"Speach"
"Inner speaking"/telepathic speaking
Spells
3rd person POV
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything from Fairy Tail I only own my OC's everything is owned by Hiro Mashima.
Hello everyone! No this is not a dream. I am actually updating twice in one month! I'm also reuploading the previous chapters again in a much easier to read format (paragraph breaks), even better grammar fixes, and lastly, a few dialogue changes nothing major so don't worry. Well, then that's enough rambling on to the story! Please read and review they make me type more.
Chapter 12 - Time's up and Deliora's awakening
Gray was prepared to release the spell and while charging up the last amount of power he required he was thinking "Natasha, Erza, all my friends in Fairy Tail the rest is up to you. I don't want to leave you but my time is up." Gray then started to throw his arms back and shout "Iced She…!" Gray was stopped by Natasha who punched him in the face and sent him to his knees. "Natasha!" Gray shouted. "You show up, try to steal my prey, and were about to kill yourself. So I recommend you step back and cool off before you try and do something that stupid again" Natasha said pissed off. "Back off I've got a score to settle with him, and if I have to die to do it then so be it!" Gray shouted in response while grabbing Natasha by the shirt. "Is that so? How the hell is dying going to settle anything cause all it sounds like to me is that you're running away" Natasha retorted while glaring at Gray. Before anything else could happen though the three people in the room suddenly felt the temple start to shift back upright again.
Natasha was angrily glaring at Lyon before punching a wall, while Gray was worried about how they could use the temple to melt the ice around Deliora now. Zalty then ran into the room from the hole that Gray made and explained that he fixed the temple since the moon would be out soon. "That weirdo fixed the temple all by himself?" Gray asked in surprise. "And after I went through all the trouble of tilting it," Natasha said annoyed. "Now that everything else is in order I suppose I should commence the moon drip ceremony," Zalty said before he ran out of the room. Natasha then took off running after Zalty "Natasha!" Gray shouted. Natasha turned and looked at Gray "I'm going to leave the ice guy to you. It'll look bad if you lose again and not just for you, but for all of fairy Tail. So kick his ass." Natasha then ran out of the room.
With Erza, Lucy, and Happy…
Erza was slashing down enemy after enemy, Lucy was doing the same with her whip, and Happy was throwing random objects at them too. The cultists were not fazed and shouted how they would defeat anyone who opposed their Cold Emperor.
With Gray...
"My, my what a boisterous pair you are," Lyon said. "Let me ask you something. A second ago when I was going to freeze us both for good you were counting on Natasha stopping me weren't you?" Gray questions. "No, the opposite in fact I never thought she would be foolish enough to come near a spell like that" Lyon answered. "So you were just going to stand there and take the hit?" Gray asked. "Exactly, because someone would come to rescue me. You on the other hand would be finished for good" Lyon replied. "I should've known," Gray said in a low voice. "I mean it would be inconvenient to be sealed in ice, but my allies are as devoted to my cause as I am and as long as we're on this island they could use the moon drip to free me when they saw fit" Lyon explained.
"I didn't think of that. Guess the Iced Shell is completely useless here" Gray says to himself. "Even so you still want to fight even after what happened last time?" Lyon asked. "Don't fool yourself you could never…" "That's enough" Gray interrupts. "Just forget about Deliora," Gray said. "What kind of nonsense is this? Your threats don't work so you turn to begging. Does your guild have a dentist that removes your fangs or are you just a coward?" Lyon mockingly asked. "Lyon, there's something I have to tell you. Ur is still alive" Gray said seriously.
Lyon actually looked surprised by what Gray just told him, and Gray explained what he meant. "Iced Shell doesn't kill the caster it uses their body to form the barrier. The ice keeping Deliora sealed away which you've been trying to melt is actually master Ur. she isn't dead she lives on, as that ice." "I'm sorry that I never told you the truth. Ur made me promise to keep it a secret" Gray said sadly. "Of course," Lyon said as he walked over to Gray. when he reached Gray he placed his hand on his chest and had an ice tiger come out of his back causing him to fall to his knees.
"You idiot I know how the spell works. I can assure you that she's not alive anymore. That's nothing more than a chunk of ice" Lyon said with an evil smile. "You..huff...knew?" Gray huffed out as he got back to his knees. "Knowing is one thing but believing is another, and if you truly believe that Ur is alive in there you're an even greater fool than I thought" Lyon explains. "You knew the truth and you still did this!?" Gray angrily shouted while glaring at Lyon. Gray then stood all the way up and punched Lyon into a wall from the middle of the room.
