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"Hello" - normal talking

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Chapter 22 - Berserk

"And how would you know that?" Naruto was the first to ask when he realized that Gajeel was not pulling a prank, that he was dead serious.

A voice came from behind, answering his question instead of the Dragon Slayer. It was Makarov, Fairy Tail's master.

"Gajeel has been my spy in Raven Tail from the moment he joined our guild. He's been feeding me information about their activities ever since."

Dozens of guild members started asking questions at the same time. Gajeel acting as a double agent had been a secret known by nobody else except for Makarov and Gajeel themselves. The others had been kept in the dark until now and the revelation startled them greatly.

"We don't have time for this now. We'll sit and chat after this storm has passed." Makarov said and then turned his attention back to Gajeel "What else can you tell me about the situation?"

The Iron Dragon Slayer looked troubled and agitated at the same time.

"I received this message through my communication lacrima only a few minutes ago and I came to the guild as fast as I could. There was talk about them attacking the guild after Laxus was excommunicated but once Ivan learned of the Raven joining Fairy Tail he abandoned that thought. I don't understand what made him change his mind so quickly this time. Maybe I have been discovered?"

Makarov shook his head.

"If you had been discovered, they wouldn't have told you in advance about their upcoming attack. As for the reason he changed his mind, that's probably because several of our more powerful members have left today in the morning to fight against Oracion Seis - Erza, Natsu and Gray are not here. Gildarts and Mystogan are away from the guild too and they even got Laxus on their side now. The guild looks almost as weakened as when Phantom Lord attacked us."

A chorus of gasps came from the others when they heard about Laxus joining Raven Tail, a guild that was publicly known as Fairy Tail's enemy. Until then, they thought that Laxus starting a fight against Makarov had been done in a moment of anger; his short temper was known to everyone. They had not known that he had joined their enemy guild. But now they realized that Laxus' grudges were deeper than they looked.

"It still doesn't make any sense for them to attack us," Mirajane interrupted from the side. "No matter how I look at it, our line up is still leagues above theirs. You, Master, are more powerful than Ivan and I can handle Laxus just fine. Above that, we all know that Naruto could likely annihilate their entire guild, by himself... Just what gives them the confidence to attack us?"

Nobody doubted her claims and they started to think about her words. Everyone had absolute faith in their guildmaster even despite his flop during the war against Phantom Lord and Mirajane had also repeatedly proved that she was more than a match for Laxus. As for Naruto, they would never question his prowess. Year after year, his feats of strength continued to amaze the population of Fiore. The way he dispatched of Natsu in one strike on a daily basis low-key served as a reminder of his strength too. With that said, they couldn't find an answer to her question.

Only a few moments after Mirajane stopped talking, a magically-amplified voice was heard from outside:

"The time has come for the ravens to clips the fairies' wings!"

"Fairy Tail! DIE!"

A bolt of Darkness Magic blasted the large doors of the guildhall into smithereens and several dozen Raven Tail members barged in with Ivan Dreyar at their front. But they didn't make any move, waiting for Ivan to give them the signal. Nobody made a move for a while.

"After excommunicating you from the guild, all these years, I've known about your grudge, Ivan." Makarov's deep voice rang out as he started to step forward. "I never interfered with your affairs. I was content with just keeping an eye on you as long as you didn't overstep your boundaries."

"But now you came to my town and dare to attack my guild?"

Veins started to appear on the tiny wizard's forehead from anger and a halo of golden light was conjured around his index and middle finger. It didn't have a great visual impact but everyone, felt their skin crawling from the powerful magic he exuded.

"I told you just as I told Laxus when I excommunicated him. Family or not, as the guildmaster of Fairy Tail, I will protect the guild, just like the generations before me."

"You attacked Fairy Tail first. You wanted this war... then, Fairy Tail will give you WAR!" Makarov yelled and his magic power exploded forth.

At that, however, the Raven Tail members...turned their tails and sprinted out of the guildhall! For a moment, the Fairy Tail mages were stupefied. Raven Tail's actions caught them off-guard, they had not expected them to scurry away like that. However, their surprise did not last long.

