Chapter 36 the true power of darkness.
"What should I cut first baby? Your arm or your leg?" Cancer questioned Erza maliciously.
"Just try it crab requip! Flame empress armour!" Erza charged cancer flames roaring from her blade.
Erza slashed at cancer but his enhanced agility allowed him enough speed to dodge. Despite him dodging Erza's fire, cancer was still caused pain.
"Requip soaring armour. Erza rushed behind cancer striking him in the back with her dual swords.
"Hmm looks like you're tougher than you look baby." Cancer glared at Erza in anger as he removed his broken sunglasses and grew out his 4 other pincers from his body.
Erza jumped onto the roof of the nearest building above cancer.
Requipping once again as she descended the building running down the wall of it.
"Requip Japanese cloth! The way to defeat you, is to use no defence whatsoever!"
As she descended the building, a crimson light appeared around her hip as the legendary Benizakura lay in between her fingers.
Low enough, Erza jumped from the edge of the building descending down at cancer like an atom bomb. Dropping further and further, Erza spun at great speed like a buzz-saw at cancer.
The crimson death wheel approached cancer inches away from him.
The shadow crab put all his pincers out grabbing the eviscerating wheel hindering its speed as he slowed down the path of the blade.
Erza grinned predicting cancer would take this course of action.
"Requip flame empress armour!" All of a sudden, cancer was struck by numerous flames from Erza's mighty sword.
Despite the pain cancer didn't let go.
"That's right don't let go." Erza thought to herself.
"Photon slicer!" Erza quickly requipped summoning lighting upon her opponent.
Cancer couldn't fathom Titania's amazing requipping speed as every inch of his body became infused with volts of lighting.
Cancer stood his ground regardless.
"It's not over yet Titania!" Cancer and Erza charged each other as they began to exchange blows again.
"You may have a pretty face, but let's see if you have what it takes to take me on little girl." The frightening dominatrix said as she equipped her shocking surprise.
"Don't underestimate me I'm a fairy tail wizard as well." Lisanna said unable to help but feel slightly offended.
Lisanna transformed using her take over magic into her rabbit soul.
She charged at Virgo with a powerful head butt.
Virgo dug a hole piercing her way through the earth as she travelled underground.
Lisanna looked from left to right switching to her tigress form using her advanced hearing to her advantage.
Lisanna closed her eyes listening to the subtle vibrations underneath her as she predicted where Virgo should submerge from.
Lisanna jumped forwards as Virgo reappeared right underneath her. Shattering the earth around her.
Lisanna smirked as Virgo looked puzzled as to how Lisanna guessed correctly where she would appear. Virgo slammed her hands down on the ground using the shattered earth from her previous ascension to seal Lisanna.
The earth soon shattered again when Lisanna transformed again.
"Take over penguin soul!" Lisanna dropped at an increased rate due to her change in mass.
Virgo readied her cattle prod as Lisanna descended.
Virgo's eyes became highly focused on her prey that neared her inch by inch.
Lisanna began shape shifting again now being consumed by light energy. Virgo struck Lisanna with her cattle prod assured that she had no escape.
Virgo's eyes soon shot wide open when she saw a shock ball countering her cattle prod.
"Take over Shockadillo soul!" Virgo had no choice but to be pushed back by Lisanna's sheer awesome force from her armoured form.
As Virgo made impact with the shock armadillo, she was hammered through with numerous volts of electricity.
Lisanna changed again seeing this as her chance. Lisanna changed into her tigress form using her speed to unleash a combination of fury swipes.
As her opponent lay stunned, Lisanna prepared her final attack as she grasped onto the shadow spirit. Lisanna shot up into the sky like a speeding rocket with her dragon swings quickly disengaging and dropping like a missile. Flames encased them both as they lost altitude.
"This is the end!" Lisanna quickly let go of Virgo as they were inches from the ground causing a massive shockwave in the terrain.
Virgo looked up at Lisanna through defeated eyes as she uttered the words
"Thank you." Virgo was swallowed by an orb of light as she was carried back to the spirit world in her original form.
Lucy flinched as she felt more magic power return to her. Looking down at her bag that contained her keys, she noticed that one of her gold keys had returned to her again.
