A moment or two was all that passed after Barry had successfully obliterated the meteor with nothing more than his bare hand. He saw the barrier Jellal had summoned fade out of existence, Jellal looked worried now. Barry didn't even flinch as stray pieces of the meteor fell to the Earth around them.
He had never felt more invincible in his life. He had to keep reminding himself that he had lost to these people once before.
That's when he lost focus.
He had just referenced Acnologia as himself.
Something was wrong.
"These beings are beneath us! They shall perish like all the rest! More destruction! More blood! More carnage! We will destroy all, this world shall belong to us, for we are the dragon king, ACNOLOGIA!" Is what Barry heard in his mind a moment later. He felt his entire body go stiff, and he felt something reminiscent of a burning sensation in his stomach. He began to cough violently, and one of his eyes began to glow a crimson red. Purple wisps of what looked like energy began to leak out from his body, and the force sent his hair floating upwards.
'T-this is magic? It hurts, it feels awful, powerful…it hurts like hell!' Barry thought as he clutched his stomach. He felt himself start to lose control over his body, and he looked upwards before his mouth began forcing itself open. He felt something like a large amount of air and something rather electrifying and tingly pool within his mouth. It began increasing in intensity, and it soon felt like a hurricane was in his Jaws.
'Am I about to fire off a roar!?' Barry realized. It seemed that the mages confronting him came to the same conclusion as they all leapt away and scattered.
"Cobra! Can you hear anything!?" Jellal yelled.
"Only little bits of it! It's weird as hell! It almost sounds like there's more than one voice in there!"
"It could be a trick! You couldn't hear him last time, remember!?"
"I was there, jackass! Of course, I remember! He's distracted so let's hit him now! Poison Dragons' roar!"
"Let's go, Rogue!" Sting yelled. He reared his fist back behind himself, and white magic began to pool around it.
"Right!" Rogue yelled as he did the same thing with his shadow magic. Their magic began expanding into giant domes of white and dark energy.
While they did that, Barry was hit by Cobra's poison dragon roar. A massive cloud of kicked-up snow and dirt overtook Barry, however, Barry didn't even know that the attack had hit as he struggled to maintain control over what had been his own body for the past while.
'I won't kill them! I refuse to kill anyone!'
'They deserve to burn for what they did to us!'
'We deserve to burn for all the shit we pulled in the past!'
'Exterminating Dragons was doing the world a favour!'
'Trying to obliterate the world wasn't!'
'The weaklings of this world don't deserve to own it! We are the dragon king, it belongs to us! Therefore we have the right to destroy it!'
'A king doesn't destroy his kingdom and slaughter his people! A dictator does!'
'Dragons are not bound by the same rules as pathetic humans!'
'I thought we hated Dragons!'
'We do!'
'Then why do we identify as one!?'
'We don't!'
'Then are we human!?'
'No!'
'THEN WHAT ARE WE!?'
The voice in his mind went silent, and the magic stopped pooling in his mouth. Barry had regained control.
'Well thank god that's over, hey, why's everything dusty?'
Barry waved his hand and the snow blew away so quickly it pelted all the wizards harshly as if it was hail.
"Shit! He's about as tough as I remember him being." Cobra swore.
"Holy Shadow Dragons Flash Fang!" Sting and Rogue both yelled at once. They threw their arms forward and a massive wave of white and dark magic tore through the ground and headed straight towards Acnologia.
"Quickly Erik! Let's add to their attack!" Jellal yelled before raising both of his arms high up into the air. Suddenly, a black orb appeared above his arms and began to suck in air at an incredibly rapid rate.
"Jellal! You ready to use the attack that killed off Simon!?"
"I can't cast grand chariot fast enough. Now hurry and add to the attack! Altairis!" Jellal yelled. The ball of black, condensed, magic shot out of his hands and soon soared right next to sting and Rogues unison raid.
"Tch! Fine, Poison Dragons Fang thrust!" Cobra chanted. A stream of reddish, black poison magic shot out of his mouth and soared to the back left of their attack while Altairis was to the back right of it. The poison gained a snake-like head and its fang opened up. Barry looked at all the attacks flying at him and only thought one thing before it hit him.
'Why is it all moving so slowly?'
'Because you are no longer in control boy!' A voice rang out. Barry felt his entire body go numb, and he felt it move without his command. He felt the magic return in far greater waves than before, both his eyes glowed red, and his Jaw opened wide.
He could only watch through his now red gaze as a blast of bluish, white magic shot out from his mouth and tore straight through all of the wizards' attacks. They all looked on in absolute horror, as the attack took them by complete surprise.
The explosion that it caused was so immense it caused the ground to cave in on itself and formed a gigantic sphere of pure, magical energy that spread around for miles. Christina was sent flying out of control.
"What the hell!? He just fired off a roar with that much damage!?" Hibiki yelled in confusion.
"Have you forgotten how powerful his attack was when fighting Jellal!? He split the ocean in two during that fight!"
