The sound of punches being thrown and breaking bones echoed throughout Oshibana Station as members of the Dark Guild Eisenwald commenced their operation to take over the station.
Within a few minutes, the small security team that was stationed at the station was defeated and the station now firmly belonged to Eisenwald.
Erigor walked through the halls of the station with his massive scythe over his left shoulder, a massive smile on his face as he looked over the devastation.
Then, he heard the sound of metal footsteps.
He turned and saw two squads of Rune Knights.
The Eisenwald member quickly defeated the Rune Knights without any difficulty.
Erigor was quite bored, there was no one who could put up a half decent fight in this area.
He had no idea that coming into the town were two magic mobiles, one carrying the Prince of all Fire Dragons, the Ice Devil Slayer, the Knight, the Strongest Exceed and the Star Princess. The other contained the Water Dragon Slayer, the Earth Dragon Slayer and the Black Knight.
Meanwhile...
Tyson held on while inside the cab Erza drove like a mad woman, nearly crashing the magic mobile 11 times in the last three minutes.
Lucy was hugging Happy with all her might as her left hand had a death grip on the door, the wood actually starting to break from the force of Lucy's death grip.
Gray, much to the ire of the other three, had thought ahead and frozen his legs and back to the car, so the violent swings and near accidents of the car did little to the Ice Devil Slayer.
Erza was in the driver's seat, her right arm having a cuff on it called an SE-Plug or Self Energy Plug and this is what powers a magical vehicle. The SE-Plug wraps around a mage's arm and then converts their magical energy into fuel, thus allowing the vehicle to move.
Erza was most of the time a reasonable person and a careful driver, but with the news that Eisenwald has Lullaby and is on their way to Oshibana Station, where thousands of people are, she threw all caution to the wind and was driving as if her life depended on it, this is why her driving right now can be considered a threat to all citizens.
"Erza! Slow down! You're overloading the SE-Plug!" Tyson yelled out as he placed his hands on the door to keep himself up.
"How can you possibly know that? You are in the back!" Erza shouted back at him.
"You're driving as if you robbed a bank and the cops are chasing us, so there's no way you aren't overloading the SE-Plug." Tyson replied as the car did yet another impossibly tight turn that almost toppled them.
Lucy still hadn't moved at all, her right arm squeezing the life out of Happy, her left arm locked firmly on the door. Her eyes were still open, wide with fear and her body stiff as a board.
"Guys! I think Erza's driving has broken Lucy!" Happy shouted out as he waved his right fluffy arm in front of Lucy's face, with no reaction.
"Are you criticizing my driving?" Erza asked with a demonic tone in her voice.
"Aye sir! You can't drive to save your life!" Happy said without a ounce of fear in his voice, he knew that although Erza might threaten him, she would never hurt him, Tyson would be very angry if she hurt his best buddy/son/partner in crime.
"No fish for you." Erza said as she focused on the road.
"Ha! The joke is on you Erza! I already placed a week's worth of fish into my pocket dimension!" Happy said with a hint of pride in his voice.
"Ha! I knew you would do something like this so I went and took the fish out of your pocket dimension!" Erza said back with a smug look on her face.
"Ha ha! I knew you would do that so I buried a safe full of fish in the backyard!" Happy countered.
"Ha ha! I saw you bury that safe so I dug it back up and blew it up!" Erza countered Happy's counter.
"Ha ha ha! I have a back-up-back-up-back-up plan! I have bought and hidden a hundred separate fish all over the forest back home!" Happy said with the biggest grin on his face.
Erza scowled and said, "Well played cat, well played. You win this round, but ultimate victory will be mine."
Gray replied to Tyson, "This is very sad."
"Yes it is, but it's very entertaining to see the mighty Titania Erza fighting and being outsmarted by a blue flying cat with a serious fish eating addiction." Tyson replied to his childhood friend.
Just then the magic mobile hit something and the magic mobile jerked a little as the voice of an old man yelled out, "My cabbages!"
Apparently a merchant had been taking his cabbage cart across the street as Erza came barreling across, causing the magic mobile to hit the cabbages and destroy the cart, but the merchant was perfectly fine, though a little bit upset about his cabbages if the fact he is now in a fetal position and sobbing loudly in the middle of the street is any indication.
"Erza?! What was that?!" Tyson yelled at his girlfriend.
"That was nothing. Go back to your conversation!" Erza shouted back, she wasn't about to let her boyfriend know she almost hit someone and destroyed his cabbages.
"That didn't feel like nothing! What happened?!" Gray asked.
"I said it was nothing!" Erza shouted at her friend.
"She broke something. She is never this defensive unless she broke something." Happy stated.
"Shut up Happy or so help me I will burn the forest to the ground with all your precious fish!" Erza roared towards the blue furred cat, who looked unimpressed with her rage.
"Please Erza, we all know you won't do that because I am Tyson's best friend/son/partner in crime. As long as I am all those things, you can't touch me." Happy said with that damn arrogant tone he used to take Erza to her earthly limits.
"Grrrrrrrrrrrr." Erza growled out as her anger towards a certain blue-furred fish destroying monster called Happy grew beyond earthly limitations.
"Stop teasing her Happy or do you want to end up like Jimmy." Tyson said as he, Gray and Happy all shivered as they thought back to what happened to poor Jimmy.
The day had been forever etched into the minds of everyone who had been present for the punishment of Jimmy for destroying Erza's cake.
"Erza! How far away is the station?" Tyson asked, hoping to resolve the situation.
"We are about a mile out! Get ready!" Was the reply from the red-haired knight.
"Let's do it." Tyson said with determination.
"Oh, yeah! Let's put the hurt on these guys." Gray said as he maliciously rubbed his hands together like a psychotic killer would.
Lucy still had yet to say anything, her eyes glazed over and not moving.
A few minutes later, the first magic mobile screeched to a halt as the second stopped shortly after it.
Erza jumped out of the car, while Tyson and Gray quickly followed her. Meanwhile Hyuuga, Mizu and Nicholas exited the second magic mobile.
Lucy was just now starting to get out, her legs starting to shake and she said, "Erza?"
