HELLO! I am back! I hit a small road bump, but I am over it and I was planning to post this today anyway, but something happened last week that has lit a fire inside of me again with my writing. CLONE WARS IS RETURNING! I was in tears on Thursday when I found out this was happening, and I am so excited to see what the final season will be! So I am dedicating this chapter to the return of the Clone Wars TV Series!

Last time: The group found a base, called for help, and were attacked.

Now: The Final Battle is about to begin!


Chapter 28- Team Natsu vs Dooku

An explosion erupted, illuminating the dawning sky. Anakin turned on his heel to see that it was the watchtower that they had been using as their temporary base was up in smoke. Anakin cursed.

"What was that?" Jac asked. The Jedi Master was with him, slicing another droid up.

"Looks like our base is toast," Anakin commented under his breath.

"Should we go check on Obi-wan and the others?" Jac asked as the force threw a droid across the street.

"No, I can sense that they are not in the building, but if they were trying to be discreet," Anakin complained. "They are not doing a good job at it."

'But don't you sense him?" Jac asked referring to the other life force that was over there.

"Why sense him, when I can smell his stench from miles away," Anakin joked.

"Is that anyway to talk to your elders?" a voice rang.

Suddenly all of the fighting came to a halt. Everyone looked towards the voice. Walking toward them was Count Dooku, thrown at his feet was an injured Obi-wan being crushed by a Magna Guard foot. The same guard was holding a squirming Wendy and a very angry Carla, who was being held by her tail. The other guard held both Lucy and Sasha by the neck.

"LUCY!" Natsu cried when he saw her.

"WENDY!" Erza called out before glaring down the count.

"Sasha!" Ahsoka and Cayden called out at the same time.

"Carla, are you okay?" Happy asked concerned.

"Do I look okay!?" The white cat snapped back.

"Geez, you don't have to bite my head off," Happy mumbled.

"Let them go, Dooku," Anakin demanded.

"Not a chance, young Skywalker. I will only release Master Kenobi and his padawan once I have what I want," Dooku said. "Hand over the wizards and your Jedi friends shall go free. Refuse? And I shall kill them both. Starting with Kenobi." He activated his saber and pointed it at her Master.

"You leave him alone you son of a bi…" Sasha threatened before the grip on her neck was tightened.

"So what is it to be?" Dooku asked.

"We would rather die fighting to save our friends then hand ourselves willing over to you," Erza said as an energy was almost radiating from her. It was pure rage and the will to fight for her friends.

"Then Kenobi will die," Dooku said after a moment of silence.

He raised his saber and brought it down on Obi-wan. However, it stopped mere centimeters from the Jedi's head.

"Anakin, if that was any closer, I would have a bald spot on my head," Obi-wan commented as he slowly came to only to see a blue saber blocking a red one that was WAY too close for comfort.

"Shut up, old man and let me save ya," Anakin said as he glared down the Count.

"Impressive, young Skywalker," Dooku said with a small eyebrow raise. "You may have saved him this time. But luck will only get you so far."

"I don't need luck to defeat you," Anakin said.

Anakin heaved the Count away from Obi-wan and slashed at the old man. However, Dooku evaded his blade, but Anakin was able to at least knock the Magna Guard holding Obi-wan back, freeing the Jedi Master. Obi-wan rolled to his feet and summoned his saber from Dooku's belt. It flew into his hand and activated. He slashed at the Magna Guard that had held him down but that was still holding Wendy and Carla. The guard split in two and released the girls. Wendy helped Carla up and they moved away from the close action.

While that happened, Sasha then managed to escape the droids grasp. She snagged her saber off it, activate it, and then disarm, literally, the droid in order to free Lucy. The guard pulled a blaster and shot at Sasha from close range. The blast managed to graze Sasha's cheek as she dodged it and kicked the droid. The droid was knocked off balance and onto the ground. Lucy, now free, took a deep breath as she rubbed at her throat. She pulled out her whip and lashed at the droid, destroying what remained of it.

