Tatenashi-san and I were sitting in a griffon I made out of ice. We were flying in the skies, trying to reach Bombard's ship. We figured that the only way to make Bombard surrender is to defeat their head, Orage. But to do that, we had to bust our way to the ship with force as their ship was in the middle of the sea.

"Zane-kun, I can see the ship! It's big when you look it from the top!"

"I see it too, so be prepared to jump."

"Huh? Jump?"

'"Of course! You think I would land this and gently escort you down like a princess? This is a fight!"

"Zane-kun, you meanie!"

At the shore...

"Are you ready, Kanzashi and Misaki-san?' Doranbolt asked.

"Yes. Thank you for helping Zane."

"Sorry to cause you trouble…" Kanzahi-chan apologised.

"Don't worry, I can handle this."

"Doranbolt, how's your side?" Jellal asked

"We're good to go, how's Zane?"

"We're fine." I replied.

"Then, let's get this battle started." I announced.

"Hey Zane-kun, are we really doing this?!" Tatenashi-san complained.

"Yup, and here we go!" I pushed her as I jumped down from the griffon. Jellal carried Meldy and used his Meteor to dash straight ahead to Bombard's ship. Doranbolt used his Teleportation Magic and teleported Kanzashi-chan and Mom to the ship.

"Zane-kun, how are we going to land?!" Tatenashi-san asked.

I grabbed her arm and pulled her closer to me. As soon as I see the deck of the ship, I started charging flames to my hand and released it to the deck. That reduce our impact from jumping down and we were on our feet as soon as we touched the deck. The ship flash freeze immediately from my flames. See, it's perfect.

"Oo, nice one Zane-kun, thanks!"

I turned around, and everyone was standing there already.

"Eh? You guys came first?"

Everyone nodded.

The crew were shocked by our sudden arrival even though they prepared for it. But, some of them weren't fazed at all. The Bounty Hunters. Those people are definitely a league of their own.

"So you people came back, but with two more people this time…."

I turned back again and saw Kazuha standing alongside a few people. Guess they are all Bounty Hunters. Not to mention we were totally surrounded by Bombard members.

"I will take the Icecrafter guy while you all take down the rest." She commanded.

"Who do you think you are! We don't take orders from you!" Neo shouted.

"Then, you can defeat him? Can any of you here could defeat an Icecrafter?"

He silenced.

"Kazuha? Is that you.. Kazuha?!" Mom teared up again. Must she cry every time she sees her child?

"That attitude… You must be my mother huh. You have some nerve to show up after abandoning me."

Kazuha's turned furious, glaring at Mom.

"Everyone, I will bring back Kazuha, then I will join you guys." I said.

Kazuha waved her hand. An ice wall showed up and isolated the two of us. I don't even know where are we after the ice wall was created. All I could see was a big ice dome and Kazuha.

"Kazuha, how did you end up here?" I always wanted to ask her that.

"Don't ask that. You should already know if you met her. She was the one who left me to die! That woman left me to Bombard to run away from them! I was caught back alive. I was about to be kill by them but then Orage-sama let me live, for one sole reason, to kill the rest of my family!"

"Kazuha! Mom wasn't as strong as us now, it wasn't her fault! Could you just forgive her? I already forgave her, you should too!"

"HAH?! Strong? You both are as useless as I was when I was captured!"

Kazuha got even pissed off and started launching ice spikes at us. I quickly drew out FrostEdge, cloaked it in flames and sliced them up. But, as soon as they were sliced in half, they reshaped into smaller spikes and continue charging at me.

"Roar of Ice Dragon!" I blew away all the spikes with my flames. I used up too much magic to create enough flames to blew them back. I had no choice but to call out Gabriel and try to end the fight as soon as possible.

"Zane-sama! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, can you take her down? My magic is useless against her. I will support you as much as possible."

"I got it." Gabriel drew out her scythe.

"What this? Your own slave? You're just as disgusting as those Bombard guys."

"How dare you badmouth Zane-sama! He saved me and I decided to follow him!"

Gabriel shot fireballs at her. Kazuha created a shield to guard against herself, but the shield was devoured by her flames. Gabriel continued by attacking with her scythe. Kazuha quickly dodged her attacks and back up. She more agile than I thought.

"Go, Fenrir, devour everything." She created a ice wolf and it started attacking Gabriel. Gabriel fought against that wolf like its nothing! She could slashed the wolf in half easily due to her magic. She is indeed a good matchup against Kazuha.

Gabriel was busying taking down Fenrir that she didn't noticed the ice blades targeting her. I got up and sliced them in half before they could reach Gabriel.

"Zane-sama! Thank you!"

"Gabriel, quickly burn those blades!"

She swing her scythe and burn down the blades. Then, she created a tornado made of her flames and targeted Kazuha. I froze Kazuha's legs to prevent her from dodging the attack.

"Burn her down! Hellish Tornado!"