"Everyone, let's teach them what it means to mess with Fairy Tail!" Makarov yelled and, as one, Fairy Tail's members all rushed out from the guildhall in very high spirits and with a fire burning in their eyes. They were going to teach Raven Tail a lesson they won't soon forget!

Naruto, Mirajane and Makarov also started to run towards the exit. Mirajane was the first one to pass through the door but then... a sound as though someone collided against a wall was heard and Makarov and Naruto both fell back on their asses disoriented.

"W-What the hell?! An invisible wall?" Naruto asked in confusion but then his eyes fell on the lines of abstract purple characters that appeared in the air.

"Freed's runes...!" Makarov said, his expression darkening.

"Runes?" Naruto repeated after him.

It was the first time he was seeing this type of magic with his own eyes. While Take Over magic was a very rare form of magic because it was heavily restricted by one's innate talent and because of its extremely dangerous side-effects, Letter Magic was almost as rare as Take Over because of the high intellectual requirements. Basically, it took brains to use this type of magic and most people were not smart enough for it. Rune Magic was a branch of Letter Magic just like how Satan Soul was a branch of Take Over magic.

"It's a kind of barrier," Makarov explained "It assigns a rule to anyone who enters. If you don't obey that rule, you won't be able to get out."

"What's written in there?" Mirajane also asked in worry.

"No male being or person over the age of 80 is allowed to come out... this type of specific barrier requires a lot of time to cast. It's not appropriate to use in a battle but, as a trap, it could have a tremendous effect. Freed must've prepared this in advance."

"That Freed! To think that he would betray us!" Mira spat out in anger.

Naruto frowned at what Makarov said. Rune Magic sounded quite similar to Fuinjutsu from the Elemental Nations. Having been a jinchuuriki himself, Naruto knew better than anyone just how dangerous and powerful this type of techniques could be. He did not dare underestimate it.

"Old man, can you dispell it?"

Makarov shook his head.

"The rules of the runes are absolute!"

A muffled curse came from Naruto. But then, realization dawned on him and he shouted in disbelief:

"Wait, you said those older than 80 can't go out! Why the hell can't I go through?!"

Makarov and Mirajane also realized the absurdity of the situation.

"Naruto, is there anything I should know? I'd like to know if you're a grandpa or not before I'm going to marry you." Mirajane said half-seriously, half-jokingly.

"It's not funny! You know I barely turned 22 on the 10th last month!"

As he said those words though, an image came at the front of his mind - it was the Box of Ultimate Bliss. A wild idea popped in his mind.

'Could it be... no... impossible!'

But the more he thought about it, the more it made sense: he had absolutely no way of know for how long he had been stuck inside the Box of Ultimate Bliss before he 'woke up' in Earthland. It was a blank period, he had no memories of it. It could have been minutes, days, months, years... or maybe even decades!

'Then why has my body not become older? If I was 80 years old, I should look just like Master Makarov over here.'

Just as he was thinking about those things Gajeel (who had been exchanging some awkward words of encouragement with a short blue-haired girl until then) came running towards the door... only for him to also slam into the invisible barrier and fall back on his ass like a baby duck too.

"Gajeel, are you over 80 years old too?!" Levy called out from behind, her eyes widened as she took in the scene.

"Of course not!" Gajeel yelled in exasperation.

But then, the mood became sombre as they heard Ivan's boisterous laughter from outside.

"I'll be damned, Laxus! Your former comrade trapped not only the old fart but the Raven brat too. This is priceless!"

"Run wild, my boys! Today we're going to exterminate all the fairies! ATTACK!"