"But he was a dragon when he did that!"
"I'm beginning to think it doesn't matter what form he's in. He'll always be a monster." Ichiya said. Hibiki tried contacting Jellal.
"I-Ichiya! I can't get a read on Jellal, I-I think he's-"
"No, it can't be! In just one attack!? He's fought Acnologia before and lived!"
"I think they were all caught off guard somehow!"
Back down at the ground. Barry regained control and looked in horror at what he had done.
When the smoke cleared, he saw the absolute wake of pure destruction he had caused. A crater, the size of the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, was what he stood in. Smoke and rocks heated up so much they were red everywhere, the sky looked much further up, and the clouds above looked like they had been parted.
Then he saw it, the bodies.
He saw Jellal, his legs were gone. Sting and Rogue were in two pieces, and he didn't even know where Cobra ended up amidst the rubble other than a large tuft of red hair he saw.
"No…NO...NO! YOU MOTHERFUCKER! YOU FUCKING KILLED THEM!" Barry shouted in pure, unfiltered rage. His draconic voice broke through and his scream alone sent rubble flying all around him. He cursed it all, he had never wanted to kill anyone, now, he had somehow broken through Fairy Tails' plot armour and killed off four of the most important characters in the story.
How?
This was Fairy Tail! Sure someone died every once in a while, but most of the main cast always came through. If they were this easy to kill why had Acnologia failed in the first place!? He had fought JellL before and failed to kill him! Why had Zeref failed with Fairy Heart!?
It didn't make any sense!
None of it made any sense.
He didn't want to be a murderer!
He wouldn't be a murderer.
Then as he screamed, something happened. The blue markings on his arm glowed brightly. Then, the world turned dark blue.
He was so busy screaming, he didn't even notice what happened when he heard a voice, and the smell of smoke, hot rocks and blood vanished from the air.
"Why the fuck is this guy screaming all of a sudden?" He heard a familiar voice say. Barry stopped, and he saw…
Jellal, Sting, Rogue and Cobra looking all fine ready to fight, and no crater sight.
Barry rubbed his eyes and breathed out a sigh of relief before blinking in confusion.
What just happened?
The answer came when Jellal became distracted by something next to him. Barry smelled someone new and looked forward and his mouth hung agape.
Sitting right between them, and he somehow missed her, was a Raven haired woman carrying a blue orb. She looked around, then at Barry, with fear in her eyes.
"U-Ultear!? How is this possible!?" Jellal yelled.
No way.
"H-Him! I-I don't know how he did it, but, he somehow reversed time itself! He distorted the world of time itself!" Ultear yelled in fear. Barry blinked, then remembered something.
Acnologia before he died, had eaten the ravines of time.
He had the power of time itself.
Oh fuck, as if being Acnologia want bad enough.
Now he had just become Fairy Tails' plot armour!
In a garden within the depths of Alvarez. A blonde-haired woman was picking some tomatoes and carrots from her garden when she suddenly felt something and dropped her basket to the ground, causing vegetables and fruit to spill out everywhere.
"Did I just feel time shift?" She asked herself, before hearing a booming voice in her head.
"...Dimaria…"
"L-lord Chronos! I haven't heard your voice since-"
"...Since the child defeated us Dimaria?"
"It's embarrassing to say out loud."
"...She was a god slayer with her third origin unlocked Dimaria...I assume you felt it?"
"Yes, m'lord. I did, what was it?"
"...Something that shouldn't exist in any world...the dragon king Acnologia, has somehow returned…the gods aren't pleased with this development."
"T-they aren't?"
"No, neither am I, now Anksheram will keep harassing me over losing even more control over my domain than before. Acnologia's power surpasses my own, but there is something wrong."
"What is it?"
"There is a keeper of our universe. He makes sure everything, in this world of magic, stays within the rules of the universe. Recently, the keeper was distraught over something. Acnologia should have never returned to the living, he claimed, that a third party outside of our world's rules intervened somehow. A being that exists outside of our world."
"Outside the universe? Well, why tell me this, my lord? I'm only a farmer now."
"Not anymore you aren't. I wish for you to track down the revived King of Dragons, he is the source of the disruption. You can't fight him, so try to get on his good side."
"That's impossible."
"Normally it would be if you were just conversing with the dragon king alone. He's changed, some of the gods observing Earthland noticed right away. Now go."
"...son of a whore!" Dimaria yelled in frustration before kicking her basket sky high.
Welp, a tad darker than most chapters I know, but Fairy Tail plot armour came in clutch again.
Or did it?
Anyways if anyone's wondering how Acnologia killed off Jellal, Erik, Sting and Rogue with one roar then...
you need to re-evaluate your power scaling a bit.
The man ripped God Serena in half (sort of, it still killed him) without even breaking a sweat. God Serena when alive could've compared to Gildarts.
That was BEFORE he ate the ravines of time.
Hope that clears up any confusion over why that happened, and explains my train of thought when writing that out.