With Natasha…
Natasha was still chasing after Zalty who was leading them deeper and deeper into the Temple. Zalty suddenly stopped running and thrust his hand into the air creating a white magic circle, and made a circular piece of the roof to fall towards Natasha. Natasha jumped up towards the piece and kicked it into tiny little pieces and when she landed she said: "Is that all you got if so you must be a joke, and while you're at it tell me how you fixed the temple." Zalty didn't say a word but simply waved his hand and suddenly the pieces of the ceiling started to rebuild into the rest of the ceiling before it looked like there was never anything done to it. Natasha stares at the area that was just put back together with both shock and awe but turns to Zalty when he says "There you have it. That's how I fixed the temple."
"What the hell kind of crazy magic is that!?" Natasha asked. "Well if you must know I practice one of the lost magics'. Magic that's history has been lost and erased due to its strength and the severity of its side effects" Zalty explained with a grin. "Seriously?" Natasha whispered. "That Dragon Slayer magic of yours is no different" Zalty explained. "Really!?" Natasha shouted surprised. Zalty then vanished and Natasha said "Bastard. He should stop running away so I can kick his ass."
With Gray...
"Impossible! How can you move with that wound!?" Lyon demanded. "I wanted to save you, but I give up now," Gray said seething. "What you want the title of star pupil, sorry but I'm going to b fighting Deliora soon so I would rather not waste my magic energy on you," Lyon said. "Then we'll just use our fists," Gray says. Gray charges Lyon to strike but Lyon moves faster and hits Gray directly in the ribs cracking a few and causing Gray to spit out some blood. "Aim for your opponent's weak spot and hit it with all you've got. Ur taught us that remember!?" Lyon said with an evil Grin.
Gray who was trying to catch his breath managed to say "You have no right to speak her name!" through gritted teeth. Gray then tried to turn around and punch Lyon again only for Lyon to knee him in the stomach. Lyon then started to pummel Gray punching, kicking, and kneeing him in various maneuvers causing Gray to sustain injuries all over. He had a couple of cracked ribs, more ten a dozen cuts from Lyon's sharp metal leg armor, a black eye, and a busted lip making Gray spit blood out everywhere every time Lyon hit him in the face.
"What a shame. Your fists are as weak as your magic" Lyon taunts. Gray staggering once again tries to land a punch on Lyon, but Lyon kicks Gray back into the wall. "huff..wheeze..What we're doing right now kinda reminds me about someone else I would spare with as a kid" Gray huffs out while trying to stand back up. Lyon charges at Gray with an evil smile and Gray tries to meet him for a hit but Gray is sent crashing into the wall again this time with enough force to send him through the thick layer of ice and into the stone wall.
Gray then remembers back to his childhood in Fairy Tail where he and Natasha would spar for hours a day and they wouldn't stop until both of them would never give up on beating the other no matter what. Lyon who was breathing heavily looked at Gray as he sat where he had landed in a heavy out of breath voice says "That's it you're no match for me after all." Lyon turns and starts to walk away but stops when Gray shouts "Hold it!" Gray then shakily sand ]s on his feet and says "This fight's not over just yet." "I should have killed you when I had the chance!" Lyon shouts as he charges Gray.
Gray once again also charges Lyon but this time both of them punch each other in the face, but this time Lyon is sent flying into the wall causing a giant burst of ice cloud to form and Gray who had dried blood on his mouth and on his body from his lacerations shouts "You're going to have to step up your game if you want to beat me!" Lyon bursts out of the ice cloud and punches Gray in the face again knocking him back, but Gray headbutts Lyon while shouting "I never gave up when fighting Natasha and I'll never give up against you!" Lyon knees Gray in the chin causing a fresh bit of blood to burst out while also knocking him back, but Gray charges back again while shouting "I won't lose no matter what!"
Gray and Lyon just start a slugfest of punching each other with full power over and over again, and as their doing this Gray is remembering his fights with Natasha. Gray dodges one of Lyon's punches and knee tackles Lyon while shouting "I will not lose!" "You can never defeat me!" Lyon shouts in return. When Lyon hit the ground Gray quickly kicked Lyon in the face sending him flying.
With Erza, Happy, and Lucy…
Lucy, Happy, and Erza were still surrounded on all sides but Erza had noticed something and wanted to see if Lucy had as well so she asked: "Have you noticed anything Lucy?" "Yeah, there are so many of them but their magic sams weak for some reason" Lucy replies. "Exactly, as far as I can tell there are only about five or so actual wizards among them" Erza explains. "Guess that means we can't use full power than" Happy says. "Do you think you can handle this one?" Erza asks Lucy. "Oh, you betcha!" Lucy replies before pulling out a Celestial Spirit key and then shouting "Open Gate of the Giant Crap, Cancer!"