Most of the members of Fairy Tail have not realized yet that their guildmaster and Naruto were stuck in the guildhall so they met Raven Tail's attacks with their own, still filled with confidence. It was a matter of seconds though before the course of the battle would be completely changed. Realizing that fact, a dark purple magic power enveloped Mirajane as she transformed in her regular Satan Soul form. She generally didn't use complete Take Over forms but she couldn't afford to be stingy with using her magic power in the current situation. The elites of Raven Tail had already begun to suppress the mages of Fairy Tail while Ivan and Laxus were eyeing Mirajane as though she was their prey. Their intention was clear.

"Nullpudding, the plans have slightly changed. Laxus and I will deal with the Demon. You go kill other fairies in the meantime."

The short and stocky mage grinned ferociously and charged towards an overweight mage from Fairy Tail, Reedus, picking him as his first target. Ivan too was about to charge at Mirajane but a powerful tremor shook the entire guildhall severely and made him stop in his tracks... from behind the invisible wall, Naruto's face was terrifying to look at.

"Calm down, Naruto!" Makarov shouted when he saw the muscles on Naruto's arm inflating even more as he prepared to punch the Rune barrier again.

"Naruto-san, just give me a little time! I'll surely find a way to deactivate the runes in a few minutes!" Levy also said from the side but Naruto's eyes were firmly fixed on Mirajane.

Evil laughter came from Ivan.

"You worried about your pretty little girlfriend? Don't worry, I won't hurt her...just a little! Haha!"

But Naruto ignored him.

"Mira, come inside!"

Mirajane bit her lower lip, unsure of what to do. Raven Tail was outnumbering Fairy Tail heavily, with a number of mages twice as large. They had contracted the services of another less known Dark Guild for this occasion to ensure their victory. She couldn't go back when she saw the others fighting with their life on the line against a much larger force of dark mages... but, on the other hand, she was worried about her condition too. She knew that any damage she suffered could prove to be fatal for the baby that she was carrying. Her pregnancy was still in its early phases and could not be noticed by others but it was still dangerous.

Raven Tail's master's eyes narrowed to slits. He did not enjoy being ignored. Taking note of the situation, a devious look appeared in his eyes and he fired a jet of Shikigami magic at a random Fairy Tail member, sending him crashing into the distance, his survival unknown. Then, he turned towards Mirajane and said:

"If you run back into the guildhall, I will just have to target the others. So it's your choice: your life for theirs? Or their life for yours?"

A sonic boom burst as Mirajane jumped from the spot she stood explosively and her right knee crashed into Ivan's stomach! His body bent from the incredible force of the strike and Mirajane's two fists fell against his back like a pair of massive hammers! The guild's courtyard caved in and Ivan's body made a huge crater as he crashed into the ground.

She was not allowed to regain her stance though because a lightning-encased fist slammed into the back of her head, sending her rocketing towards the ground, her body also forming a crater just like Ivan. But she recollected herself right away and flew up again with no hesitation. Darkness Magic was gathered between her hands and she shouted:

"Soul Extinctor!"

An immense vortex of dark purple energy exploded forth and Laxus hurriedly cast his most powerful attack in hopes of countering it:

"Raryuu no Hoko!"

The explosion resulted from the clash of these two spells was so powerful that the shockwaves knocked off their feet most of the mages in the vicinity. But when the smoke faded away, Laxus' eyes widened like saucers when he saw Mirajane holding a twenty feet wide sphere of dark purple energy above her head.

"Satanic Blast!" she yelled and a pillar of Darkness Magic shot from the sphere of energy above her head towards Laxus who appeared to have frozen in shock.

This attack too was so destructive that it actually made most of the other mages fighting on the side temporarily halt their battle and retreat from the range of the blast in fear. But when the debris and smoke were cleared out, she was stupefied to find out that Laxus was nowhere to be found!

"It's an illusion, careful!" Naruto yelled, his voice betraying his anxiety.

However, his warning came too late. A massive torrent made of thousands of Shikigami dolls slammed into her, bombarding her with the strength of a volley of cannonballs.

"MIRA!" Naruto cried out and the entire guildhall started to shake as though there was an earthquake as Naruto slammed a huge ball of blue energy into the Rune barrier.

"Oodama Rasengan!"

