Back with the continuation
"speaking"
""thinking""
On with the story
With Gajeel
The Iron Dragon Slayer keeps sending his attacks against Bloodman but none of his attacks were hitting their target at all
"how is it that my Anti Magic particles have no effect on you?" Bloodman asked him "they should be very fatal to any wizard who inhales them"
"too bad!" Gajeel said to the grim reaper "my lungs are made from iron!"
"I see" Bloodman said with a smirk "it has been long since I felt the sensation of battle!"
Bloodman attacks Gajeel but the man dodges
"Tetsuryu So!"
Gajeel shot his leg towards Bloodman as it turns into an Iron log
The attack missed again as Bloodman's body turned into black sand
"too bad for you- my body is made of anti-magic particles" Bloodman told the man
Skeletons started to flood the field as Gajeel was sent hurdling away
"I am the god of death! I will guide you to the afterlife!"
"gaahhhh" Gajeel shouted in pain before he sees his comrades screaming in pain
"maybe you can withstand the particles but what of the humans near you?" Bloodman asked him
"everyone! Get outta here!" Gajeel shouted "get out now!"
Gajeel crashed into the seat of skeleton as the skeletons started to attack him
"you shall now be devoured by the dead!" Bloodman shouted before Levy appeared
"Solid Script! Shine!"
She chanted out a light based attack as the skeletons disappeared
"holy based magic?!" Bloodman exclaimed as the shine disappears
"levy!?" Gajeel exclaimed
"I'm not going anywhere" Levy told him
"you fool! Get away from here!" Gajeel shouted out before noticing the mask on Levy she made from her magic
"mask?" Gajeel said as Levy looks at him
"don't you ever say you're looking for a place to die!" Levy scolded him
"that? That was just..you know, baniter!" Gajeel retorted "I didn't mean it! Don't be mad!"
"I don't want you to die" Levy told him "I want you to keep living, Gajeel…"
"Levy…" Gajeel muttered out
"to stand before me means you have now been promised death" Bloodman told them as his hood pulled back
"that promise cannot be broken. I will not allow any of you to have life. i swear it on the name of the god of death!"
Western Fiore
Zeref and his tropps were approaching to Magnolia as the Black Wizard kneels down and touched the land
"leave it to my wife to hasten the game" END said while sitting on top of a rock with an amused face
"Irene, what on earth are you planning?" Zeref asked as he can sense the change of magic in the earth
With Lucy
Lucy and the others were standing in front of August, The Wizard King of Alvarez as the old man had a rather stoic look on him
"what is the meaning of this, Brandish?" August asked the green haired
"I've come to negotiate with you" Brandish replied
"has Jacob been killed?" August asked concerning about the assassin
"he's been defeated by these people" Brandish replied "he isn't dead but he has been captured"
"where is END-sama? Was he not with you?"
"he is currently in battle with Acnologia and told us to march forward ahead of him" August replied to her
"Hige" Rose said as Mary repeated her words
"be polite!" Lucy told the twins
""this guy…is on another level!"" Mest thought as he had fear shaking in his heart
"now, what did you mean by negotiating?" August asked Brandish
"I would like you to withdraw" Brandish told her
"hmm, it doesn't look like they have tortured you into this." August said "so what could have made you betray us?"
"I haven't betrayed anyone" Brandish replied "I am still a citizen of Alvarez…it's simply that I see no purpose in this war"
"those words are betrayal to the Emperor! We have sword out lives to protect him" August told her
"if you cannot see the purpose in this war…then you are nothing but an enemy"
With Gajeel
"are you sure you're allright?" Gajeel asked Levy "these anti-magic particles"
"the Solid Script: Mask is a perfect filter" Levy told him with a smile
"the first seal steals magic with anti-magic particles" Bloodman said whiel lifting up one finger "the second is this harvest of skulls that opens the portal to the afterlife…"
He then lifted three fingers as black purplish mist started to encase his body
"and the third seal is the god of death's judgment upon your lives!"
Gajeel and Levy looks at Bloodman as the grim reaper transformed
"once you've opened the third seal…" Bloodman spoke out "the land of the living is forever closed to you!"
"heh! Try to intimidate us all you want! But your magic ain't nothing special" Gajeel said with a grin "the other members of the 12 got way more than you!"
