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Their fists impacted sending a fearsome shock wave that threw Natsu and Dragneel away from each other. Natsu flapped his flaming wings and shot up above the clouds, Dragneel hot on his tail. Turning around, Natsu had conjured a ball of fire throwing it at the dragon, temporarily stunning him.
"Fire Dragons Sword Horn!" Natsu nosedived down, striking Dragneel in the head; this time the explosive attack managed to hurt the Dragon King. With his wings spread out, Dragneel stopped himself from plummeting down; he recovered his bearings and started searching for Natsu who had blended into the darkened sky.
However, something was happening to Natsu; it was something he hypothesized, but didn't think would actually happen; new memories were forming as he fought, with each action Dragneel took, he would immediately know what would happen next, and though this would be a major advantage for him, the memories were coming at such a rapid pace, he would need to be kept on his toes to take advantage of these memories. Natsu stopped flying just in time to avoid a fire ball fly past him; he maneuvered around dodging left and right as fire balls made their attempts to blow him out of the sky. Flipping around Natsu followed the trail of incoming attacks pinpointing the exact location of Dragneel who was using the clouds as cover.
"Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu's breath attack broke through the clouds striking Dragneel's chest, engulfing the King's body. Dragneel remained floating in the sky, unmoving; but when his eyes flared open, it startled Natsu. Dragneel consumed the fire, but then stopped, his eyes widening, turning to Natsu.
"Impossible! You... you possess my magic; how?" Dragneel demanded. "Not even normal dragons can wield my power, only..."
"Only the King" Natsu finished, "Yes, I know" the Dragon Slayer gestured downwards. "Look around, tell me what you see" Dragneel kept a close eye on the human, before opening up his senses; he could feel the mix of magic spread throughout the city, and that was when he found something odd, not including himself he could feel the presences of thirteen dragons, three of them were duplicates.
"You are me" Dragneel answered, the dragons expression was a mixture of anger and curiosity; which Natsu didn't realize he could do. "Have I entered a separate universe?"
"I wish that was the case, it would make this conflict so much easier to deal with" Natsu mumbled to himself "I had wanted to keep this a secret as hopes not to change anything more, but you managed to figure it out yourself, so there's no helping it" he pointed to Dragneel "You have entered the future".
"You are implying that you are the future me?" Drangeel questioned.
"Bingo" Natsu answered causing Dragneel to boom with laughter. Natsu raised a brow, identifying it as his fake laugh.
"Is this a joke? Because if it is a joke" Dragneel stopped and glared at Natsu "It's not funny" Natsu however grinned at his response, shrugging his shoulders.
"Not my fault I don't believe myself" Natsu moved back avoiding Dragneel's charging body.
Breaking away from the horde of enemies Laxus was forced to retreat and regroup, the amount of enemies was overwhelming; not to mention each hatchling was stronger than the average mage, strong enough to be considered B class monsters. He stopped and punched one of the creatures away saving Macao from impending doom.
"Thanks" the man said wincing at his injured leg.
"Don't thank me yet" Laxus replied swiping away another with his lightning powered fist. "There's no end to these things" Macao didn't respond only hearing a scream from afar, it was Romeo, Laxus heard it too.
"Dammit!" the Lightning mage shouted; slinging Macao's arm over his shoulder, Laxus dragged the man towards the young boys screams. When they arrived, Romeo was unharmed, he was hiding behind a wall while getting harassed by breath attacks, he was trapped. Laxus placed Macao to the side out of harm's way, and then proceeded to make a mad dash towards Romeo.
"Lightning Dragon's Roar!" the destructive power destroyed the line of hatchlings instantly.
"Laxus!" Romeo shouted from behind his cover.
"You alright?" Laxus asked, Romeo nodded "Come on then, we need to get your dad to a healer" However when the two turned around, they were once again rained with attacks; diving to cover, Laxus grit his teeth, lightning surged through his fists. "Romeo, take your old man and retreat, I'll fend them off"
"But..." Romeo attempted to protest.
"No buts!" Laxus cut him off, "Now go!" Romeo hesitated but knew he couldn't stay, he would only be a liability; Romeo rushed to his father and the two made their escape. Laxus wasn't sure how he was going to handle the situation; in fact he was pretty much winging it. Lightning surged through the ground, electrocuting and paralyzing the hatchlings on the spot.
