Back with the continuation
"speaking"
""thinking""
On with the story
(skipping the first and second match, because it's boring after all)
"it's our turn" Gajeel said as Natsu nodded
"the final match of today's tag battle! Is between Sabertooth's and Fairy Tail's Dragon Slayers!" Lola exclaimed on the mic as this got the crowds cheered like crazy
"It's the former number one guild versus the current number one guild!" Lola continued.
"It's Natsu & Gajeel VS. Sting & Rogue!"
"take it on for Lucy" Gray said to Natsu who nodded and started walking down the hall towards the arena
"Is it true that all four of these men are dragon slayers, Mr. Yajima?" Lola asked. His eyes focused on the arena center.
"Yes, they are." Yajima nodded.
"Natsu-kun and Gajeel-kun are First Generation Dragon Slayers while Sting-kun and Rogue-kun are third Generation Dragon Slayers" he explained to them
"first generation vs the third generation! Who will be victorious!?" Lola exclaimed on the mic as the crowds cheered and screamed more louder as the fighters entered the arena
"go! Papa!" Aya cheered for her father with Meredy and the others as they started cheering and screaming for them
"go! Gajeel!" Levy and Lily cheered for the Iron Dragon Slayer as the fighters reached to the center of the arena
""I've been waiting for this, Natsu-san!"" Sting thought with a grin
"Gajeel." Rogue said.
"it's over, trash guild," Jilemma said as he watched from the stands with various other spectators.
"Give it you're all, Natsu, Gajeel." Makarov said. "As long as you try your hardest, I can never fault you. Show them the power of our guild's spirit."
"Are the fighters ready?!" Mato shouted as he raised his arm in the air and sees the serious look on the wizard's faces, he lowered his arm to signal the gong. "Go!" he shouted as the gong rang.
Sting and Rogue was about to go on the attack but was surprise when Natsu and Gajeel dashed towards them and sends their fist right at their face making the two crash to the wall
"ooohh! In an instant! Natsu and Gajeel sends the Twin Dragon crashing to a wall!" Lola commented on the mic as Natsu and Gajeel cracks their knuckles
Natsu grabs Sting's face before he punched his gut then slams him down to the ground
Gajeel turns his hand into an Iron Log then slams it towards Rogue's abdomen before elbowing his right cheek
Sting regained his grounding as he went on all four and took a deep breath
"Hakuryu no Hoko!"
Sting breathes out a white laser like breath attack at Natsu who blocks it with his bare hands as the attack was blocked by it
"what is this!? Natsu Dragist blocked Sting's attack like it was nothing!" Lola shouted on the mic as Natsu approached Sting who was giving it all in his breath attack while the laser seems ineffective towards him
Natsu then grabs a hold of Sting's face before igniting his right fist in flames
"beat it" he said before he punches Sting right on the gut before he sends an upper cut to his chin
Rogue dashed in the shadows as Gajeel tried to lock on to his position but failed
"Eiryu no Zangeki!"
Rogue lunged towards Gajeel with a punch, but Gajeel blocks it by turning his right hand into an Iron Dragon Sword
"got you!" Gajeel shouted as he sends a fist right at Rogue's face
Natsu did a swing kick as he sends Sting crashing to a wall with Rogue
"This is unbelievable!" Lola exclaimed over the mic. "Sting and Rogue have barely been able to mount any offense so far in this match! Fairy Tail has completely taken control!"
"That's the way, boys!" Makarov shouted, standing on the balcony railing. "Show those punks what happens when you mess with Fairy Tail!"
"They're handling them well." Erza praised.
Sting and Rogue rose to their feet, their body's obviously affected by Fairy Tail's assault.
"Gotta admit I was kinda expecting it starts out like this." Sting said as he wipes off some dirt on his cheeks.
"Is this the best you can do?" Gajeel said as Natsu stands beside him
"hard to believe that this power of yours beat your dragons" Natsu said
"We didn't 'beat' our dragons," Sting said, raising his palm to eye level. "We killed them with our bare hands." He clenched his outstretched palm tightly in order to illustrate his point.
"The time is up," Sting said, his and Rogue's bodies began to emit white and black auras respectively.
"What happened to our dragons has got nothing to do with you." The ground beneath where the two stood began to crack. "Warm-up time is over."
"White Drive"
"Shadow Drive"
"what is that?" Gajeel said as Natsu didn't know about it either
Sting's body glowed bright, completely shrouded in intense white light. Rogue's body, on the other hand, was the exact opposite. With dark shadows both cloaking and oozing from his body.
"Let's go," Sting said.
"Right." Rogue nodded.
