Until The End, Part 9
Back in the command bridge, Mard Geer throws several punches at Mavis's face. She manages to block all of them with her arms before swiftly grabbing Mard Geer's right wrist. She pulls Mard Geer over to her and throws a punch across his left cheek. Mard Geer stumbles to his right before he turns back to Mavis and swipes his left arm through the air, causing multiple thorny vines to emerge from the wall behind Mavis. After coiling around Mavis's body, the vines briefly lift her up before slamming her hard onto the floor, causing her to disappear. Mard Geer grits his teeth before he suddenly turns around and grabs Mavis's left fist to stop her attack.
"Nice try, little girl." Mard Geer said icily before swinging his left fist across Mavis's right cheek. Mavis yelps as she stumbles away from him. Mard Geer quickly goes over and delivers an uppercut to Mavis's stomach. When she throws her head forward, Mard Geer lifts his right knee up and kicks her at the bottom of her chin. He quickly grabs her dress, turns around and throws her over to the wall. She groans in pain as she slams against it. Mard Geer thrusts his right hand at her, causing multiple vines to burst out from the floor in front of his feet and fly over to Mavis.
Mavis suddenly snaps her eyes open and flies up in the air in time to dodge the vines, which ended up colliding against the wall behind her. Mavis flies down to Mard Geer, grabs him by his face and slams the back of his head onto the floor. She flies up again and carries Mard Geer in the air. He grabs her arm as he tries to break free, but Mavis delivers an uppercut to the bottom of Mard Geer's chin, sending him flying into the air and slamming against the wall behind him. Mavis quickly flies over to Mard Geer and tries to punch him again, but he swiftly thrusts his left hand forward and grabs Mavis by her throat. Mard Geer hovers away from the wall and throws Mavis down. After slamming onto the floor below, Mavis quickly rolls over to her right before Mard Geer lands down and leaves a huge crack at where she originally laid.
Mavis gets back up and they both get back into their fighting stances. They remain silent and still for a few seconds before they suddenly fly towards each other again and pull their fists back.
Meanwhile, Nolan swings both his scimitars at Cornelia, who blocks them with her hook swords. Nolan tries to pull his scimitars away, but quickly realize that they are stuck by the hooks of Cornelia's swords. Cornelia smirks as she pulls her own swords, causing Nolan to stumble forward. She releases his scimitars, performs a backflip, and delivers a vertical kick to the bottom of Nolan's chin in the process. As soon as she lands back down, Cornelia lifts her other leg up and throws a kick at Nolan's chest, sending him sprawling through the floor.
Darren leaps over to Cornelia and swings his katana down on her. Cornelia dodges his attack by moving to her right. Alicia quickly swings her yo-yos at her with Volt's Lightning, but Cornelia ducks down to evade them. Before Darren swings his katana horizontally at her, Cornelia charges towards Alicia and swings both hook swords diagonally at her head. Alicia quickly dodges them by rolling over the ground to her right. She pulls her yo-yos back into her hands before she turns to Cornelia, gets up and swings her electrified left leg at the left side of her torso. Cornelia turns to Alicia's leg and crosses her swords to block the attack, though it did send her stumbling back.
Cornelia quickly turns to her right and sees Happy dropping Natsu down to her in the air. Natsu throws his flaming fist down onto her, but Cornelia quickly evades it by leaping away from him. As Natsu lands down at where she originally stood, he quickly gets back up and yelled, "FIRE DRAGON'S FLAME ELBOW!"
After pulling his right arm back, huge amounts of fire burst out from his right elbow and Natsu swiftly runs over to Cornelia with Volt's Lightning. Cornelia quickly holds up and crosses her swords again to block Natsu's attack. The Fire Dragon Slayer yells as he pushes his fist against the blades of her swords. However, a few seconds later, Cornelia manages to push his fist back by swinging her hook swords horizontally, sending the Fire Dragon Slayer sprawling through the floor.
"No way!" Darren cried as he, Alicia, and Happy stare at Cornelia in surprise.
Suddenly, Nolan runs over and swings his scimitars diagonally at the same time to fire an X-shaped electrified blast. Cornelia leaps into the air and performs a flip over the blast, which lands onto a protective energy barrier over the control panels instead. As Cornelia lands back down on the floor, Nolan proceeds to swing his scimitars to deliver two horizontal blasts of Volt's Lightning at Cornelia. After Cornelia deflects both blasts with her hook swords, Nolan twirls around and swings his scimitars diagonally to fire two more diagonal blasts at her. Cornelia swiftly moves side to side to dodge both of them, and Nolan finishes by swinging his scimitars down at the same time to fire two more vertical blasts of Volt's Lightning at her. Cornelia casually swings her hook swords horizontally to disperse his attacks before jumping back a few meters away from Nolan, Darren, and Alicia.
