Back with the continuation
"speaking"
""thinking""
On with the story
20 minutes before
In the sky
Both dragons were still at war with each other as both sides were not letting up their attacks
"I've waited to sink my claws into your flesh!" Acnologia spoke out as the black dragon headbutts Natsu who did the same
"this time! I will END you!" Natsu shouted out as both dragons fired their breath attacks at each other and caused a massive explosion in the night sky
With Gray
He unleashes an unrelentless ice attacks upon Mard Geer without giving the demon time to counter-attack
"Hyoma! Zero no Tachi!"
Gray was about to swing his ice sword at Mard Geer but was knocked loopy by something striking the top of his head. He was then pushed back into Sting and Rogue.
"Gray!" Sting called out. He ran to his side and helped him to his feet. "You alright?"
"Yeah. What was that?"
Mard Geer stood behind his savior. "I see you were finally able to make your way here."
Sting and Rogue instantly recognized the interloper.
"No…" Sting gasped.
"It can't be…' Rogue muttered.
Mard Geer talked to his reinforcement.
"You once stood atop the mountain of the strongest human guilds. So it stands to reason that you would make a fine demon…Jiemma!"
The former master of the Sabertooth looked even more monstrous than when he was human. His ears were pointed and both his hand and beard jutted out in all directions. He sported a tattoo on the left side of his massive torso, and his aura was much more menacing than before.
"Master…" Rogue shuddered.
Sting relived the moment he blasted his former master.
"But how…?"
"they made him a demon just like they did Minerva." Gray deduced.
"Made me?" Jiemma repeated in offense. "No. I came to them for power! Everything that I do is to attain power! To be the strongest!"
"Your power far surpasses those of the Nine Demon Gates, my new servant." Mard Geer said.
Jiemma's ears twitched. "Servant? You dare to assume that one whose power resounds far and wide is a servant to another?!" In his anger Jiemma bolted towards his former subordinates. "When I finish with these brats, Underworld King, you are next!"
Sting and Rogue charged towards their former master with determination to defeat him
Jiemma grabbed both of their heads in his hands, stopping their advance.
"Sting, Rogue, you have no idea how long I have waited for the opportunity to end you both with my bare hands!" he said before he slammed their heads together.
Both dragon slayers were nearly blinded by the pain, but they steeled themselves.
""We no longer have a reason to be scared!"" Sting thought.
""No reason to run!"" Rogue agreed.
""We're moving forward!""
They broke free from Jiemma's grip. Sting aimed high with a kick while Rogue struck low with a shadowed punch. Jiemma blocked them both.
"Leave him to us!" Sting shouted to Gray.
"We will defeat him!" Rogue proclaimed.
"Looks like you're all alone now." Gray said. "There's nowhere else for you to run. You're finished."
"Your celebration is a tad premature, human. Do you really think your powers will have any effect on Mard Geer in his true form?" The demon smirked and his body began to produce smoke from his wound, healing itself.
"Master END will return back after years of sleep! Why should Mard Geer hold himself back?!"
Mard Geer's body started transforming as a giant mist covered his appearance.
A huge gust of wind blows out as the mist was blown away and revealed Mard Geer in his Etherious Form where his form is a spitting image of a black demon
When they died out, his body had completely changed.
"My name is Mard Geer Tartaros!" The demon announced. "I am the Underworld King, and the true, definitive demon!"
Gray readied himself as he knew that even with his father's power, he will have a very hard time in fighting Mard Geer
With the others
Elfman knocked away more Lamy's along with the rest of his group. It was a long process, but Hell's Core was close being cleared out. Lisanna slashed and kicked the annoying bunny-girls out of her way in her Animal Soul Cat form. Jet blew past large gatherings of the Lamy's with his speed magic. Even Droy was proving useful, utilizing sumo techniques he learned after gaining weight. Warren hid behind the corner as his friend's fought but he offered support via praise and encouragement.
"Keep it up, guys! They're on the ropes!"
"Why don't you come from behind there and help us out, Warren!" Jet shouted in aggravation.
"My magic is not meant for offense you see."
"Ok I get! At least answer me like a normal person instead of using telepathy!"
Elfman held a Lamy in the air and slammed her as hard as he could into the ground. "That should be the last one." He wiped his brow and looked around. The numerous unconscious clones confirmed his claim.
