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On with the story
The first wave of Alvarez's invasion is undergoing as we speak as the Alvarez fleet approaches Magnolia from the north, East and South. Leaving no escape for Fairy Tail
"Tetsuryu Sou!!" Gajeel's arm shot forward, cleaving through a number of opposing foot soldiers with his iron spears.
"damnit, there's no end to the small fries!" Gajeel said as he bites on some of the dropped swords from the enemies to replenish his magic power
"Tenryu no Yokugeki!" Wendy unleashed a hurricane from her hands as she blew her enemies away
"there are more coming, Gajeel-san!" Wendy exclaimed as more and more Alvarez Soldiers came charging in as magic blasts started flying in the air before falling to the ground
"there's got to be a thousand of them!" Charla said in her battle form as she saw the troops that were coming
"we've got to hold down the line!" Lily said in his larger form as he clenched his grip on his sword
The four got ready into a battle stance as it was them against thousands
"MOVE!" Natsu shouted out as Gajeel and the others look behind and see Natsu with his arms in front as a flaming black sphere was charging up in front of him and was slowly getting larger by the second
"get down!" Gajeel dragged everyone down to the ground as Natsu fired the flaming sphere at the soldiers and cause a giant massive explosion that took them all out at once
The feedback of the attack caused Natsu to get dragged behind from the force as his hands steamed from unleashing such a powerful attack
"you're trying to kill us, Salamander?!" Gajeel shouted at the man "next time warn us!"
Natsu huffs out some smoke from his metallic mouth before he focuses his attention to the vanguard ship where Erza was still fighting Ajeel
"there's Ajeel…" Natsu said as he then turns his attention to the town where he can sense the magic presence of Brandish and Wall "and Brandish with Wall as well"
Vlad started acting up as the Gauntlet started laughing
"HahAhAHa! MOrE nATsU! mORe! BloOd! MoRE BlOOd!" Vlad shouted out as Natsu punched the gauntlet with Drac
"quiet" Natsu told the Gauntlet as he raised up Drac
"Drac" Natsu ordered out as the Gauntlet glowed "as you wish"
Afterimages of Natsu appeared as the man splits into three
The three Natsus then split up as one stayed where it was while the other two split up as one went to the sky while the other went to the town
Natsu looks up at the vanguard ship as he opens his metallic mouth as a small sphere of fire started to form in its mouth and was getting larger by the second
Gray and Juvia were fending off a number of soldiers from Badd's squad on their own. The ice maker drew his fist back, ice surrounding it. Gray then threw it forward, a large glacier of ice instantly forming in the path in front of him. This took out several people in one shot. "The numbers here are unbelievable…" He grunted in annoyance.
Juvia brought her arms up, forming a moderately sized tidal wave to sweep away and drown some soldiers. While she did take out a few, they still had plenty to deal with. "Yes…but it's still less than those of Avatar…"
"Yeah…but in comparison, these guys are way stronger…" The icemaker grunted. "And this is only a small portion of their fleet too. I have a bad feeling that this is going to get annoying…"
Cue Elfman's timely entrance, smashing several enemies down with his own raw power. "Need some help?" He asked with a grin.
"Elfman!" Gray exclaimed in surprise while having a smile to his friend
Lisanna dropped down from the skies in her Harpie takeover. The youngest Strauss rapidly kicked at multiple people with her talons, striking them down with her quick fire strikes. "Hah!"
"Lisanna-san!" Said Juvia.
Mira stood in the back, a demonic aura flaring around her body. "Satan Soul…Mirajane Sayla." Mira's body transformed…into that of Sayla's. After the incident from last year, the resisting demon was quelled and Mira was granted the full extent of her own power, along with Sayla's.
"eeeh?!" Gray exclaimed in surprise
"you used take over on Sayla!?…" Juvia exclaimed with her eyes wide as saucers.
"Mira-nee said she felt pity to leave her there so" Lisanna said as they get the gist of it
"so MANLY!" Elfman cried out in tears
"…It's pretty weird staring at the form of a former enemy knowing they were robbed of their body…" Gray spoke with a sweat drop.
Mira smiled before she waved her hand to the side
"I order you all! Fall asleep!" Mira ordered out as nearly half of the soldiers got knocked out and had fallen asleep
"…Whoa…" Gray was just in for a lot of surprises so far.