But his technique exploded at the contact with the barrier and he was launched back like a rocket, slamming into the wall on opposing side of the door.

Mirajane sat up from the crater she had been thrown into and her magical power spiked. She had tried avoiding using her most powerful Satan Soul because it looked like this was going to be a drawn-out fight and her magic would run out after taking on her strongest form but she had no other choice now. Laxus and Ivan were formidable enough for her to be hard-pressed against them but when Ivan's Illusion Magic came in play too, she had no chance of winning with her basic Satan Soul.

Fire and Darkness Magic burst forth from her and started to coil around her body like serpents. Her appearance completely changed now, Mirajane's voice had a demonic tint to it when she said:

"Satan Soul: Mirajane Sitri!"

Gajeel who was inside the guild involuntarily trembled at her new appearance. The ferocity of that Sitri Satan Soul was still fresh in his mind. He would never forget the cruel beating he had received from Mirajane during the Phantom Lord arc. He had legitimately thought that she was going to kill him back then.

Fear started to eat at Laxus' heart too when he felt the violent aura she started to exude.

'Freaking monster!' he inwardly cursed and his hand came to one of his pockets, taking out a vial with a golden serum in it.

Ivan looked at Laxus incredulously.

"We hold the upper hand here, why are you going to use the serum now, you cretin!? Save it for when we're going to face the Raven and the old man!"

But in next moment, blood burst from Ivan's mouth and several of his teeth were knocked out by a white-gloved fist! Mirajane had appeared in front of him like a phantom and punched at him with the strength of a speeding train! Flying in the air, she raised her hands and two enormous spheres of magic appeared in her palms. One of was a ball of Fire Magic and the other one was a ball of Darkness Magic.

"Demonic Inferno!" she shouted and she brought her hands down to launch the devastating combo attack at Raven Tail's master.

When he saw the huge magic attack coming at him, Ivan screamed at the top of his lungs in a panic:

"OBRA! OBRA, DO IT NOW!"

A very tall and blue-skinned man that had stood and spectated the battlefield without doing a thing until then suddenly extend his arm towards Mirajane. The huge spheres of Darkness and Fire magic were extinguished and even Mirajane's Take Over form disappeared. She fell from several dozen feet high up in the air and the snapping sound coming from her ankle when she crashed into the ground made her cry out in pain. She had broken her leg.

But her enemies were not done attacking her even if it looked like she was out of commission now.

"Lightning Dragon's Heavenward Halberd" Laxus roared and a huge spear of lightning stabbed through Mirajane's chest, her vulnerable human form offering her no protection against the attack, making her scream in agony.

Several of his teeth were missing, his face was busted, blood was pouring out of the corner of his mouth and he was limping like a handicapped dog when he crawled out of the crater Mirajane had sent him. Ivan's already disfigured face was further distorted by rage he felt at that moment.

"Fuck me dead, how could this cunt be so fucking powerful?! What the hell, Laxus, she was as strong as a damned Wizard Saint! You could've said something you useless sack of shit! I nearly died! Fuck!"

Laxus was having a hard time believing Mirajane's level of power too. He couldn't even get angry at how Ivan was throwing insults at him. Overall, he didn't look happy even despite their victory over her. He had had to gang up on a girl younger than him together with his father, Ivan, in order to defeat her and, even then, it had not been an easy battle.

'If it hadn't been for my shitty father's Illusion Magic tricking her at the perfect moment, that Satanic Blast would have probably killed me. I could see it in her eyes, she had cast it with the intent to kill. And if it wasn't for that creepy dude cancelling out her magic...' Laxus thought and a small tremor slightly shook his body. Rage appeared in his heart thinking of how powerful Mirajane was, of how weak he was in comparison to her.

'But to think that Raven Tail had a such a dangerous secret weapon! That Obra guy turned the result of the battle in an instant! I didn't even know there was a way to completely seal someone's magic!'