"Even with Volt's Lightning, she is still able to keep up with our attacks." Alicia commented as she stands beside Nolan.
"Dammit." Nolan cursed.
"It is futile, my friends. There's nothing you can do to stop me." Cornelia said mockingly to them before she suddenly throws her head back and bolts of cyan lightning burst out from her eyes. When she throws her head forward, she fires two large lightning bolts from her eyes and through her glasses at Darren and his friends. Natsu quickly uses Volt's Lightning to run over to his friends and stands in front of them.
"FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" Natsu bellowed as he throws his head forward and blows a huge blast of fire at Cornelia's bolts of lightning. The two momentarily stayed in a stalemate until Cornelia's lightning manages to push Natsu's blast of fire back and reaches him. Natsu yells in agony as he gets electrocuted by Cornelia's attack.
"NATSU!" Darren, Alicia, Nolan and Happy shouted in horror.
"NOOOO!" Lucy screamed as she turns to Natsu with her eyes wide.
"Lucy, look out!" Gajeel shouted as he runs past Lucy from behind and places himself in front of her before Wilhelm fires two large blasts of dark red energy from his eyes at them. With his entire body covered with iron scales, Gajeel crosses his arms and protects both himself and Lucy from the blasts. While Wilhelm is occupied with them, Gray runs past Gajeel and Lucy from behind and thrusts his hands at him.
"ICE MAKE: FREEZE LANCER!" Gray shouted as several lances of ice burst out from his hands and fly over to Wilhelm at all directions. Wilhelm briefly stops firing his energy beams at Gajeel and turns to the oncoming lances. He slowly moves his arms horizontally as he fires four beams of dark red energy from his hands and eyes to evaporate them.
Gajeel quickly turns his skin back to normal. As he thrusts his arms at Wilhelm, they transform and extend into two long iron clubs. Wilhelm turns to Gajeel, holds up his hands and fires two dark red energy beams in time to stop the clubs. The beams manage to overwhelm the clubs and they push them back towards Gajeel. Lucy uses Volt's Lightning to swiftly run to her right while the Iron Dragon Slayer gasps as the beams reach him and send him to the other end of the command bridge. He slams against the wall beside the left door and collapses onto the floor as Wilhelm stops firing his beams.
As she now stands beside Gray, Lucy soon throws her whip at Wilhelm and wraps it around his body. She pulls him over to her and lifts her right leg up as she charges it with Volt's Lightning. She delivers an electrified kick to Wilhelm's face and sends him flying over to the control panels as she unwraps her whip. Gray makes a brief dash before he leaps into the air, thrusts his hands, and crafts a large bow of ice in front of him. He fires multiple arrows at Wilhelm, who quickly opens his eyes while in mid-air and fires two large energy beams to evaporate the arrows. After destroying them, Wilhelm performs a backflip and lands on the barrier over the controls. He thrusts himself forward, flies over to Gray and delivers a powerful uppercut to his abdomen. Gray gasps in pain as he is sent flying and slamming against the ceiling. Wilhelm lands on the floor, turns around and fires two energy beams from his eyes again at Gray. Gray yells in agony as the beams hit his chest.
Lucy quickly runs over to Wilhelm, jumps up and tries to deliver a twirling kick to the back of his head. However, while still focusing on Gray, Wilhelm thrusts his right hand at Lucy's lower torso and fires another energy beam from his palm as soon as it makes contact with her body. Lucy screams as she is sent flying towards Gajeel who just got back up from the floor. Gajeel quickly fills his skin with iron scales again before he wraps his arms around Lucy from behind and protects her from Wilhelm's energy beams. He moves out of the way with her, and the energy beams landed on the wall behind them.
Gray continues yelling in pain as Wilhelm keeps firing his beams at him. He eventually stops when Darren swings his katana diagonally from behind and fires a blast of Volt's Lightning at his back. Wilhelm yelps as he stumbles forward, and Gray plummets through the air. Happy quickly flies over, wraps his tail around his body and carries him away.
Darren turns to his left and sees Nolan skidding across the floor on his back again after Cornelia deflects his scimitars. He quickly turns to his front and sees her swiftly running over to him. She swings her hook swords horizontally at his lower torso and Darren manages to back away and dodge the attacks in time. He swings his katana diagonally at Cornelia, who quickly holds up her left sword to block the attack. While the hook of her sword clings onto Darren's katana, she turns to her left, tosses him into the air and slams him onto the metal floor. Cornelia lifts her left foot up and is about to stomp Darren's face with her high-heel shoe until Alicia wraps her yo-yos around her body from behind and pulls her away. Cornelia turns around and swings her hook swords down when she is near Alicia. Alicia dodges them by rolling over the ground to her right. As she runs past Cornelia, she quickly unwraps her yo-yos around her body. Cornelia whirls about and swings her hook swords horizontally at her. Alicia swiftly turns around and blocks the attack by holding up her electrified yo-yos in her hands. Alicia growls as they push their weapons against each other while Cornelia laughs maniacally at her face.
