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The students and even All Might himself were thrown off their feet by the wind pressure alone. Shigaraki and his group were in the same boat, along with all the villains, those conscious and unconscious.

Bodies flew next to Izuku's head and he was forced to duck or else get a concussion. This was insane! There had never been any word of anyone like this existing ever. Nobody had ever heard of a man that can eat fire. Generating and creating it didn't get you a second glance in the world of heroes, but eating it? That would have raised a few eyebrows.

His mind raced to figure out as much as he could from these two. As his classmates scrambled to their feet around him and began to climb the stairs to the exit, Izuku remained. Rather he went along to the exit but stayed inside to see what would happen next. Never in his life had he imagined a scenario in which All Might, even in his weakened state, to order everyone to run.

It seemed he wasn't as sneaky as he thought he was as he looked over to see Bakugo standing next to him.

"Don't be getting any crazy ideas. We are supposed to be the next generation of heroes, yeah? This could be the next wave of villains for the world to face."

Izuku stared in shock for a moment. He never imagined the guy that was always screaming and losing his cool to speak with such composure, especially in a situation like this. He could only nod in response as the pair went to find some cover.

"What the hell is going on?" The gray haired man rose to a sitting position and stared ahead at the clashing forms of the two that fell from above. Said his name was Nata and Acnarg or something? His head hurt and he couldn't focus on the two blurring images for long before his vision began to fade.

In the next moment Kurogiri was above him and began to teleport them back to their base. Sure they would be leaving several dozen villains behind that would be captured and spill information but his main priority was Shigaraki.

The smoky visage of Kurogiri looked to Nomu. The purple tool was only sent skidding back from the blast, it only looked onwards at the clash before them.

"Do something and protect Tomura!" Nomu's head spun on the caretaker for a long second before it charged head on.

Nomu was no less than 30ft away before a beam of something pierced the hulking body of the mindless beast. This alone wouldn't have been anything dangerous except for the fact that from the epicenter of the wound, the flesh around it began to crumble away.

Nomu began to scream in agony. His clawed hands reaching up and ripping chunks of muscle and flesh from its own chest. The disintegration didn't stop. It screamed all the while. The mindless beast continued tearing away at itself in a vain attempt to remove the flesh before it would vanish. It spread and its arm fell to the ground, then a leg. It's remaining hand reached out for some kind of mercy. The back leg kicked about in sporadic movements, then it was no longer attached.

The severed limbs had been eaten away to nothing by this point and Nomu let out a last desperate yelp of pain and terror before its head was erased the next moment.

Kurogiri froze for a second. Nomu had been defeated without a second thought and without any effort it looked like. The creature that was supposed to feel no pain and be a perfect mindless machine that obeyed every order without question. After his own command, the creature had paused for a slight moment before doing as told. But the fact that a beast created to be fearless giving into its own forgotten instincts sent a different kind of primal fear down his spine.

It was time to leave.

And while the villains behind the initial attack on the UA USJ had been confident for some sacrifices. There was no telling how truly unprepared they were for the battle that would change the city and the world for generations to come.

Natsu and Acnologia

Natsu was definitely getting the hang of something. He understood that his reflexes, instincts and reaction time were enhanced to a new degree, and as this back and forth continued, he felt more confident in how to make the most of them.

Like his initial strike above the glass dome, he put all of his intent into an attack. Preparing fully to hammer it home right into an opening in Acnologia's guard, but there weren't any. So he figured out a simple idea that just might work. And it did.

His own instincts were boosted to the max, so wouldn't Acnologia's be the same? Sure, why not? He reasoned. So his plan was to fully intend to attack and land every blow he could. By pouring all of his intent Acnologia would feel the danger behind the attack and do something to block, divert, or counterattack. So all Natsu had to do was be ready for anything and everything. Yeah, a great plan! He was honestly impressed with himself for this one. This definitely got him bragging rights on Gray.

Natsu may have the body of a dragon, but he was still Natsu.

He planted his feet, took a deep breath and roared.

"Fire Dragon King's Roar!" The flames that came forth instantly scorched the ground and tore forward to the Dragon King. In return he raised his arm and spread out his hand. The flames didn't even reach him before they split and a wall of fire blasted to the sides and continued onwards to the walls of the dome. It should have stopped there but the intensity of the flames melted the glass and metal almost instantly and carved straight through the walls.