"End this," Jilemma ordered.
Sting darted to Natsu, drawing back his fist for a hard punch that collided with Natsu' guard that made the man skid on the ground a bit
""his power increased?"" Natsu thought
"That was a nice block." Sting praised with a cocky smirk. He drew back his other arm. "Try and stop this one!" he lunged again, his second punch ducking under Natsu' guard and uppercutting his chin
Natsu grunted in pain as he took a couple of steps back.
"Salamander!" Gajeel called out.
"You should keep your eyes to the shadows," Rogue said as he kicked Gajeel on the face, making the man skid back a bit
"Rggh. Bastard." Gajeel growled as he swiped at Rogue. To his surprise, his hand went completely through Rogue as if he was mist.
"What the hell?!" Gajeel said with widened eyes.
"Fool, you can't touch a shadow." Rogue said as he connected with a hard elbow strike to Gajeel's cheek. The twin dragons continued their vicious assaults, dealing crushing blows on both Natsu and Gajeel.
"After a shaky beginning, Sabertooth has quickly gained the upper hand over Fairy Tail! Natsu and Gajeel are now completely on the defensive."
"How did they manage to gain so much power so quickly?" Lily thought out loud.
"Come on, guys!" Gray shouted. "Don't let them beat you down like that! Fight back!"
"GO! PAPA!" Aya cheered for her father as the best as she can
"Power increase in magic." Mavis said, her eyes focused on the match. "Those two are quite skilled."
"Yeah! You show them, Sting!" Lector cheered. "There's no way those two are going to lose now!"
"Fro thinks so too!" Frosch happily agreed.
"Put them in the ground where they belong." Minerva maliciously smirked.
Sting held out his fist as it glowed white
"oraaaa!" Sting shot the light at Natsu' gut, the impact almost causing the Fairy Tail wizard to double over.
Natsu looked down, seeing an intricate, white design on his abdomen.
"The hell is that? It looks like a magic circle" Gray said as Natsu wasn't moving at all
"the claw of the White Dragon is a holy attack that renders anything immobilize!" Sting said as he went for another attack
"This is the end!" he shouted before Natsu ignites his fist on fire and sends a flaming punch straight at Sting's face
"gah!?" Sting grunted in pain as he went skidding back a bit
"How?! How can you move?" he exclaimed before he sees that the place where he had placed the Stigmata was steaming and gone
"he burned it off?" Gray said a bit surprised
"only the Salamander can do that, I believe" Erza said with a smile
Gajeel punches at Rogue, but his attack misses again
"I told you before." Rogue said, appearing behind Gajeel. "You can't harm a shadow." Gajeel turned to look at his opponent but Rogue disappeared and reappeared behind him in an instant. "The Shadow Dragon is a hunter. Never failing to catch his prey!" Rogue then tries to attack Gajeel again but failed as Gajeel reached behind himself, grabbing Rogue's wrist before his attack connected. Gajeel looked at Rogue from the corner of his eye.
"What was that about 'never failing to catch prey'?"
"Don't get all high and mighty, brats" Gajeel said before he elbows Rogue's chin
"Don't underestimate Fairy Tail!"
Natsu knees Sting's chin before kicking him hard on the head making him crash to a wall with Gajeel kicking Rogue to the same wall
"ooooh! Looks like Fairy Tail has made the comeback against Sabertooth!" Lola exclaimed on the mic as Natsu and Gajeel continued their attack as the two were on their defense
Sting stood up, a confident smirk on his face.
"That was a nice one. I wouldn't expect anything less from you" Sting said as he slides his right leg back, squatting slightly as he drew back his right hand and light began to swirl around Sting's arm, the pressure from the energy being felt all around the arena.
"we're going all out, I can't afford to hold back! Watch, as the light can even dim flames to ashes."
"Yajima-san! What is this!?" Lola exclaimed on the mic as a bright light was focusing on Sting
"Sting-kun is focusing his magic into one point" Yajima commented
"here I go! Natsu-san!" Sting exclaimed as the light flashed brighter
"Mesturyu Ougi!" Sting Exclaimed before he dashed towards Natsu
"Hori! Nova!"
His attack causes a very bright explosion as the size of the blast was huge, nearly encompassing the entire fighting area. Everyone watching covered their eyes from both the brightness of Sting's light and the dust and debris that was kicked up.
Lucy and the others even felt the rumbling from the infirmary.
The shaking stop as Sting smiles before it disappears as he sees that Natsu caught his fist
"T-that's impossible!" Lector shouted.
"What?" Frosch muttered.
"He shouldn't be able to do that!" Orga yelled.
