Chapter 36: Fight!
A/N: Time to face THE DRAGONS!
Every mage in the city froze when a large amount of magic picked up. The pressure was immense, making all battle stop. Atlas Flame, currently facing the Fairy Tail guild, turned his head, recognizing the magic to a degree. Igneel?
After the flame dragon had taken off in the direction the the powerful mage, as did all the others, not including Zirconis who was busy with the people at the Eclipse Gate. Looking around, he sees all the dragons in full view.
The one made out of fire, a more blue bird-like one, the silver one Rogue's riding, another blue one but this one a much paler with hints of ice on its shoulder as armor, a black one with a red underbelly, a rock one, a purple one beside a red one, a dark blue one with a fish-like tail and a flat snout, and another red one with steam constantly flowing from its nose and odd rock-like features in places on it's body.
"Hello~" Natsu waves cheerfully,"my name is Natsu Dragneel, son of Igneel. Fire dragon slayer, at your service!"
"Igneel's son?" The dragon made out of fire questions. "Igneel the Fire Dragon King?" Natsu nods, liking where this is going. The dragon then flies up in an arch, before floating behind the pinkette. "Then I will join you. He was a dear friend of mine. The name's Atlas Flame." Natsu gives a respectful nod to this, before turning back to their opponents. "Jericho, he is the son of the Fire Dragon King, do you dare to face him?!" The other red dragon huffs at this, sharp red eyes narrowing, and when it opens its mouth Natsu can see lava bubbling far inside it.
"This will give me the chance to see whether or not this human is worthy enough to be called Igneel's son! If he's worthy enough to become a king!" The dragon named Jericho bellows, but Rogue glares at the dragon.
"How can you fight against my magic?!" He growls out in anger.
"Simple," Natsu answers for the dragon,"will. Will can beat magic." Rogue gives a short, quick laugh at this, similar to a snort. Before barking orders to his dragons.
"You three-" he points to the Dark Dragon, Rock Dragon and blue Dragon,"go that way." He points to where the guilds are, and they do as they're told. "Levia and Scissor Runner, go find past me." The red and purple dragons fly off immediately. "Jericho, Byzanthia and Aluna, lets kill this guy. Come, Mother Glare!" Rogue shouts, the four dragons rushing him. Natsu leaps into the air, landing on top of the bird-like dragon.
"WE HAVE SEVEN DRAGON SLAYERS!" He screams out, telepathically telling Jellal to go do something as he does this,"FIND A DRAGON, OR TEAM UP! WENDY!" He shouts out, the name catching Aluna's-the dragon he's riding-attention. "GO DEAL WITH THE JADE DRAGON; ZIRCONIS!"
"Who was the one called Wendy?" Aluna asks her small rider. With a grin Natsu gives an answer.
"She's another Dragon Slayer, Grandine's daughter. Sky dragon slayer." At this the dragon makes a decision much like Atlas Flame's.
"I am the Queen of Sky Dragons; Aluna. And I am willing to help, Grandine was my daughter. And therefore Wendy my granddaughter." He nods at this, leaping onto Atlas Flame's back. "I will help the humans, but for her, not for you." She makes this point clear, and in a moment is torpedoing towards the jade dragon, slamming into him and making a large crater beside the Gate.
"Oops, seems you're one more dragon down." Natsu mocks, and Atlas speaks up from below him.
"Son of Igneel, eat my flames, use their power. They are special; Hell's Flames." Hell's flames?
"Okay, thanks Uncle!" Natsu says, before slurrping up some of his body.
"Uncle?"
"No matter! I can win with nine dragons! Byzanthia-" Rogue orders the very light blue dragon,"take out Atlas!"
"My pleasure." Said dragon turns to the one made of the flames of hell. "Time to show you how much better ice is from fire, Atlas."
"Ice? Oh, do you two have a rivalry."
"Yes, I suppose so." Atlas answers,"I believe I will be occupied for a while, I wish you luck, son of Igneel." Huh, similar to how I was with Gray...