"that's because I wield curse power," Bloodman told him while smirking
"he isn't human!?" Levy exclaimed
"the power that swirls in Tartaros…the power of the nine demons!" Bloodman said as he reached his hand forward "Curse power!"
He then swings his hand in a circular fashion as a twister of explosion barrages at Gajeel and Levy
"Bakurasen!"
"gaah!" "Kyaaaa!"
Gajeel and Levy was sent flying away as they crashed to the ground
"Tenga Goken!" Bloodman swings his hand back as he swings it forward
"Onimaru!"
A powerful slash attack flies towards Gajeel who defended by turning his skin into his Iron Dragon Scales
dark sea water started to appear behind Bloodman as it was heading towards Bloodman
"Tenchi! Kaimei!"
The dark water flooded the field as Gajeel and Levy swam in it
"these attacks are!" Gajeel exclaimed
"it can't be!" Levy exclaimed "he can use all of Tartaros' attacks!?"
"but I won't fall for the same attack again!"Levy said as she swims towards the ground and made several gestures
"Solid Script! Hole!
The letters for "Hole" appeared as the dark water got sucked into it and disappeared
"nice! Levy!" Gajeel said as he took a deep breath with Bloodman doing the same
"Tetsuryu no Hoko!" "Hyoma no Gekiko!"
The two unleashed breathes attack against each other as their attacks canceled each other out
Suddenly, white tentacles entagled Gajeel's and Levy's legs as it holds them down
"observe, a curse that surpasses that of the Nine Demons!" Bloodman said as he waved his hands to the side
"to the underworld…to the underworld…the death march forward!" Bloodman chanted out as skeletons started to rise up in white jelly like bodies
"this is bad!" Gajeel exclaimed while trying to get free
"the third seal is opened" Bloodman said before a wave of skeleton appeared from behind him
"Over! Skeleter!"
The wave of skeleton drowns Gajeel and Levy in it as Gajeel breaks out of the sea of skeleton
"Levy!" Gajeel shouted out as he grabs a hold of Levy and got out of the sea of skeletons
"they escaped!?" Bloodman exclaimed "from the life hunting skulls!?"
Gajeel and Levy crashed down to the ground as Levy's mask disappeared
Levy started coughing before blood got coughed out
"Levy! Your mask! Your mask is gone!" Gajeel shouted to her
"sorry…" Levy muttered out as she weakly got up "the mask…never worked in the first place at all"
"you can absorb anti-magic particles by skin too"
"why the hell did you came here for!?" Gajeel shouted at her
"I wanted to" Levy said before she fell down "save you!"
"Levy? LEVY!" Gajeel shouted out before he got up and dashed towards Bloodman
"hang on, Levy! I'm going to take this jerk down right now!"
Gajeel tried to attack Bloodman but as usual his attacks went through Bloodman
"it's futile" Bloodman said as he lifted his finger up and a thorn root pierces out of the ground and straight at Gajeel's right side
"gah!" Gaheel coughs blood as he gritted his teeth
"Gajeel…." Levy muttered out his name weakly before seeing Gajeel trying to punch Bloodman again
"your attacks have no effect upon me" Bloodman told him
""I'm always the last! It's so frustrating! So pathetic! It makes me wanna run away!""
Gajeel though as he stood his feet at the ground
""I don't care about that! none of it matters if I can't protect the girl I love!""
Levy looks at Gajeel as the Iron Dragon Slayer was inhaling the black mist into his lungs
""no…don't"" Levy looks in horror to Gajeel as the man was inhaling the Anti Magic Particles
"impossible! He's eating the Anti-magic particles?!" Bloodman exclaimed "it's common sense that Ethernanos and Magical Barrier Particles can't mix!"
"no…stop!...you can't…Gajeel" Levy muttered out before she sees black iron scales appearing all over Gajeel
"you won't ever be able to come from that!" Levy exclaimed
""he relied on the scarce trace of iron in the particles, just for that! He at the poison!?""
Gajeel dashed towards Bloodman as he sends his fist straight at Bloodman and the attacks hits its target
"his attack?! Can touch me now!?" Bloodman exclaimed "his desire to hit me was so great, that he took my Anti Magic Particles into himself!?"
