Don't Own Fairy Tail, or 'essences' Only The Oc

'thought'

"Speech"

"Powerful Creatures Speaking, like a dragon or a god"

"Lacrima, and Text via book or newspaper... when those are around..."


The hologram of the sleazy looking phantom lord guild master looms over us. "Attention, Fairy Tail Mongrels, I will give you one singular chance. Turn over Lucy Heartfilia or be annihilated... you have thirty seconds."

I hear Mirajane let out a loud growl to my left as we see a blue light begin to glow at the back of the large dragon's throat, a long barrel slowly extends past its teeth, showing a swirling vortex that looks similar to a black hole churning at the tip of the barrel.

They seem to have put a 'Magical Convergent Cannon Jupiter' in its mouth.

Overall... it doesn't seem like that much has changed about it over the phantom lord mecha.

I don't know if it can cast abyss break, however...

Wait.

Reasonably Phantom lord would have had the same wealth they did in canon, if not more, right? And reasonably, adding things to an already animate dragon would probably cost less than an entire mechanical fortress...

So where did all of that money go?

That is mildly unsettling.

I watch Mirajane begin to transform into her Halphas form.

I place a hand on her shoulder. "Hold on. Save your strength. I've got this."

With a brilliant flash of light the tattoos on my forearm gleam, I raise a hand towards the large skeletal dragon as five magic circles line up before me, a sizable orb of magical power appears moments later, roughly the size of a watermelon.

"TIME'S UP FAIRY TAIL FLIES!" The man booms as the beam within the mouth of the dragon shoots downwards towards us.

The orb in front of my hand breaks, sending a large beam forwards that grows larger and larger as it meets each of the magic circles before me.

The ground beneath my feet cracks as I strain under the weight of my own attack, my teeth grit as the two opposing beams strike head on.

I feel supporting hands on my shoulders as my beam rapidly beats back the Jupiter Cannon's own.

After a moment, the head detonates, sending magical sparks and explosions of all elements shooting off in all directions.

I let out a long breath as I lower my hand, the gold glowing tattoo dimming to a simple black color.

I glance over my shoulder to see Mirajane supporting me. "Thanks. It had more kick than I expected."

With a sudden shuddering boom, the entire top half of the skull is blown off the skeleton causing it to hunch briefly.

"What the hell was that?" Mirajane huffs with an annoyed glare. "That was about as strong as my Halphas Blast!"

"The magic cannon from that air ship was converted into a tattoo." I reply as I stare up to the skeleton.

"That was LEAGUES stronger than what it used to be!" The girl exclaims.

"We don't have time for this right now." I state with a mild grunt of annoyance as I gesture to the skeleton. "I have only mildly damaged it. It is still fully capable of moving. I just took out its Jupiter cannon. That's it. Our foe is still capable of walking over here and destroying this town."

"So let's just kick the shit out of it!" Mirajane snarls with a savage grin, earning a cheer of support from our guild members.

"That won't work." I state with a small head shake. "If you would notice. My attack barely did any damage to the bones themselves... those are dragon bones. My strongest attack barely was enough to pop the top half of its skull off, a skull which, would probably snap back into place should it be replaced. We should target its core. Something called the 'Tenrou Jade'."

"Tenrou..." Erza mutters under her breath.

"It is some form of magical artifact that can forcefully push someone's magic to the next level if they use it as a focus... it allowed a wielder to multiply the effects of their spells perhaps two or three-fold... only issue, however, is that it was so good at absorbing magical energy, it also started absorbing the emotions behind the spells it improved and the emotions those spells caused. Pain, anger, cruelty, sadism, fear. A dark guild held onto that orb for a decade or quite possibly longer and that allowed the orb to collect so much misery. Said misery is animating the dragon skeleton."

"Our goal is to find the orb within the dragon and break it. Do not touch it, otherwise the orb will corrupt you. Just shatter it if you see it and the skeleton will stop moving."

"YEAH!" Natsu roars as happy perches on his shoulders. "LET'S GO KICK ITS BIG BLUE BUTT!"

