SailorStar9: We now continue with Chapter 147 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 147: Alvarez Empire Arc: The Historia of the Dead

Easily kicking Natsu asides, Jacob sent Lucy flying towards a nearby bench with a kick. Another punch to Natsu's stomach sent him crashing into another bench.

"You're good." Natsu grinned.

"You brats..." Jacob growled and vanished into thin air, landing a hit on Natsu.

"Where is he?" Natsu cursed, as he and Lucy were hit simultaneously in numerous places.

"Lousy brats." Jacob shimmered back into sight. "This world is harsher than you even know. I'm going to kill your 113 friends I caught, one after another."

"Wait." Lucy recalled something. "One of your own teammates is with them, Brandish."

"Brandish?" Jacob checked his portal sphere. "And her underling? Fine then." he took Brandish and Marin out of his dimension.

"Thanks for saving us, Jacob." Marin whined in relief.

"Thanks for saving us, Jacob." Lucy had used Gemini's Key to copy Marin.

"There's another me?" Marin exclaimed.

"Gemini!" Lucy had also donned on the Gemini Star Dress.

"They should've turned into Brandish if they wanted to be someone strong." Happy pointed out.

"They can't transform into overly powerful mages, actually." Mavis reminded.

"That's true, but I did this for a different reason." Lucy replied.

"Law of Space, activate!" Gemini copied Marin's Rule of Area magic to nullify Jacob's dimension.

"But, won't this make Gemini disappear, too?" Happy wondered.

"Along with my Star Dress." Lucy agreed. "But that's okay."

"My transporter..." Jacob realized what Lucy had done.

"This nullifies all spatial magic." Lucy explained. "That means... I can bring all of them back."

"That's it." Jacob fumed. "I've had enough. I'm sending all of you away this time. Squish?" he blinked when he found Happy between his hands, making him unable to use his dimensional magic. "The cat?" he exclaimed.

"How dare you hurt our Shodai." an enraged Makarov turned into his Giant form and punched Jacob out of the Guildhall.

"Don't wreck our building!" Natsu exclaimed.

"You're no one to talk!" Makarov tossed said Dragon Slayer after Jacob.

"Talk about reckless." Warren muttered.

"But if Natsu tried to fight here at full strength in here..." Max sighed.

"Our Guildhall will definitely be blown to smithereens." Romeo agreed with the Sand mage.

The sheer heat emitted from Natsu instantly evaporated the lake he was tossed across.

"He just evaporated the lake!" Cana exclaimed.

"No way!" Warren, Max and Romeo shouted.

"Mode: Fire Dragon King!" Natsu closed in on his target. "Fire Dragon King Destruction Fist!" he took out Jacob with a fire-powered punch.

In the basement of the Fairy Tail Guildhall...

"That's my real body." Mavis brought Cana before the Resurrection Lacrima. "The everlasting magic, Fairy Heart. After seeing Jacob's magic and the way Natsu and Lucy fought, I figured a way to defeat Zeref. I can't say much yet, but first, we'll have to remove my real body from the lacrima."

"Is the Shodai inside there even..." Cana wondered.

"Theoretically, she's alive." Mavis assured. "Possibly owing to Precht's revival spells. Cana, I need you to use Fairy Glitter to eradicated this projection; this body. Look there." she pointed to the crack in the lacrima. "That crack appeared when my projection was damaged. If I'm right, eradicating my projection will destroy the lacrima."

"You can't be serious..." Cana stammered. "You want to me to attack you?"

"This is a projection." Mavis reminded. "An illusion. You won't actually be hurting anyone."

"I refuse." Cana objected. "It's too dangerous. If something were to happen to your real body..."

"Cana, this is the only way." Mavis insisted. "Trust me. We're doing this to defeat Zeref."

In northern Fiore...

"There it is." Pantherlily spoke, he, Gajeel and Levy were on a cliff overseeing the battlefield. "The enemy battalion."

"We didn't rendezvous with Sabertooth and Blue Pegasus in time." Gajeel noted.

"They're coming this way." Mirajane warned, the Strauss siblings were also present. "What do we do?"

"We fight, of course." Gajeel answered. "We're gonna stop these guys right here. Everyone, prepare for battle."

"Yukino..." Levy breathed in disbelief as the troops marched in with the captured and defeated Sabertooth and Blue Pegasus members crucified on stakes as trophies.

"Sting, Rouge." Pantherlily could not believe even the Double Dragons were defeated.

In Hargeon...

With the others either resting to recover from their fights or still battling against the stationed forces, Erza, Kagura and Jellal boarded the invading naval armada.

Neinhart then acted in defense, activating his 'Historia of the Dead ' spell.

"Looks like the old gang is together again." Simon spoke. "Dark Moment. It's been a while, hasn't it?"

"You're... alive?" Jellal was shocked.

"Erza, I'm glad to see you're well." Simon nodded. "Jellal, you have a different air about you now. And you there..." he turned to Kagura. "Could it be?"

"Onii-sama..." Kagura teared.

"No..." Jellal stopped her. "He isn't Simon."

"This is your Historia." Neinhart drawled. "Love, friendship, family and death. It's a very beautiful Historia."

"You must be one of the Twelve Shields." Jellal realized.

"This is your doing?" Erza frowned.

"I'm impressed." Neinhart replied. "You realized instantly. This is your Historia. A mage you hold in your hearts. I can see inside a person's heart. The heart is brimming with feelings and I can give these feelings physical form. I create life; beautiful Historias."

"I see." Simon fizzled into nothingness. "It really is you, Kagura."

"Stay calm." Jellal cautioned the fuming Kagura. "That was an illusion he created."

"It's not exactly an illusion." Neinhart corrected. "You saw it yourselves, the life forms I create can use magic. They even have memories and personalities."

Jellal grabbed Kagura to dodge the magic beam Neinhart fired at them, only have the massive energy beam sent them both to the sea floor. And as if to add more obstacles, Neinhart sent a weighted chain after the two of them to drown them. Another snap of his fingers summoned Ikaruga before Erza.

"Have you forgotten about me, Erza?" the former Trinity Raven leader reminded. "I must thank you for back then. Whatever is the matter, Erza?" she mocked, clashing with the Fairy Tail's swordswoman and managing to wound her. "You seem to have lost your edge."

"It must be her wounds." Azuma stated, appearing behind Erza. "Erza is normally stronger than this. Now, let's see how strong you can be."

Erza dodged the two vines Azuma fired at her, only to have to fend herself against Ikaruga's sword strikes.

"Bleve!" after using his vines to get Erza into the spot he wanted, Azuma bombarded Erza with a barrage of his energy blasts.

Ikaruga took to the air to attack Erza, only to have the red-haired swordswoman dodge her attack.

Azuma then summoned his vines, wrapping them around Erza's ankle and flinging her away. "Ramus Sica!" he sent his rain of branches towards Erza.

"Mugetsu-Ryu: Yasha's Empty Flash!" Ikaruga came from behind for an attack, which Erza evaded.

"The more adversaries a person has overcome, the more beautiful their Historias are." Neinhart grinned. "This is my magic: the Historia of the Dead. With it, I can breath new life into battles of old." he added one more opponent for Erza, Kyôka. "Historias can also bring together souls that never interacted originally. How beautiful. Now spread forth, Historia of the Dead." he sent his magic all over the town against the still battling mages. "Entertain me, o blossoming Historias of the battlefield."

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