Erza turned towards Lucy and said, "Yes?"
Lucy then reached out and grabbed Erza by the breastplate, pulled her over and looked her dead in the eye then slowly said, "Never. Do. That. Ever. Again. Understand?"
Erza nodded, a little afraid of Lucy now.
Lucy let go of Erza and started marching towards the station, the other members of Fairy Tail all frozen by Lucy's little display.
"Remind me to never get on her bad side." Hyuuga muttered.
Happy was walking towards the group, having finally been let go by Lucy after their magic mobile stopped.
"Tyson?" Happy said.
"Yes." He replied.
"I'm scared of Lucy." Happy said.
"We all are Happy. We all are." Tyson replied back.
After the other members of Fairy Tail got over the shock of seeing Lucy threaten Erza, they charged into the Oshibana station, intent on taking it back from the Dark Guild.
They met up with Lucy and after a few minutes of searching found the unconscious bodies of a number of Rune Knights.
"Are they...?" Lucy asked, afraid of the answer.
Hyuuga approached one of the Rune Knights and pressed two fingers against his neck.
"Still alive." He said. "The others are probably alive as well."
After being told the other Rune Knights were alive, the group continued forwards.
After a few minutes of looking, the group of Fairy Tail members found themselves in a massive room, where the members of the Dark Guild Eisenwald were all gathered together.
"Well, well well. Look what we have here." A voice rang out.
There, on one of the train cars, sat Erigor.
"Erigor. The Ace of the Dark Guild Eisenwald. What are you planning?" Erza shouted out.
"Oh look. The ginger is angry at me!" Erigor mocked before a battle axe was thrown and missed his face by a centimeter and got lodged in the wall with the entire axe head in the wall with only the handle sticking out.
Everyone stared at Erza, who had another battle axe in her left hand, all ready to be thrown at hyper sonic speed at the next person who calls her "Ginger"
"Anyone else want to try me?" Erza asked with a deathly glare at anyone in her vicinity.
Every one of the Eisenwald members paled a little at the glare Erza was leveling at everyone, save for Erigor, who smirked even more.
"Answer the question Erigor, what are you hoping to accomplish?" Nicholas demanded, not wanting their time wasted.
"Ask yourself this: What does this station have that no other train station has?" Erigor said as he floated over to one of the Oshibana train station speakers.
Erza gasped and said, "You plan on using Lullaby with the speaker system? That'll kill everyone within it's radius! Hundreds will be dead at least!"
"Exactly! That is just the start! Soon, the great purge will happen! We shall kill off the ignorant people who got all of our rights revoked." Erigor said with an insane grin on his face.
Suddenly, the temperature in the building began to rapidly change.
On the right side, the temperature began to rapidly rise, while the left side, it dropped like a anvil thrown from a building.
Gray, Erza, Tyson, Lucy, Happy and the others all had massive glares on their faces and were starting to radiate their auras, creating an intimidating sight for all of the dark guild members to see.
Tyson's bright orange aura was mixed with Happy's light blue aura, Erza's bright red aura was in the middle, Lucy's golden aura and Gray's purple aura mixed together, then finally Mizu's clear aura and Nicholas's brown aura fused.
"Sorry, but we can't allow that to happen." Hyuuga pulled Bull Riot from it's holster and pointed it into the air. "Knight Rebirth."
"Black Knight, Hyuuga!"
Erza stood at the front of the group, Gray and Mizu on her left, Tyson and Nicholas on her right, with Happy, Hyuuga and Lucy in the back.
Tyson and Gray looked at Erza, without looking back and she said two words that sentenced the Dark Mages of Eisenwald to the worst beating they have ever received, "Get them."
Tyson blurred out of existence and reappeared with his fist firmly lodged into a Eisenwald mage's gut, causing the wind to be knocked out of his lungs, while a trail of saliva and a little bit of blood came out of his mouth.
Gray got into his Ice Make stance and shouted out, "Ice-Make: Lance!"
Gray sent a large number of purple lances made of ice flying towards the Eisenwald members, who were too stunned by Tyson's incredibly fast punch and were hit by the lances, knocking out a number of them.
Erza had requiped two swords and was currently slicing and dicing Eisenwald members like a lawn mower through grass, until she noticed two Eisenwald members running out of the room.
"Tyson! Gray! Two Eisenwald members have fled the room and Erigor is gone! Go and stop them!" She yelled over to her two guild mates.
He and Gray nodded and then ran out of the room, intent on stopping their targets.
This left Lucy, Happy, Erza, Mizu, Nicholas and Hyuuga to fight off the remaining eighty or so Dark Guild members.
"So, we have about eighty or so Eisenwald members against the six of us? Hardly seems fair." Happy said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Agreed. Maybe if there was a hundred and eighty, then it might be a fair fight. Regardless, we must stop them." Erza said as she held her two swords across her chest.
"Aye sir! Let's do this!" Happy said as he concentrated on his battle form and with a puff of Transformation magic, Happy the tiny blue Exceed took his bow once more and once again, Happy the giant battle tiger took his place.
"These fools have no idea who they're dealing with." Mizu and Nicholas said, assuming Dragon Force.
Happy twisted his neck and heard the satisfying pop then rotated his left arm and said, "I feel like a little wager is in order Erza."
"Name the stakes." She said with a grin on her face, one that sent a shiver of fear down Lucy's face.
"Winner is the person who beats the most Eisenwald members first. Loser has to do one embarrassing thing that the winner names. There are limits, but we can name those later. Agreed?" Happy asked.
"You are on cat." Erza said as she shook Happy's left hand.
"Hey! Don't ignore us!" A Eisenwald member yelled as he charged the two.
Only to be hit by a golden blast of magic in the right side of his chest.
Happy and Erza turned and saw the smoking left palm of one Lucy Heartfilla as she twirled a golden key in her right hand and said, "Looks like I am ahead of both of you."
Lucy then shouted out, "Open Gate of the Giant Crab, Cancer!"
A loud golden flash and now Cancer was once again standing by Lucy's side.