The tornado made impact and exploded. It's was a big explosion. There was smoke everywhere in this confined space. Soon, the smoke slowly faded. There was a big hole on the ice dome. Where's Kazuha?

Tatenashi-san and the others were still fighting the rest of the Bounty Hunters. Mom joined the fight too, although she was only fighting in the rear to protect Kanzashi-chan from the grunts. Suddenly, the surroundings of those two turned cloudy and the world is spinning around them.

"It's an illusion... But... It's...making me sick."

"Is...there...anything we could...do?" Mom was feeling nauseous from that.

"Where's Seraph? We.. have to stop.. this quickly." Doranbolt was about to topple over from the dizziness.

"Mirror.. Where's the mirror he planted?" Jellal looked around, but he couldn't focus.

While everyone was getting nauseous, Tatenashi-san stood there calmly.

She called out Diana and asked her to shoot out light rays in all directions. There was a reflection, showing where was the mirror. She then pointed her lance due west.

"Hydro Lance Burst!" A water lance bursted out of nowhere and shattered mirror, clearing the fake image. It's was Tatenashi-san.

"Are you guys okay?!"

"We're fine."

"Anyway, what happened to Zane-kun?" Tatenashi-san looked at the ice dome as smoke was emerging from it.

Back in the ice dome...

"Gabriel, where are you?"

"Zane...sama...I'm sorry…" I heard Gabriel behind me. When did she get there?

As I turned around, I saw Gabriel, with half of her body was covered with ice spikes. Someone was behind her. It was Kazuha. She was holding her up and she kicked her down.

"Gabriel, return back right now!" I forced Gabriel to head back to her realm. She disappeared into particles after the magic circle on my hand glowed.

"Kazuha... Why must you do this…. Can't you forgive Mom?"

I drew out FrostEdge, charged flames in it and charged right at her. She created a pack of wolves and move aside.

"Forgiving her? That must be a joke! I suffered enough thanks to her!"

"She suffered too! She hoped that you could give her a chance to make it up for you! All the actions she did was just to find you, and to see you again!" I used Seiun Sword Style: Full Moon Strike to knock back every wolf and charged towards one of them and used Metor Jab to defeat it. The other got back up and continued attacking.

Kazuha launched a wave of arrows at me. I can't dodge it and I got knocked back into a corner. The wolves charged at me, more arrows are coming my way.

"Btoooomm!" Almost half of the dome froze into icicles.

"Ceh, just a big talk. You can't even defeat me."

"Then, if I defeat you, you're coming back with me." I was standing on top of an icicle, while holding an ice bow loaded with an arrow that had it's tip burning with my flame. Then I fired the arrow at her before she could react. The arrow turned into a ice ball while the flame extinguished! Then my bow turned into an eagle and struck me. She could control my ice too?

She can consume my ice, control my ice, but I can't do any of that! The only magic I can use now is the flames from my Ice Dragon Slaying Magic. If this was a magic battle, I can't defeat her. Wait, this isn't a magic battle, there are no restrictions...

"Damn it, my ice won't work against you."

"You're right. You're the one who should give up now."

"Nope, I won't give up until the end!" I charged at her and swung my sword at her. She backed up and made ice cannons and shot me. It was too slow! I could dodge it!

I continued attacking with just FrostEdge and my flames. Those are they only things Kazuha can't manipulate. But this still can't help me win! Kazuha who can control ice has more advantage since ice is her magic. How can I counter it?

There must be a way...

"Listen, Zane, you are an Icecrafter, one who can control ice. With ice, we can create our own victory, our desired future. We are not bound to destiny even though we are from an ancient clan." Mom words were ringing in my ears.

That's it! I'm an Icecrafter!

"Hey you! Pay attention when you're fighthing. If not, you will meet your demise! Destroy him, Ice God's Imprision!" A gush of energy surrounded me. I was paralyzed by that so I can't move. On top of my head was an big icicle and I was surrounded by ice spikes too. The ice zoomed towards me. Time to test it out.

The ice made impact, but it didn't freeze up. Instead, a gush of mist was released.

"W…what?"

"Got you,' I walked out of the mist, launching a barrage of ice swords at her. She controlled it, turning in into arrows and shot back at me. Before, the arrows could reached me, they stopped.

"I found out your trick, Kazuha."

"How did they stop?" She was astonished.

The arrows shattered. She was confused and clouded in anger. She created another pack of wolves and this time with ice golems too to attack me. I used FrostEdge to slice the wolves up while dodging the golem's attacks.

Suddenly, the golem changed shape...into multiple cannons.

"Take this! Ice Make: Cannon Blast!" The cannons launched beams of light at her. She couldn't dodged it and took the damage. Finally, I was able to deal some damage to her.

"Aaahhhh!" She flew back against a wall.

"Give it up now, you couldn't win me."

"Lies! It's all lies!' She shuddered in fear.

"I knew how to use my power to my full potential now, well not fully maybe, thanks to Mom. As an Icecrafter, we can control ice, no matter what the source is. You knew that and used it to manipulate my ice, but now I know how to use my powers, it's useless now. Ice won't we any use to us in this fight!"

