So hello again. Sorry about the very extended absence of this story but alot came up. I had midterms at the end of 2 weeks ago so did not spend much time on writing this chapter. Also I made this chapter very long, so it took extra time to write because of that it took longer than most chapters to write. I had been getting some reviews that said they were upset by just how much stronger Mikoto was than everyone else, so i made this chapter focused more on the others, slightly. Also I will post a link to a new weapon she creates, one that many of you might recognize. Also Mikoto says a quote from another anime, I would like to see if any of you know the anime its a reference too. I will say its fastly becoming one of my favorite anime. So one that note, please enjoy this chapter and leave a review!
This sudden inability for most of the fairy tail members to be able to move, let alone use their magic turned the tide of the battle once again. Gildarts was easily getting pummeled by BlueNote, as were Freed and Bickslow with RustyRose. Mikoto was with the others at the camp, desperately trying to find out a way to get herself back into the fight. Meanwhile, Touma decided to act. He was the only one in a position to stop RusyRose from killing four Fairy Tail guild members. He steps out of the bushes blocking him from RusyRose and says, "Why dont you pick on someone who can fight back?" RustyRose stopped pummeling freed at this and looks up, shocked to see a member of Fairy Tail still standing in front of him.
"How? How are you still standing? Your magic should be completely drained! You should be unable to move!" RustyRose exclaimed in shock.
"Well im a very special person. I don't use magic. I'm just a guy with a shield walking with Gods," Touma responds using a quote from a book he read. RustyRoses response was to create a monster that then proceeded to attack Touma. Touma blocked the beast's attacks with his shield and then touched it with his right hand, completely destroying the beast. This seemed to only piss of RustyRose even more, as he created 5 more beasts, but again Toumas right hand destroys them all. Using RustyRoses shock to his advantage, Touma charges forward, and lands a good couple of hits with his shield and fists before RustyRose leaps backward to avoid more strikes.
"How? How are you negating my magic?!" He asks both in confusion and anger.
"Im not in the mood to explain, but lets say it was something I was born with," Touma responds, once again charging forward. He knew he may not be able to completely beat RustyRose, but he could delay him long enough for the guilds magic to be restored. RustyRose countered attacked, creating many different creatures and objects to attack with, including swords, axes, and arrows, but all of them were negated by either Toumas shield or his right hand. Meanwhile, Erza was facing off against Azuma. She noticed a change in the air, but her suspicions were proven when Azuma spoke.
"I have taken over the power of this tree and the blessings it bestows on your guild. They are all now defenseless and at the mercy of a dark guild," Azuma explains what he did.
"Then why did you not take my magic as well?" Erza asked, slightly puzzled.
"I only wanted to come here to fight the strongest members of Fairy Tail. Bluenote is dealing with Gildarts, and Master Hades has already dealt with Makarov. I already fought Mirajane and Laxus is no longer part of your Guild so that only leaves me with you. I want to fight the famous Titania at her strongest," Azuma explains.
"I will fight you, but only if you promise to restore what you took," Erza replies.
"Then I promise to do just that. So Titania, do you have the power to protect your friends?" He asks. As if in response, She attacks with her Heavens wheel armor. But the attack was ineffective as Azuma blocked with his own magic, then hits Erza with an explosive tree branch. She requips into her flight armor, managing to land a couple of sword strikes, before Azuma once again manages to counter. This time she was able to requip into a different armor to block the attack. Then she requips into her fire empress armor and tried to burn her way through Azumas magic. It was somewhat effective until Azuma attacked her from below, having transported himself through the tree limbs around them, damaging the armor. She then turned to her black wing armor, but even that was proven to be ineffective. Finally she decides to put everything into her offense, and no longer cared about her defenses. She requips into her silaf along with her crimson blade, her most powerful sword. With this setup she managed to land some more strikes, but this time Azuma decided to end it all. He used his magic to trap Erza in a tree enclosure, and prepared to use his strongest attack.