"That's fine, Uncle." Natsu says, hopping off of the fire dragon just as the ice one tackles it. They are soon in a mess of claws and fangs, roars of ice and fire. Paying it no mind, Natsu now stands in the streets below, cracking his knuckles. "I can take on these two."
Up with Lahar and Doranbolt, they talk about how everything is going down, when Jellal comes up behind them.
"Hello, Jellal." The Rune Knights say coldly, glaring at the meteor mage who raises his hands to show he means no harm.
"I know you don't like me," Jellal admits, lowering his arms,"but I need you to do something."
"And why would we do what you say?" Lahar asks cooly, not fond of the mage.
"For one, I'm a Wizard Saint," he says, pointing out his higher status, which makes the other growl. "And this is a request from Natsu, one which will help save all Fiore."
Down with the guilds, Gajeel had decided to take on the Dark Dragon, team Shadow Gear not letting him do it alone per their leaders orders. Laxus looks to the dark blue dragon, team Rajinshuu behind him, with a questioning glare.
"And what's your name, beast."
"Beast, hmm? Have you never seen a dragon before?" The lightning mage shakes his head, gaining a scoff in return. "A second-rate slayer like you could never reach a slayers full potential. If you manage to beat me, you may learn my name. So come, puny human and his posse, give me some fun."
"The name's Laxus. And this is the Rajinshuu." He says, pointing at the people behind him with his thumb. "And we're gonna bring you down, over-sized serpent." The dragons flicks a tongue out at the insult, before roaring out a torrent of water. The battle beginning.
Back at the gate, Wendy stares in shock as the blue dragon rages against the jade one. Natsu had told her to face the jade one, so what was this blue one doing here? Come to think of it, it looked a lot like Grandine...
"Small one!" The blue one barked, leaping up and away from the battle for a moment of peace, both dragons getting their bearings and the humans scurry away. The three Celestial mages going to Wendy. "Are you the daughter of Grandine?"
"H-hai!" Wendy pipes up, slightly fearful, even though she had already activated her dragon force, that didn't mean she wanted to face two dragons!
"I am the Queen of Sky Dragons, Aluna. I believe you already know of me in some way?" Wendy gains a warm smile, and nods at this.
"Hai, grandma."
"I have decided to join your side, and so I will solely help you. And do tasks I deem worthy, do I make myself clear?"
"Hai!" Wendy shouts out in return, not wanting to invoke her grandmothers anger.
"Let's take down Zirconis first." Aluna then roars a mighty roar towards the other dragon, catching it off-balance and making it fall backwards, a large crater forming as well as a large cloud coming up from it.
Trying not to be useless, Wendy races towards the dragon, and with a battle cry begins her onslaught.
Sting and Rogue, deciding it would be better to stick together, race through the city looking for the dragons they'd fight. Only for an explosion to occur behind them, making them leap forward in shock and reflex, turning around they see a copious amount of smoke. One dragon, a red one, then steps out baring its fangs. As the smoke clears a purple one steps in beside it. A hole in the building to the right now completely visible to the two.
"We foouuund you!" The red one cackles, wearing its dragonic smile.
"But we still must obtain him, Scissor Runner." The purple one says, eyes narrowing on Rogue.
"You're no fun, Levia." Scissor Runner growls before looking to the blond. "And who's this?"
"Name's Sting!" He thumps a hand against his chest in semi-fake confidence. But when facing a real, hostile dragon... Who could be confident?
"IS THAT THE BEST YOU GOT, YOU LAVA-SPEWING BASTARD!" Sting then hears Natsu's voice, and face-palms. Well, scratch that, Natsu could be confident. So why shouldn't he be?
"We got this, Rogue. We can't lose when we're together. But don't hold back!" Sting grins to his partner, before the two decide to begin the battle, seeing as the dragons aren't moving.
Up with Lahar, a tired Doranbolt had just came back, panting with his hands on his knees, sweat dripping down his face.
"Good job, Doranbolt." Lahar compliments before turning to the newly-arrived teammate. "Do we need to sum everything up?"
"Nope," the dragon slayer says with a venomous smile,"I heard everything." And soon Cobra is racing through the streets of Crocus, eventually coming across a large rock dragon. Taking control from the people who are fighting it, because who cares about them when you're fighting a dragon.