Mirajane transforms into her satan soul form, Erza to her heavens wheel armor, and Jellal floats up under the effects of his meteor spell.

"Let's go, Happy!" Natsu grins as the cat grabs the back of his shirt.

"AYE SIR!"

'let's try this...'

I feel my body gripped under the effects of telekinesis as I slowly rise off the ground, my green hair steadily floats upwards as an aura of blue surrounds me. "Perfect. It seems my brief idea does indeed function."

The mages who can fly raise off the ground, Mirajane using her Satan Soul, Natsu via Happy, Jellal under the effects of his magic, Erza with her armors, and even Lisanna who transforms her arms into those of a bird, giving her a harpy-like appearance.

A purple snake grows to the size of a horse and sprouts bat-like wings as a teen with maroon colored hair steps up onto it.

"Wait!" Lucy calls up. "Natsu!"

A silver key finds its way to her grasp as she flicks her arm forwards. "Open! Gate of the northern crown! Corona Borealis!"

With the sound of a deadbolt opening and a silvery flash of light, a silver crown appears floating above Natsu's head, a large blue gemstone is sat within it.

"Huh?" The dragon slayer blinks as he swipes his hand above his head. "What's this?"

"Corona Borealis improves the speed of whoever I give it to! Beat them up Natsu, I'll keep them summoned for a long as I can!"

"Right!" The dragon slayer nods.

Natsu shoots off towards the dragon as it begins slowly swaying.

The remaining fairy tail wizards who can fly quickly follow along, I myself sticking to the back as I am still a bit unused to flying under the force of my telekinesis.

My eyes stray to the underside of the dragon as the we rapidly approach, watching as several shutters seem to open.

'That's ominous-' the inside of the shutters show a few large tubes that begin to glow orange.

"There appears to be an attack coming" I call out as I dive downwards.

With a loud hiss large orbs of orange energy shoot from the holes.

'Some form of anti-air?!'

With a flash of requip magic, Erza summons a sword and with a flick of her wrist she sends it hurtling towards the first of the orbs.

As it makes contact with the orange sphere, it glows brightly, there's a sudden pulse of magic that sucks in all the nearby orbs, then there's an absolutely massive explosion that tints my body orange as the ball of energy grows larger and larger, I float backwards as the gravitational pull seems to grow in size as well.

'what the hell is this?'

Water is pulled up from the lake below, spiraling up in massaging tendrils that instantly turn to steam the second they come into contact with the orb. It grows larger and larger, until eventually it condenses down and explodes, leaving nothing more than a sky full of murky white steam.

It has a weapon on par with the Jupiter cannon.

So that's where the money went.

With a sudden lull in the attack our group swoops in close to the mouth of the dragon, sparks of magical power spew around its lower jaw as the Jupiter cannon breaks down.

"MOVE!" I hear a voice growl.

A boot smashes into my side as I am shunted through the sky.

A scythe slashes down through the area I was floating moments before.

A low hiss passes through my lips as glare at the grimm reaper who almost killed me, my eyes slide over to the woman who punted me, her white hair billowing through the air as she punches at the side of the reaper's head.

He is knocked back slightly, but beyond that he doesn't appear effected.

"Well... Satan soul doesn't cut it, eh?" The woman notes. "Expected. It didn't before."

With a flash of light her form changes into a different one, blue scales cross her body as she wears a striped blue leotard

"Dead Soul..." The reaper hoarsely whispers as he raises a hand. "Soul Grasp."

A large spectral blue skeletal hand lunges for Mirajane who lets out a huff of annoyance in her new form and blasts it apart.

A smirk crosses her face. "I'll handle this guy. You all go ahead."

I look forwards to see that-

Numerous phantoms spew from the building atop the dragon's back, filling the sky with wispy creatures with red eyes.

"Erza, Lisana, and I will cover this." Jellal calls out. "The rest of you go inside."

Natsu blurs forwards with a grin, diving into the open mouth of the dragon.

I follow closely behind him, the snake riding fairy tail wizard swooping down right after me.

Magical power pelts my body from the destroyed magical cannon yet none pierce my aura of telekinesis.