Meanwhile, Sting jumps into the air and throws his right fist at Rip. Rip quickly moves to his right to dodge the attack. Rogue runs over to him and tries to deliver an uppercut to the bottom of Rip's chin with his right fist. But Rip swiftly grabs Rogue's right wrist and tightens his grip, causing the Shadow Dragon Slayer to yell in pain. While Sting stands beside Rogue, he throws his left fist at the right side of Rip's head. But Rip blocks the attack by holding up his right arm. Sting now tries to swing his right fist at his face. But Rip quickly grabs Sting's fist with his right hand, and he tosses both Dragon Slayers up into the air.
"POISON DRAGON'S FANG THRUST!" Erik shouted as a large dark red glyph magically appears in front of him. He thrusts his arms forward and fires a large fang-shaped snake head from the glyph and over to Rip.
Rip responds by throwing his head back and taking a huge, deep breath. When he throws his head forward, he lets out a loud roar and creates a huge amount of force and wind to push Erik's snake head back. Erik yelps as he covers his ears and lowers his head, causing both the glyph and the snake head to disappear. When Sting and Rogue falls in front of Rip, they both get caught in the blast and are sent flying towards and colliding against Erik.
"TRINITY SWORD!" Erza shouted as she is now dressed in her Heaven's Wheel armor and swings her swords diagonally to form and fire a V-shaped blast at Friedrich. He dodges the blast by sliding through the floor and going underneath it. He swings his rapier through the air in a zigzag pattern before thrusting and pointing it at Erza's midsection.
"LINES OF DOOM!" Friedrich shouted as several thin beams of purple energy burst out from the tip of his rapier. Erza manages to deflect the beams with her swords. But to her surprise, the beams turn around and fly back to her. Erza screams in pain as the beams hit her back and both sides of her lower torso. Friedrich grins as he swings his rapier horizontally to fire another blast of purple energy at her midsection again. Erza yelps as the blast hits her and sends her sliding through the floor on her back.
As Friedrich gets back up, he lifts his head up to see Carla flying towards him while carrying Wendy with her tail around her body. Wendy enlarges her cheeks and throws her head back.
"SKY DRAGON'S ROAR!" Wendy bellowed as she fires a huge blast of wind at Friedrich from her mouth. Friedrich performs a backflip to dodge the blast. As soon as he lands back down, Friedrich swings his rapier in a zigzag pattern again and aims it at Wendy and Carla.
"LINES OF DOOM!" Friedrich shouted as he fires several thin energy beams from his rapier again. The beams fly and turn in all directions, confusing Wendy and Carla. While still carrying her friend, Carla tries to fly down, hoping to dodge the beams. Unfortunately, two beams suddenly fly down and curve upwards to Wendy and Carla. Both beams hit them on their chests. They scream in pain as the beams lift them up and slam them against the ceiling.
"Wendy! Carla!" Erza cried to her friends after getting back up. She growls at Friedrich as she holds her swords up and gets into her fighting stance. Friedrich aims his rapier at Erza, ready to fight her again.
Suddenly, Sheena appears behind Friedrich as she skids to a halt. Friedrich whirls about and holds up his rapier in time to block a horizontal kick from Sheena. He thrusts his rapier at Sheena's chest, but she quickly dodges it by moving to her left. She charges over to Friedrich and delivers a series of swift punches at him. Friedrich quickly blocks all her attacks with his rapier as he backs away from her. Sheena suddenly makes a quick jump, performs a flip, and brings her electrified leg down on him. Friedrich holds up his rapier to block the attack and pushes her away from him. As Sheena falls onto the floor on her back, Erza runs over to him from behind.
"CIRCLE SWORD!" Erza shouted as she swings her swords horizontally to form and fire a circle-shaped blast at Friedrich. But Friedrich jumps up and performs another backflip over Erza's head. As Erza turns around and Sheena gets up, they watch Friedrich land down and stab his rapier onto the floor.
"PILLARS OF DOOM!" Friedrich shouted as several pillars rise from the floor below Erza and Sheena. The pillars lift them up, and they yelp as they slam them against the ceiling. As soon as the pillars from the floor go down, several more pillars emerge from the ceiling behind Erza and Sheena, and they slam them onto the floor.