"Well Titania, this was fun, but it seems like you have lost. Now the very magic that protected you during your time with your guild will be what kills you!" Azuma yells out as a huge ball of magic formed up above him, about to be set into the defenseless Erza. She could only look on in helplessness as Azuma began to laugh as he was about to launch the attack. Suddenly his laughter stopped as pain ripped through his back. He yells out in pain and reaches back, pulling a knife out from just under his left shoulder. He looks around, trying to find the person responsible. His eyes widened as he saw the one person that he did not want to see ever again. Leaning up against a tree, about 20 meters away and below them, was Mikoto. She was breathing heavily, and was obviously under alot of strain to just stand, but she was the one to throw the knife, though it was the only knife she had to through.
"Well I guess my aim is a little off right now. That knife was aimed at your head," Mikoto comments.
"You!" Azuma growls, anger building inside of him.
"Mikoto! Get out of here! You are weakened! You cant hope to beat him as you are right now!" Erza yells out, trying to plead with the esper.
"You should not be able to move! Your magic was taken from you" Azuma exclaims.
"I cant move, well at least not normally. But you could only take my magic so my ability remains. I used my ability to force my body to move. Its something I have done before in a similar situation," Mikoto explained.
"You should not have come here, now you will die as well!" Azuma says, turning to face her.
"I will not die today, nobody in fairy tail will. I told you earlier after I beat you Azuma that I would kill you and I am here to fulfill that promise." Mikoto comments. This causes Azuma to finally attack, sending an explosive tree limb at Mikoto. She draws her Hf blade, but instead of using it to defend herself, she tosses it in Erza direction. Mikoto takes the full power of Azumas attack, which blasts her into another tree, her body covered in wounds and her clothes torn. But her sword flew true, and sliced its way through some of the branches holding Erza and lands with the hilt in her left hand. Using the blade Erza cut her way through the remaining branches and drops to the ground, running over to her guild mate and friend. She got to Mikotos side, and saw that thankfully she was still conscious. Erza was about to reach down to help her up, when Mikoto waved her off.
"Dont touch me, my ability will shock you. I can get up on my own," Mikoto stammered. She slowly began to force herself to her feet, but Azuma was not going to miss the opportunity to deal her more pain. He launched more attacks, but this time Erza defended with the HF Blade after getting rid of her own sword. Mikoto gets to her feet and when Erza looks over to check if she was okay, she noticed something. Mikotos waist band was now fully uncovered, and a strange light on it was blinking. Even Azuma noticed this, so Mikoto had to state her secret.
"Well I was hoping you would not find this out yet Azuma, but I guess I have no choice. This waistband I have is used to transport in select objects, including my sword and Wrist Blades. It was given to me by my mentor, who was also the one who created my sword," Mikoto began to explain. At this Erza went to hand Mikoto back her sword, but Mikoto again refused.
"You will need that for now Erza. I have another one," Mikoto explained. This shocked Azuma, what did she mean by another one? As he thought that, the blinking light on the waistband became solid, and an object appeared in Mikotos hands that she was holding out in front of her. Also the sheath for her normal hf blade had disappeared from her side. Erza recognized the shape of the object in Mikotos hands, It was a weird looking sheath and sword. Mikoto attached the sheath to her side and held her left hand on it. She put her right hand out in front of her and waited for Azuma to attack. Just as she expected he attacked once again with his magic, as multiple huge tree branches went flying at them. Just before it was too late, Mikoto pulled a trigger on the sword. The blade shot out of the sheath and the handle was caught in Mikotos outstretched right hand. In one very simplistic but effective motion, Mikoto used the launch of the sword to sweep it across in front of her, easily cutting through all of the branches. This motion also fully revealed the blade, its crimson red blade glowing in the slight darkness as random bolts of electricity shot off of it. It was Raidens Murasama blade, the strongest Hf blade ever made. The next second she used her ability to once again move her body, but this time she used it to go on the offensive, charging towards Azuma. He tried to defend with his magic, but Murasama easily cut through all of it. But because she had to use her power to even move, her movements were slowed down allowing Azuma to dodge her attacks. Yet he was to focused on Mikoto, and left him open to a strike from Erza, who was now armed with the normal HF Blade. The wound was cut deep into him, but it was not lethal. This little dance between the three of them continued for a little bit, with azuma trying to find an effective way to defend against the two hf blades and being unable to do so. Eventually he decides to go on the offensive. Attacking from multiple directions. Mikoto and Erza did a good job defending at first but eventually the sheer volume of tree branches and trunks flying at them were too much. Suddenly they were trapped between separate branches with their sword arms and swords pinned down by more branches. They were now unable to move and defenseless against Azumas next attack.