"I've never seen nor heard of Sting's Holy Nova being countered before as this is not in my memory at all" Rufus stated, equally shocked.
"I see, if I hadn't stop him that time, I wonder how it would've ended" Minerva said with a smile
"is this the best you can give?" Natsu asked before he sucker punches Sting's face then did a hard kick to his side
"Gajeel!" Rogue yelled as he tried to attack the Iron Dragon Slayer but was met with a punch to the face by the man
Natsu and Gajeel then pulled back their fists as they punch the two straights at each other
"Once again Fairy Tail has gained the upper hand!" Lola announced to a roaring crowd. "Sabertooth is being completely outmatched!"
"I can't believe what I'm seeing here folks!" Lola commentated. "The twin dragons, Sabertooth's unbeatable combo, have been brought to their knees by Fairy Tail. I can safely say that no one was expecting this. They have nary managed any lasting offense against Fairy Tail. Will Sabertooth end the day in defeat?!"
Lector and Frosch looked on in shock as they watched Sting and Rogue slowly rise to their feet, their drive magic having worn off.
"It won't end…like this." Rogue said through labored breaths as he slowly rose to his feet. "We can't let it."
"Yeah…" Sting began, he too groggily standing upright. "This isn't…over yet."
"Sting." Lector uttered, trying to hold back tears.
"I know, buddy." Sting said. "I made a promise, and I don't plan on breaking it." Sting's body began to once again glow in a white light. "There's no way in hell I'm losing to you!" He shouted at the Fairy Tail wizards. His hair stood up, white scales appearing on his face, arms and, body. "No one's gonna beat me! Not until I fulfill my promise to Lector!"
Rogue underwent the same change as Sting, only his aura and scales were black.
Both Natsu and Gajeel looked on at their opponents in surprise. "What is this?" Gajeel asked aloud.
"No it can't be…!" Makarov gasped.
"Now…" Minerva grinned. "Show them the true power of the greatest generation."
"how is that possible!?" Jellal exclaimed while in the crowd's stand
"they can activate it on their own free will!?"
"Dragon Force?!" Mavis gasped.
"they can use Dragon Force!?" Gray exclaimed in shock as the rest of the watch the fight
"it was to be expected since they're both Dragon Slayers" Erza said with a serious look as the fight was about to go harder for their friends
Natsu cracks his knuckle and raise his fist
"Rogue, don't interfere" Sting told his comrade as he walks towards Natsu and Gajeel
"I will be enough to take them down"
Sting went on the assault as he attacks both Natsu and Gajeel
"what?!" Gray exclaimed as they see that Sting was matching up with the two
"how much of a power-up did those two got?!"
"Hakuryu no Hori Buresu!"
He shot his breath attack downward, completely obliterating the stadium floor.
"They destroyed the floor?!" Erza gasped.
"Hori! Rei!"
Sting shot his hands forward opening his palms and releasing the sphere of light towards Laxus and Gajeel. The sphere splintered into multiple rays of light that attacked the Fairy Tail wizards from all directions. The two cried out in pain as they took the attack and fell to the ground.
"What was that light?" Erza questioned with widened eyes.
Natsu and Gajeel fell down the hole to the underground catacombs below the arena.
"Gajeel!" Levy shouted.
Natsu went towards Sting as he lit his fist in flames and tried to punch Sting but he dodged it
"Fly away." Sting said, a second impact sending Natsu flying back and into one of the stone structures surrounding them.
"Papa!" Aya screamed out to her father as she sees him falling off the stone pillars
"He's beating Natsu." Droy said in disbelief.
"Not only that, he's pushing both of them back on his own." Jet said.
Sting darted through the catacombs, kicking Natsu in the face before appearing before Gajeel and kneeing him in the stomach. Gajeel tried to counter with a punch, but Sting was too fast. Dodging all of his attacks effortlessly with a smile on his face. I can do this. He thought.
"I knew Sting could do it." Lector smiled.
"Fro thinks so too." Frosch added.
""Lector, I won't break my promise to you."" Sting thought as he continued to fight Natsu and Gajeel.
""I swear it!""
Flashback
"Were those jerks messing with you again, Lector?" A young Sting asked a crying Lector.
"Nobody believes me…" Lector said through his tears. "When I tell people you beat a dragon they all make fun of me and call me a liar. But I'm not lying!"
"I know. I know." Sting reassured. "Don't worry about those guys, ok? Just ignore them."
"But they keep saying mean stuff about you, Sting!" Lector countered.
"Let them talk." Sting said. "Doesn't bother me at all."