"What do you require, Aijin?" He asked in his usual strong voice.
"Cancer, mind helping me win a wager and defeat the most Eisenwald members first?" Lucy asked as she took out her whip and charged up another Celestial Star Blast in her left hand.
"It would be my pleasure." Cancer said as he took out his katana.
"Ah! A challenger! I like this girl!" Happy said as he clenched his fists and from each wrist came a large blade.
"I must admit. I never thought Lucy would get in on our little bet. I guess she does have the Fairy Tail spirit. But no matter! I will defeat both you and her!" Erza said as a competitive smirk crossed her face.
"Defeat the most Eisenwald members, huh? Count us in." Mizu and Nicholas added.
Erza then closed her eyes as her two swords disappeared in a flash of golden light.
Erza's entire form then began to glow golden as her regular Heart Kreuz armor disappeared piece by piece.
For a few seconds Erza's golden form stood still and then suddenly, new pieces of armor began to wrap themselves around Erza's body.
Within seconds, Erza's golden form was once again encased in armor and then the golden glow disappeared, showing the world what just happened.
Erza was now clothed in a different set of armor.
The armor was seemingly made up of silver metal, with the breastplate being made up of silver feathers for her chest, with a large silver metal flower in the middle of her chest. The armor covered almost all of her body, with her head and face being the exception, but the armor itself didn't seem to weigh that much to Erza, but she was capable of training in much harsher gravity settings, so it was no wonder the weight of the armor meant nothing to Erza. The armor on her forearms were large silver gauntlets that have large metal feather shapes at the end held by silver metal straps connected to shoulder guards that have silver metal feather shapes on them as well. Her waist has a long skirt and is decorated by large, decorated plates that resemble feathers, which cover a large part of her silver metal boots that have metal feathers on the back of the heels. She had a neck guard made up of feather-like plates and a tiara with prominent metal wings and on her back are two pairs of wings made of metal feathers that get longer and larger as they near the edges.
Erza opened her eyes and shouted out, "Heaven's Wheel Armor!"
All of the Eisenwald members were frozen in fear, they had felt the amount of magic Erza had released when she had changed armors and it was terrifying.
This is what Erza wanted, she used this opportunity to use this armor's strengths.
Erza flew into the air and summoned twenty different swords that flew around Erza in a massive circle formation.
"Dance my blades!" Erza shouted out as the blades rotated around Erza faster and faster until she shouted out, "Circle Sword!"
"Raging Sea: Leviathan's Rampage!" Mizu gathered water in the palm of his left hand and then released it as a large and highly destructive stream of water.
"Earth Dragon Quake!" Nicholas struck the ground with his foot and caused the floor to start shaking before the Eisenwald mages were knocked down.
The blades flew forth, striking and knocking out a massive amount of the Eisenwald members in seconds.
Seeing this got Lucy and Cancer out of their shocked state and they begin to fight the mages once more.
Cancer and Lucy had a battle plan: Cancer would use his superior speed and knock out as many of the Eisenwald mages as fast as he could, while Lucy would use her whip to knock out any approaching Eisenwald members and then use her Celestial Spirit Star Blast as a way to knock out groups of enemies by aiming towards the floor, causing explosions that would knock out groups of mages at once.
It was working too, due to Cancer's insane speed, he could strike without the Eisenwald mages ever being able to react, while Lucy's simple whip was quite effective at knocking out the Eisenwald mages with a single blow to the face due to the intense pain from the blows and the Celestial Spirit Star Blasts were really good at knocking out groups of enemies at once.
Happy was possibly doing the best out of the five, due to his insane raw strength, he just bulldozed his way through the ranks. Running at high speed, he impacted the Eisenwald mages with enough force to send them flying, sometimes into other Eisenwald members and knocked them out along with them. His large wrist blades also did good work at knocking out Eisenwald mages with ease.
Erza had landed on the ground and was carving through the Eisenwald mages with great ease.
"Blumenblatt!" Erza shouted out as she requiped a large number of swords behind her and struck several Eisenwald members, her swords following behind her and acting as second strikes, knocking out several other Eisenwald members.
"Black Chop!" Hyuuga somersaulted in the air and slashed at a Eisenwald mage.
Happy grabbed an Eisenwald mage and roared out as he reared his arm back and threw the man forwards, anime tears coming out of the man's eyes as he flew forwards and crashed into five other Eisenwald mages, knocking them all out at once.
"Strike!" Happy yelled out with a hint of glee in his voice as he saw the results of his efforts.
Lucy scowled, her small lead at the beginning of the contest was meaning nothing as Happy and Erza were quickly decimating the Eisenwald members with ease.
Lucy then swung her whip in a tight right swing that struck three Eisenwald members right in the face, causing massive amounts of pain.
Lucy's right hand glowed golden once more, and she unleashed yet another Celestial Spirit Star Blast into another group of Eisenwald mages, causing them to fly backwards from the force of the explosion.
Lucy was beginning to pant from exhaustion, her Celestial Spirit Star Blasts took a lot out of her and holding open a Golden Zodiac gate was still draining, not a lot, but it still took some effort to keep the gate open.
Lucy dodged a punch from a Eisenwald member and then kneed him in his pride and joy and as he bent over in pain, she gave him a punch to the throat and knocked him out.
Erza saw that there were only twenty Eisenwald members left and said, "Let's end this."
Happy nodded as his right fist struck yet another Eisenwald member in his back, causing the guy to go flying off into one of the support pillars.
"It's time to declare a victor." He said.
Lucy nodded and said, "Cancer, go all out!"
Cancer nodded and said, "Very well Aijin."
Erza tightened her hold on the blades and shouted out, "TRINITY SWORD!"
"Water Dragon Grand Splash!" Mizu gathered water on both hands and then joined them to create a large sphere of water which was thrown at the Eisenwald mages.
"Earth Dragon Earth Destruction!" Nicholas slammed his hands onto the ground and destroyed the station floor that was directly in front of him, bombarding the Eisenwald mages with extremely large boulders ripped out of the ground.
Happy roared out as he grabbed a large Eisenwald mage and then threw him at his fellow Eisenwald mages.