"Lightning Dragon's Breakdown Fist!" the power of the attack exceeded the ones he normally unleashed, at impact, the stunned creatures were vaporized. He was then tackled to the ground, Laxus stopping the beast from taking a chunk out of him by grabbing its jaws; luckily Laxus was able to chock it with his touch, the hatchling collapsed on top of him.
"Damn, you're heavy" pushing it off, Laxus got back onto his feet but an explosion threw him back onto the ground, his head hitting a rock knocking him unconscious.
With Mermaid Heel, things were not any better. Struggling to keep the overwhelming forces at bay Kagura looked back at Millianna who had an injured foot. Swinging her sheathed blade, she knocked away an approaching hatchling before bashing another with the butt of the blade. She summoned forth five energy blades that she used to block the incoming breath attacks directed at Millianna and herself; but with the barrage, she struggled to maintain her bearings. One of the energy blades shattered allowing a hatchling to dive on top of her, using Archenemy, Kagura struggled to keep it at bay; Millianna wanted to help but was completely pinned down, her injured foot didn't help the situation.
"Kagura!" she screamed; but her cries were deaf to the ears, no help was coming and Kagura's shield of swords was wavering. An energy sword shot down from the air killing the beast allowing Kagura to push the Hatchling away.
"We need to relocate" Kagura muttered; conjuring as much magic power, she re-strengthened her swords, grabbed Millianna and made a run for it. They managed to get a good amount of distance before Kagura's wall of swords shattered; the swarm of monsters gave chase. Kagura halted.
"Millianna, do your best to regroup with the others, I will give you as much time as possible" she told her friend.
"What? No!" Millianna protested.
"Those things are gaining on us, and at our current pace, they will catch us"
"But..."
"Go!" Kagura shouted at her friend. Millianna grit her teeth before reluctantly retreating. Kagura placed her hand on the hilt of her blade, eyes up, watching the beasts approach; a memory popped up, it was of her sensei; he was standing in front of her protectively facing off against the enemy. A smile formed over her lips.
"Master..." she whispered; eyes now filled with determination, she gripped the handle preparing herself. She swung Archenemy, swiping one hatchling to the side before drawing the blade and slicing the other in half. Running forward, Kagura pivoted on her heel dodging the crushing jaws of a beast and swiftly cutting its head off, she then arced the blade around slicing another before it could attack. Six hatchlings surrounded and leaped towards her, Kagura raised her two fingers up then snapped it down, six blue magic swords rained down, stabbing the beasts in the head killing them. She noticed two of them readying a breath attack; Kagura threw Archenemy towards them, the blade soured through the air like a buzz saw cutting down three hatchlings in the process before hitting its targets the sword arced around cutting through and interrupting the attack before cutting into a stone wall.
Securing her scabbard to her belt, she summoned two energy swords, she spun around cutting down two more. She ran forward gutting three more in process; she proceeded to scale a wall taking down another before kicking off the surface, spinning around in the air she slashed up three more that made attempts to jump at her. Landing on top of the beast she crushed its head with the back of her heel before flinging the two energy blades into the hatchlings on her left and right; she quickly grabbed her scabbard to knock another one away. With the back of her heel she pulled Archenemy out of the wall allowing the butt of the blade to impact against a hatchling right in front of Kagura's face; she then gripped the handle and sliced the beast's head off.
"It's like when I cut down one, two more will take its place" she mumbled to herself; looking around, she was completely surrounded. She then chuckled to herself. "How long can I keep this up?".
Luckily there was some hope in the battle; Juvia maintained a strong control of the battle between her and the two dragons; every movement, every attack, Juvia presented it with a mixture of elegance and ferocity, observing her fight was like watching a theatrical dance. Weaving through Atlas' flame attacks, Juvia pulled out a whip of water and struck the fire dragon across the face before using it to latch around Zirconis' neck pulling him closer where she kicked him across the jaw; raising her hand up a geyser of water erupted beneath Atlas and Zirconis trapping them within its vortex. And then squeezing her hand into a fist, the pillar of water exploded and both dragons slammed onto the ground before being bombarded by water serpents.
"Had enough?" Juvia questioned, Atlas glared at Juvia.
"You may have Leviathan's presence but you are still just a human and I will not be humiliated by you!" he roared, suddenly a wave of hell fire surged from his body blowing away all the terrain around him, the attack was unharmful against Zirconis, however all other wildlife was not so fortunate, all of them burnt into oblivion. Juvia conjured up a thick veil of water, able to negate most of the attack. Juvia was a bit charred, while she stared at Atlas.