Cancer then appears and Erza immediately asks "We've met before haven't we?" Cancer gets down on one knee with a bouquet of roses and says "I am at your service Mistress Erza." Lucy seeing this immediately got angry and confused before berating Cancer. Lucy then shouts "Take them down but don't kill them!" Cancer then goes and starts taking out dozens of the cultists. The cultists were easily beaten and the three Fairy Tail wizards were about to head to the temple when two of the injured cultists who had lost their masks approached, "We won't let you interfere with the Cold Emperor" The old women cultist said. "Those headpieces. You, people, are from Brago, arent you, and you want revenge" Erza says. The cultists then explain to the group why they are helping to release Deliora.
With Gray…
Gray was standing looking at Lyon who had stood back up from his half kick to the face and was using the tiny amount of ice wall to support himself. Both now had bloody knuckles from beating one another and now Lyon also sported a black eye, bleeding brow which had turn part of his white hair red, and was also short of breath. "The Cold Emperor defeated in battle by the likes of you. I won't stand for it" Lyon said in disbelief and anger. "Then get over here and fight" Gray responded.
Lyon looked angrily at Gray before shouting "Ice make: Snow Dragon!" the snow dragon then gave a roar and captured Gray in its jaws, this causes him more pain from his broken ribs and some of the ice teeth bite into his flesh drawing even more blood. Gray shouting in pain and anger brings his arm down smashing the dragon head into little ice bits and sending him flying. Gray was sitting against the ice wall while holding his more damaged right side and said "I thought we agreed to not use magic, Lyon?" "Don't be such a sore loser. This duel was pointless from the start. Deliora will be revived either way. Besides, it's far too late to stop me now." Lyon says with a crazed smile.
Gray clenches his teeth and fists while struggling to his feet and glares at Lyon while saying "I won't stop trying no matter what." "Try all you want but Zalty is preparing to start the Moon Drip ceremony as we speak," Lyon says cockily while throwing his cape away. "Don't underestimate Natasha. Trust me the second you underestimate that girl is the second that you lose" Gray says while smirking.
In Deliora's chamber…
Zalty had just arrived at Deliora's chamber gazed upon the frozen demon. Zalty however was interrupted by a shout from Natasha "There you are! I'll burn the grin off your face!" Natasha jumped at Zalty and tried to hit him with a flaming fist but Zalty easily dodged and jumped onto a higher pillar. "Hehehahe… It must have taken you a while to come up with such amazing words. By the way, how did you manage to find me?" Zalty asked curiously. "I have a good nose. For some reason, you reak of girls perfume" Natasha answered while glaring. "Listen I would love to stay and chat but I've got more important things to do right now. Like reviving Deliora." Zalty said. Natasha just smirked and said "It's not going to happen. Since I'm gonna kick your ass and Gray is going to kick the ice guy's."
Zalty looked towards Deliora and mockingly said "We will just have to see about that." Natasha noticed a purple glow coming from Deliora and went wide-eyed when she sees the moon drip happening. "There are people up there doing the ceremony right now!" Natasha shouted frustrated. "Even if only one person is conducting the ritual much like right now the moon drip will still continue albeit at a slower rate. However, that is hardly a concern since we have already gathered enough moonlight. We just need to give it a little nudge to finish the job, exactly like this." Zalty explained as a large portion of the ice melted. "Aaaaaah! This can't be good Deliora's ice is melting like crazy!" Natasha shouted.
Natasha then started to run away while saying "I've got to go stop that guy before this gets worse!" Zalty watching Natasha run away with an evil grin raised his hand and a large part of the ceiling fell just behind Natasha making her fly forward. "Sorry but you're not going anywhere. Looks like chasing after me was a mistake Phoenix, better luck next time" Zalty says while smiling evilly. Zalty then started to kakal at Natasha who was getting up from the ground with some blood coming from a wound on her head. She grit her teeth; jumped at Zalty with a flaming fist but he just jumped out of the way and said "Are you sure you want to do that? using your fire magic will only accelerate Deliora's thawing."
Natasha glared at Zalty before trying to kick him with a fire coated foot and said "If you wouldn't have gone through the trouble to do this if fire could melt this ice. So once I'm done here all I have to do is stop the moon drip and it's all over." "hehehe… I must say I took you for a fool but it would seem that you are quite clever when you fight Phoenix" Zalty replied with a dark look. The entire island then began to shake as Deliora was slowly regaining motor function and trying to move in the ice.
With Gray…
The temple was shaking and Gray was surprised by this but Lyon just smirked and said "The moon drip ceremony is finally reaching completion. Deliora's ice is beginning to melt. There's nothing that you can do it's too late to stop me, you and your friends failed!" Lyon said. Lyon then extended his arm across his body before thrusting it up causing ice birds to fly out of the ground around Gray. Gray was trying to dodge as best he could but with his wounds bleeding and the pain from his ribs shooting through him he was having difficulty, but he quickly created a shield to protect himself even if only for a few seconds. "You spent the last three years wasting your time on a ridiculous task. I moved on...pant...I started again made friends. Why don't you do the same!?" Gray shouted from behind the shield.