Lucy gathered her remaining magic power and shot forth her largest Celestial Spirit Star Blast yet at the Eisenwald members, while Cancer was literally just a blur now, slicing through the Eisenwald mages with incredible ease.
The spells hit their mark, causing a large explosion that covered the inside of the station with smoke.
After a few minutes, all of the smoke disappeared and from the smoke, the unconscious bodies of the Eisenwald mages were visible to all.
For a few seconds no one spoke, the only sound was Lucy's heavy breathing.
Then Happy said, "I do believe that this is a draw because none of us actually know who got the most."
Erza nodded and added, "Agreed. This time it is a draw."
Lucy nodded and continued, "Yep. Too bad. I was wondering what embarrassing thing I could make Happy do."
Happy gave Lucy a look of betrayal and said, "Lucy! How could you?!"
"Sorry Happy. We may be friends, but making you do embarrassing things is just too good of an opportunity to pass up." Lucy said.
Lucy then turned towards Cancer and said, "Thanks for the help Cancer."
Cancer nodded and told her, "If you need help, call. I shall answer."
Cancer then disappeared in a golden flash and already, Lucy felt as if a drain had just disappeared.
Lucy then began to use the magic mapping technique to help accelerate the replenishing of her magic reserves.
Erza and Happy were doing the same thing and Happy said, "I wonder if Tyson and Gray are having as much luck as we are."
Meanwhile...
Tyson and Gray were running down the hallway that held the most recent trace of Erigor's scent, but the Wind Mage had scattered his scent, so it was almost impossible to find him.
"Dammit! That Wind user has scattered his scent! This makes tracking him using my nose nearly impossible!" Tyson angrily said.
"Well, let's think. Erigor said he was going to broadcast Lullaby using the speakers, meaning he should be heading towards the Broadcast room." Gray said.
"You're right. Two other Eisenwald members ran off as well. We should split up and go after them. You head for the Broadcast room, I'm going to try and find Erigor." Tyson said.
"Agreed. Good luck match stick." Gray said.
"Show them what Fairy Tail can really do." Tyson said back.
Tyson then ran forward, while Gray turned left, heading towards the speaker room.
With Gray...
Gray ran towards the Broadcast room and once there, he saw to his shock, no one was there.
"What the hell is going on?! Erigor said they were going to broadcast the Lullaby curse using the speakers here at the station to kill everyone around the station! He needs to be here at the broadcast room to do so! So why isn't he here? Unless...he never planned to use the speakers?!" Gray asked in shock.
"So, if he never actually planned on using the station's speakers, then why did he lead his entire guild here? Why did he take over the station? Unless...this is all a diversion?! Get us here to the station, keep us here and then sneak away while all eyes are on the station, allowing him to attack his real target?! But where? Where could he go to use Lullaby to unleash maximum amounts of destruction?" Gray wondered.
Unbeknownst to Gray, a man was in the ceiling of the room, watching him.
He was a tan man with a pointed nose and a sharp chin and dark lines surrounding his black eyes. He wore a distinctive jacket, yellow on the lower part, black on the top part and the sleeves, while the tight hood has black and yellow stripes going across it. Underneath his signature jacket is a light shirt, dark green pants and simple shoes.
This man is Rayule, a mage of Eisenwald and one of their strongest members as well and his job is to delay Fairy Tail long enough for Eisenwald to enact their plan.
Rayule smirked, today is the day he and his fellow guild members shall get their revenge on the Light guilds.
Rayule lifted his right arm and the black bands on his fingers began to extend silently as he prepared to strike Gray.
Rayule then struck, his black bands extending in long flat cables that he used to strike Gray, but Gray wasn't an S-Class mage for nothing and he grabbed the cables in mid air as if they were nothing.
Rayule was shocked, but didn't have time to react, because Gray then yanked on the cables, causing Rayule to be yanked from his perch in the ceiling and make an extremely painful landing on the ground.
"Look what I found. Now, tell me where Erigor is and I won't hurt you too badly." Gray said as he glared at the Dark Mage in front of him.
Rayule got up and glared at Gray, then said, "Make me."
Gray gave Rayule a feral grin and said, "I was hoping you would say that."
Gray clenched his fist and ice covered his fist then he shouted, "Ice-Make: Hammer!"
A large purple hammer was now in Gray's left hand and he charged forwards towards Rayule, who used his cables to get away.
Rayule then did something Gray wasn't expecting: his cables glowed red down their length and caught on fire.
Rayule gave Gray a smirk and said, "Didn't expect that, did you? I know my Urumi magic is very versatile magic, but lacking in power, so I learned how to conduct fire magic down the length of the cables, allowing me to strike my enemies with much greater force and to also burn them, and that is not all I can do."
Several other cables also became covered in ice and a few of them were also sparking with lightning, further astonishing Gray.
"Yeah that's right. After I learned how to conduct fire, I also learned how to make lightning and ice cover my cables, allowing me even more options for a fight and increasing my power. DO you now see? You can't win against me. I am one of Eisenwald's strongest...AGGHHH!" Rayule ranted before a large purple hammer struck him in the face, causing him to fly backwards until he used his cables to stop himself.
Gray then said, "So what if you can conduct three different elements along your cables? I know a guy that can use fire and thunder and he is not only a lot stronger than you are, but he is a lot more versatile than you. Just because you have a few tricks up your sleeves doesn't make you invincible."
Rayule gritted his teeth and yelled, "Just die!"
He lashed out with his fire cables, the long bright red cables reaching out to strike Gray's left side.
Rayule was a pretty fast guy, but Tyson could move as fast as wind, electricity and lightning and he trained Gray, so Gray had extensive experience in fighting opponents who are much faster than him, but Rayule is much slower than Gray, so the strike never reached Gray.
He simply tilted to the right and the strike missed him, allowing Gray to raise his left hand, which had the purple ice hammer in the palm, and flung the hammer into Rayule's face.
Rayule fell backwards as the hammer struck his face, causing him to become disoriented as Gray charged forwards.