"We made it somehow." Jet breathed in exhaustion.
"Yeah." Droy nodded. "I thought we were goners there for a while."
"You guys did great!" Warren gave his friends a thumbs up. "I knew you could pull it off."
"No thanks to you!" Jet and Droy shouted.
"I hope Mira is ok." Lisanna worried.
"You shouldn't worry about her." Elfman said. "Mira's still got plenty of strength left."
"What happened here? There are bodies everywhere." A voice said in the distance.
"It seems a pretty big battle took place."
Elfman and his group watched as Lucy walked towards them. The blonde looked to her friends with pleasant surprise.
"You guys are ok! I'm so glad."
"We are too." Lisanna smiled as she and Elfman walked to the pair of celestial wizards.
"You guys are by yourselves?"
"And looking really sexy I might add." Warren leered. Lucy was still in her clothes from when used Aquarius magic.
"You're broadcasting that to everyone." Jet and Droy sighed.
"It's a bit of a long story." Lucy laughed nervously at Elfman's question.
"We all separated from the group we were with earlier." Lucy explained to them "Levy, Gajeel, and Juvia are taking the blood we gathered to Porlyusica so she can heal the Thunder Legion."
With Gajeel
Gajeel, Levy, and an unconscious Juvia headed east from their previous location. Levy acted as navigator, directing the group along balls of light on the side of the path.
"Thank goodness that the markers I left are still here." She said. "It should be this way…I think."
"You better be right about this, shrimp. I hate getting lost in demon palaces." Gajeel sniped.
"gotcha" Levy said as the two keep following the path, Levy's markers are at
With Lucy
"That's terrible," Lisanna said about Juvia. "I hope she's ok."
"Gray-san has also gained some new kind of magic," Lucy reported. "I have no idea where he got it from, but it's really strong. He took down one of the Tartaros members like he was nothing."
"That's Gray for ya." Elfman beamed. "A real man's man."
"As for Natsu…" Lucy trailed off as she looks to the sky where Natsu was battling with Acnologia. "I don't even know where to begin explaining that."
"all that matters is that he's handling Acnologia" Warren said to them
"We might have a chance in winning this!" Droy jovially exclaimed.
"I'm not really sure, but it looks that way." Lucy smiled softly. "We just have to make sure we stay together this time around." She thought of Aquarius and began to frown.
"guys!" Ur's voice shouted out as everyone looks behind and sees Ur coming into view
"Ur!? You're alright?" Wakaba said to the ice make wizard
"is Aya with you guys!?" Ur asked them as she was concern for her granddaughter
"it's alright, she's with Erza and the others" Macao told her as Ur sighs in relief
As the regrouped friends chatted amongst themselves about their next move, Wendy, Doranbolt, and Charla approached them.
"Face is still active." Wendy announced.
"Wendy?" Lucy questioned in disbelief.
"Charla is here too." Lisanna pointed.
"Isn't that Doranbolt from the Magic Council?" Yukino inquired, pointing at the man in question.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAIR!?" Warren, Jet and Droy exclaimed to Wendy's new look
"Now's not the time to be scatterbrained, people!" Charla commanded. "There are thousands of Face bombs for us to stop!"
"Thousands?!" Jet, Droy, and Warren exclaimed.
"There are that many?" Yukino gasped.
"We have a plan." Doranbolt said.
Wendy stepped forward and explained her plan to deal with the Face bombs, unfortunately the look on everyone's faces suggested that it wasn't plausible. Starting with Warren.
"I understand, but I don't think I'll be able to go through with it. My telepathy can only reach up to about five kilometers. There's no way I could reach all the wizard's on the continent."
Wendy was devastated by the revelation. "But…"
"There are so many bombs." Lisanna said.
"Thousands of them." Lucy nodded in agreement.
"They're already activated." Doranbolt said. "We don't have much time before they all detonate."
"What are we going to do?" Elfman asked desperately.
""It's much too early for us to be giving up."" A familiar voice said through telepathy.
"Master Makarov?" Lucy called.
""We still have our trump card, Lumen Historie. Fairy Tail's ultimate weapon!"" Makarov boomed out as the old man was standing in front of a giant Lacrima crystal that had a person sealed inside it
"Lumen Histoire?" Yukino repeated.