Back with Dooku, he returned the attack at Anakin, but the Jedi Knight was able to dodge the Counts attack. However, Dooku raised his hand and sent Anakin skidding backwards to where he started. Jac saw this then charged for the Count, saber active. He swung his saber at the old man and managed to knock Dooku's saber out his hand. Dooku hissed as his arm now had a nice cut from Jac's saber, but it wasn't anything Dooku couldn't handle.

Gray, who had been the closest wizard to Dooku, spotted his saber on the ground. He used an Ice Make Claw and snatched the saber off the ground.

"Return that to me, boy," Dooku demanded.

"Oh this?" Gray asked as his ice claw held the saber. "I don't think so."

Gray squeezed his ice claw and snapped the saber hilt in half. No one could believe their eyes that Gray did that. Dooku seethed with rage and force pushed the Ice Wizard backwards. Gray flew and landed near Ahsoka's feet. She launched herself towards the pissed Sith Lord to stop him from harming Gray. She pointed her saber at the unarmed Count.

"Surrender, Dooku," Ahsoka demanded.

Dooku didn't listen to her and instead managed to disarm her of one of her two sabers and knock her back. Anakin rushed over to aid his padawan and swung again at Dooku, hoping to disarm him of Ahsoka's saber. However, Dooku was able to evade him and grabbed him with the force. He then threw Anakin across the way with the force into a scrap pile of droids.

Obi-wan threw half of the Magna Guard he had cut at Dooku, hoping to distract him. It sort of works. The droid missed the target, but Obi-wan was able to charge forward and kick Dooku's legs out from under him. Dooku managed to recover his footing as he fell. He then maneuvered to attack Obi-wan. He managed to slash him across the chest then force push him backwards. Obi-wan flew back and into a wall. He slummed over in pain.

"Obi-wan!" Jac called.

Jac then turned towards Dooku, who wasn't even breaking a sweat, and charged forward. He too tried to attack the Sith Lord. Dooku blocked it, but just barely. Part of Jac's saber nicked the Count's shoulder. However, Dooku pushed Jac back and busted his saber in the process. Jac skidded back and cursed. Now his saber was damaged. Jac looked up from his damaged saber to see Dooku's boot coming for his face. Jac then collapsed to the ground, unconscious.


Meanwhile, Erza reequipped into her Speed Armor and rushed forward towards her captive friends, slashing at group of droids in her way. The group fell to pieces as she slashed through them. Natsu was also on a path toward his friends. A destroyer droid that had been attacking him was slashed in half by Natsu's Fire Dragon Talons as he charged forwarded. And finally, with the same goal in mind, Cayden charged forward with his saber in hand, slashing through a group of droids.

Wendy and Carla, on the other hand, backed away towards the battle droids as they knew they could lend aid there. Wendy took a deep breath and let out a Sky Dragon Roar. That sent the droids backwards. Carla sprouted her wings and grabbed a thermal detonator on the ground next to here that a broken droid had been holding. She took off into the air, activated it, and dropped it on a group of droids. The detonator went off and blasted those droids away.

The group of droids that Wendy blew away started getting up and fired at her. Wendy jumped for cover and the blasts missed her. From cover she could see another group of droids shooting at Natsu. The Fire Dragon Slayer maneuvered out of the way, but a couple of bolts seemed to nick him. However, that didn't stop him. A moment later, Happy flew over and grabbed Natsu. Wendy was relieved then a second later a worried Erza appeared above her.

"Are you alright?" Erza asked.

"Yeah, I'm okay," Wendy said.

"Good there is still more droids to take down," Erza said as she reequipped her weapons to her Lightening Empress spear.

She shot a large bolt of lighting at the group of droids that were shooting at her and Wendy. The large bolt zapped the droids and caused them to short circuit and shut down.