Wilhelm holds up his hands and fires two large beams of dark red energy at Gajeel, who quickly turns his arms into iron clubs and crosses them to block his attacks. Gray runs over to Wilhelm from his right while holding his ice sword in his hands. Wilhelm turns his head to Gray and fires two more large energy beams from his eyes at him. Gray holds up his ice sword to block his beams while Lucy uses Volt's Lightning to swiftly run past him and over to Wilhelm. When she is near him, Lucy throws her whip and wraps it around Wilhelm's neck. Lucy pulls the whip as she runs past him and Wilhelm gasps as he stops firing his beams and finds himself being dragged across the floor. Lucy skids to a halt and tosses him over to the chairs and control panels. Wilhelm yells in pain as he slams against them. Gajeel transforms his hands into two iron mallets before leaping over to Wilhelm. The old man yells as he fires two large energy beams from his eyes at Gajeel. But Gajeel holds the mallets in front of his chest to block his attack. And when he reaches him, Gajeel slams his mallets right onto Wilhelm's face.
Erza groans as she gets herself up from the floor, but Friedrich runs over and stomps his boot onto her back to pin her down.
"Your struggle ends here!" Friedrich yelled as he prepares to stab his rapier into the top of Erza's head.
Suddenly, using Volt's Lightning, Sheena swiftly gets up and summons a purple paper in her hand. She runs over to Friedrich and slams her hand and the paper onto his chest. As Friedrich stumbles back, Sheena quickly makes several hand gestures to summon multiple papers around him. Friedrich quickly grabs the paper off his chest and throws it into the air. As all the papers illuminate, Friedrich swiftly performs multiple swings with his rapier to slash them all into bits and pieces.
Sheena suddenly appears behind Friedrich in midair, causing the man to gasp in shock. When he turns around to her, Sheena places a purple paper onto his forehead. Friedrich successfully hits Sheena in the gut with the bottom of the hilt of his rapier to send her falling and sprawling through the floor. Friedrich tries to stab his rapier into the floor to perform an attack on Sheena again. But he failed to notice Wendy and Carla standing nearby him on his right.
"SKY DRAGON'S WING ATTACK!" Wendy shouted as she swings her arms and fires two large whirlwinds at Friedrich. Friedrich swiftly turns to Wendy and swings his rapier horizontally to form a wall in front of him to protect himself from her attack.
But while he is distracted, Sheena sits up on the floor and gazes at him. She places her fingers together and shouted, "I call upon the hammer of godly light!"
As his wall comes down, Friedrich looks down to see a magical triangle with a circle on each corner appears beneath his feet. He tries to run away but he finds himself slamming against an invisible barrier. Friedrich lets out a yell as he desperately swings his rapier around to break through the barrier but to no avail.
"I summon thee…" Sheena points her hand at Friedrich. "VOLT'S LIGHTNING!"
Soon, a huge bolt of lightning comes down from the ceiling and electrocutes Friedrich, causing him to drop his rapier and scream in agony.
Meanwhile, as Erik runs over to Rip, he throws his right arm back and transforms his hand into poison-filled sharp claws. When he is near him, Erik swings his arm and claws horizontally at him. Rip backs away to dodge the attack and avoid getting poisoned. Erik now swings his claws vertically at him. Rip dodges him again by moving to his left, and he quickly lets out a loud roar that sends Erik tumbling onto the floor.
Rip turns his head side to side when a spiral of shadow appears around him. In response, Rip suddenly slams his foot on the floor to create a loud rumble that sends the shadow flying up in the air and causing Rogue to reappear. When Rip looks up and sees him, he claps his hands hard to create a large whirlwind to send Rogue slamming against the ceiling.
"WHITE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!" Sting shouted as he runs over to Rip and throws his right fist, which is illuminated with bright white light, at him.
Rip dodges the punch by ducking down and delivers an uppercut to Sting's midsection. Sting gasped in pain as Rip looks up at him and lets out a loud yell to send him flying through the air.
Suddenly, to the surprise of both Sting and Rip, a whip flies over to the White Dragon Slayer and wraps around his lower torso. Rip turns his head to his left and sees Lucy using her whip to swing Sting around in the circle. Rip throws his arms back and prepares to clap his hands and create a powerful gust of wind at her. But suddenly, Gajeel runs over to him from behind and grabs his arms.
"Uh-uh." Gajeel said. Rip quickly throws his head back and hits him in the face. He turns around and punches Gajeel on the chest to send him falling onto the floor.
"ICE-MAKE: PRISON!" Gray shouted as he thrusts his hands at Rip and forms a large cage made of ice around him. Rip gasps as he finds himself trap inside the cage. He takes a deep breath and tries to yell, but Gray quickly aims his finger at him and seals his mouth with ice. Rip widens his eyes and muffles as he tries to blow the ice off from his mouth. But it is too late as Gray quickly gets out of the way and allows Lucy to swing Sting over to Rip and the cage.
