Everyone looked in amazement, like they normally would if Rycu won a fight against a powerful wizard. Eileen looked round the corner, "He beat August without his weakness? My children truly are amazing."

Everyone stumbled over and looked at August's lifeless body, besides Gray. Natsu put his arm around Rycu's neck and leaned on him, "How do you do these sort of things?" Natsu asked.

"We'll never know," Erza said as she put her arm around Natsu's neck, Rycu fell down to the floor on one of his knees but Natsu caught him. "You ok?" Natsu asked. Natsu could barely hold him up so Erza held Rycu up from the other side.

Rycu tried to walk forward but when he did his leg hurt so he let out a scream of pain, "Don't try and move or do anything, you're in a bad shape as it is, we all could use with a break," Erza said.

"You think we got it bad? Rycu's got it much worse!" Natsu said, they continued to talk on for a while and then Gajeel joined the conversation. Gray had already gotten up but his eyes were fully black and he walked over to them with his ice blades on his hand.

As Gray approached them he stabbed his ice blade through Rycu's chest, everyone looked in shock, Natsu turned around and knocked Gray out before he did anything else. Rycu's body fell to the floor and his vision zoomed in and out while getting darker.

Erza kneeled down to Rycu's body to try and help him, August's eye opened and he stood back up and shocked everyone else with lightning, "It worked!" August said in an evil sounding voice followed by a never-ending laugh.

"I have to do something," Rycu thought, he remembered the pills and started to crawl towards the glass bottle. August walked over to Rycu's body and kicked him over then stamped on his chest which made him cough out blood.

Rycu turned himself back over and continued to crawl, August walked up to him again and stomped on his back which made him cough up more blood. "Rycu," Erza whispered but she couldn't move anything else.

Rycu still crawled, "I can't stop," he thought. August looked over and saw what he was trying to reach, he walked over to the glass bottle and smashed it onto the floor, breaking it into thousands of pieces, along with the pill.

August picked up Rycu and threw him into the glass, "good luck with getting the pill," August said. August had noticed that all the glass was disappearing around Rycu, "He can't be that stupid!"

Rycu had absorbed the pill and the glass into his body, "That's a foolish move! You'll die by doing that!" August exclaimed. "You'll always have to take risks at some point," Rycu said as he pulled himself up.

All of his wounds were still there, he wouldn't be able to feel them until he goes through all his magic energy again. "You can't do this on your own," Natsu said as he stood up and wiped some blood off of his mouth.

"You'd be foolish to fight me in that state!" August said. "You're right," Rycu said as he walked over towards Natsu and grabbed onto his wrist, both their arms glowed yellow, Rycu had given half his magic to Natsu.

Natsu felt better and pulled a smile on his face, "Thanks a million!" They both faced August with a smile across their face. "If we're playing it that way then fine," August said. He held out his hand as if he was choking someone.

Eileen was suddenly pulled from cover and appeared in August's hand like a magnet, "Eileen you must fight," August said. "I can't fight my own child!" Eileen said. "Fine," August said, his eyes flashed red and Eileen's became red.

She could no longer control herself, she was in the hands of August, Eileen just faced them and was ready to fight as if she'd been fighting the whole time. "Let's make this a two on two!" August said.

"What have you done to her!" Rycu shouted, he launched at August but was slammed back down and he moved back next to Natsu. "Don't try anything sneaky," August said. "That's funny considering what you just did," Natsu said.

Both sides stared down at each other, Rycu was opposite August and Natsu was opposite Eileen. August had a cheeky grin on his face, August made lightning strike down and just before it hit them the two sides had swapped place.

August and Eileen had been shocked by the lightning and then Rycu pulled a smile, Natsu and Rycu jumped up, Natsu kicked Eileen and knocked her back, Rycu kicked at August but it was deflected.

Natsu then kicked at August and knocked him back. Natsu and Rycu both charged, right as they were about to hit their targets the had swapped positions and Rycu hit Eileen then Natsu hit August.

As Natsu and Rycu jumped at August he grabbed one of their feet each and smashed them together. They threw rapid punches at August but he blocked them all effortlessly and even yawned during it.

While they were distracted Eileen swiped at them with her staff and knocked both of them on the floor. Natsu and Rycu then sprinted at August and Eileen again, Rycu charged at August head-on then Natsu jumped off Rycu and kicked Eileen in the face.

August threw a giant punch at Rycu which he blocked, Rycu charged up a giant flaming punch that kept getting larger, Rycu punched at August but he redirected it to Natsu. At the last second Rycu redirected himself and smashed his fist into August.

"He overpowered my magic control?" August thought. Natsu looked at August and smiled, "Nothing can stop us, nothing will ever stop us in our tracks to banishing darkness." Natsu said.

"I think it should be time I let you know about August's weakness." Rycu said.