But, while Laxus looked like he was done fighting and did not intend to kill Mirajane, Ivan did not seem to share his views. He limped his way down into the crater where the barely conscious girl laid and grabbed her by the hair, roughly lifting her up and dragging her towards the entrance of the guild.

"Watch me, Uzumaki! Watch me as I torture your girl until she begs me to kill her!" Ivan screamed in glee and laughed.

But for some reason, his words got no reaction from anyone, not even from the boot-lickers in his guild that would always laugh out loud at his every joke in hopes of currying favour with him. Suddenly, he realized that a deafening silence was instilled over the entire battlefield. All the mages stopped fighting and it looked like they were shouting perplexed but no sound could be heard. It was as though everyone had lost their hearing at the same time.

In that eerie silence, the recently rebuilt guildhall of Fairy Tail blew up as though a bomb had been detonated in it! Two gigantic feathery black wings burst from the debris and with their appearance, the ground started to shake like during an earthquake. By dozens, the members of Raven Tail began to fall, their knees smashing heavily against the ground, unable to stand when the vast magic pressure fell on them like a massive tsunami wave. It was Naruto, in his initial Take Over form. But he appeared to different. His body was halfway-covered with black feathers, giving him a rather grotesque appearance. His wings were also three to four times larger than usual and their feathers all had a metallic lustre to them.

His wings slightly folded for a moment and then flapped once: huge feathers of the size of spears were launched from his wings in a volley of death! Raven Tail's members could only watch in horror how the spear-like feathers rained on them from above. Some of the more unlucky ones were killed on the spot. Screams of agony burst out from the throats of the surviving ones as the spears impaled their bodies but they could still not hear a thing, not even their own yells.

A black magic circle several dozen feet wide appeared in the sky above of Naruto and his body began to slowly enlarge. Normally, this transformation would end in less than a second - in his battle against Jose Porla it had been instantaneous - but at the moment, Naruto was not in his right mind. He was running on instinct.

Seeing Laxus' Lightning Halberd spell impaling Mirajane through the chest had made him snap. It was the same type of scene that had made him completely lose it in the Elemental Nations when Nagato's Deva Path had stabbed Hinata in the chest with its metallic rod. He was no longer himself. In the past, it was Kyuubi that had taken control over him and made him go berserk. Now, it was the savagery and ferocity of his Satan Sou. That was the risk of being a Take Over mage - once the user's rationality snapped, there was a chance of them completely losing themselves to the remnants of the soul that they had taken over. And that was especially true for Satan Soul users.

The transformation process came to an abrupt halt when Naruto felt someone embracing him from behind and a voice whispered softly in his ear. It was Mirajane. Taking advantage of Ivan becoming petrified by Naruto's magic she rushed at him with a Body Flicker Movement, momentarily forcing herself to ignore the pain coming from her broken ankle. She had recognized the severity of the situation after having gone through it herself too, just a few weeks before.

"Everything is fine, baby. I am here."

He became still at her words but his transformation did not show signs of reverting. His body was already almost 80% covered in tough black feathers; once they fully covered his face too, he would transform into his gigantic Satori form. Mirajane tried to stop thinking of what would happen if he were to transform in his full Take Over form in his current state of mind. Chances were that he would not be able to recover anymore and that thought terrified her. Involuntarily, tears began to fall from her eyes.

"I don't wanna lose you...please come back to me!"

"I love you too much, Naruto."

It was then that the tough feathers that had been covering his body began to wither away and scatter in the wind like grains of sand. A sigh came out of his chest and he brought a hand up to his shoulder to tenderly caress her head.

"I'm sorry, little bee," he said, now back to his senses.

He was filled with disappointment at himself. For more than 5 years, ever since he had started training Mirajane in her Take Over magic, he had told her to never let herself fall prey to her emotions. He lost count how many times he insisted on her practising meditation to become adept at mastering her emotions. He had warned her numerous times about the risks of being a Take Over mage. However, now, he had done exactly what he had told her to never do!