Natsu facing Mother Glare and Jericho, Atlas Flame fighting Byzanthia beside him. Wendy and Aluna facing Zirconis, an uneven match that ensures victory. Gajeel with Team Shadow Gear takes on the Dark Dragon, and Gajeel doesn't even get cocky against it which is somewhat of a surprise. Laxus with his team taking on the blue Water Dragon, the fight going to high scales very quickly. Sting and Rogue team up against the two dragons Scissor Runner and Levia, Rogue still worried about what they had said and what he had told Natsu after the games. While the new addition: Cobra, takes on the Rock Dragon in Blue Pegasus' place.
All dragons having their opponents, all dragon slayers fighting with all their might to defeat them.
"Wendy!" Aluna shouts, digging her claws into Zirconis' shoulder making it wail in pain. The girl simply nods, racing up the tail feathers of her grandmother before up the tail, back, climbing onto the shoulder and down the arm.
"Dragons Graceful Sky Dance!" She screams out the beginning of her finisher, knowing it would take all her might to defeat this dragon. "Dance of the Sky Dragon-SKY'S WRATH!" She scream out, putting out both her palms as if she were doing an energy attack in Dragon Ball Z (yeah, I just went there).
From her hands comes a blast of wind, so powerful it cuts into the dragons scales, but alongside that wind also forms blades and attacks him from every single angle. It seemed like a massacre. Thank Mavis Aluna had pulled her hand back in time.
They watch as the attack dies down, and Zirconis sits there with wide, white eyes, before falling, signalling the end of the fight.
One dragon down, ten-no, eight more to go.
Upon seeing one of his dragons fall, Rogue gives an order to Mother Glare, and Natsu watched as what looks like eggs fall down to the ground below. When they crack open, he's mortified to see dragonic creatures come out and attack the mages.
"MAGES, TAKE ON THOSE-uh CREATURES! LEAVE THE DRAGONS TO THE DRAGON SLAYERS!" Just as he finishes the command, Jericho smacks him off of Mother Glares back with a large claw, making the poor guy go flying.
Catching himself in time by making blue surround him, he lands steadily in a random spot. Too bad it was in the middle of battle.
"What're you doing here, Natsu!?" Gray grounds out, having trouble with the new creatures.
"Got caught off-guard." He gives a sheepish smile, before raising hand, palm facing down, and a thick pillar of light and dark magic comes up and destroys a large amount of the things, narrowly missing the fighting mages. "There, now-" he turns to Gray, poking him in the chest,"I have something I need you to do."
"Can Juvia do it with Gray-sama!?" The bluette jumps up and down in excitement.
"Uh, yeah, sure." Natsu gives in. But before he can explain a large roar that's steadily coming closer, fills the air. Natsu raises his hand and a large blue shield comes up just as Jericho rams into it, surprised that the object didn't break upon impact, the dragon slides down in a slight daze. "Tell ya later, gotta deal with this guy." Natsu apologizes before cancelling the shield. "OI, JERICHO!"
'Y-you bastard!" the dragons grounds out. "What kind of trick did you pull?!"
"Doesn't matter!" Natsu says with a smile, leaping upwards and landing on its snout. "Giddy up!" He says, taking hold of its nostrils.
"I'm not your damn horse!" It shakes its head, trying to get him off.
"I said..." Natsus face turns serious, a vein popping out on his forehead and arms tensing up, muscles bulging. He exerts a thick magic pressure as black lightning flashes around him alongside yellow, and a blue energy outlines his body. "GIDDY UP!" He grounds out, pulling up so hard on its nose it's forced into flight with an uncharacteristic yelp.
The show of power shocks the mages as they watch him control the large beast. It has trouble flying, forced to ram into Mother Glare far into the distance, all by Natsu. And he had been a great help, getting rid of so many of the dragonic creatures.
"Damn water dragon!" Laxus growls through gritted teeth. Clothes completely soaked through. "I'm done playing around!"