"I….I won't give up, not until I beat you... Be...because... Orage-sama...wants to ...kill you!" She got up and created a bunch of eagles, arrows, dragons, golems and blades and fired them at me.

"Secret Dragon Slayer Art: Final Force- Vortex!" I charged flames into my hands, and made a fire ring with it. Then, I concentrated flames in the middle of the ring. The flames of the ring reacted and created a vortex. The vortex absorbed all the ice.

Kazuha was shocked.

"Ice Make: Hailberd Storm!" A big wave of small ice spikes from the ice I absorbed just now were shot out towards her. She couldn't control all this ice at a short time. The attack hit and defeated her in one shot. Her surroundings were covered by ice spikes.

"I…lost…" She collapsed. I caught her before she fell to the ground.

"I….lost... Orage-sama is going to kill me…" She began taking in fear.

"Don't worry, I will never let that happen. I will protect you and Mom, and defeat Orage."

"Onii-san…"

"On Mom's behalf, I want to ask you this. Will you forgive Mom?"

"I'll try talking to her.."

I smiled in response. She finally let it go...

Slowly the ice dome started to crumble. We have to get out of here quickly!

"Give it up! You're totally outnumbered!" NightRain said. He's one of the Bounty Hunters, the one who claims to control water.

"We prefer quality over quantity!" Tatenashi-san said as she used Wing Strike of Water Dragon at him.

Seraph and the grunts were holding off Jellal and Doranbolt. Meldy and Tatenashi-san were fighthing NightRain and Neo. The grunts had seperated the girls, making them harder to take the Bounty Hunters out.

"Onee-chan! On your left!"

Neo was shooting lighting bolts at her. There's too much bolts to dodge! If Tatenashi-san used magic, it will be exploded.

"Freeze."

The bolts turned into ice, Nao was frozen too. An ice griffon landed and turned into ice blades within an instant. The blades flew straight at the grunts and took them out.

"Don't you dare to touch Tatenashi-san, I will kill you." I stood at the edge of the ship, carrying Kazuha. She was unconscious.

"Zane-kun!" Tatenashi-san ran towards me.

I kicked the frozen Nao into the sea. He wants to undo the magic he will just get caught up into it. I lay Kazuha down, next to Mom.

"Kazuha... You're back. Thank goodness!" Mom hugged Kazuha.

"Take care of her. Kanzashi-chan, how's it going?"

Now, there's only two Hunters left, we can defeat them!'

"I see, Meldy, help Jellal. Tatenashi-san, support me. Kanzashi-chan, try to look for Orage, the master of Bombard."

"Got it!" The girls replied and took actions.

There are a few things running in my head now. Where's the last Hunter? How strong is Orage?

"Zane Jullian, it's been a while since I saw you…." NightRain said.

"Who are you? Your scent is pretty familiar, I noticed it when we fought." Tatenashi-san asked back.

"How forgetful you guys are. Does the name Extort bring up any memories?"

"Extort? What does that have to do?"

"Zane-kun... They...they are Extort Generals... He's Yashiro! Nao is Neo, and Seraph is Kuroka? Wait, isn't Kuroka a girl?"

Now that makes sense! The magic they used are pretty similar to the Generals. But now they got even stronger since we last fought. Still, Tatenashi-san's right. Kuroka is the illusionist of Extort, but she's a girl.

"You're smart. Seraph is Kuroka's twin brother. He wants revenge from you people. We, the leftover Generals escaped from being caught and found Bombard. They were the ones who saved us."

"Then I just have to send you back behind the bars again without failing this time!" I said.

"But still, I never knew you were this strong. After hearing about Icecrafters from Orage-sama, now it makes sense how you defeated Xanxus."

"Ceh, I defeated him without knowing I'm an Icecrafter myself, so it doesn't matter."

"Um, Zane-kun? Are you boasting? If it is, that's pretty lame…."

"Who cares, with my new powers, I will defeat you this time!"

The place started raining. The sea was getting rougher. A powerful presence is surging. He grew that strong since the last time we met?

"Water Titan's Fist!" A wave of water formed a giant fist behind him appeared and started heading towards me. It's moving pretty fast I had to say. I quickly dodged to the side and tried to freeze it. Before I could freeze it, it loses its shape and collapsed. What happened?

"You fell for it, it's there!"

The water on the floor rose back up and turned into smaller fists and started punching me. I can't keep on dodging it! If I do, I will fall into the sea which gives him more advantage.

"Hydro Cannon!" A bigger wave of water appeared and washed away the fist. It swallowed the fist and turned into a bigger stream of water. The water continued to rush at him. Then, it stopped.

"Thanks, Tatenashi-san."

"Mhahahaha, I shouldn't have say that you're smart... Realise it! I'm a Water God Slayer! You Dragon Slayers don't even stand a chance!"

We were all shocked. He's a God Slayer now?