Rayule extended his other cables and sent lightning and ice into these ones and swung them at Gray's face.
Gray ducked down to avoid the cables, but Rayule shot his foot out, making Gray jump backwards to avoid the foot.
Rayule extended his other cables and wrapped them around some piping in the ceiling and pulled himself to his feet.
Rayule snarled and whipped out his flaming cables sending them towards Gray.
Gray coated his left arm in ice and used the ice covered arm as a shield which stopped the cables from hurting him.
Rayule tried something different.
He wrapped his cables around a large box and then flung it at Gray, using his cables to give the box much more force than it should have.
Gray easily destroyed the box using an ice covered fist, but Rayule had used this chance to get close and whipped his lightning covered cables at Gray from close range.
Gray then shouted out, "Ice-Make: Swords!"
Two large purple swords were now in Gray's palms and he put them in the cable's path, so when the cables struck, all they did was wrap around the swords and the lightning went into the swords, causing them to explode.
Gray then sent his right fist into Rayule's chest, causing the man to stumble a few feet backwards.
Rayule was unprepared for the right hook Gray sent into his face, or the punch into his gut, causing him to bend over, which let Gray smash his knee into Rayule's face.
Rayule stumbled backwards, blood coming out of his broken nose.
Rayule was in intense pain, but he was still able to fight, which was shown as he finally got a strike in as he slashed his lightning coated cables into Gray's chest, causing the Ice Devil Slayer to stumble back from the intense pain the lightning inflicted.
Gray growled, he had been holding back a lot of his strength for fear that he might kill Rayule if he used too much power, but now he has to stop this and find out where Erigor is.
Gray dodged yet another lightning coated cable attack and was about to attack when Rayule showed his final trick.
The cables segmented and broke apart into inch long cable pieces that had lightning, fire and ice covering them.
"What the hell?" Gray asked in shock.
"Surprised? I knew this would come in handy one day. I created a technique where I segment my cables then use Telepathy magic to use them to attack from all sorts of directions. Give up now?" Rayule said with a smirk.
"Never! You guys are a threat to everyone's safety and must be defeated!" Gray shouted.
Rayule growled and sent five separate pieces of his cables flying towards Gray, who managed to duck and weave through them.
From there, Rayule sent an additional five pieces to back up the five he was already using.
Gray ducked underneath a fire cable, only to be struck in the back by a lightning cable piece.
Gray growled when he saw several ice cable pieces and a smirk formed on his face.
He jumped and grabbed three of them then began to eat the ice off of the cable pieces.
This replenished his strength and healed up his bruises and cuts, for that was all Rayule managed to do, almost nothing.
Gray then ran over to one of the walls and jumped onto it then used it as a springboard to propel himself towards Rayule with greater velocity.
Rayule simply smirked and just as Gray's fist was about to hit him, ten fire and lightning cable pieces came over and joined together to form a circle in front of Rayule's face.
The shield burned and shocked Gray, but he had faced Tyson's fire and thunder and survived, these flames and lightning were nothing compared to his power.
However, the shield served it's purpose and sent Gray backwards.
Gray then looked back at Rayule and saw a large number of sweat drops on his face and realized something.
Rayule hadn't mastered this technique of using his cable pieces to attack separately and it was taking it's toll on him.
Gray knew Rayule would eventually wear himself out, so he decided to play defensively.
Gray then created two large circular shields on his arms and used them to block the incoming cable pieces, which got lodged in the shields and were unable to get out of the ice as Gray then froze the cable pieces stuck in his shields.
Gray then smashed his shields, causing the frozen cable pieces to be shattered as well, which meant less cable pieces for Rayule to use later on.
After Rayule lost 25 of his cable pieces this way, he tried to come up with a better strategy, but Gray was now charging him once again.
Rayule smirked, confident his cable piece shield would do the job once again.
Gray jumped into the air and yelled out, "Ice Devil Zeroth Destruction Fist!"
Gray's right fist was coated in stronger ice as Rayule's remaining cable pieces formed together once again.
Gray's right fist struck the shield and broke through it with ease, shocking Rayule who barely had any time to think before Gray's fist struck him in the face and sent him flying backwards.
Rayule struck the wall with great force, causing the wall to crack and a inch deep crater to form around Rayule.
Rayule slumped to the floor, but was yanked upwards by Gray who demanded, "Alright, start talking. Where is Erigor?"
Rayule laughed and said, "Erigor has already won. By delaying you, he has had the time he needs to create his Wind Wall spell. You are unable to get out of the station now, so Erigor has all the time he needs to get to your precious Guild Masters and kill them all."
Gray gasped and snarled out to Rayule, "You guys are trying to kill the Guild Masters?! So your target is Clover!"
Rayule smirked and said, "Yes it is. This is the day all of the Guild Masters die."
Gray growled out as ice began to form on Rayule's clothing.
"W-what are you doing?" Rayule asked as his body began to freeze over.
"Let me tell you something. Those Guild Masters may be a bunch of old men with more than a few bad habits, but they are the closest thing to parents we got. So when you mess with one of them, you mess with all of us. When I get my hands on the rest of your guild..." Gray said as the purple ice covered nearly all of Rayule at this point.
"I am going to show them how Fairy Tail can be much more terrifying than any dark guild." Gray finished as the ice finished covering all of Rayule now.
Gray then ran off, intent on finding Tyson and Erza and telling them what he learned. They needed to get to Clover as fast as possible, if they wanted to save their master in time.
Meanwhile, with Erza during the last few minutes of the fight...
Erza opened her eyes after using the magic mapping technique to regain all of her lost magic, so now she was able to fight at one hundred percent again.
Erza then said to Happy, Lucy and the others, "Stay here. Make sure none of these Eisenwald members escape."
The five nodded and then Erza ran off to try and warn the populace of the impending danger.
Normally, she would not have worried, but Tyson just told her he had yet to find Erigor and it was most likely that Erigor had Lullaby. So with Erigor still running around, the danger to the innocent civilians surrounding the station was too great to allow, so she had to warn them.