"How cocky can a single human be?" The water dragon shakes its head at the lightning mage, but freezes when he activates dragon force. "Impossible! You're second rate-you need the blood of a dragon to preform such a feat!"(Made that up-I wouldn't know)
"Well, never said it needed to come directly from a dragon." Laxus says with a shrug, wearing a smirk. "No set rules."
"Impossible! A dragon slayer gave you their own blood?" The dragon stares in shock as Laxus recollects the day.
"Do you ever want to preform Dragon Force?"
"How could I? Do you know a way?"
"If there's a will, there's a way"
... ... ...
"No way in HELL am I drinking your blood!"
"It's not that big of a deal."
"It's your BLOOD. Human blood. You're crazy."
"Say what you want, but it's the only way. It's not like it's poisonous."
... ... ...
"So this is how I activate it?"
"Uhuh. Give it a go."
"Not just any dragon slayer, the son of the Fire Dragon King, therefore making him Prince." Remembering the events that had passed earlier that day, the dragon speaks up once again.
"The one with the pink hair?"
"It's salmon." Laxus grins, lightning flashing all around him.
Team Rajinshuu, during this entire time, had all been knocked out of the area by the large dragons tail, but now they were coming back to see something they weren't expecting.
Laxus was obviously Laxus, they knew that. But Laxus didn't normally have the things he did at that moment.
Two pale-gray yellow horns curl on the back of his head, his hair spiking up more than normal in the direction the horns go. Odd black tattoos litter his skin, like the ones Natsu has on his left shoulder. Also, every other place on his skin lay yellow scales, his eyes now glowing yellow, around his eyes a small, odd pattern resembling lightning with it's black lines.
"Name's Verra." The Dragon says, rolling the 'r's.
"Laxus Dreyar." And with that they continue their battle on a much higher scale.
A/N: Zirconis is already down, sorry about that, but it had to be done for plot reasons. Natsu is fighting two dragons plus Rogue, and they have two dragons on their side. That whole thing with Gray 'dying' doesn't happen because Natsu had gotten rid off such a large amount of those creatures. Butterfly Effect. I do actually have a plan with all of this, let's just hope I don't forget it before I write it down... Thank you for reviewing, favoriteing and following!
This time I recommend the manga D. Gray-Man, I love this. Go check it out. Just go. Why are you still here? Go read it! *your choice, I ain't gonna force you, and I can't force you. No hard feelings if you don't read it or don't like it. The same goes for all other recommendations.
ANYONE ELSE EXTREMELY EXCITED THAT IT'S FINALLY BACK! CHAPTER 219 CAME ON JULY SEVENTENTH (the fated day for Fairy Tail)! IT'S BAAAACK!
*Gears & Flames: Memoriam (FF) *Nanatsu no Taizai (M) *Slayers (FF) *Deadman Wonderland (M) *Those 7 years (FF)
Gray: What whole thing about me dying?
Juvia: Yeah, my Gray-sama could never die!
WW: Fuc-uh... yeah. It's not important.
Juvia: You could never die, right, Gray-sama~!
Gray: Why the hell is Juvia here!
WW: That's not important, what is important is... uh... Natsu! Come here!
MyN: What is it... pff... Wolfie?
WW: YOU DAMN MAN-CHILD! WHY DID I PUT YOU IN ON THAT OTHER CHAT! THAT STORY ISN'T EVEN UPLOADED!? (Although I will eventually upload it. BTW it'll be called 'Dragons Lair', and something I have already written a decent amount of chapters for.)
MyN: Your fault, not mine.
WW: Whatever... Anyway, how do you plan on defeating two dragons! What kind of moro-ahem. One question about that; why?
MyN: ... Didn't you choose to make me fight those many dragons, plus Rogue?
WW: You're dodging the question.
MyN: But I don't know the answer, you should.
WW: Quit dodging the question.
MyN: You don't know how I'm gonna fight them, do you.
WW: Say, where'd Juvia and Gray go?
MyN: *And she says I dodge questions* Ahem-Gray ran away from Juvia and she chased him.
WW: Figures.
MyN: Well, thank you for reading! Til next time, see ya!