Bloodman got an uppercut from Gajeel as the Iron Dragon Slayer continued sending fury of his fists at Bloodman without stopping
"I won't accept this! I won't accept this!" Bloodman shouted as he got punched all over by Gajeel "I do not accept this! No such human could possibly exist!"
Gajeel pulled back his right fist as he poured all his magic into it
""I!""
Gajeel then punches straight at Bloodman's body as the Grim Reaper shouts in pain
""gonna take Levy back to the guild with me!""
Gajeel's Dragon Force slowly disappears as he looks at Levy with a smile
"Levy…" Gajeel muttered out before he was grabbed by a glowing whitish hand
"Gajeel!" Levy shouted as Gajeel got entangled by Bloodman who looks like a void of darkness
"gaaah!"
"if I must die" Bloodman spoke out in the void "I will take you with me!"
"Gajeel!" Levy looks at the scene as Gajeel was getting sucked into the void
"what is this!? My body!" Gajeel shouted out "is getting sucked in!"
"you're in the portal to the afterlife…"Bloodman spoke out as he was disappearing "there is no return!"
Bloodman then disappears as the Grim Reaper was gone
"Gajeel!" Levy screamed as she runs towards him
"Stay back!" Gajeel shouted at her
"my body's…made up of anti-magic particles now…if you touch me, then you'll"
"I don't care!" Levy shouted at him as she runs towards Gajeel "I came to save you, Gajeel! And I will!"
Gajeel gritted his teeth before he clasped Levy's hands towards a rock with iron locks
"what do you think you're doing, Gajeel!?" Levy shouted while trying to break free of the locks
"the only thing I can" Gajeel muttered out
"well, you're not dealing with the same Levy as before!" Levy said as she swings her legs around and cut the rock behind her with a Solid Script: Sword
"no!" Gajeel shouted as Lily appeared and grabs a hold of Levy
"Lily!? Let go! I need to…" Levy shouted as she tried to get out of the hold
Lily had tears falling down his face as the Exceed holds her in place
"Let go! Gajeel's about to!" Levy shouted at the Exceed
"Levy…" Gajeel muttered out ""thank you, Levy"
"you turned me from a hopeless buffoon to the man I am today, you taught me how to love another person"
Levy cried in tears as she tried to get out of Lily's hold
"I began to think of things I never thought of. Like the future, family and happiness…"
Gajeel then started to imagine the future he might have with Levy as tears were forming in his eyes as they pass in his mind
"who would've thought that the Great Gajeel just wants to be like everyone else"
The tears on Gajeel's face started to pour down like waterfall.
"I….just wanted the two of us to be together forever…who knew that losing the future…is really scary?"
"Gajeel…" Levy cried out in tears as Gajeel was getting sucked into the void
"I'm leaving my future to you, Levy" Gajeel told her
"no! no Gajeel!"
"live on for me, okay?"
"don't go!"
"Make sure Levy gets back to the guild, Lily" Gajeel said to the exceed as Lily scrunched his face and nodded with tears
"Yeah!" Lily replied as Gajeel smiles before he disappeared into the void leaving Gajeel and Lily
"nooooo! Gajeeell!"
Far away
END stood in a face off against Acnologia as the land and the very sky was burning
Black and crimson flames filled the field as nothing was spared
"ho? One dragon has disappeared" Acnologia said as END squinted his eyes
""Gajeel…died?"" END thought before he turns his attention towards Acnologia
"only six remains till every dragon is slain" Acnologia said
"oh? Is that your true purpose here?" a voice spoke as END and Acnologia looks up and sees Irene floating in the air
"Irene?" END said as he watches Irene landing beside him "what are you doing here? Who is looking after Irina?"