"Let's go take care the last of them and then go aid the Jedi," Erza said as she switched her weapons back.


Back with the Jedi,

Sasha was knocked to the ground, clutching her wounded leg. Ahsoka lashed at Dooku again to get her saber back. Her saber missed as the Count moved in and knocked her back. She was down for the count. Cayden was the last Jedi standing. Somehow, Dooku managed to fight off everyone of the Jedi. Cayden guessed that because his precious saber was broken, Dooku was on a rampage. Either that or he just was always that powerful and they have been underestimating him the whole time.

Cayden was exhausted, but he had to bring Dooku down. He pointed his saber at the Count.

"Give up, Dooku!" Cayden demanded. "You may have taken down the others, but you are still out numbered. You cannot win this battle."

"You underestimate me, child," Dooku said. "Now prepare to meet your end."

Cayden attacked Dooku with the last of his strength he had. Dooku managed to parry the attack and push Cayden back. However, the push was enough to bring the padawan to his knees, out of breath.

Dooku took a deep breath and turned to the Fairy Tail wizards, who just finished off the rest of his droids. He held his arms out.

"These are the fools you call your friends!" Dooku barked. "They were all taken down by my hand. I will kill them myself… unless… you surrender yourself to me."

"I don't think so," Erza said. "You still have to go through us."

"Don't test me, girl," Dooku said. "I will take each of you down like I did these Jedi and I will start with the boy who broke my saber." He pointed Ahsoka's saber at Gray, who had a nice cut across his chest. "So surrender and I shall spare you."

"Not a chance, grandpa," Natsu snarled.

"So be it. This is where you meet your end, Wizards."

Dooku raised his hands and unleashed a blast of lightening at Gray. Gray immediately threw up an Ice Make Shield. The lightening bounced off and shot in multiple directions, including towards Wendy.

"Wendy look out!" Carla cried.

Wendy prepared for the impact, but it never came. She opened her eyes to see Natsu standing there. He took the hit.

"NATSU!" Wendy cried.

"You are a fool, boy," Dooku said with a chuckle.

"Damn it, Natsu!" Gray called as brought down his shield.

Suddenly, Natsu started laughing.

"Man that stuff tastes awful," Natsu chuckled. "And I thought Laxus had some disgusting lightening. I think this beats it."

Dooku looked at Natsu dumbfounded. The wizard just at his lightening.

"What manner of creature are you?" Dooku asked appalled.

"I'm a Fire Dragon Slayer," Natsu said. "Now, LIGHTENING FLAME DRAGON BRILLANT FLAME!"

A large fire ball made of fire and lightening was launched at the Count. Dooku brought his hands up to block it with the force. He lowered his hands as the flames dispersed, but on the other side of them was a blast from Gray's Ice Make Cannon. It hit him and knocked him backwards. He looked up from the ground and was about to get up only to discover he couldn't. He was being held down by chains that sprouted from the ground.

"Where did these come from?!" Dooku asked confused.

"Nicely done, Virgo," Lucy said as she high fived the spirit.

Dooku looked over in raged. He was about to use the saber to break himself free, but Happy flew by and snatched it from Dooku's hand. Once it was gone, Dooku looked up to see an electro staff pointed at his throat.

"Surrender, Count," Erza demanded. "You have lost this battle."

Dooku glared at her. He then looked around at the wizards as they gathered around him. Natsu had his fists on fire. Gray had a large ice sword ready and resting against his shoulder. Wendy and Carla were standing by with their arms folded. Lucy had her whip at the ready as Virgo cracked her knuckles. And Happy was flying up above with Ahsoka's saber in his paws.

Dooku looked down. He was tired, exhausted, and… defeated. He conceded the battle. And just as the sun peaked over the horizon.


WAIT WHAT?! DOOKU SURRENDERED?! Damn that was a fun chapter to write! Tune in next time to find out what actually happened to Dooku's saber!