"You certainly are as I remember Atlas, always hot headed, just like his Majesty" her words continued to anger the fire dragon.
"Do not speak to me so familiarly human" his response caused Juvia to smirk sinisterly.
"Oh?" she sounded "Still in denial; I know you two recognize me" flaring up her magic aura, once again, it sent ripples of fear through the two dragons that they actually backed away. However the pressure was short lived, breaking out of her trance, Juvia could hear the cries of the other guilds, and they were in trouble. Clicking her tongue, Juvia conjured up water bindings that wrapped around the two dragons before running off to assist the guilds, all while dragging the two with her.
Juvia made it just in time to break through the wall of enemies approaching Mermaid Heel, standing in front of them protectively, Juvia swung the bundle that was Atlas and Zirconis around and used them to sweep away the approaching monsters.
"T-thanks..." Beth said, completely awestruck by the way Juvia handled the situation.
"Maintain focus, I may be able to assist you, but once these two idiots get serious, I'm going to have my hands full" in fact she could feel her water start to bubble from the heat, she glanced over at Atlas, who was starting to break free from his bonds.
The dragons flaming body flared up spreading hell fire across the area; the human mages recoiled with surprise and fear at the sea of fire, the heat was unbearable, they wished only to retreat away, but was thwarted by the fire that surrounded them; the humans would have lost all hope had it not started raining cooling them off and clearing their heads. Juvia had called forth the shower, and though it couldn't douse the flames, it certainly put the human mages at ease. She needed to find a way to save them; if there was one thing that infuriated her, it was Hell Fire, a flame that her water could not extinguish.
Juvia looked between Mermaid Heel and Atlas, the dragon was approaching the mages. She enveloped herself with water before rushing towards the female mages, jumping through the fire her appearance startled them; however she didn't say anything, she transformed her body into water and pierced through the fire pushing them aside, opening up a path. The mages didn't need to be told twice as they made their escape; Risley was the last one but was unable to flee, Atlas had stormed the ground shaking her off her feet; Juvia returned to normal, grabbed the girl by the collar and flung her over the flames and into the safety of her guild members. The Water Dragon turned to face the Fire Dragon; her clothes tattered revealing third degree burns.
"The result of underestimating the power of my flames" Atlas gloated. Juvia looked stunned at what remained of her skin, her eyes flaring.
"Only the King is allowed to touch me, only the King is allowed to hurt me" she said, her words disturbing the Hell Dragon. The rain started to become heavy, and Atlas felt something insidious come from the woman. "I will make you pay for tainting my body!"
Extra
Natsu sat at the bar crying his heart out, a glass of milk in his hand, Gildarts was sitting next to him making attempts to comfort him. It has been an hour since Aine and Damon set off on their date, Gray was dragged away by Juvia for punishment; what the sadistic Water Dragon had in store for her husband, nobody wanted to know, they could only pity their friend. Lisanna had gone off to meet with Wendy to discuss their family trip that was coming up. That left only Natsu and Sora, the young boy was instructed by his mothers to watch over his father and make sure he didn't do anything stupid again; luckily for the boy, Natsu was simply sitting at the bar.
"Aine doesn't love me anymore!" the Dragon King screamed. "Papa will never let you go, Papa will love you till the end of the universe!" his screaming caused everyone to shake their heads at his doting, if you called it that.
"Now, now, I'm sure Aine still loves you, she's just opened her heart out to others now" Gildarts told him, Natsu leered at the older man.
"You're just saying that because Cana hasn't found a boyfriend yet, so you don't know what it feels like"
"Oi!" you could hear Cana yell out, but Natsu ignored it.
"If Cana found a boyfriend you'd be saying the same thing as me" Gildarts looked insulted.
"What? No I wouldn't" he argued, but was called out by everyone in the guild.
"Yes you would" they responded in unison. Gildarts looked betrayed before turning back to Natsu.
"Look, this isn't about me, it's about you; so what makes you think Aine doesn't love you, it can't be because she's on a date with Damon"
"It's exactly because she's on a date with him" as if saying Damon's name was now taboo for Natsu. "Aine promised me she would marry me when she got older" Natsu continued. Gildarts looked at his drink.
"I wish Cana would tell me she'd marry me when she got older" he mumbled jealously.
"Like hell I would, you sicko!" Cana's voice once again shouted from afar. Lucy who was listening in on the conversation decided to take action before things got weird.