Lyon was angered greatly by Gray's words and gathered a large amount of magic around him and sent a giant ice bird at Gray which destroyed he jumped away from as it destroyed his shield. "The old man knew about moon drip and kept it from me to protect me and in turn protecting Ur. So I won't let you kill her without a second thought, you make me sick" Gray ground through his teeth. "My entire life has led up to this moment. Our master is long dead if we want to prove that we have surpassed her then what can we do in her absence? Think Gray!" Lyon shouted while covering the hand that was pointed at Gray in the head of a tiger.
Lyon then rushed Gray and begin to ramble crazily on how he could prove he was stronger all while punching Gray with the ice-covered fist. Gray was dodging Lyon's attacks with difficulty and created a sword in his right hand and slashing at Lyon's hand breaking the ice and putting a gash in Lyon's hand. "You will never be as strong as Ur with how you are! Not in a million years!" Gray shouted before slashing at Lyon's torso. Blood did not come from where Gray slashed but instead Lyon's body turned to ice and broke into tiny pieces. Gray was surprised when Lyon suddenly shouted from behind him "Ice-Make: Snow Tiger!" As quick as his injured body could Gray jumped into the air and shouted "Ice-Make: Prison!" locking the tiger in a prison of ice.
Gray stood atop his ice prison and said "This is you, Lyon. a beast in a cage lashing out at the rest of the world he barely knows." "Utter madness! I'll make quick work of that spell of yours!" Lyon shouted as he moved his hand to control the tiger trying to break out of the prison. The tiger kept bashing its head into the bars though and Lyon couldn't put even a chip into one. "Remember what Ur said? One-handed creations will only let you down!" Gray said as he landed in front of Lyon and slammed his hands together. Gray then extended his hands as if he was ready to shoot a bow and arrow and his magic materialized and he shouted "Ice-Make: Cannon!" Gray shot Lyon with an ice rocket breaking off any remaining armor on his torso, tearing his clothes to shreds, destroying the wall behind him, and causing a bunch of cuts to appear on Lyon.
Lyon then fell unconscious and Gray fell to his knees clutching his more severely damaged side "Damn...I should have sealed this wound earlier." Gray then shakily got to his feet but before he could think or do anything else a giant roar shook the whole temple.
In Deliora's chamber…
Natasha was holding her almost bleeding ears screaming in pain while Zalty was celebrating as the ice around Deliora's head melted completely and it let out its mighty roar. Half of the demon's body was now unfrozen and able to move freely.
Hours earlier…
Two figures were walking through a dense forest moving at a slow but steady pace. "Damn kid I can't believe that you managed to learn every single one of the Crash spells in only a couple of weeks." Gildarts praised Salamander. Salamander was not really listening to the older man but gave a simple thanks in reply. "We should reach my destination within the next two or three days" Gildarts explained. "You plan on getting a room at a hotel to stick around for a while? especially since I want to fight you again" Gildarts asked. "I don't like cities or towns so I will be staying in the forest" Salamander replied.
Gildarts raised an eyebrow at Salamander's response and thought "Damn, I still don't know what I was thinking teaching this kid Crash magic even though I don't know if he can be trusted. Gramps is gonna kill me if anything happens!" Gildarts was taken out of his fearful thoughts when Salamder continued "If I decide that I will fight you again I will meet you at the edge of the forest that borders the town." Gildarts smiled and shouted a triumphant "HELL YEAH!" He instantly shut up though when Salamander grabbed his shoulder not with enough force to cause pain but enough to cause Gildarts to stop celebrating and feel fear.
Salamander was continuing to follow Gildarts to the town and only now just asked Gildarts what town they were actually heading for. Gildarts did not immediately answer his companion however, he kept walking and was showing no outer signs of stress but in his mind was starting to think "Shit! Ok..Ok. What do I tell him? I know I'll lie and…"
He was pulled out of his thought when he heard "Old Man. Are you deaf or are you just ignoring my question?" Salamander asked, sounding annoyed. Gildarts quickly turned to face Salamander with a smile while scratching the back of his head and said "Sorry kid. I got lost in thought. What did you say?" "I said what is the name of the town we are heading towards?" "Oh right...um…it's Magnolia" Gildarts replied while also berating himself for telling the truth. "Never heard of it" Salamander replied in a bored monotone. The two didn't say anything and returned to walking in silence even as Gildarts was relieved, and Salamander just looked out Eastward after feeling a large amount of demonic power far off.
So a bit short compared to some other chapters but I'm getting the ball rolling for the future. Anyway, I don't have anything else to say except have an awesome morning, afternoon, or night.
Reaper signing out