SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 63 out, this is Chapter 64 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 64: Let's Join Hands

"What's going on?" Levy wondered, hearing a low rumbling sound.

"It's probably the worms in Lucy's stomach, or something." Gajeel snorted.

"Hey Gajeel, keep your insensitive remarks to yourself." Levy defended her best friend.

"Looks like I'll have to prepare lots of food." Mirajane remarked.

"I was just kidding." Gajeel stated.

"Jokes aside, there's no denying that strange rumbling sound." Gray agreed.

"Here you go, Wendy." Mirajane placed the cup on the table. "Sorry to keep you waiting."

"Thanks for doing this, even though you're injured too, Mira." Wendy remarked.

"It's all right." Mirajane assured. "I'm doing this because I want to."

"Way to go, nee-chan." Elfman praised. "You're a man."

"I have no idea how that can be applied here." Ulyo shook her head.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Elfman twitched, turning to Evergreen who had hit him on the head.

"Man this, man that." Evergreen hissed. "You sure get to my nerves."

"The two of you get along really well." Mirajane beamed as the pair argued.

"You're wrong!" both mages snapped.

"Well, the two of you do know that there's a fine line between love and hate, right?" Ulyo joked.

"What was that?" Evergreen winced, a loud roar thundering through the campsite.

"The cry of a dragon…" Wendy recognized.

"Is everyone okay?" Lucy ran into the scene.

"Are you okay?" Cana looked at her father who was grimacing from his injuries.

"My old wounds are starting to hurt…" Gildarts muttered. "There's no mistake about it. It's him. He's coming."

"Look up!" Pantherlily alerted the group. "Something's coming."

"What's that?" Gray gaped as Acnologia emerged from the clouds.

"The black dragon of the apocalypse." Makarov stated.

"Acnologia?" Ulyo breathed.

"Yeah, it's him all right." Gildarts confirmed.

"It's coming down!" Fried warned.

"Are we gonna have to fight him?" Natsu asked as Acnologia landed before them.

"That's not it, Natsu." Gildarts corrected. "We should no longer think about winning or losing, but focus on how to best escape from him. In fact, we should be wondering who'd be able to survive this encounter. This is bad!" He barked. "All of you get out of here!"

His warning came too late as Acnologia let out a roar, demolishing the forest.

"Is this for real?" Natsu gaped in shock. "The entire forest just disappeared."

"He…" Gildarts started. "Tch, admiring his handiwork from above huh?" he looked up.

"Which means that was just a 'greeting'." Ulyo realized.

"Everyone's still alive, right?" Gildarts shouted. "We don't have time to waste being afraid. We're getting off this island now."

"Gray…" Juvia blinked, the ice mage having carrying her in his back.

"He's coming back!" Gildarts barked. "Hurry to the ship!"

"Run!" Erza ordered. "We're all going back to Fairy Tail!"

At that, everyone turned tail and fled.

"Bisklow, Fried!" Evergreen shouted, Acnologia having caught up with the two mages. "Elfman!" she spread her wings, Acnologia's tail taking out the Take-Over mage.

"Don't, Ever!" Erza warned.

"Why you!" Natsu snapped, Acnologia slapping Evergreen and Elfman to the ground. "Old man!" he gaped when Makarov enlarged in size.

"Run to the ship!" Makarov ordered, taking on Acnologia.

"It's useless." Gray remarked. "There's no way he can fight that thing."

"Master, please stop." Ulyo pleaded. "If anything happens to you, the Guild will…"

"RUN!" Makarov roared. "You plan on even disobeying your master's final orders, you brats?"

"We're getting out of here, Natsu." Laxus pulled Natsu off.

It's better this way. Makarov mused, the youngsters taking the chance to flee. You'll understand, some day; what's the meaning behind your tears. Does the death of one person make you sad? Can sadness itself kill a person? The answers lie in each and every one of your hearts. My brat, full of life! Now, live on! Into the future! "You damn thing!" he wrestled with the beast.

It was not long before Acnologia gained the upper hand, overpowering the injured Guild Master and pinning him to the ground.

"Crystal Release" Crystal Piercing Wave!" Ulyo was in her Guardian Fairy form, her stream of crystals giving Natsu the leverage he needed to jump at the dragon.

"Give our old man back!" Natsu demanded, crawling up the beast.

"Erza, you too?" Makarov blinked, reverted back to his normal form, the swordswoman standing before him.

"I was against this, you know." Laxus stated. "But, do you think they're the kind of people who can run away and leave an old geezer behind? It's your Guild, after all."

"Charge!" Erza gave the order.

"All of you, muster up everything you've got!" Laxus powered up. "Combine it with my lightning and Ulyo's Jade Lotus. We're gonna give this thing our compliments!"

"Natsu, make sure you dodge this!" Ulyo warned.

"Raging Bolt!" Laxus fired his attack.

"Terrin Blumenblatt!" Erza added in her blades.

"Super Freeze Arrow!" Gray released his wave of icicles.

"Water Nebula!" Juvia let loose her attack.

"Solid Script: Fire!" Levy summoned her attack.

"Sagittarius, now!" Lucy summoned the archer.

"Evil Explosion!" Mirajane fired her energy blast; the Raijinshu fired their attacks simultaneously.

Ulyo channeled the combined energy beam into the Jade Lotus and released an even more powerful blast straight at Acnologia, just as Happy swooped in and carried Natsu off.

"This damn monster…" Laxus cursed. "It's still smiling even after taking on all our attacks."

"The rest is all up to you!" Ulyo barked. "Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy!"

With the Exceeds taking them to the skies, the three Dragon Slayers pulled a 'Fusion Trinity' with their breath attack.

"Did we succeed?" Erza wondered, Acnologia falling into the water.

"No." Gildarts corrected. "It isn't using the strength it used when it fought me. It's just playing with you."

"It flew!" Erza gasped, Acnologia bursting out from the ground.

"It's a breath attack!" Gajeel barked, seeing Acnologia powering up.

"Do we really have no choice?" Lucy sobbed. "Are we all gonna die here?"

"Everyone who can use defensive magic, put everything you've got into it, now." Erza instructed.

"There's not enough time to draw any runes." Fried cursed.

"There's plenty of defensive magic that doesn't require writing symbols." Levy reminded.

"Levy is right." Ulyo agreed. "Out of the three Great Magics of the Guild, 'Fairy Law' and 'Fairy Glitter' were already taken. Anyone wondered what happened to the last spell: 'Fairy Sphere'?"

"Everyone, focus your magic on Ulyo!" Lisanna realized what the Guild Guardian meant.

"Let's join hands." Mirajane held out her hand.

"We can't let it end here." Natsu agreed, reaching out to Lucy.

"Yeah, let's all go home together." Makarov teared, taking Laxus' hand; everyone surrounded Ulyo with joined hands.

"To Fairy Tail!" Ulyo declared, her butterfly wings changing into three pairs of stylized wings. "'Fairy Sphere'!" she cast the spell just as Acnologia released its attack and seemingly eradicating the island and everyone on it.

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