"I knew I should have done this sooner, but I was sure Tyson or Gray would have found Erigor by now. No time for beating yourself up Erza. Just go and warn the populace and then beat yourself up later." Erza muttered to herself.
Erza ran out onto one of the balconies that showed the entire city.
She then raised the megaphone she had found along the way to her mouth and said through the booming megaphone, "Attention everyone! The Oshibana station has been taken over by the Dark Guild Eisenwald, who are trying to use the station's loudspeaker system to kill all of you using a dark spell! I beg you! Run as fast as you can and get as far away from here as you can immediately!"
The gathered crowd almost immediately broke up and began to run as fast as they could to get away from the station as quickly as they could.
Erza allowed a smile to cross her face, now even if Eisenwald got the loudspeaker system, they wouldn't be able to kill as many people as they would have.
But then, a giant wind began to blow as a massive tornado began to form around the station.
"What is this?" Erza asked in confusion as the tornado finished forming.
"This is just me ensuring you will not ruin my plans." A voice said from Erza's left.
Erza twirled around and standing on a streetlight was Erigor with a highly annoying grin on his face.
"Erigor! What is this?" Erza shouted out at the wind mage.
"This is my Wind Wall spell. It completely cuts off whatever it surrounds from the outside world. The outside world can get in, but things inside are completely unable to get out, for if they try they will get cut to ribbons by the sharp winds." Erigor explained with his stupid grin on his face.
Erza snarled and summoned another of her battle axes then threw it at Erigor, only for it to be reflected backwards into the wall to the left of Erza.
Erza looked over and saw that the axe had taken a lot of damage from the winds in the few seconds it had made contact with the Wind Wall, so she knew she and her friends were indeed trapped inside the station.
"I must be gone now. I have wasted enough time on you pathetic Fairy Tail flies." Erigor said as he flew away.
Erza growled and then ran back into the station, trying desperately to establish a connection with Tyson to let him know what just happened.
Meanwhile, with Tyson...
He had been charging through the station, in the hopes of uncovering Erigor's location, but was coming up with nothing.
"Damn. This wind has scattered Erigor's scent, it's going to take too long to find him." Tyson muttered, his attempts to track Erigor down weren't going well.
Behind him was a shadow and out of the shadow, Kageyama's head emerged and stared at him with hatred.
"So, you deceived me just to get some information about Eisenwald eh? Well, no one makes a fool out of Kageyama and gets away with it!" Kageyama shouted with hatred clearly in his voice.
Kageyama then said, "Shadow Orochi!"
Kageyama's shadow then began to change shape into a large number of snakes that stealthily moved towards Tyson, intent on attacking him.
All the snakes leapt out towards Tyson, but when they were about to reach him, they were instantly destroyed.
He then faced Kageyama, electricity crackling on his left fist.
"Kageyama. Let's go a few rounds." He said.
"You bastard! You used me to find out where we were planning to attack!" Kageyama yelled out as he emerged from his shadow.
"What did you expect? Do you think I'll allow you to kill innocent people." Tyson replied as his arm was covered in orange fire.
"Shut up! KNUCKLE SHADOW!" Kageyama shouted out as a large dark purple magic circle appeared below his feet.
Another dark purple magic circle appeared underneath Tyson and several purple shadow fists came out and struck him, or they would have, if he hadn't turned into electricity and moved out of the way.
He then yelled out, "Fire Dragon Claw Fang!"
Tyson swiped his left fist in a arc, sending a wave of scorching fire towards Kageyama, who yelled out, "Guard Shadow!"
Several tendrils of shadow formed in front of Kageyama, which exploded when the fire reached the shadow, but the spell performed what it was supposed to, they did indeed prevent Kageyama from being hurt by Tyson's flames.
Kageyama then said, "Well if my regular magic can't hurt you, let's see if you can withstand this!"
Kageyama's hands then created blood-red magic circles in front of his hands, which he then punched through and suddenly to Tyson's right a blood red magic circle appeared and a shadow fist came out and narrowly missed him.
"What was that?" Tyson asked.
"That is my secondary magic. I call it Portal Magic. By creating a portal in front of a magic spell, I can redirect spells anyway I wish. For instance, if a spell is coming towards me, I can open a portal and send that spell back at the user, while if I create a Portal in front of one of my spells, I can send it to multiple locations, all with the same amount of power." Kageyama said with a arrogant smile.
Kageyama then created a number of portals around him and began to punch them in a random pattern.
The shadow fists the portals created came at Tyson from every direction, but due to him converting into electricity, he managed to dodge every single punch.
Kageyama then created a larger magic portal in front of him, while five separate portals were created around Tyson.
Kageyama then shouted out, "Shadow Orochi!"
Once again, Kageyama's shadow changed and morphed into a mess of snakes, all of which went into the blood red portal in front of them and then from each of the five portals surrounding Tyson came a equally large mess of snakes that launched themselves at Tyson.
He simply turned up his magic destroying aura that always surrounded him and all of the snakes were destroyed just by merely touching the barrier, leaving Tyson uninjured.
He then decided to go on the offensive and charged towards Kageyama, who simply placed his palm towards Tyson and created a portal in front of him.
Tyson went inside the portal and was sent headfirst into the floor a few feet away from Kageyama, who shouted out, "Shadow Ball!"
Kageyama then generated a basketball sized ball of dark purple shadows that he threw at Tyson.
Tyson got off the floor and caught the shadow ball with his bare hands then crushed it into particles that just disappeared.
Kageyama then shouted out, "Shadow Sneak!"
Kageyama's shadow separated from Kageyama and then disappeared into the portal Kageyama created for it.
Six different portals appeared surrounding Tyson and from each of those portals came a shadow in the shape of a man with blades for arms and they all tried to attack Tyson.
Tyson raised his hands which were on fire and smashed his right hand into the nearest shadow, causing the whole thing to explode.
Two shadows tried to attack Tyson from behind, but he twisted around and shouted out, "Fire Dragon Claws!"
His left leg caught on fire and he twisted his body around, causing his leg to smash into the two shadows and destroy them.
The remaining three shadows all came at Tyson from different angles, each one trying to kill him.
