven't yet. Yeah maybe in an upcoming chapter or something soon. Depends though since there would need to be a reason behind it obviously. Natsu getting sick just looking at Drive would be kind of hilarious XD. Maybe who knows.

To kaizero6: Well ask away. Hence this Q&A section.

To Clara Prime of Ultra: Uhhhhh...did you not read the notice or? Cause I clearly said I was cancelling that story. I'm sorry but I already said the reasons as to why. And I find it kind of ridiculous to keep the story up if I'm not even going to continue it so sorry.

To R98: Soon hopefully if school doesn't keep getting in my way. That would be cool, and with the finale coming up soon I can see if there's any possibility of something like one or all of Team Natsu becoming Riders maybe...even if it is for say like a one-time thing. So who knows, I know that would be awesome, though design/looks I would need some time to think about obviously XD.

To Alphazero524: Probably not since there would be no reason for it to appear or be used with all the Lockseeds he has.

To EclipsePheniox: I've already decided on the Riders who will be safe from the whole Anima thing and who wouldn't because of "certain factors"

To The Lady Anarchist: Pre-Timeskip most definitely Drive, post-timeskip would be close but I can see Drive pulling another win. I feel like he could face Pre-Timeskip just using his Type Speed, and Post with Type Formula. Where does that idea come in? I don't see it unless it's Double teaming up with Erza to face Evergreen which, it's just a team up because of what I have planned for the arc. Philip's not taking part in it.

To megastopper1: I know, the reason why was because I was using the words and whatnot from when everyone was in the dining room and that stuff in the Tower. But to make up for it I used a quote of OOO from the Phantom Lord Arc.

To thebigbrothershows: Well as we've recently seen that's not a problem anymore so Ex-Aid could totally use it by himself...but I'm sorry I don't think the Level 5 Form is THAT powerful. That's a little too much I mean. Sure it would be a little surprise factor but I think any of the Dragon Slayers would overpower it eventually, and Dragons...definitely saying too much cause if not even Dragon Slayers can take down a dragon with their SLAYING MAGIC then I don't see this being any different. Sure, it's powerful, but not that powerful.

To Skelotece: It'd be too early for them to appear, especially taking into account Drive's cameo appearance in Chapter 3 where it's mentioned he's still fighting the Roidmudes. And especially too early for Ex-Aid since his series isn't done. I already have their joining encounters all planned out, but they're not close to that yet.

To Gerard: 1) Well considering the time has passed since then yes XD. I've thought about it and see if it's possible to include the events of that movie but if not, let's just pretend it happened but a bit differently with just Drive there since...well yeah… 2) Unless there's a need too I don't see why it would need to be brought up. 3) Unfortunately as much as it would make sense to make the Magirangers include, I have never seen that series so that won't be possible. I've only seen in full: Go-Onger, Gokaiger, Go-Busters, and Kyoryuger and only a little bit of ToQger, Ninninger, Zyuohger, and am up to date with the latest, Kyuranger.