"Let's try this again!" Sting grins as he pulls his right fist back and illuminates it with bright white light. "WHITE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!"
When he is near the cage, Sting throws his fist forward and crushes through the bars. As Lucy uncoils her whip around his body, Sting flies over to Rip and successfully punches him in the face. Rip finds himself flying in the air, breaking through the bars behind him and sprawling through the floor. When he came to a halt, Rogue quickly goes over and thrusts his hands at Rip, causing shadows to appear on the floor and wrap themselves around the man to cover his mouth and trap him.
After Cornelia delivers a hard kick to Alicia's gut to send her skidding across the floor on her back, Natsu engulfs his hands with flames and leaps into the air.
"FIRE DRAGON'S…" Natsu claps his flaming hands together and throws them up in the air to form a large ball of fire above his head. "BRILLIANT FLAME!"
He throws the ball over to Cornelia, who throws her head back and forms bolts of lightning in her eyes. As she throws her head forward and lets out a yell, a huge cyan energy orb forms on the floor in front of her and bursts up into a large beam to dissipate Natsu's fireball.
When the beam dies down, Cornelia throws her hook swords vertically at Natsu. Natsu twirls around and manages to kick the swords away with his electrified legs, but Cornelia quickly fires two bolts of lightning from her eyes again and hits him in his abdomen. Natsu yells as the bolts send him crashing against the ceiling.
"FANG BLADE HAVOC!" Nolan shouted as he swings his scimitars around to fire four blasts of purple energy at Cornelia. Cornelia quickly holds out her hands to magically pull her hook swords back into her palms. She swiftly deflects all the blasts with her swords before illuminating her eyes with bolts of lightning. A huge energy orb appears beneath Nolan's feet and bursts up into a large beam which sends him flying and slamming against the ceiling.
Darren swiftly runs over to Cornelia from behind with Volt's Lightning and swings his katana horizontally at her neck. But Cornelia whirls about and deflects his katana with her left hook sword. She lifts her right leg up and hits Darren's midsection with her knee, causing him to gasp and stumble backwards. Cornelia uses her right leg again to deliver a powerful kick to his chest, sending him flying over to the control panels.
When Cornelia puts her right leg down, Lucy throws her whip over to her left leg from behind. After wrapping her whip around it, Lucy gave a hard pull, causing Cornelia to tumble down onto the floor. Cornelia gets up on her knee and tries to cut the whip with her left hook sword. But Alicia also throws her yo-yos over to Cornelia from behind and coils them around her upper arms. Cornelia growls as Alicia pulls her yo-yos and restrain her.
Erza yells as she flies over to Cornelia from her left and prepares to swing her sword at her. However, when she is only a meter away from her, Cornelia turns to Erza and fires two bolts of lightning at her from her eyes. After the bolts send Erza falling onto the floor, Gray points his finger at Cornelia's eyes and forms a layer of ice over them and her glasses.
"Agh! Damn you!" Cornelia yelled as she turns her head back to her front. As Gajeel jumps up into the air behind Alicia, he pulls his right arm back.
"IRON DRAGON'S IRON CLUB!" Gajeel shouted as he throws his right arm forward, transforms it into a long iron club and extends it over to Cornelia to hit her at the back of her head. As the club hits the ground, Gajeel pulls himself over and delivers a kick to Cornelia's upper back with both legs. Lucy and Alicia quickly release their whip and yo-yos around Cornelia's limbs before Gajeel lands on top of her and slides her across the floor and over to the control panels.
Cornelia roars angrily as she gets herself up, causing Gajeel to tumble onto the floor. She whirls about and prepares to swing her swords down onto Gajeel, but Darren suddenly thrusts his katana into her back and out from the left side of her lower torso. Cornelia screams in agony as Darren pulls his katana out and lifts his electrified right leg up to kick her on the back and send her flying across the room.
"FIRE DRAGON'S…" Natsu yelled as he leaps over to Cornelia and grabs her face with his flaming right hand. "GRIP'S STRIKE!"
Natsu releases a huge amount of fire from his palm and creates an explosion that sends Cornelia flying through the air for a moment before slamming onto the floor on her back. Happy and Carla quickly fly over to Cornelia and wrap their tails around her arms. She grunts as the exceeds fly up and pull her up from the floor, causing her to drop her weapons. Gray quickly points his finger at her eyes and creates a layer of ice in front of them and her glasses once again to stop her from unleashing her magic.
Erik runs over and tries to slash her with his poison-filled claws, but Cornelia lifts her legs up and kicks him on his chest. As Erik stumbles back, Lucy throws her whip over and wraps it around her left leg. As Alicia stands a few meters in front of her, she throws her arms back and charges up her yo-yos in her hands with Volt's Lightning. She throws them over to Cornelia and prepares to electrocute her.