"IRON DRAGON'S-"

"FIRE DRAGON'S-"

"CLUB!"

"IRON FIST!"

*CRANG*

Right in front of me two dragon slayers clash, a flaming fist smashes into a large spire of iron.

Natsu deflects the club upwards and lunges forwards with a roar, ducking another punch from the iron dragon slayer and slamming a punch of his own into the teen's stomach.

His abs transform into metal as the blow connects so I don't think he felt much of it.

"FIRE DRAGON... ROAAAAR!" Natsu shouts as a torrent of flame shoots from his mouth and crashes into the iron dragon slayer who lets out a grunt as he is propelled into the nearby metal wall.

Natsu continues shouting as the fire washes over the metal, with an ominous creak, the wall buckles outwards and sends the iron dragon slayer falling through the open air.

"Come on Happy!" Natsu grins as the cat on his back flies him forwards.

"AYE SIR!"

I rush over to one of the unconscious mages who were maintaining the Jupiter cannon and sit him up.

'let's see here... this information is quite well known... luck is on my side because if it wasn't I might not be able to afford it.'

'Where is the Tenrou Jade?'

A reel of film spews from the mage's forehead with a flash as Cobra- or rather, 'Erik' pauses beside me, seeing that I am not moving deeper inside of the mobile guild hall.

"What are you-"

"I am trying to determine the location of the Tenrou Jade" I answer as I begin skimming through the reel of film.

Ah. It's in the pelvis.

Strange, but I suppose that's one of the least likely places to be attacked.

"The pelvis." I nod slowly as I sell the information off back to the unconscious man regaining a majority of my jewel back, leaving him with merely pennies worth in his pocket.

I turn and rush down the hallway, sighing quietly as a tremendous wave of people rush to meet me.

My telekinetic barrier fades as I slowly cup my hands at my side. 'let's use this as a learning experience.'

"Obsidian Make: Darts!"

A black magic circle appears in front of my hands and spews out numerous sharp shards of obsidian that pelt the charging mages, elemental spells are sent flying at me, clashing with my darts causing a cascading explosion of fire, ice, lightning, wind, and earth.

The man behind me snaps his fingers once. "Thunderclap."

*BOOM*

There's a pulse of magic beyond the smoke that causes the way to be cleared in an instant.

The mages in front of me have all been tossed around the large hallway, they litter the floor, the strongest among them shake on the ground, clutching their bleeding ears.

"Let's go." Erik states as we both start running again.

In the distance I can hear it.

"Saturn's at twelve percent power!"

We make it through the dragon's neck and enter the chest, a large magical generator sits before us, sparks of power crackle within a large circular lacrima. Wires and pipes line the roof and snake along the floor, transferring power to numerous stacked box-like items on the edges of the room.

"They're here! Don't let them destroy the Saturn System!"

"…"

"It appears that this is the heart of the large weapon that fired upon us when we made our approach." I announce to my companion.

A blue glow surrounds my hand as I reach out and backhand a large fireball upwards, causing it to detonate on contact with the ceiling.

"We should bust it up a little." Erik smirks.

With a flash a key appears in my hand. "Open Gate of the Arrow: Sagitta!"

With a flash the feminine form of the upgraded Sagitta appears beside me waiting for my command.

"Saggita. Your task is to destroy as much of this weapon as you can. Once it is nonfunctional, continue after us." I state as I glare at the doorway at the other side of the room.

"Ah, smart." Erik states as with a single leap he clears the room, the air around him buzzing menacingly as the large snake slithers after him. Spells seemingly strike a barrier around the maroon haired mage as he just flat out ignores them. They both disappear through the door on the other side after Erik offers me a single nod.

Sagitta glows brightly for a moment, then discorporates into three identical arrows that shoot around the room in different directions, causing enough chaos to allow me to pass through the room as well, avoiding magical spells as they start getting tossed around.

I follow along after the sound mage and his snake girlfriend, glancing down at the numerous piles of unconscious Phantom Lord mages left in his wake.