"don't worry, that mushroom pet of yours is looking after her for now" Irene replied to him
"you are in no condition to fight Acnologia, Natsu. you need to find the other half and attain your full power again, I'll handle Acnologia for the time being"
"what are you saying? You-" END retorted before Irene put a finger to his lips to stop him from speaking anymore
"it's a wife's duty to support her husband, right?" Irene said with a smile as END sighs before nodding
"don't you dare die on me" END said as Irene nodded before the demon master disappears into thin air
"now then" Irene said as she faced towards Acnologia
"begone, I have no use for you" Acnologia told her "I only care to fight END"
"I believe the phrase "you shall not pass", would suffice your sentence," Irene said to him
"you know of me, and yet you block my path?" Acnologia asked,
"but of course…" Irene replied "Acnologia-sama"
"amusing, perhaps you might offer me a bit entertainment," Acnologia said
"yes, more than a bit!" Irene said with a smirk
With Lucy
The negotiation with August was still going on as the old man was a bit stubborn
"listen to me, August" Brandish started explaining "what the emperor trying to do..it's genocide. The Dragon King Festival, Ragnarök; whatever you call it, it's about to be a one-side slaughter"
"you already realize that this is not simply a war between countries with different ideologies, right? You're the smartest of all 12 of us. So you know that what awaited us at the end, there's nothing there"
"I leave the aftermath to his Majesty'-" "think for yourself!"
"things are getting a bit heated up" Lucy muttered as the tension was getting higher with the two
"I've thought about it" Brandish told him "I don't think these people are evil"
"th-thanks" Lucy replied in gratitude to her words
August looks at them before his eyes landed towards Rose and Mary
"are these two…his children?" August asked as Brandish nodded
"so, please! At least try to talk to them!" Brandish pleaded to August
"perhaps…" August said with a sigh "since it's you insisting, Brandish, I suppose…"
"thank you, Grandpa!" August said with a smile
"I do not recall ever making you my granddaughter." August told Brandish
"but I've always thought of you as my grandpa" Brandish replied with a smile
"ohh" Lucy said a bit surprise to the turn of events
"Gran" Brandish's eyes suddenly turned hollow as they were void of emotions "pa"
"hm?" August looks in confusion before seeing Brandish taking out a dagger from her cloak and stabbed August, as the dagger enlarges as it pierced him
"Gah!" August coughed blood as some of the blood spurted out of his wounds and onto Brandish's face
"aahh!" Lucy and the others gasped in shock to the scene as they can't believe that Brandish did such a thing
"hahaha" Brandish laughed without feeling disturbed on what she had done "the man I wanted to kill…is right in front of me…grandpa"
"Brandish! Why did you!?" Lucy exclaimed before seeing Mest smirking like crazy "Mest! You couldn't have..!?"
"yeah, I planted a memory in her that August is someone she must kill at all cost" Mest said to her
"why did you do such a thing?!" Lucy exclaimed at him
"it is to protect the guild!" Mest exclaimed
"Brandish!" Lucy tried to reach out to her before she sensed a very powerful amount of magic rising from August
"I trust you understand only too well now, Brandish…" August voice out as his skin darkens and white markings appeared on his face
"just how these brutes behave!"
August magic power was rising more and more as he lifted his hand towards Brandish as she fell down to the ground
"Brandish!" Lucy exclaimed before she sees the land glowing red
"melt," August said before the land exploded in flames
Fairy Tail
"what's that light!?" Makarov exclaimed as he saw the tower of flames from the guild
"it's coming from the east!" Warren exclaimed
Underground basement
Explosions and tremors could be heard as it shook the whole basement
"-Huff- -huff- -huff- -huff-" Cana was sweating hard as she looks to be extremely exhausted
in front of her was Mavis who had extreme injuries on her body.
"one more time, Cana!" Mavis said while not minding the injuries on her
"hit it with everything you got"
Mavis turned around as a huge Lacrima crystal had a large crack on it with her real body being in there
"just one more Fairy Glitter and the Lacrima will be destroyed"
Cana then readied herself as she holds her right hand up forward and was concentrating all of her magic in it
"here goes nothing!"
Light gathered around her hand as she raised it up before bringing it down
"FAIRY GLITTER!"
A burst of light appeared as it hits Mavis.
"aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Her body was disintegrated as she vanishes out of existence
Cana then drop to her knees while trying to catch her breathing
"-huff- -huff- First Master? FIRST MASTER!" Cana exclaimed out to Mavis.