"ENOUGH!" Mard Geer bellowed as he swipes his right arm through the air and unleash multiple vines from the floor. Two vines fly over and knock Alicia's yo-yos out of the way, and another two collide against Happy and Carla in their midsections, causing them to yelp and unwrap their tails around Cornelia's arms. As Cornelia drops her knees, the other vines quickly coil themselves around Alicia, Lucy, Natsu, Wendy, Erza, Gray, Sting, Rogue, Gajeel, and Erik. They all groan and cry in pain as they feel the thorns poking and scratching their skin. Cornelia looks down at her wound on her lower torso and illuminates her eyes with cyan lightning. As small bolts of lightning crackle around her wound, Cornelia patches it up and stops the bleeding.
As they stand next to each other, Darren and Nolan swing their electrified katana and scimitars around to slice off the vines that are flying towards them. However, one vine manages to wrap around Darren's right leg and pulls him to the left, causing him to collide against Nolan and both men fall onto the floor. Several vines quickly take the opportunity to wrap around their arms and carry them up in the air along with the others.
When Sheena sees several vines flying towards her, she swiftly uses Volt's Lightning to run to her right and avoid them. She draws out a paper and runs over to Mard Geer, hoping to place it on him. But Mard Geer sees her and thrusts his left hand at Sheena. The vines burst up from the floor in front of her and trip Sheena onto the floor. Several more vines emerge from the floor below her and coil themselves around her body before lifting her up in the air.
As Team Natsu, Darren, Alicia, Nolan, Sheena, and the Dragon Slayers struggle to break free from his vines, Erza looks down and sees Mavis lying on the floor unconscious through a large hole on Friedrich's wall at the right back-end corner of the command bridge.
"First Master!" Erza cried in horror.
"What have you done to her?!" Gray shouted at Mard Geer.
"Like I said to her, I've outgrown Zeref." Mard Geer said with an evil smirk. He swipes his right arm through the air again to command his vines to slam Team Natsu and their friends against the wall at the right side of the command bridge. Multiple vines emerge from the wall behind them and coil themselves around their bodies. They all yell and scream as they could feel the vines slowly pulling them inside the walls of Cambion Mons.
"Ah! What's happening?!" Wendy cried.
"H-He's trapping us!" Rogue responded.
"Similar to what happened to us back in Tartaros' old headquarters!" Gajeel yelled.
"HEEEELLLLPPPP!" Lucy and Alicia both screamed.
"LET US GO!" Natsu bellowed.
As Erik grunts and moves side to side, he fills his arms with white and dark red scales as he transforms his fingers into poison-filled claws. He manages to stab the claws on his left hand into the vines around his lower body. This causes the vines to turn brown and crumble into pieces, freeing the Poison Dragon Slayer and letting him fall onto the floor.
Sheena also manages to summon another purple paper in her right hand and shouted, "VOLT'S LIGHTNING!"
A bolt of lightning comes down from the ceiling and strikes onto the vines coiling around Sheena's body. The vines turn into ashes and Sheena carelessly drops onto the floor. She quickly turns to her friends and throws several papers onto the vines around Natsu, Darren, Nolan, Alicia, Lucy, and Erza. Unfortunately, Wendy, Gray and the others have already gone inside the walls before the papers landed on where they originally were. The papers illuminate brightly before they explode and destroy the vines around their bodies, releasing Natsu, Darren, Nolan, Alicia, Lucy, and Erza, and letting them land on the floor. They all get up and turn around to the walls.
"HAPPY! GRAY!" Natsu shouted in horror.
"WENDY! CARLA!" Lucy cried.
"GAJEEL!" Erza yelled.
"It's too late. They are now trapped inside the walls of Cambion Mons." Mard Geer said. Natsu, Lucy and Erza growl as they, Darren, Alicia, and Nolan turn around to face him with glares. He smiles mockingly at them as he folds his arms. "Oh, don't worry. They are still alive. But you should be careful not to damage the walls if you do not wish to hurt them."
"LET THEM GO, YOU BASTARD!" Natsu demanded.
"And double your chances in stopping us from firing our cannon at the Flower Light Palace?" Cornelia sneered as she, Friedrich, Rip and Wilhelm walk over to Mard Geer and stand alongside him. "Not a chance."
"Mock us all you want. But we will take you all down." Erza said firmly as she, Natsu, Lucy, Darren, Alicia, Nolan, Sheena, and Erik get into their fighting stances.
"And how can you possibly do that? I've just defeated your master there." Mard Geer said as he gestures to the still unconscious Mavis. "I have become more powerful since our last battle, Fairy Tail. There is nothing you can do to stop me. The destruction of Earth Land is inevitable, and none of you will remain alive to save the remnants of humankind."
"You may look down on humankind, but we are a lot more capable than you think." Lucy said calmly.