Natsu couldn't see the extent of the damage but that didn't matter at the time. He lunged forward behind and reached his hand out to grab Acnologia's outstretched one.

From the epicenter of the fire a fist pierced through and almost decapitated the Fairy Tail mage. But Natsu was relying entirely on his reflexes and battle experience. Without a moment of hesitation, he ducked under as his right hand pushed the fist upwards, his left fist coated in flames and lightning.

"LIGHTNING FLAME DRAGON MODE: Lightning Flame Dragon King's Eruption!" He drove the haymaker home and struck a direct blow to Acnologia's liver.

Lightning and fire erupted out of Acnologia's back and he coughed as his knees buckled slightly. Not waiting for the retaliation, Natsu braced his left arm with his right hand and chanted another spell.

"Lightning Flame Dragon King's Crushing Claw!" Five spears of lightning pierced through Acnologia's body as Natsu's fingers against his skin charred the flesh and crisped muscle. Both of the dragon's enhanced sense of smell immediately picked up on the overcooked flesh. Acnologia looked down on the newborn dragon below him and coughed once more, this time blood flying from his mouth and onto Natsu's face.

In the next instant the former Dragon Slayer flung himself backwards, lightning dancing along his skin. The Dragon King meanwhile had his arm in a downward position as if he had sliced down with his fingers as a blade.

That was when Natsu realized the giant gash he had received in the previous exchange. The cut extended from his current scar he had gotten from Zeref and continued all the way down to his left hip. Blood spilled forth in gushing waves and soon covered his front in his own blood. At this rate he would die of blood loss. He wouldn't let that happen, no way he was going out like that!

Natsu lit his hand aflame and dragged it across the wound, cauterizing it but not without a grunt of pain. He released a huff and acknowledged his not so fine handiwork. It would hold for now.

His clone already explained the concept of doing anything and everything required to win. Closing a deadly wound with his own fire? Better than cauterizing a stump.

"It seems I am not quite what I used to be in my human form. This will not do." The dragon known as Acnologia stared at Natsu with an unwavering gaze. He saw it. So little but that was all anyone needed. The king had to finish things, now.

Acnologia spread his feet and a wave of magical power blasted forth. Natsu could only cover his eyes with his forearms in defense. He held his ground. In honesty, he worried about this. He wondered when, not if, but when Acnologia transformed if he would have the same feeling as when he faced Gildarts during the S Class trials.

Powerless before an incomprehensible power with an even more world defying monster behind it. However, instead of fear or a loss of hope, all he felt was alive.

Natsu's breathing grew heavier, every breath expelling fire from his mouth and the lightning pulsed around his body. Sparks flew off and struck the ground and trees around leaving craters or burning wood. Thunder could be heard from outside as the clouds darkened above.

Even with his newly heightened instincts he felt only the rush of a challenge. That was when he smelled it. The scent itself wasn't strong, perhaps the smell of burning flesh and fire having masked it before. Now, though, with the distance and a moment to breathe before the next round, he zeroed in on the source. It was from his cheek.

He touched his hand to the source and pulled his fingers away.

He saw blood. And it wasn't his own.

Then he remembered the damage he'd done and the result of it. Something within him had awoken then. He wanted to turn into a dragon and fly above, fight his enemy, defeat his enemy. Devour his enemy.

Then he froze. His instincts were screaming at him for more blood. That wasn't Natsu, it was something else. As if he had the epiphany of a lifetime. Was this it? That 'piece' he had been missing? Dragon's blood? Did he need more? He knew he wanted more. And the only source of more was currently crashing through the glass ceiling above and taking to the skies.

Acnologia inhaled and released his own breath attack. The beam of destruction tore downward through the air, erasing clouds and everything else in its path.

Natsu stared into the roar that continued down on him. He saw the light amidst the devastation.