But it could not be helped. For Naruto, Mirajane meant quite literally the world. Seeing her apparently being killed while he was being forced to watch it happen helplessly was more than he could bear with. After a life of loneliness, betrayal and pain in the Elemental Nations, in Earthland, Mirajane had filled his life with happiness. Every day spent together with her was like a day spent in paradise for him. Because of that, losing her was like he lost his soul. And finding out that she was alive 'resurrected' him too.

"I want to embrace you... I want to hold you in my arms and never let you go..." he said softly, just loud enough only for her to hear his words. "But I can't do that right now..."

"Why not?" she asked, still whispering in his ear.

"Because some people need to die," he said and his body vanished from her arms with a shunshin.

A split of a second later, it looked as though he had teleported in front of Laxus. The power behind his fist appeared to distort the air as it travelled towards his face.

Laxus knew on an instinctive level that if that fist were to hit him, his head would explode in a paste of gore and blood. In that life and death moment, in his despair, his body transcended its previous limits. At the very last moment, he leaned to the side, Naruto's fist passing at only 1 inch away from his cheek.

'Holy fuck, I actually dodged it!' he exclaimed in his mind but, in the very next moment, an incredible shockwave exploded against his cheek. His last thought before losing his consciousness was: 'HOW?!'

Although Naruto knew that his Frog Kata had rendered Laxus unconscious, he was relentless. He was not joking when he told Mirajane that he was going to kill him. Raising his hand above his head, a huge ball of blue energy formed in his palm and, as it continued to increase in size, it took the form of a rapidly spinning shuriken. He was going to use the most destructive technique in his arsenal to obliterate Laxus' body until the very last atom!

"Rasenshuriken!" Naruto yelled and threw the spinning mass of destruction, his blue eyes gleaming with bloodlust.

But just before the technique could reach its target, a tiny silhouette appeared in front of it and a shout reverberated in the air:

"Maximum Defense Seal: Three Pillar Gods!"

Three enormous pillars burst from the ground, encasing Makarov and Laxus in a protective formation...and then, the Rasenshuriken struck! The following explosion looked like it could obliterate anything. A massive crater, over 25 feet deep and 100 feet wide, appeared in the ground and, at its bottom, Makarov was half-kneeling on the ground, his breathing uneven. However, his most powerful defence magic did manage to at least preserve their lives, even if it depleted almost his entire magic.

"What did you jump in for, old man?" Naruto asked, his brows furrowed.

"Laxus... he is my grandson."

Naruto, however, was not impressed.

"I don't care who is he. He tried to kill Mirajane. He saw her being incapacitated by his dickhead of a father and still attacked. He needs to die. Don't get in my way."

"I understand your anger. But he is family. I cannot just watch him die. I will do everything in power to protect him." Makarov said resolutely.

"You barely stopped my first Rasenshurken. Then... what about the second?"

Makarov's face became as pale as a sheet when he saw Naruto effortlessly creating another Rasenshuriken, just as large as the previous one. The old wizard had thought that since it had the power of an ultimate attack, Naruto would not be able to use it again any time soon.

"Naruto, please, show mercy." Mirajane's voice unexpectedly sounded in his mind and he couldn't help turning to look at her.

'Since when did she learn Telepathy?!' he thought to himself in amazement.

"I'm still new at it, I cannot use it for long," Mirajane replied in his head, apparently having heard his previous thought. "But please, don't kill Laxus. Many of the members in Fairy Tail still have a high opinion of him and he is Master's grandson too. It's not worth it to lose our place in the guild just for him... he is not worth it... Please, baby, show him mercy, for me."

He sighed and the enormous Rasenshuriken was sucked back into his palm.

'I can't refuse her anything. She has me wrapped around her little finger.' Naruto thought inwardly amused but he didn't let it show on his face. Instead, he turned with his back at Makarov and said:

"You better remember this from now and tell it to your grandson too when he wakes up. Mirajane means everything to me. I would trade my own life for her safety, let alone the lives of others. No matter who is it that tries to harm her, I will kill them!"