He ducked underneath one shadow and smashed his left fist into the shadow's gut.
The lit fist came out of the shadow's back and the shadow was destroyed.
Tyson rolled to his left to avoid a strike from one of the two remaining shadows.
He lit his right leg on fire and bisected the shadow along it's waist and caused the shadow to explode.
Tyson then jumped up to avoid the swings of the final shadow.
He lit his hand on fire once more and smashed it into the shadow's skull, which caused the entire shadow to be destroyed.
Kageyama capitalized on this chance and shouted out, "Shadow Ball!"
Kageyama created another ball of shadows and then sent that ball through a portal.
Seven other portals were created surrounding Tyson and out of those portals came the Shadow Balls.
Tyson ducked and weaved his way through the Shadow Balls, which missed him, and were swallowed up by portals and then the Shadow Balls were sent from new portals back at Tyson, who dodged them once again and the whole cycle went on.
After a few minutes of dodging, Tyson then suddenly reached out and grabbed two Shadow Balls and then threw them at Kageyama, who's eyes widened and jumped out of the way.
The two Shadow Balls collided with each other and caused a large explosion.
Tyson then used his thunderous speed to kick, grab or dodge the other Shadow Balls and destroy them with little damage to the station.
"I know your Portal Magic's primary weakness. You have to remain stationary and concentrate on the portals or they will disassemble and what is in them will randomly appear somewhere else." Tyson told Kageyama, who glared at him.
"Shut up and take this!" Kageyama snarled out towards Tyson as he raised his hands up and pointed his palms towards him.
"Crescent Shadow!" A pair of purple magic circles appeared before Kageyama's hands and a large number of dark purple crescent shaped shadows came firing out in a sporadic pattern towards Tyson.
He raised his hands and then began to punch the crescent waves as they reached him and with each punch, a crescent wave was destroyed.
After that, Kageyama then shouted out, "Shadow Whip!"
Kageyama created two purple magic circles in front of his palms and two tendrils of shadow came out of them.
Kageyama struck with his left whip, aimed towards Tyson's head, but the Fire Dragon Slayer ducked down and then to the left side to avoid the slash with the right whip.
Kageyama lashed out again, but Tyson just ignited his left arm and when the shadow whip came down, it wrapped around his arm and was destroyed by the fire and then Tyson generated a foot wide circle of fire that he threw as a discus aimed at the other shadow whip, which it hit and destroyed that Shadow Whip as well.
Kageyama snarled and shouted out, "Shadow Grenade!"
Kageyama then created a number of small purple orbs that left his glowing palm and surrounded Tyson.
The orbs all detonated at the same time, each one creating a massive explosion that didn't befit it's small size, but ultimately, this attack proved fruitless.
Tyson simply inhaled the fire created by the explosion seconds after the fire was released, not only did that heal what little wounds he did have, but also replenished his magic reserves back to full.
Kageyama started to gash his teeth together so hard that Tyson thought he would crack them when Kageyama shouted out, "That's it!"
Kageyama then summoned three Shadow Balls per hand and then made them start spinning around, creating large circles of pure shadow in front of each hand.
Kageyama was bent backwards as he continued to feed energy to the two circles of shadow and then shouted out, "SHADOW GOD'S UNHOLY BEAM!"
Kageyama then bent forwards, the two circles of shadow spinning clockwise as they spat out their energy which came out in the form of two giant beams of shadow that merged together to form a clockwise spinning beam of shadow energy that was going towards Tyson.
Tyson simply stood his ground and then moved his left leg forwards, cocked his crimson fire covered right fist backwards and then sent the fist forwards, where it struck the beam of shadow head on.
The fist exploded as a geyser of crimson fire went flying forwards, completely engulfing and destroying the beam of shadows with utter ease.
The geyser of fire then engulfed Kageyama, who screamed out as the fire washed over him and carried him backwards, through several walls until he stopped about three hundred feet away from where he once stood.
Tyson looked around and saw that he and Kageyama did very little damage, the most was from his last move that scorched the floor and blew away several walls, but nothing much.
He walked forward and after approaching Kageyama said, "Where did Erigor go?"
Kageyama smirked and said, "Erigor is probably far away from here by now. This was all a trap! We knew someone was going to find out, so we planned to come here to lure our would be capture here and then Erigor would unleash his spell Wind Wall. Wind Wall is a spell that creates a massive tornado that completely cuts off the target from the outside world. People on the outside can get in alright, but anything on the inside is trapped because trying to get out will get them all cut up by the razor sharp winds."
Tyson then said, "What is Erigor's destination?"
"He is heading towards Clover and more specifically..." Kageyama began, but was cut off by Tyson saying, "The Guild Masters meeting." horrified.
"Exactly. Imagine all the terror and confusion that will be unleashed when the precious Guild Masters all suddenly die. In the midst of all that terror and confusion, we shall reap the benefits and finally have our revenge for having our rights revoked." Kageyama said with a smirk.
Then, the hands holding him up lit on fire, the flames were the purest crimson red.
Kageyama looked into Tyson's eyes, but he only saw anger. His eyes were slitted once more, becoming like a dragon's and they were now golden with streaks of lighter gold going through them once more.
"You would dare to threaten my master? The man who took me in when I had nowhere to go? The man who showed me a place where I could make friends, become stronger, has shown me love, kindness and compassion over the last seven years and not asked for a thing in return? You dare make a threat against the one man I would willingly bow to? I would only do that to Makarov and Igneel and anyone who threatens them, will feel my wrath." Tyson said.
He then heard Erza's voice in his head, "Tyson, can you hear me?"
"Yeah. What's up?" He asked back.
"There is a large tornado surrounding the station I cannot break through. Do you know where the mage named Kageyama is?" Erza asked him.
"He's with me, why?" Tyson asked her.
"Because, after interrogating one of the Eisenwald members, I have learned that Kageyama has the ability to dispel magic. We need him to dispel the Wind Wall surrounding the station so we can get out and stop Erigor." Erza explained.