"This ends here! With this move I will prove that I am stronger than both of you!" Azuma yells out, a confidence that his victory was assured flowing through his voice. Erza tried to struggle free, while Mikoto on the other hand went defensive. She completely stopped struggling, instead building up her power inside of her. Azuma built up a huge ball of pure magical energy, drawn from the magic of the tenrou Tree itself. He fired it at them as his final attack. The ball destroyed everything in its path, and a second before it hits, Mikoto draws on her power. She creates a field of electrical energy around both her and erza, putting everything she had into it. Mikoto noticed as the ball of magic surrounded her electrical field and thus her and Erza, that the power of Azumas attack was far stronger than it should have been. Even her electrical field was not able to completely hold it back, and the magic burst through it hitting Mikoto and Erza hard. But Mikotos field did weaken it, to the point that the attack was just weak enough that it was survivable, at the cost of Mikotos now limited power. Both fairy tail wizards fall onto branches between them and the ground, with Erza being unconscious and Mikoto now unable to move. For a minute it looked like they were defeated when suddenly Erza stood up. She had heard jellals voice in her head telling her to fight and it had gotten her to do just that. She grips the Hf blade strongly, prepared to continue the fight. But Azuma was not done, as he launches yet another ball of magic energy at Erza. With Mikoto now almost completely drained of energy, Erza took this attack head on. Just as it looked like it was about to kill her, Erza used her raw determination to protect her guild to change the very magic of the attack. Now instead of being under Azumas control and trying to kill Erza, it turned into a shield for her. She charged forward with the magic now destroying everything in her path. Azuma tried one last time to defend himself, creating a huge wall of branches between him and erza. This wall may have been able to stop Erza's attack except it was suddenly destroyed. Azuma has just enough time to look over and see that Mikoto had gotten one last strike in, using Murasama to destroy his wall. Erza's strike hits home, making a slash across Azumas chest as well as hitting him with the magic. As the magic disappeared he collapsed to the ground defeated. In that moment, the guild marks glowed faintly and all those affected when their magic was taken could feel their magic returning. Touma was still fighting RustyRose, when Freed and Brickslow rejoined the fight. With them now involved they easily beat RustyRose. Gildarts also got his magic back and used all of it to finish off Bluenote. With those two defeated meant that the only one remaining was Master Hades. But there was a problem with that, the only ones still capable of fighting were worn out, and going against someone as strong as Master Hades would be very much not in their favor. Yet that has never stopped Fairy Tail before and today was not going to be the first time. Mikoto was still to exhausted to move, so Erza left to join the others at Grimoire heart's airship. The ones that ended up joining her was Gray, Natsu, Happy, Lucy, Wendy, Carla and Panther Lily.
"Where Mikoto?" Wendy asked when Erza walked over, looking for her friend.
"So is resting near the Tenrou Tree. Our last fight took alot out of her and so she cant join us right now," Erza responded.
"Thats bad, I have a feeling we will need her to win," Panther Lily says, expecting the worse.
"Oh come on guys, We were able to win fights in the past without her, we can do it again. Its all of us versus one man, we can do this!" Natsu exclaims with Happy agreeing.
"Still lets be careful with this. Lily, Carla, and Happy. I want you three to enter the ship without being noticed and see if you can cause some problems for it. Anything you can do will be helpful." Erza orders.
"Aye Sir." Happy says.
"Will do," Carla responds.
The three of them take off to find a way onto the airship while Erza turned to the others.
"Heres the plan. When we get up there we hit him with everything we got. No holding back. Lets finish this as quickly as we can." Erza explains.
"Right, when let's get this started!" Gray exclaims while using his magic to create an ice bridge up to the deck of the airship. Natsu lead the charge up the ramp, and immediately using his crimson locus attack on Master Hades. Then Game gray with his Ice Excalibur. Then Erza with Heavens wheel armor. Lucy follows with Taurus attacking. Then Wendy uses her enchantments to increase her friends speed, attack and defense. They deliver a multitude of blows, with it ending off in one big attack. Gray propels Natsu forward, with Wendy using her roar and Lucy using Scorpio to increase the attacks effect. This unison raid connects with Natsus Fire dragon sword horn. All of these attacks would have beaten most other opponents, but not Master Hades, as when the smoke cleared he was still standing as if none of it touched him. This sight petrified the fairy tail wizards, who couldnt belief that they couldnt even scratch him.