"Mira-nee, some of them are still awake…!" Lisanna warned.
"Oh, well that's a shame." Mira then gave a wink. "I guess for these people, we'll just have to do it the old fashioned way, hehe."
"So manly!" Elfman said, shedding manly tears.
Wall was watching in the back, a sly smirk appearing on his lips. "Macro…one of the demon's many spells. I see…how impressive. How would you like to become one of the Emperor's toys, then?"
Erza was having no luck against Ajeel. She was still trapped within the whirlwind of sand and there wasn't much she could do. All Erza could muster was swinging her blade to slice through the sand, which just slowed the rate of her body drying up. "Ugh…"
"Come on…dry up already…" Ajeel said with boredom in his tone. At the same time, a brow was quirked at Erza's futile efforts to escape his sand. "It won't be long until the sand squeezes every last drop of moisture from your body. Oh, and don't try using your little flashy tricks…but it looks like you can't, can you!? HAHAHAHAHA!" Ajeel clearly knew what was going on here, and he enjoyed watching Erza's struggle. "How long can you last!?"
"Damn it…!" Erza yelled. She was stuck and couldn't do a damn thing! "Why isn't my requip working!? Why now!?"
The battlefield was a whole mess to Mavis as her calculations all proved wrong
"we have no other way in destroying the ships now that Jupiter is out of the play" Mavis said as she sees the screen and can hear the sound of explosions coming from outside "Warren! Contact the others! I have another plan!"
The communication wasn't relayed as Warren was too busy despairing. "No matter how long we hold up…it's only a matter of time until the enemy sends in another squad…"
"Warren! Please relay my orders with your telepathy!" Mavis pleaded.
"Ugh…." Warren grunted out in tears before Max kicked him in the balls to snap him out of it
"Get a grip!" Max shouted as he grabs Warren by his collar
"Everybody's scared! My knees have been knocking in ever since this whole damn thing started!"
"Max…"
"BUT WE GOTTA FIGHT! THIS IS OUR HOME! WE GOTTA PROTECT OUR HOME!" Max shouted at Warren from the top of his lungs as Warren nodded before he repaid what Max did to him as the telepath shoved a broomstick right at his butt
"That tells you from kicking my junk!" Warren shouted
"hey, you all hear me?" Natsu's voice was heard in the telepathy as this surprised everyone
"Natsu!? What is it?" Warren asked the man while wiping away the tears from his eyes
"all of your focus on dealing with the soldiers, I'll handle the 12 myself" Natsu told them before he cuts off the transmission
"hey!" Warren tried to reconnect the telepathy but came out with none
"does Natsu have a plan?" Makarov muttered out as Mavis looks at the screen where the signs of the Spriggan 12 showed up on
Lucy started down at Brandish who was soaking in her tub as the woman looks at her
"H-how are you here?!" Lucy said as she took a step back
Brandish looked to her before replying. "Get in." she said to Lucy who got confused
"Huh?"
"…Don't make me repeat myself." Brandish's tone, while lazy, did convey a threat as well. Lucy was reminded who she was dealing with, and that made her shudder. "Oh…I get it…" Brandish then held up Marin in her hands
"A+!" Marin said before he was stuffed into a plastic container
"Well…problem solved." Brandish said while setting the container down. "Come."
"N-No way…" Lucy was flabbergasted.
Brandish narrowed her eyes before electing to tell Lucy the position she was in. "You lot lost this battle when I stepped foot into this town. I'm sure you remember what my magic can do, yes? It would take me a second to shrink this entire town…but I want to enjoy this bath so I won't do it just yet. Do you understand?"
"You'll be alright as long as you listen to what I say." The Spriggan said, shaking the plastic container with her pet inside. "I take really good care of my pets despite my character, you know…"
"Wait…so I'm a pet!?" Marin heard this and was shocked.
"What's with you?! First you appeared in my hot tub then you want me to join you!?" Lucy exclaimed before Brandish snapped her fingers and Lucy felt something happening
"Wha!?" Lucy exclaimed as she felt the rumbling stopped
"I should warn you…never make me repeat myself." Brandish said as her eyes darkens to Lucy "just now I shrunken the house beside this one,"
Lucy looks in disbelief and true to Brandish's words, the house beside Lucy's apartment was shrunken
"Get in before I shrink this whole town." Brandish said as Lucy felt fear rising in her heart "Last chance. Please get in with me. It's an order."