He saw his friends. His family. Lucy smiling at him, her hand reaching out. Gray next to her in his boxers as he looked around frantically for his clothes. Erza scolding Gajeel for getting into a fight with Natsu again as Levy sighing heavily before getting back to her book. Elfman chanting about how manly everything is, Evergreen staring at his antics with a smile. Happy offering a fish to Carla for the umpteenth time. Bickslow and Freed planning a quest with Laxus on the second floor. Cana drinking from her barrel as Lisanna tried to settle her drunken tirade. Bisca and Alzack playing with Asuka as Juvia stared at Gray from the pillar behind the family. Mira cleaning glasses and mugs behind the bar while Master Makarov sat on the bar and laughed. Reedus in the corner painting the scene. Others laughed and drank, partying the day away or going on job requests.

Natsu saw Fairy Tail and he saw himself never seeing them again. He wanted to go home and the only thing stopping that from happening was about to hit him square on the head.

The dragon grit his teeth and widened his feet as he roared in defiance. He built up his own magic power and released a wave of heat and static that leveled the remaining perimeter of the glass dome.

"Lightning Flame Dragon King's ROAR!" The titanic bellow erupted from Natsu's mouth and clashed with the roar of the king. The radiating waves from the clash blew the remnants of the interior of the USJ away or melted it entirely.

At first the roar from above came to a halt against the opposing force. Acnologia couldn't believe his eyes. The flames were burning through the magic at the same rate his roar was erasing it. It was a stalemate and both realized this fact.

Cutting the breathe attacks the dragon stared down upon Natsu and saw his eyes were no longer onyx black. Staring defiantly back up into the dragon's gaze were slit yellow pupils. They were cold.

The flames and lightning that had been dancing around his body began to condense before a swirling mass of fire and electricity formed into a spiraling vortex of magic. Now Natsu began to feel his body changing.

He wasn't particularly sure how he knew what to do, but he knew it related to the blood from before. Whatever special thing had happened when Acnologia's blood made contact with Natsu's skin gave him an understanding. As far as he could tell, the dragon blood awoke his own inner dragon. Of whom he had not actually drawn out and taken the form of yet. He had no idea what to expect honestly, and was hoping this scenario wouldn't occur.

Looks like he should've known better than for things to be easy.

As his body grew and transformed amongst the raging inferno he released a guttural primal roar or triumph. His senses were alive, all being strung out to their furthest extent.

Scales quickly snaked their way across every inch of his body before filling in the blank spaces. His nose and mouth grew outwards from his face and he realized he was staring at a snout. Two somethings jutting out from the back of his skull as his teeth elongated and sharpened. He could feel the bones under his back shifting and forming new ones as wings began to sprout from his back. Bones and muscles slid into place as spikes started to grow and protrude from his spine. Beginning at the base of his skull and continuing down to his tailbone, but it didn't stop there. His tailbone began extending further as flesh, muscle and scales covered the new appendage. Below his knees new joints formed. From his own scaled hands and feet claws began to emerge.

It was at this point that Natsu's body began to increase drastically in size. Before long, he was larger than the fake mechanic dragon from Edolas. Not much longer after that he was larger than even Igneel. A slight panic of being too massive in this form budded in Natsu's mind but that was for later. The rapid growth slowed until he settled at a comfortable stature that rivaled, possibly even surpassed Acnologia himself.

Lowering his head he didn't bother to look at his new body in this moment. He first had to get a feel of what it could do. He'd been using a human body his whole life, whereas Acnologia had been settling into a dragon's body for the past 400 years. No wonder Natsu had a slightly upper hand when facing the Dragon of the Apocalypse in his human form. And here he thought that he was actually gaining some headway.

Through the spiraling pillar of fire and lightning Natsu stared upward and didn't have to think more than a second to know exactly where Acnologia waited in the sky. The ominous aura that radiated from the beast above gave nothing to any semblance of hiding. They both wanted this encounter.

Acnologia wanted to be the victor and claim the world as his own, but he was still a dragon that had earned his title as the Dragon King. He would not and could not allow for a mere hatchling dragon to ruin everything. He had been patient. All this time waiting for the last dragons to reveal themselves from within the Dragon Slayers.

At one point even opting to take as many of them out as he could on Tenroujima Island 7 years ago. If he had been successful then, he wouldn't have lost his left arm to the previous Fire Dragon King, Igneel.