"Now that im all warmed up, its time to get serious," Hades exclaims as a massive amount of magic energy builds up around him. He looks at Wendy, and yets out a fierce yell, and Wendy completely disappears, with only her clothes left behind. The group panics thinking she was dead, with even Hades exclaiming that it was a mercy kill. When suddenly a voice from above is heard. It was Horologium. He had managed to save her, though at the expense of her clothes. After she got more clothes on and rejoined her friends, Hades decided to explain something. He told the group that he was in fact the second master of Fairy Tail. After Natsu said that he didnt believe it, Natsu attacked. Yet Hades easily beat him back, going on the offensive with his chain magic and his finger bullets. He was about to beat them all when suddenly a bolt of Lightning struck the ship, and then hit Hades in the arm. At first Wendy thought it was Mikoto, until she saw the person appear from the lightning and heard his voice.
"So this is the fossil who took out gramps," The man said.
"Laxus! Natsu exclaimed.
Laxus immediately attacks, landing a good couple of blows using his increased speed. They continue to exchange blows, seeming to be equal in strength until Hades catches Laxus off guard with an attack that is supposed to make its target unable to move. Laxus attacks once more, appearing to be unaffected by the attack. They continue to exchange blows for a little bit, either of them getting the upperhand. Suddenly Laxus collapses after an attack, finally revealing that he was in fact affected by that one attack.
"I have traveled all over this world of ours," Laxus starts. "But this is the first time I have met a monster like you. got a long way to go."
Natsu and Gray try to give Laxus words of encouragement but he wasnt having it. As Hades final attack flew towards him, Laxus finished his speech.
"I realize, Im not a member of Fairy Tail anymore. But this bastard took out my grandpa, so im allowed to take revenge right?"
"Yeah, of course you are!" Natsu yelled out.
At that, Laxus smiled and sent all of his lightning at Natsu, powering Natsu up to the extreme. Laxus took the full brunt of that attack, but with Natsu now powered up as a lightning Flame dragon, they had a chance. Natsu attacked hades with both lightning and fire moves, to the shock of everyone around. Powered by his rage and his new ability, Natsu dealt damaging blow after damaging blow, that Hades was now unable to avoid. As his final attack, Natsu unleashed a lightning flame dragon roar so powerful, it could be seen from all around the island. After the attack Natsu fell backwards, drained of all energy, only Lucys quick thinking saved him. After pulling him up, the Fairy Tail wizards began to celebrate, though their celebration was short lived. He got up and gave a little speech and then finally activating his devils eye. The sight of the magic planted all of the Fairy Tail mages to the ground in fear. He continues to explain his ultimate magic and his plan.
"This is about to get way worse," Gray comments, growing fear in his eyes.
Hades moved his hands while saying an enchant, creating monsters of pure magic from the book of zeref. The sight of these monsters was so fearful that it could have made the Fairy Tail mages faint from fear. Just as Hades was about to attack, Natsu spoke, drawing everyone's attention,
"Dont worry, i got everything we need to beat this guy right here with us." He repeats the words Gildarts told him."There is nothing wrong with fear, how else would we come to know our own weaknesses and you need to know them to become a stronger and gentler person." He stands up, beginning to give courage to his friends"Today we learn just how weak we are. So what do we do next, Ill tell you, we grow stronger. On our own we might be too afraid to face him, but right now we have our friends by our side. I still have courage because you are still with me. Together we can do anything!" Natsu finishes.
"Still holding onto the light? You fool your future is nothing but Darkness!" Hades remarks. Yet Natsus words worked, as the rest of his friends stand up as well. They launch one last attack, rushing Hades head on. He attacks with his spell, but it misses each strike. They launch natsu at him in a kind of magicless Unison Raid. It connects, but once again it only knocked Hades down for a second, as he gets right back up, but this time there is a problem. Suddenly, the Tenrou Island tree had reappeared in its undamaged form. This restored all the magic power of the fairy Tail wizards. Yet Hades still had his demon heart, as the Exceeds were stopped from destroying it. Even with their magic restored, it was unlikely that the Fairy Tail wizards could win. Suddenly a blue lightning bolt struck Hades from the sky, knocking him backwards. When the smoke cleared, standing between Hades and all of Fairy Tail, was Mikoto with a look of pure rage in her eyes.