Shadow Leo became enraged as he saw one of his shadow spirits defeated by a pathetic human.
"Attack him now son!"
"Of course mum!"
The tanned spirit ran straight towards shadow Leo infusing his legs with water to deal more damage to the shadow warrior.
He followed with an aqua roundhouse quick knocking Leo off his feet.
"Time to finish you!" The boy raised his golden trident to the sky summoning a tidal wave as his weapon illuminated.
All of a sudden the water current changed direction leading to Aquarius' urn.
"Damn how?!"
"Aquarius send these fish back to the sea for me would you?"
"Of course master..."
Aquarius sent the tidal wave back towards Pisces reverting them back to their fish state as they were swallowed within its whirlpool.
"Mum what do we do now?"
"Fall back son! We won't be any use to Lucy if we are contained by the shadows."
Pisces retreated back to the spirit world.
Shadow Leo grinned now Lucy was defenceless.
Meanwhile Taurus the shadow bull laughed in triumph as he went to go attack Lucy now Gray was defeated.
"Don't count me out yet dairy cow!"
Taurus spun not being able to believe that Gray had survived that attack.
Gray ran out of the fire storm straight towards Taurus.
"Nobody will hurt Lucy while I'm still breathing! Ice make death scythe!" Gray struck Taurus' axe to avert his attention from Lucy.
"Moo this time I'll finish you off for good!"
"Just try it! I'll show you the true power of UL's ice magic! Ice make... GUNGNIR!" Taurus mooed as he became trapped inside the tip of a gigantic lance.
The ice lance shattered shortly after causing Taurus to transform into light energy upon hitting the ground.
Gray dropped to his knees using the last of his magic power.
"Got you now kid!" Aquarius summoned scolding water towards Gray as the wave aimed to swallow him whole.
"Fire dragon's wing attack!" Natsu used his fire dragon wing attack to disperse the wave and change its course.
"Wait a second. I'm your opponent!" Natsu sprinted towards Aquarius fists ignited ready to commence a battle of elements.
"Well Lucy, looks like you're all alone. Any last words before I end your life?" Leo asked as he taunted her.
"Release the others!"
"Say what?"
"I don't care what you do to me. But please let Aquarius and the others go. They're not evil they are good people."
"Pfft they're not human they are tools to accomplish goals."
"Celestial spirits are not tools! How dare you say that! They have feelings and they are alive. I won't let you use them for your own personal gain!" Lucy screamed as tears ran down her cheeks.
"Touching last words but I decline. Goodbye Lucy! Darkness impact!"
Lucy closed her eyes as the menacing lion approached aiming to claim her soul and her life.
"No Leo stop!" A not yet discovered character had jumped in the way of Leo's attack.
Lucy opened her eyes as soon as she heard the pain filled scream which lay in front of her.
"Aries!" Lucy caught her as she fell to the ground.
"I'm sorry Lucy he is just too strong."
"Don't say that you did great Aries thank you for saving my life."
Leo's eyes shot open as he saw Aries fall to the ground.
"Aries no!"
"Be quiet you fool she is weak."
"What have you done to her?!"
It hit Lucy like a lightning bolt the wise words of the spirit emperor.
Lucy readied her bow as she pulled back the Regulus arrow.
"When Leo shows compassion for another, the darkness is weaker it is only then you must fire the arrow!"
Lucy launched the arrow without hesitation the light of Regulus piercing through Leo's astral body.
"Argh what is this?" Leo fell to his knees as the light flowed through his body.
Leo roared as a black midst arose from his mouth flying up towards the sky. Leo collapsed to the floor his hair changing back to its original colour.
Lucy ran towards him sensing the arrow had worked.
"Leo are you okay? Hang in there!" Lucy said grasping his hand feeling his power weakening.
"It's not over yet. The shadow lion will now grow more powerful now it is not using me as its host."
"What!?" Lucy you have to run its true form has started to shape now."
"LUCY HEARTFILIA!" Shadow Leo bellowed as his true form was revealed. Shadow Leo now took on the appearance of a true shadow lion his fur tainted obsidian black, his mane a blood coloured red and his fangs sharper than Erza's Benizakura. Lucy looked on in fear as the shadow lion roared ready to commence his hunt for the celestial mage.