"I see. I'll rejoin you guys in the main hall. Have everyone else meet us there as well. Hopefully Gray will come along, but when he hears the tornado disappear, he'll join us." Tyson said back.
"Sounds like a plan. See you shortly." Erza said.
"Later." Tyson said, breaking the connection.
"You got lucky, Kageyama." Tyson told him.
"What do you mean?" Kageyama asked nervously.
"You're about to find out." He dragged the struggling dark mage with him.
Several minutes later...
Tyson dragged Kageyama into the main foyer, where the unconscious bodies of his guild mates were all tied up to the support pillars.
He dragged Kageyama over to the main door where the Wind Wall could be clearly seen and that is where Happy, Lucy, Erza and the other three were.
Gray then came running out from one of the upper levels and saw everyone down on the floor, so he created an ice slice and slid down to where his guild mates were.
"Hey Gray, got the person you were after?" Tyson asked.
"Yep. He is frozen over, so he won't be going anywhere anytime soon." Gray replied back.
"Good to know." Tyson said as the two slayers reach their friends.
Erza then approached Kageyama and requiped one of her swords before proceeding to say, "You shall dispel the Wind Wall for us. Now."
Kageyama laughed and said, "Why should I?"
"Your dispelling ability is the only reason I haven't broken your legs. Do you want me to change that?" Tyson questioned.
Kageyama paled a little at that and said, "Sure, I would be happy to take the barrier down."
Kageyama walked forwards until he was standing only ten feet away from the Wind Wall.
He raised his hands and was about to dispel the barrier when a knife came flying out of nowhere and struck Kageyama straight in the back.
Kageyama staggered forwards and turned around to see one of his guild mates had thrown the knife and he asked, "Why Karacka?" before he slumped forward as his blood seeped out.
"What the hell did you just do?!" Nicholas demanded.
Tyson went over and forced Karacka out of the wall then said, "This guy was one of your guild mates! If he dies, I'm coming after you."
Erza had already reached Kageyama and yelled, "Get over here and use your fire to seal his wound!"
He transformed into electricity and reappeared once again then lit his hand on fire and placed it on Kageyama's wound, sealing it both on the outside and the inside, preventing any internal bleeding.
"Dammit! There is no way he can dispel the Wind Wall! Not in his condition." Gray said in frustration.
Happy then asked Lucy, "Lucy, can you think of any way we can get out of the station?"
"I don't know. We can't go through the winds without dying and none of us have the ability to dispel." Lucy said.
"Tyson, what about your flames, can't you burn the magic in the winds away?" Gray asked.
"Not unless you want to suffocate. And it's moving too fast for me to suck in using my Wind Dragon Slayer magic." Tyson explained.
"What we need to do is tunnel underneath the station." Nicholas replied.
"Dig, dig, dig, dig!" Lucy yelled out.
"Yes Lucy, if only we could dig our way out. But there is no way we can dig that fast." Gray said in irritation.
"No! My newest spirit Virgo the Maiden can dig through the ground and get us out of here!" Lucy said with excitement.
"Really? Then why didn't you do that before hand?" Erza asked.
"I kinda forgot. I've only had her for two days now and we have yet to establish a contract." Lucy said as she sheepishly rubbed her two index together nervously.
"We can worry about that later. Have Virgo dig a hole so we can save the master in time." Tyson instructed.
Lucy nodded, then grabbed her newest golden key and shouted out, "Open Gate of the Maiden, Virgo!"
A familiar golden glow erupted and from this glow a new figure emerged.
The figure was a petite young woman with short pink hair in spiky strands that went down to her shoulders. She wore a typical French maid's costume, while shackles were on her wrists and ankles. Her irises were robin blue, while a black line surrounded the blue irises.
"Greetings mistress." Virgo said in a quiet, respectful voice.
Lucy smiled and said, "Hello Virgo. I am Lucy, your new summoner. I am afraid I can't make a contract with you right now, I need you to dig a tunnel so we can get out of this Wind Wall."
Virgo nodded and said, "As you wish, mistress."
Lucy then asked, "Could you call me something other than mistress?"
"How about Your Majesty?" Virgo asked.
"No." Lucy deadpanned.
"What about Princess?" Virgo asked.
"I like that one." Lucy said.
"Very well, Princess." Virgo said as she dug a hole down and underneath the Wind Wall.
"Thanks Virgo." Lucy said as she jumped down the hole.
She was quickly followed by Gray and Happy.
Mizu, Hyuuga and Nicholas jumped down the hole after them.
Erza then saw Tyson lifting Kageyama onto his back and she asked, "Why are you bringing him along?"
"One of his guild mates tried to kill him. We should keep an eye on him, just so he doesn't die." Tyson said.
Erza nodded and then jumped down the hole, followed quickly by Tyson.
The two came out on the other side of the Wind Wall, where Happy, Lucy, Gray and the other three brought their magic mobiles over.
Tyson placed Kageyama in the back and said to Erza, "I'm going after Erigor. I'm the fastest member of the group and will reach him in no time."
Erza nodded and said, "Go."
Tyson then transformed into a thunderbolt and took off towards Clover.
Erza got into the first magic mobile driver's seat while Happy, Mizu, Lucy and Gray all got into the cab with Kageyama. At the same time Hyuuga and Nicholas got into the second one and both magic mobiles took off for Clover.
Meanwhile...
Erigor was flying over a large canyon, with a large smile on his face.
'Soon. Soon those despicable Guild Masters shall be dead and my revenge shall have begun.' Erigor thought.
Unbeknownst to the insane dark mage, the flute in his pocket was listening to his plans and had thoughts of it's own.
'This fool doesn't know what he is about to unleash. He shall soon know, Lullaby is it's own master. The souls of those mages will be mine.' Lullaby thought.
What neither of them knew is this, in order to kill the Guild Masters, the two of them will have to go over the cold dead bodies of the Fairy Tail members, for there is no way they will allow the person that gave them a family to die.
Not until every bone in their body is broken and every ounce of blood is squeezed from their bodies.
Until that moment, they shall fight for their master and anyone who threatens him, they shall see first hand how Fairy Tail can be scarier than any Dark Guild.