"Now who the hell are you? Another lightning mage?" Hades states as he gets up. The tension in his body relaxed, as he noticed it was only a 15 year old girl in front of him.
Mikoto ignored him for a second, and turned her head to Natsu. "Great speach salamander. I gotta give it to you for that. I know you all have your magic back, as do I. So let me have a little fun now okay," Mikoto says.
Fun!? How can someone have fun facing me? Hades thought.
"I guess," Natsu says reluctantly, noticing the look in Mikotos eyes.
She turns back to Hades, a large amount of electrical energy building around her. She was still running low on her esper power, but she knew her magic was fully restored. She had to combine the two if she was to win this fight. She didnt have her sword, no wrist blades, only her magic and her limited ability. So she decided to go all out. The electricity around her vanished, to be replaced by a swelling magic power.
"Magic, Unlock!" Mikoto yells out, and suddenly the magic she was creating increased way over tenfold. She had fully unlocked her magic, throwing everything she had into these next few minutes.
"Summoning Magic! God Tier! Activate!" She yelled out. Now her magic changed once more, not in strength but in type. Unknown to everyone else, but during her training the past week Mikoto had found a way to activate the next level of Summoning magic, the level of Gods. This gave her access to unbelievably strong Summons, and she was going to use it now.
"This power!" Gray exclaimed.
"Its on another level, completely different from her level 6 abilities!" Erza states in awe.
"God Tier Summoning! Athena's Armor!" Mikoto yells out. A bright light surrounded Mikoto, very similar to Erza's requip magic. When the light disappeared, Mikoto was covered in armor. The color of the armor was gold and white, with a certain ancient air to it. The armor was lightweight and covered her completely, except for her left arm which was still covered by the bandana. Erza knew that even though the armor looked lightweight and mobile, it was probably remarkable strong, as very few things were ever how they appeared when it involved Mikoto. Mikoto still had one more summon in mind. She held out her right hand and stated the spell, "God Tier Summoning! The sword that had no Equal! Excalibur!" Again a bright light spawned into mikotos hand, and from the light came a sword. This sword had its own unique look as well. The hilt of the sword was a dark blue, and gold with some gems stones thrown in. The blade itself was a pure silver on the edges with a gold band through the middle. On the sides of the blade, two saying were engraved, one on each side, "Take me up" and "Cast me away". After this sword was summoned, the magic energy flowing around Mikoto dissipated.
"This magic, I have never felt anything like it!" Hades muttered in disbelief at the power he felt coming from Mikotos armor and sword.
Mikoto grabbed the hilt of the sword with both hands, and held it out vertically in front of her, pointing one of the edges at Hades. At that instant she transformed into level 6, adding even more power to her body. This combination of her strongest magic, and strongest esper ability was unbelievable.
"This is your end, Hades. You may have unlimited magic, but your body is still human, and thus can be killed. So it is with that In mind that i say these final words," Mikoto begins. She thinks of a line that fit perfectly with this situation, a line said by a swordfighter from another universe she read about. "And now with my strongest I will beat your strongest!" With that she charged forward at remarkable speed. She appeared infront of Hades in an instant, and slashed the sword sideways. Hades didnt even have time to react, and the cut was made across his chest. He backed up and clutched at the wound, surprised that it was not bleeding even though it was a deep cut. He looked up in time to see Mikoto again in striking range, as she dealt him mutiple more wounds across his body in seconds. He leaped back and used his finger magic, but the magic bounced harmlessly off of the Armor mikoto was wearing. Hades did not know this, but everything Mikoto summoned had a special ability, but there was a difference between her normal summons and her God tier summons. Her normal summons usually had one or two special abilities, but her God tier summons had no limit to special abilities. Her Athena armor in this case had three abilities. They were enhanced strength, increased speed, and immunity to any magic attack. Excalibur had its own special abilities, with the first one Hades was about to find out.