"Natsu, you can't really take what Aine says when she was five years old seriously" she told him.
"But Lisanna told me to make her my wife when we were kids, look at us now" he countered.
"That's different; you two weren't five years old when you made that promise, nor were you two related by blood" Lucy answered in a very deadpan voice. "Look Aine is grown up now and as a father you must learn to stop being overprotective of her, the same for Sora" the boy perked up at the mention of his name.
"Never! My love for my children is eternal! I'd sooner let the gods strike me down then let my kids get into a relationship" Lucy could only sigh at Natsu's proclamation. The guild doors swung open entered Mavis and Happy who had returned from their mission together. Natsu upon seeing his adopted daughter ran to her, hugging her waist and crying into her clothes.
"Mavis!" the young woman was startled and alarmed by his actions.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Aine..." hearing her sister's name spoken whith such sadness could only send bad vibes her way.
"What happened to Aine!" Happy asked, equally alarmed.
"Aine is out on a date!" there was absolute silence, Lucy let out a heavy sigh.
"Master Mavis, could you talk some sense into him, I'm afraid he's going to do something outrageous again" Mavis however knelt down grasping onto Natsu shoulders.
"Where going after them" she stood up dragging Natsu along. "Let's go Happy!"
"Aye Sir!" the three dashed out the guild hall. Lucy promptly slapped her forehead; she had forgotten that the three of them had earned the nickname Idiot Trio, a name they earned for all the idiotic things they usually got themselves into during their missions together. She turned to Sora who was trying his best to be inconspicuous.
"Sora go after them, and make sure they behave" Lucy ordered.
"Yes ma'am!" the boy saluted before chasing after them.
The four of them were hiding behind some bushes just outside the Movie Theater; Aine and Damon were standing in line. Natsu, Mavis and Happy peeked through the leaves, all them not happy.
"They look like they're having fun" Sora commented.
"Like hell she is! Papa will save you Aine!" Natsu screamed silently, careful not to give away their position.
"Nee-chan won't accept it either!" Mavis added
"Aye sir!" Happy cheered. Sora could only sigh.
"Damon is a really nice guy, he's a bit shy sure, but he really opens up to you once you get to know him" the young boy tried to reason.
"We will never accept someone like him, not in a million years" Natsu retorted.
"Who would you guys accept as date for Aine?" Sora asked.
"The creator of the universe" Natsu answered.
"Someone that exists please" the young boy retorted
"Me" was Mavis'
"I know technically we aren't related by blood, so it would work, but I'm pretty sure it would be awkward for Aine, not to mention I'm sure she doesn't swing that way"
"A cat!" Happy shouted enthusiastically
"Not that I have anything against cats, but I think my sister wants a relationship with a human" Natsu cleared his throat getting everyone's attention.
"Enough getting side tracked, I borrowed these from Asuka, I'm sure they'll come in handy" Natsu pulled out four rifles and passed them around. Sora held the rifle, his mind spinning like crazy; he stared at the weapon, a blush forming over his cheeks.
"Asuka's possession..." he mumbled to himself
"Sora" he felt Natsu place a hand on his shoulder, the boy looked up at his father. "No dating until you're as old as I am" Sora stared at him, mentally or physically? He wanted to ask, but was pretty sure he knew the answer to that, instead, he started to get flustered.
"Wh-what? What are you saying father" Natsu wagged his finger in front of the boy.
"I know you're infatuated with Asuka; but like your sister, I'm against you dating until you're older" at this point Sora's face was crimson red, very much like Wendy when she get's embarrassed.
"Father" Mavis whispered "They're moving into the theater!" Natsu stood up, cocking his gun and chased them inside.
"Nee-san, come on, stop this madness" Sora once again tried to protest.
"Nee-san? I am nobodies sister, I am" Mavis stood up putting on sunglasses "BK-001, the Boyfriend Killer!" loading her weapon she followed Natsu. Watching her run in, Sora looked defeated.
"Looks like it's just us Happy"
"Happy?" the blue cat put on some sunglasses while cocking his own gun "I don't know any Happy, my name is BK-Fish Master" wings summoned Happy zipped inside. Sora merely stood outside dumbstruck.
Luckily before any of them could do anything, they encountered Erza who was working part time at the theater; she caught them, tied them up and threw them outside.
"I can't say you didn't deserve it" Sora muttered as he attempted to untie them.
"Aine!" the three of them screamed up at the sky.