"What is that?" Wendy asked.
""There is no time to explain."" Makarov said. ""You must all return to the guild at once!""
"But it was destroyed." Droy sullenly reminded.
"Hey! Not so loud." Jet hissed. He elbowed Droy in the ribs, hoping that Elfman didn't hear his friend's comment.
"I'll stay here." Elfman volunteered.
"But why, Elf?" Lisanna questioned.
""No one blames you for the guild's destruction, Elfman."" Makarov reassured.
"But still I…"
""It is purely your decision."" Makarov then opened a private channel to Doranbolt. ""You come with them.""
""I'm not a member of your guild."" Doranbolt told him.
""That doesn't matter. After this is done I want you to erase the memory of Lumen Historie from the minds of everyone in Fairy Tail.""
Doranbolt gnashed his teeth. ""That go for me as well?""
""Yes. It does."" With that Makarov's telepathy ended.
"We should hurry back!" Jet said.
"Right. Be careful, Elf." Lisanna said. She wished her brother would come along, but she could understand his guilt.
"I will." Elfman nodded.
"Warren, get me in touch with Natsu" Ur told the telepath "I need him to help Gray, he's fighting Tartaros' boss alone!"
"got it!" Warren said as he did what she ordered him to
With Natsu
Natsu took a deep breath and fires multiple fire balls attack at Acnologia who just flew right through the attacks and rammed himself towards Natsu
"guh!" Natsu grunted as blood seeps out his lips "you bastard!"
Natsu hammers Acnologia's head before giving a flaming punch to the chin for Acnologia
Acnologia roars out as Natsu responded the same
Natsu and Acnologia dashed towards each other as both dragons went into a power struggle
"Natsu!? Can you hear me!?" Ur's voice shouted out in Natsu's mind as Natsu continued to give all of his strength in bringing down Acnologia
"what is it!? I'm in the middle of something here!" Natsu shouted out to her as he and Acnologia crashes down to the ground and caused a tremor upon the earth
"Gray's fighting with Tartaros' boss, and is having trouble! We need you to help him!"Ur shouted out to her son in law about the situation
Natsu clicked his tongue as he and Acnologia clawed each other before soaring to the sky again and battle yet again in the air
"he can do it by himself! I'm not going to let Acnologia fly away again! Not now! Not ever!" Natsu shouted out to Ur as he and Acnologia punches each other's fist before slamming their heads against each other
"YOU WILL HELP HIM OR I WILL SWEAR TO GOD I'M GOING TO BREAK UP YOUR ENGAGEMENT WITH ULTEAR! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW! YOU HEAR ME!?" Ur nagged at Natsu who gritted his teeth before he pushed off Acnologia and slams his flaming tail at the black dragon
Natsu summons Drac on as the gauntlet glowed and a copy of Natsu appeared in the flaming dragon
The original Natsu flied out of the flaming dragon and let his copy fights Acnologia at the moment while the real one flies towards the fight between Gray and Mard Geer
With Gray
"Gaaaaah!"
Gray was blasted away from a powerful blast from Mard Geer as the Ice Wizard fell to the ground
"Have you learned from your folly yet, human?" The demon taunted as he looks at Gray who was slowly getting up "still you try to resist"
Gray lips slowly form a smirk as the ice mage smirks to Mard Geer
"what do you smile for? Have your mind went insane from the fact that you are going to die?" Mard Geer asked to Gray
"no, I'm just smiling because you're going to be in a world of pain" Gray said as Mard Geer looks to him before sensing a high magic power coming from above
He looks up and sees Natsu diving in with a giant black flaming sphere above him
"Ankoku dai Koen!"
Natsu threw the giant flaming sphere as the attack engulfs Mard Geer who had no time to defend
BOOM!
The attack exploded upon the demon and caused a powerful tremor to rang through the land
"you think you're the absolute demon?" Natsu spoke out as he landed a few feet away from Mard Geer
Natsu ignites his fist in flames as the Dark markings on his skin covers his whole face and his feature matches that of a dragon and a demon combined "you thought wrong"
the dust was blown away as Mard Geer had shielded himself with his wings
"foul humans!" Mard Geer shouted out as the black demon glares at Natsu who did the same
That's a wrap!
Bye bye