"I will spare your degenerated son and grandson for now. But there won't be a second a time. I will kill them with my own two hands."

Mirajane's flushed a little at Naruto's public confession but didn't say anything. Inwardly, despite her embarrassment, her heart was fluttering.

Aside from those mages that were grievously injured or killed by the gigantic feather spears, the other members of Raven Tail had long since fled the scene the moment Naruto's magic power pressure was lifted off. However, there was one person who was still standing, without moving, like a statue. It was none other than Ivan.

Kanashibari no Jutsu was a technique that most of the accomplished ANBU operatives used in the Elemental Nations to capture or to assassinate their targets. It induced a full-body paralysis by shooting a spike of their killing intent via eye contact. It was not a doujutsu-related technique. Anyone could use it as long as their killing intent was powerful enough. Naruto had experienced the terrifying effects of this technique for the first time in his life during his team's encounter with Orochimaru, the Snake Sannin, in the Forest of Death, during the Chunnin Exams.

A dark feeling of satisfaction rose in Naruto's heart while watching how Ivan's terrified eyes bulged in panic and despair at the sight of him coming closer, step by step. He was now close enough that their chests were almost touching. Bending over a bit, he said in Ivan's ear:

"I promised your old man that I won't kill now... but I didn't say anything about not killing you later."

The killing intent in his whispering voice was so terrible that Ivan lost any of the composure he might have had left. The sound of a liquid dripping was heard and a puddle appeared at his feet. In his fear, the Raven Tail's master soiled himself. Naruto stepped back in disgust but he wasn't finished talking.

"I can do real clones. It's a Lost Magic and a Black Magic too. I'm an expert at Transformation Magic as well. I'm telling you this so you understand one important thing: even while you will be inside the Magic Council's prison, I could always get to you and kill you if I wanted. I would just create a clone, transform it into a wasp and have it fly over to your cell where I'll make it detonate itself with the strength of a 28 seals Amaterasu formula - I'm pretty sure you know how powerful that is. The scanners of the Magic Council won't even know it was me or that it was an outsider at all. They would think you committed suicide, blowing yourself up."

"Wherever you go, wherever you hide, the moment I learn that you tried anything funny against Mirajane or anyone else in Fairy Tail, know this: I will find you and I will kill you."

With that, Naruto stepped back and returned to Mirajane. At this point, he was just waiting for the Rune Knights to arrive at the scene and arrest everyone on site. He hated not being able to kill off both Laxus and Ivan to tie up all the loose ends but he knew that, if he did that, he would no longer have a place in Fairy Tail and maybe Mirajane neither. After all, both Ivan and Laxus were the guildmaster's family. Despite everything, as the saying goes, blood is thicker than water. Naruto spared Laxus and Ivan's lives for the sake of Mirajane. He understood how much the guild meant to her and that being kicked out of the guild would hurt her a lot.

'She's right, they are not worth it.' he said to himself once more to calm down his killing intent and fight off the bloodlust of his Satan Soul that was still prickling at his mind.

But then again, he had sent his message across loud and clear. He had killed several other Raven Tail mages and he was certain that Ivan was terrified out of his mind if the fact that he pissed himself was anything to go by. Naruto was fairly confident that by tomorrow when the newspapers' new editions came, everyone in Fiore would learn of what it meant for someone to threaten his family. Everyone would learn not to fuck with him or with Fairy Tail anymore.

AN: In case you have forgotten, Obra is that guy that cancelled out Lucy's magic when she was about to cast Urano Metria and win the match against Flare Corona during the Grand Magic Games. Although Mirajane had put up a very strong fight against Laxus and Ivan, she had never seen it coming. Her magic being cancelled out left her defenceless.

PS: Mirajane is currently about as powerful as Jura - at the level of a lower-ranked Wizard Saint. Naruto is easily Spriggan-level when he activates his Second Origin (his full Satori Take Over form). Unfortunately, that is still far away from posing a real threat to Acnologia.

(Not an English native and I have no beta either. Sorry for any mistakes I may have made.)