Lucy didn't have a choice. She began to strip down as per Brandish's wishes. "I don't know what her goal is, or why she's doing this, and as long as that guy is there, I can't use my magic…but if it's a physical battle she wants, it's one she'll get!" Lucy was now naked and slipped into the tub across from Brandish with an intense stare.
Ultear awoke from her sleep as she slowly opens her eyes from hearing the sounds of explosions coming from the town
"what's that noise?" Ultear woke up as on the bed with her was just Aya
"Natsu?" Ultear called out to her husband and hears no response coming from the room before the door was slammed open by Ur with Meredy behind her
"Ultear! Alvarez came and started attacking the town!" Ur exclaimed surprising the Time Mage
"what!?" Ultear got out of bed while carrying Aya who was somehow still asleep even with all the racket
The group exited the house before they were all stopped by a barrier that was put up surrounding the house
"a barrier!?" Meredy touched the barrier as it was a very strong one
"how come we didn't hear the sound coming in the first place!?" Meredy said as she watched the battle going on outside
"it must've been Natsu! That stupid son in law!" Ur kicked the barrier as it didn't break at all
Ultear looks in the sky as she can see the war happening on sight
"Natsu….what are you trying to do?" Ultear asked as she was worried for her husband
With Lucy
"Lady Brandish! Please let me out already!" Marin whined out in the container as Lucy and Brandish were in the bathtub together
"…Why are you here?" Lucy asked as she got straight to the point.
"…You're so not cute…" The Spriggan responded. She then pulled out a cat hairband. "Put this on, will you?"
"NO!" Lucy shot down the idea…but ended up putting them on anyway and she was extremely embarrassed and annoyed.
Brandish stared with wide eyes. In her eyes, she was amazed "Oh my…what did I do…you're actually adorable…!"
"WHAT IS THIS!?" Lucy groaned.
Back to the serious topic. The green haired woman narrowed her eyes and examined Lucy. "I've…seen you somewhere before…"
"Probably Weekly Sorc…" Lucy said, turning her gaze elsewhere. "I was a journalist for a year and did a couple of model shoots as well."
"The magazines here are boring…they don't interest me at all." Brandish said, lazily.
"…Uh…the Grand Magic Games then?" Lucy suggested.
Brandish just looked clueless. "Huh? Hmm…I can't remember…"
"Ngh…don't tell me you just came here for a bath…coming into a person's house uninvited, too…"
"That's right…" Brandish gave a deadpan stare. "We're having a serious conversation. Take that off already."
"NNNGGG…." Lucy grumbled annoyed
"will you wash my back for me?" The woman asked while stepping out of the bath and onto a chair.
Lucy who had no choice but to do that went out of the bath and kneeled behind Brandish
"…What's your name...?" Brandish asked
"Lucy…" She said. "Why am I even doing this in the first place?"
"Oh! No no…! It's my job to wash her back! Please let me do it!" Marin pleaded, moving with such ferocity the container wiggled about.
"Hmm." Brandish hummed without knowing that Lucy was still holding Aquarius' broken key in her hands
"This is my chance! I'll attack her while her guard is down!" Lucy raised her hand as she pointed Aquarius broken key at the base of Brandish' neck "I'm going to take out one of the 12!"
Lucy was about to strike at Brandish who suddenly spoke
"Layla's daughter?" She said as Lucy stopped her attempt
"You knew my mother?" Lucy asked as Brandish slowly turned her head towards Lucy
"So you are." Brandish's face was dark as the woman glares at Lucy "Layla's daughter."
All of a sudden, the whole room started rumbling and the walls and everything started to shrink
"The room is shrinking!?" Lucy thought as she got up and started running out of her room after grabbing the plastic container with Marin in it
"This is bad!" Lucy ran out as the door to her room got shrunk and she fell down the stairs and out of her apartment
"I never thought I'd stumble upon you here." Brandish said as she appeared in front of Lucy, all dressed up
"What did my mother ever do to you!?" Lucy exclaimed but Brandish didn't answer
"It's too much of a pain to explain." Brandish replied before she jumped away as cards came flying at her
"Cards!?" Lucy said before she smiled as Cana came in to the rescue
"that's enough from you!" Cana said with a serious look on herself "like hell you'll be treating my friends like a toy!"