Now, the Dragon King faced the new Fire Dragon King. No, that wasn't right. Seeing all the lightning that raged around the changing form below him amidst the unyielding flames made him admit. This was the Lightning Fire Dragon King, possibly even more. One missing arm, a pain in his right side but a master of his dragon form.

Acnologia was betting it all on the fact that he had experience. Natsu was betting it all on his will. Their clash to determine the new king was about to begin.

Izuku and Bakugo

As the two dragons faced each other, one from within a fire pillar, two students had been through quite the ordeal.

One attack. One attack from the guy that called himself Natsu Dragneel and the entire USJ was cut clean in half. As if a guillotine of fire had done its job a little too well. But that wasn't quite right.

Izuku had been able to determine that Natsu was attacking Acnologia and the ladder had simply deflected the attack. The resulting damage was simply collateral. Yet the scale of it terrified the two boys. Shoto Todoroki, the one who had supplied Natsu with fire earlier, couldn't hold a candle to this. Hell, not even his father Endeavor the #2 Hero could maybe only handle fire like this for a few seconds at most.

Even with the distance the two students felt the blistering heat singe their eyebrows and crack their lips. The electricity made their hair stand even more on end than usual.

The next clash where Natsu ducked in for the liver shot was concussive and devastating. The lightning that followed after was even more so. Five spears of lightning burst from Acnologia's back and continued onward into the sky. No sooner had the condensed electrical energy disappeared from sight did dark clouds begin to form overhead, further darkening the cityscape by the minute.

Izuku had taken special notice of how they didn't appear to be using Quirks. It was more of an energy based power that came from the user itself. He wanted to move, but the pressure was something else. The air itself felt heavy and breathing was difficult. Just staying conscious was a task all on its own. Even with his mangled legs he could run, but in this moment he doubted running was an option.

When Natsu closed his own wound without so much as flinching was when both Izuku and Bakugo had to acknowledge that it was time to go. The mere fact they had been able to see as much as they had without being electrocuted or burnt to a crisp, was nothing short of a miracle.

No sooner had they turned to leave was All Might there behind them, grabbing both teenagers in his arms. Not saying a word the #1 Hero jumped through the glass dome of the USJ and landed next to the rest of their classmates. But there were more people there than just the students.

In only a few minutes, every hero within a ten-mile radius had arrived on scene. Looking back at the USJ, the diverted roar of fire had been far more devastating than previously thought. It had continued on for miles into the city in a straight line, perfectly bisecting the dome itself and drawing a path of chaos and destruction through the city.

Above, dark storm clouds circled above. Lightning and thunder rumbled within the clouds with a silent promise to unleash the pent up energy at any moment.

The gathered heroes and students had only just taken in the sight before them when a truly terrifying sight filled the sky. A black winged form took to the air. The left arm was missing but the blue accents and the pupiless white eyes sent a clear message.

'You are not to trifle in our battle, you will not survive.'

Immediately the black dragon launched a roar attack downwards but was met with an equally powerful roar. What remained of the USJ was blown away by the roars themselves, but the damage was not limited to only it. The ground quaking roars rattled the surrounding buildings and the bones of any resident of the city. Covering their ears did nothing to keep out the waves of power that radiated from both roars of energy.

The heroes came to a clear conclusion, evacuation. Save as many lives as possible. There was no telling how much more destruction would come or what to even expect. They were being faced with monsters from fantasy, they were merely insects in a world of titans. But humanity is more resilient than such beings would expect.

While they understood their place in the food chain at this moment, there was a chance to save people from suffering from this clash of monsters.

Dividing their forces, the heroes prepared to head out. They didn't get far before a pillar of fire pierced the USJ.

The flames themselves were bright against the rumbling sky, the heat was a different story. The surrounding ground cratered and cracked, melting around the pillar and oozing as it was turned to near arcs of lightning that flew from the spiraling flames hit anything and everything without remorse. The sky above lit up once more with the light of lightning as more strikes began raining on the ground below.

From the epicenter of the fire, the shadow of another monster began to take shape. It got big. Very big. It was time for humanity to deal with humanity and for dragons to deal with dragons. Their only concern at this point was to live through today.

There it is everyone, the next chapter. Been a little while I suppose but if you've been patient enough to stick around this long I may have something out sooner than expected.

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Published 10 September 2021