"But it bothers me!" Lector shouted. "I don't like when people make fun of my friend. I hate hearing that stuff!"
"Ok, how about I make it so nobody calls you a liar again?" Sting suggested, placing his hand on Lector's head.
"Huh?" Lector questioned looking up at the boy, tears still running down the exceed's face.
"There aren't any more dragons around but there's someone called Salamander out there, I'll beat him and show everyone that I am strong" Sting smiled at Lector, the exceed smiling wide and nodding at him.
"Ok, it's a promise."
Flashback ends
Sting stood triumphant amongst the rubble the light shining down from the hole above as he raised his fist in victory. Natsu and Gajeel lay on their backs, seemingly defeated by the White Dragon's might.
""You see that, Lector?"" Sting thought.
""I see it! Sting-kun!"" Lector smiled to his friend
Fairy Tail looked on in disbelief as their friends, defeated?
"Gajeel, Natsu," Lucy uttered from her bed.
"Natsu, you have to get up!" Gray shouted at the monitor.
"Ultear is disappointed in seeing you like this! STAND UP!" Ur shouted towards her son in law
"please! Stand!" Ultear cheered for her husband as she sees on the screen that he wasn't even moving at all
"please! Get up!" Meredy cheered for her stepfather
"get up! Papa!" Aya screamed for her father
"Please, Gajeel, stand up." Levy pleaded.
"is this the best you can do!?" Lily shouted out
"A new era is beginning," Rogue said as he looked down at Sting and his fallen opponents. "For seven long years, we trained in order to become true Dragon Slayers. After today we become one step closer to that goal."
"Yeah." Sting said, disengaging his Dragon Force mode. "After this, I'll definitely be able to beat him."
"Come on, guys, get up!" Romeo shouted.
Sting looked at Gajeel and Natsu, a somewhat somber but still satisfied smile on his face. "You were as strong as I hoped, Gajeel, Natsu."
"Oh no." Mirajane gasped.
"Come on. Get up." Cana muttered to herself.
"You can do it, Gajeel!" Juvia yelled.
"Are they ok?" Wendy asked.
"Damn." Gray grimaced.
"sorry, I took out Gajeel-san too" Sting said to Rogue before they look behind as they see Natsu and Gajeel standing back up again
Sting and Rogue's eyes widened in disbelief as both Natsu and Gajeel stood up. The crowd, however, was roaring with excitement, especially Fairy Tail.
"That's…impossible." Rogue uttered.
"That was a nice power nap," Gajeel said. "My body still hurts like hell, though." He cranked his neck and stretched his arms.
"I thought I heard Aya crying, must've imagined it" Natsu said as he cracked his neck
"I used Dragon Force on you." Sting said. "How are you still standing?!"
"yeah, and that thing packed a wallop" Gajeel said while rubbing his back
"a real Dragon Force doesn't look like yours at all" Natsu told them
"Natsu and Gajeel are standing! Could this match get any better!?" Lola exclaimed on the mic
"I'll be handling this one" Natsu said as he steps forward
"huh? Don't order me arou- guh?!" Gajeel retorted before his face was met with Natsu's fist as the man was knocked out in an instant
"eh?" Fairy Tail said as they see what Natsu just did to Gajeel
"take a nap" Natsu told to him as Gajeel drops to the ground with a knocked out look on his face
"Gajeel!" Rogue exclaimed as Natsu clapped his hands in satisfaction before doing a taunt at the two
"ohh! Natsu Dragist has challenged the Twin Dragon Slayers on a 2 on 1 fight!" Lola commented on the mic
"and looks like Gajeel-kun is knocked out" Yajima commented
"I don't have any business with you! I only want to fight Gajeel!" Rogue exclaimed before he sees Natsu equipped on Drac
"then try and beat me first" Natsu told them
Sting and Rogue enters their Dragon Force as Sting dashed towards Natsu
"Dragon Force has the power of a dragon! There's no power stronger than that!" Sting shouted as he sends a powerful right hook at Natsu who blocked the attack
"there is, there will always be something above the so called strongest" Natsu said before he swings Sting around before kneeing his gut then throws him at Rogue
"let me show you" Natsu said while taking off his eye patch and opened his right eye as it glows red "my real power"
black markings started to slither around Natsu's neck before crawling around Natsu's left side of his face and his left eye turned black
Sting and Rogue looks at Natsu in disbelieve as he burst into crimson and black flames
"if Dragon Force has the power of a Dragon, then the power that of a demon should be called.."
Natsu steps out of the pillar of flames as he had red scales on the right side of his face and black markings on his left
"Devil Force"
That's a wrap!
Bye bye