Mikoto leaped back for just a second, and tapped the hilt of Excalibur on one of the gem stones. Immediately all wounds on Hades opened up massively in a searing amount of pain. Any wound that Excalibur makes in its opponent, Mikoto can expand and close at will. Mikoto leaped into the air to deliver another strike, but Hades tried to block with a wall of stone created from his magic. Yet this activated Excalibur's second ability, the ability to hit with unlimited force no matter how fast it was moving. It easily crushed through the wall, barely missing Hades as Mikoto landed. He leaped backwards, trying to gain some distance. So Mikoto uses Excalibur's third ability, which was that in a stabbing motion, it creates a wave of pure destructive magic energy that hits anything directly in front of its user no matter the distance. Hades is hit, but his limitless magic energy blocks most of the strike to the point that it was not fatal. He realized he needed to go on the offensive or he would lose and so he attacked head on. Yet Mikoto countered with her esper ability, blocking each attack with a wall of iron sand. Finally she strike Hades with a huge bolt of Lightning from the sky, and at the same time she used Excalibur's third ability to attack his Grimoire heart, destroying his source of limitless magic. This all combined to finally finish Hades off, as he collapses to the ground unconscious but not dead. Mikoto took a deep breath, changing back to her normal clothes and form instantly. The last thing to disappear was Excalibur, a sword she still has yet to show all of its abilities. She turned back to face her guild, not at all surprised by the looks of shock on their faces. Then suddenly Wendy came running over, Hugging Mikoto strongly.
"I knew you could do it. That was amazing Mikoto!" Wendy exclaimed. This seemed to have been the ice breaker, as the others came over to congratulate her as well. Mikoto explained that she was only the one to finish Hades off. Thats when Laxus walked over.
"So what kind of mage are you again?" Laxus asked, confused by what he saw. He saw her using what he could only guess was lightning magic and some kind of requip magic, though the ability to use both he was sure was not true.
"I use summoning magic, but I also have an ability I was born with, which is called an esper ability. My esper ability is the lightning you saw, im an electromaster. The name is Mikoto bye the way, and you must be Laxus." Mikoto explained. They talked for a bit longer as the exceeds joined them once again. Finally the walked off of the airship, all of them worn out and tired. They meet up with the rest of the guild at the camp, with Mikoto running over to Touma, both of them happy to see that the other one was okay.
"So what happened Mikoto?" Makarov asks, ignoring Laxus for a second.
"Everyone put up a remarkable fight. I came in to finish the fight, though i do believe that Natsu and the others could have done it themselves. Hades is beaten and the rest of Grimoire heart are in retreat." Mikoto explains. The next hour was spent with the guild resting from the battle, and all seemed like it was going to be okay. That was until Mikoto heard something in the distance, a sound she was hoping she would not hear today. It was faint, and Mikoto only heard it because she was looking for it. The sound was the reason why Mikoto was in Earthland in the first place, it was the sound of Acnologia approaching.
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know anymore
Thought I had
Thought I had it under control
Hear my voice, here it goes
Hear it louder than most
Here it goes, here it goes
(1 2 3 4)
It's not worth it
It's not workin'
You wanted it to be picture perfect
It's not over,
You don't have to throw it away.
So scream if you wanna, shout if you need
Just let it go (take it out on me)
Fight if you need to, smash if it helps you
Get control (take it out on me)
So scream if you wanna, shout if you need
Just let it go (take it out on me)
Fight if you need to, smash if it helps you
Get control
You try to move, try to move
But you don't wanna lose
So afraid, so afraid
You don't want it to fade
Hear my voice, here it goes
Hear it louder than most
Let it go, let it (1 2 3 4)
It's not worth it
It's not workin'
You wanted it to be picture perfect
It's not over,
You don't have to throw it away.
So scream if you wanna, shout if you need
Just let it go (take it out on me)
Fight if you need to, smash if it helps you
Get control (take it out on me)
So scream if you wanna, shout if you need
Just let it go (take it out on me)
Fight if you need to, smash if it helps you
Get control
1 2 3 4
It's not worth it
It's not workin'
You wanted it to be picture perfect
It's not over,
You don't have to throw it away.
So scream if you wanna, shout if you need
Just let it go (take it out on me)
Fight if you need to, smash if it helps you
Get control (take it out on me)
So scream if you wanna, shout if you need
Just let it go (take it out on me)
Fight if you need to, smash if it helps you
Get control