"Cana!" Lucy exclaimed as the Card Mage smiles to her before noticing Lucy's current attire
"That's some outfit you got there.. you into some kinky stuff, aren't you?" Cana asked with a teasing smirk
"No! this is!" Lucy tried to retort but they then face against Brandish who looks at the two
"but I'm in the clear now!" Lucy said as the throws the plastic container that Marin was in "what's going on out there?" Marin asked in the container before it was destroyed into pieces by Lucy's foot with Marin as well
"ERRRGHH!" Marin screamed in pain before he was knocked out
"Marin!" Brandish exclaimed in surprise
"now I can use my keys!" Lucy said as she equips on her Star Dress
"Star Dress: Aries Form!" Lucy proclaimed as she was fully dressed up
"this reminds me of when we teamed up on Tenroujima!" Cana said with a smile
"what a pain" Brandish said with a bored look
In the town
Gray swiped his hands to the side as he sends ice lances at some soldiers.
"Haaa!" Juvia uses her water slicer to attack a nearby soldier and did to another who was close.
Juvia and Gray then back to back each other while facing their enemies.
"You okay?" Gray said to Juvia as he freezes soldier heading their way
"Yes!" Juvia replied as she made a small tidal wave to wash away the soldiers
The two continued to fight on before they spotted more soldiers coming into view
"Gray-sama! Above!" Juvia exclaimed as she and Gray jump away from two soldiers who look like robotic soldiers stomp down at where they were standing before.
"More of them?!" Gray exclaimed while facing off one robotic soldier that was near him.
"Tch! Aisu Make!" Gray then readied his pose only to be shocked as the robotic soldier ignited its fist in flames and attacked him.
"Fire?!" Gray exclaimed as he had slight burn marks on his hands from defending against the attack.
"Gray-sama!" Juvia exclaimed as she saw the other one was about to attack her.
"Juvia is water, physical won't work on Juvia." She turned her body into water as the soldier attack went through her.
Juvia smiled but it quickly disappeared and was replaced with shock when steam came out of the attack and damaged her.
"AAAAHHHHH!" Juvia screams in pain as she fell down and holds her waist that was steaming.
"Gray! Juvia!" Lisanna exclaimed while flying towards them.
In front of her appeared another robotic soldier as it punches Lisanna's back with its hammered gestured hands.
"Kyaaaa!" she fell down and skidded as she countered attack using her cat soul.
"Nyaaaaaaaaa!" Lisanna swipes her claws at the soldier who stood there as her attacks did no damage whatsoever.
"What!?" She then jumped away from an incoming fist.
"This guy's body is too hard!"
"Lisanna move!" Elfman exclaimed as he had pulled back his fist.
"ORAAAA!" Elfman punched the soldier as it was sent skidded back a bit.
"How's that?!" he then readied another punch only to change into defense as another solider appeared and the disappeared in front of him as it kicks Elfman's back.
"Guaaah!"
"Elfman/-nichan/-san!" Gray and the others exclaimed while backing off from the robotic soldiers.
"These guys..!?" Elfman looks at the four soldiers as he stands back up from his fall. "are they tailored to our weakness!?"
"Wait a minute..!" Gray then realized something as he turns around.
"Mira doesn't have a weakness!" he said before his face went into shock as Mira was in shock as well
"Please! No!" Mira exclaimed before she got attacked by a robot soldier who had Elfman's face
"What the hell?!" Elfman shouted to see the one attacking his sister had his face
"Hehehe, these are my Weakness Soldiers, you fool stand no chance of winning." Wall said as the Weakness Soldier went onto the attack against Gray and the others
"Now then." Wall said as he turns around. "I must go and dispatch this loathsome enchantment user of yours."
Wall then rocketed away as he flew towards where the Kardia Cathedral is located
"Dammit!" Gray cursed as he blocked a flaming punch from a weakness soldier
"Freed-san and the others are in trouble!" Juvia exclaimed
Erza was able to use her Requip again thanks to Marin passing out as the Scarlet Knight fights back against Ajeel
"damnit!" Ajeel exclaimed as Erza uses her Water Sword that was one of the main weakness of sand
"sand has too many weaknesses!" Erza said as she swings her water sword right at Ajeel who got sent flying to the ship's broken mast
"tch! Damn pest!" Ajeel exclaimed as he creates a giant sandstorm against Erza who summon a sword that had feathers like design
"it's no use!" Erza exclaimed as she swings her other sword around as the sand got blown away "the Wind God Sword can blow sand away!"