When suddenly the Lacrima's crack got larger as the whole thing was destroyed
Mavis' body fell down as Cana run and grabbed her
"First Master! Are you alright!? Speak to me!?" Cana shake Mavis' body trying to wake her up
Mavis' eyes slowly opened as her eyes tried to adjust to her surrounding
"my muscles are atrophied….i can't move at all"
Cana let out a sigh of relief as she smiled
With Erza
Erza and the others were on their way back to the guild after leaving Hargeon to the others and leaving Laxus there as the Lightning Dragon Slayer need more rest
Erza was leading the way while Gray and the others were behind her
"we're nearly there" Erza said to her friends as they were nearly in reach to Magnolia
"let me take him from here" Erza told to Gray who was carrying an unconscious Natsu
"it's fine," Gray replied to her "you still hurt"
"I told you, my wounds are healed" Erza replied to him
After the battle for Hargeon's liberation, she explained to everyone on how Natsu was back but didn't explain on how she did so
For now, everyone knew that the Natsu Dragov, they once know was back again, and that was all that matters
"it's very amazing, the power of Igneel-san" Juvia said as Erza's wounds being healed so fast was because of the Dragon Brand, she has on her right forearm
"ugh" a grunt was heard as everyone looks to Natsu as the man was gaining conscious
"put him down!" Erza told Gray as the Ice Make Wizard laid him down to the ground and Erza kneels beside him
"Natsu?" Erza called out to Natsu as she holds his cheeks
Natsu opened his eyes slowly as his right eye was normal but his left eye was white as snow
"Er…za?" he voiced out a bit weakly as Erza smiles and pulled his head to a hug
"welcome home" Erza said as she caressed his head
"how? Where am i?" Natsu asked as he looks around and sees Gray and the others before he remembers what happened after he left Erza, a year back
"you…you pulled me back?" Natsu said as he looks at his body and hands
"yeah, Igneel helped me" Erza told him as Natsu's eyes widen in surprise
"I-Igneel?" Natsu said as Erza nodded
"I'll explain on the way back to the guild" Erza replied as she leans a hand towards Natsu "can you stand?"
Natsu took her hand as she pulls him up to his feet
Natsu takes a step forward but he nearly fell as Erza catches him
"looks like after a year of sleep, my mind hasn't adapted back using a body" Natsu theorized as he stood back up
"here" Erza linked their arms together as Erza helps him walk
"let's continue back to the guild" Erza told the others as they nodded and they continued their path to the guild while Erza told Natsu, everything that happened in the time he has been gone
With Irene
Irene stood in the middle of nowhere as she was facing against Acnologia
The land was destroyed and shattered as nothing was spared in their battle
"you entertained me quite well, Enchanter," Acnologia said with a grin "your magic power is impressive for someone who was trained by the black wizard"
"why thank you" Irene said with a smile "all the rumors of you hardly do justice, I see why his majesty is wary of you"
"however, I wonder how you will measure up when my husband gains his real power back or when we offer his Majesty, Fairy Heart?"
"are you saying that END or the Black Wizard will surpass me?" Acnologia said to her
"it is a possibility" Irene replied
"are you telling me not to interfere with you humans till then? Save your breath. You won't stop me" Acnologia told her
""you humans"? how odd. I thought that you yourself were once human" Irene replied while holding her staff at her side
"still, you are correct. I do not want you to interfere"
Irene tapped her staff on the ground two times before a small red glow appeared on the ground
"this game is to hasten" Irene said with a smile "I desire a swift end to this war"
The whole land glowed red as it shines in the night
"the earth….all of it…..enchanted?" Acnologia said as he looks everywhere and sees the land glowing red
"some type of magic I do not have knowledge of?"
"correct" Irene said as she lifted up her staff "this magic did not exist 400 years ago, as I had just created it"
"who are you?" Acnologia said as Irene was being engulfed in the red light
"my name is Irene, Irene Belserion. The Scarlet Despair" Irene replied before the whole land was engulfed in the light
All of Fiore, was engulfed in the red light as everyone sees it coming as they look upon it
"light!?" Erza said as the light engulfed everything
"yare yare, Irene sure loves a swift end to everything, doesn't she?" END asked while smirking as the light was seen even to where he was
"Irene" Zeref spoke out in surprise "did you actually use that magic?"
"hehehehe, The World Reconstruction Magic, Universe One"
FLASH!
that's a wrap!
Bye bye