"We always make mistakes, but we can choose to learn from them and become better." Darren added.
"And while it may take time for humans and demihumans to learn to co-exist and accept each other again, anything is possible." Natsu said as the flames around his fists grew larger.
"It is time to put an end to your madness, Mard Geer." Nolan said firmly.
Mard Geer snorted in response. "I'm done wasting time."
Suddenly, Mard Geer swipes his left arm through the air. Multiple vines burst out from the ceiling above him and fly over to Natsu and Lucy. Using Volt's Lightning, Erza and Nolan swiftly run over and place themselves in front of them. They swing their swords around in incredible speed to slash the vines off for a few seconds. Nolan later crosses his scimitars and swings them diagonally to fire an X-shaped electrified blast at the area of the ceiling where the vines are coming from.
Mard Geer swiftly flies over to Nolan and lifts his left knee up to deliver a kick to his chest, sending him flying past between Natsu and Lucy and towards the wall behind them.
"Nolan!" Natsu shouted as he uses Volt's Lightning to swiftly run over to the wall and catches Nolan with his arms.
Erza yells furiously as she flies over to Mard Geer and swings her swords horizontally at him, but he swiftly dodges it by flying up in the air. Erza looks up for a brief moment to see Mard Geer lifting his right leg up. As he falls through the air, Mard Geer swings his leg down onto the top of Erza's head to slam her onto the floor.
"Erza!" Darren and Alicia cried as they try to run over to her. But Cornelia swiftly runs over and blocks their path.
"Uh-uh. You two are mine." Cornelia said as she crosses her hook swords in front of her and underneath her chin.
"We'll take her together." Darren said as he pulls his katana back.
"Of course." Alicia replied before she suddenly throws her electrified yo-yos over to Cornelia. Cornelia deflects both of them with her swords before Darren runs over and swings his electrified katana horizontally at her. Cornelia swiftly holds up her left hook sword to block the attack and push against his katana. After pulling back her yo-yos, Alicia runs over to Cornelia, pulls her right fist back and charges it up with Volt's Lightning. When she throws her electrified fist at her, Cornelia blocks it with her other hook sword. As Darren and Alicia push their katana and fist against her swords, Cornelia smiles evilly at them before she throws her head back and illuminates her eyes with lightning. Darren and Alicia gasp and quickly jump back and out of the way before Cornelia throws her head forward and fires two large lightning bolts out from her eyes. When Darren and Alicia land back down about several meters away from her, Cornelia laughs maniacally as the lightning still crackles in her eyes. She dashes over to Darren and Alicia and prepares to swing her hook swords at them.
After charging up her whip with Volt's Lightning, Lucy throws it over to Rip. Rip lets out a loud roar, causing the whip to fly back over to Lucy. He charges towards Lucy and throws his right fist at her. Lucy quickly dodges it by rolling over the ground to her right. When she gets back up, Lucy throws her whip at Rip again and tries to strike him. But Rip turns and grabs it firmly with his left hand. He pulls Lucy over to him, and she gasps as he pulls his right fist back and prepares to punch her. But Natsu suddenly runs past Rip from behind with Volt's Lightning, turn to his left and grabs Lucy. Rip turns to his left and sees Natsu placing Lucy down on the floor.
"Thank you, Natsu." Lucy smiled at him.
"Nolan is dealing with Mard Geer along with Erza, and Darren and Alicia are fighting against Cornelia. For us, why don't we handle this buff buffoon together?" Natsu said to his friend with a smirk.
"With pleasure." Lucy nodded before she and Natsu turn and glare at Rip.
"You children need to be put in your place!" Rip yelled before he takes a deep breath and lets out a loud roar at Lucy and Natsu. The two of them swiftly move out of the way before running over to Rip. Natsu leaps into the air and throws a flaming punch to the right side of Rip's head that sends him stumbling to his left. Lucy later jumps up and delivers an electrified kick to the left side of his head which causes him to drop her whip. As Lucy picks her whip up, Rip stomps his right foot onto the floor and lets out another roar which causes the panels beneath her and Natsu to lift them up into the air. After slamming them against the ceiling, Rip jumps up and tries to punch them on their faces. Lucy and Natsu quickly recover and grab his fists to stop his attack. As Rip stare blankly at them, Lucy and Natsu pull back their other fists. The former charges it up with Volt's Lightning while the latter engulfs it in flames. They both punch Rip directly onto his face to send him falling and crashing onto the floor below.
Meanwhile, Friedrich delivers a series of swift attacks at Sheena with his rapier. Sheena quickly dodges them by backing away and moving side to side.
"You will not imperil our destiny! Earth Land will be reborn!" Friedrich yelled at Sheena as he kept swinging and thrusting his rapier. "And humanity will finally be free of its sins!"