"then how about a sandstorm!?" Ajeel said as the whole ship or rather the whole town was encased in a giant sandstorm
At Fairy Tail
"What is this!?" Makarov exclaimed as the sand was blowing in the guild
"Shut every door and window in the guild!" Mavis ordered out to everyone as they dashed to the door and windows as the sand was getting more denser
With Lucy
The sandstorm was blowing everywhere as they can't see anything
"What's going on!?" Lucy exclaimed while Cana coughed out from the sand that got into her mouth
"Ajeel…" Brandish shielded her eyes as the sand was getting into her eyes. "You're such a pain."
With Erza
The entire area was filled with sand as Ajeel let out a relentless barrage of sand blasts at her
"This is the Sand world!" Ajeel's voice exclaimed out as the man appeared behind Erza "in this world I am god!"
"Raml Saif!"
Ajeel spins his hands as a torrent of sand went flying at Erza who got sent flying back
"Gaah!" She grunted in pain as the sand blasts managed to bruise her
Her neck was then grabbed and she was pulled up by Ajeel as the man had an annoyed look on him
"revere me as god! And beg for my forgiveness!" Ajeel gloated out as he choke Erza's neck
"gah! Aaah!" Erza grunted out in pain as her fluid was getting drained
"say it and I'll give you a quick death!" Ajeel said with a smirk before his hand was grabbed by a metallic claw
"how about I give you one instead?" Natsu appeared as the man grips Ajeel's hand hard that it made him let go of Erza
"you?!" Ajeel exclaimed before getting a punch to the face by Natsu
"Gah!"
Natsu grabbed Erza as he jumps down from the ship
"running away?!" Ajeel exclaimed only to see a giant flaming sphere appearing from the ground
"Enryuo Daimonji!"
The giant flaming blast fired towards Ajeel's ship as the man looks at the flaming sphere before he and his ship were taken out from the blast
"GGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ajeel shouted in pain as he got burns all over him
Natsu landed on the ground as he sets down Erza before disappearing as he was a clone
"one down…" Natsu muttered out before he started running towards the town
The sandstorm disappeared as Lucy and the others can see again
"The sandstorm is gone." Lucy said as the sand was slowly disappearing
"Erza must've defeated one of the 12!" Cana said with a smirk before they heard sneezing coming from Brandish
"What is it with this town!? Achoo! There so many achoo! Pollen here!" Brandish said while sneezing
"Allergies?" Lucy said before she sees Brandish getting knocked out by Cana who wacked her from behind
"How cruel." Lucy said
"But she was open." Cana said to them
At Kardia Cathedral
Fried and the others were in an immense standoff as Wall Eehto's puppets have busted into the Church and Bickslow and Ever were having a hard time dealing with the Weakness Soldiers.
"This is getting us nowhere!" Bickslow exclaimed while grunting on the ground with Ever in the same state as well.
"Use your second magic!" Fried told his friends as Bickslow opened his helmet while Ever lifts up her glasses
To their shock, their second magic wasn't working against the weakness soldiers
"Then go for the guy whose controlling them!" Fried told them as Ever locked eyes with Wall
"This will end you! Stone Eyes!" Ever used her magic against Wall who simply smirked at her attempt
"It's not working at all?!" Ever exclaimed before she got slammed to the ground by the weakness soldiers
"That's because I'm not human." Wall explained as he opened up his shirt and revealed a machine-like core in his chest
Wall's body then started to transform as the man turns into a robotic like warrior
"I am a Machias! I am not human!" Wall said in his new form as Freed and the others were shocked to see him like that
"A machine that uses Magic!?" Freed exclaimed before thunder strikes down the weakness Soldiers and Wall
"Lightning?" Freed said as a figure appeared from the front gate of the cathedral
"Ho?" a voice spoke as The Raijinshuu smiled in joy
"BIRI BIRI MAN!" Ichiya appeared as the short man did his pose
"EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?" Freed and the others exclaimed in disgust and surprise
That's a wrap!
Bye bye