When Friedrich finished, he quickly pulls his rapier back in a forward position and thrusts it at Sheena. Sheena swiftly jumps into the air and performs a flip over Friedrich's head. As Friedrich turns around, Sheena throws her legs forward and kicks him in the face while in midair, sending him sprawling through the floor. When Sheena lands back down, she whirls about and throws a paper at him. Friedrich quickly jumps back up on his feet and swings his rapier in a zigzag pattern to slice the paper into pieces.
"You will not trap me again, girl!" Friedrich shouted at her.
"I don't even need to do that." Sheena replied before thrusting her hand at him.
Friedrich widens his eyes and gasps in shock before he looks down and sees the pieces of paper on the floor illuminating in bright purple light. A large white circular glyph forms beneath his feet and eight large energy beams rise up around its boundaries. Friedrich turns to his left and runs away. But when he came to a halt, he is shocked to see that the circle had followed him and is still below his feet.
"No!" Friedrich cried in despair. Sheena now hovers in the air and places her hands together.
"QUASI SEAL!" Sheena shouted. Soon, thousands of papers rise up from the circular glyph and surround Friedrich. He desperately swings his rapier around to slice through them. But there was too many of them, and the ones he sliced off are quickly replaced. All the papers soon illuminate brightly in white light, and Friedrich could only drop his rapier and scream in agony as Sheena's ultimate attack blinds his vision and burns his body to ashes. When the light dies down, the papers and the glyph disappear, and Friedrich was no more.
"MY SON!" Wilhelm shouted in horror as he stares at where Friedrich originally stood. Erik quickly runs over and delivers a powerful punch across Wilhelm's right cheek. After stumbling back, Wilhelm lets out a furious roar as he holds up his hands and fires four large beams of dark red energy from his eyes and palms at Erik. Erik quickly swings his arms diagonally and crosses them together to form a wall of poison in front of him to block Wilhelm's attack.
"I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" Wilhelm bellowed. While his hands kept firing its beams at Erik's wall, Wilhelm closes his eyes for a moment as he turns his head to Sheena. He opens his eyes again to fire his beams at her. Sheena quickly swipes her arms through the air and forms multiple papers in front of her to protect herself from the beams. But the papers are slowly burning away into ashes as Wilhelm kept firing his beams at them.
Now blinded by rage, Wilhelm clenches his hands into fists and slowly walks his way towards Sheena.
"I will avenge Friedrich's death! His sacrifice will not be in vain!" Wilhelm bellowed as he holds up his hands and fire two additional beams of dark red energy at Sheena. Sheena groans as her papers continue to burn away, and she is starting to feel the heat from Wilhelm's beams.
As Erik brings down his wall of poison, he runs over to Wilhelm from behind, leaps into the air and wraps his arms and legs around him. Wilhelm yelps and stumbles forward as the beams momentarily stop. Erik quickly transforms his right hand into sharp claws and places them in front of his mouth. Wilhelm lets out a muffled yell as he throws his head back and fires his eye beams at the ceiling.
"POISON DRAGON'S GRIP STRIKE!" Erik shouted as he now unleashes a huge amount of poison into Wilhelm's mouth. As he stops firing his beams, Wilhelm manages to grab Erik's right arm and tosses him onto the ground.
"I'm done playing with you!" Wilhelm yelled at him as he throws his head back and prepares to fire his eye beams at Erik's face.
But suddenly, as Wilhelm throws his head forward, his eyes snap open and he lets out a hacking cough. As Wilhelm releases his arm and backs away in pain, Erik turns around and gets himself up.
"Sorry to disappoint you, old man. But at least now you can join him." Erik said coldly to Wilhelm.
"W-W-What…" Wilhelm cuts himself off when he lets out a few more severe coughs. "What did…you do?!"
As Sheena goes over and stands beside Erik, the two of them silently watch as Wilhelm vomits out huge amounts of blood onto the floor. Sheena cringes in response while Erik remains motionless. As Wilhelm throws himself back and stares up at the ceiling, his eyes turn red. But they were not his energy beams, but more amounts of blood pouring out from its sockets. Wilhelm lets out one final agonizing scream as his skin and bones melt from Erik's poison, and he soon became nothing more than a large puddle of blood.
"Two down." Erik said before he and Sheena turn to Rip who is still fighting with Natsu and Lucy.
"Three to go." Sheena said as she holds up her hand and summons a paper. She and Erik run over to Rip, ready to help their friends.
Sovereign: I would like to thank Amanny, LayLay lives and AquaBluey for reviewing, macaseyangelicacournoyer for favoriting, matejfilipfort for following, and Crimson-Tuna-Sub for checking out my story. Thank you!
Chapter Revised on 22nd May 2021