I continue through the hallways, passing by numerous doors to the left and right, some hang open, with mages collapsed in the doorways, but most remain closed.

Eventually I come to another large room, not much seems to be in here, yet boxes litter the surroundings, this place seems to be a storage room for the Phantom Lord guild, one of the most secure places on the dragon. Large blue bones bisect the room, leaving an archway in the middle of the metal box. At the very top of the room, I see a small metal dome, the location of the Tenrou Jade.

It is surrounded in magically enhanced adamantium to prevent any form of damage to it.

A maroon haired young man stood atop a purple snake flies around the room, shooting spells at a floating man with a tophat and a blindfold.

"…"

With a flick of my wrist I shoot the air mage down into the floor with my telekinesis, ruining his spell and causing my guildmate to smirk.

He raises a hand and causes the area around the air mage to explode with a cacophony of sound, earning a shout of surprise as the mage disappears.

I gaze around slowly, Phantom Lord's final 'Element Four' having turned into nothing more than wind.

I roll forwards suddenly as two magic circles appear on each side of me.

A golden glow spikes through the area I was standing in moments before. "Metsu."

Standing behind me is an absolutely titanic mage who is nearing seven feet tall.

With a dull black flash of light a pebble of obsidian appears in front of my finger, it is gripped by my telekinesis magic and shot towards the airspace mage.

He fades from reality as he turns back into wind moments before the attack hits causing it to harmlessly pass through the area his chest was in moments before.

He reappears to the left. "Zetsu."

An aura of telekinesis surrounds me, billowing under effect of numerous explosions of compressed air around me.

"Vertigo."

A dull buzzing noise fills the air, causing the airspace mage to grunt and stagger to the left.

A sharp hiss passes through the room as a billowing purple smoke is shot from the mouth of the winged serpent, covering the airspace mage in poison.

I raise a hand. "Obsidian make: Shower."

Numerous teardrop-shaped pebbles of obsidian appear in the air and are gripped by telekinesis.

They are shot into the purple smoke at tremendous speeds, causing tunnels to appear through it as they shatter into puffs of smoke upon contact with the floor, cargo, and wall behind the mage.

"GUAAAAH!" Aria cries out as he is shot out of the other side.

He looks worse for wear.

The entire building shudders as the ground beneath my feet shakes, my eyes widen as the room tilts slightly.

With another shuddering boom the room tilts the other way.

It is walking.

The skeleton is walking.

I am surrounded by a blue glow as I shoot upwards.

"No! I will not let you!" Aria shouts as he disappears, reappearing in my path.

A long purple tail smashes into his side, knocking him through the air.

"Sound Lance." Erik calls out, causing a pillar of vibrating air to strike the torso of the Phantom Lord mage, knocking him into a pile of boxes with a loud crash.

"You stop the dragon from moving. I'll hold him off." The sound mage states as he turns his attention back to Aria.

"Alright." I nod as I continue to the metal barrier.

My hands gently press against the metal as I frown.

It's probably impossible to get through this metal shield... unless...

"Hn." I hum as I close my eyes and focus.

My breathing slows, the shaking of the skeleton being put out of mind as I focus entirely on the metal in front of me... or rather, the item within.

Chains lightly rattle, within the sphere, I can hear a glass sphere lightly brushing up against the sides of a metal box.

"Requip."

Everything seems to stop for a moment.

I open my eyes, as the shaking ceases.

The crates seem to raise from the ground for a moment as the ceiling presses against my hands.

*CRASH*

Everything is smashed into the floor.

Erik swats a box away as it falls towards him, a curtain of vibrating air sending it flying across the room.

He glares down at Aria who is crumpled at his feet, two large holes in in his leg, a bitemark from snake fangs, the skin around the wound is slowly turning purple. "That was for gramps you bastard."

I glance to the side to see water begin to slowly drip into the room from where we have previously left.

"It's flooding." I observe. "We should get out of here."

*Tap Tap Tap Tap*

Footsteps echo down the hall that is slowly leaking water into the room, they are lightly obscured by the water, yet with each step a sense of foreboding seems to shake the room.

My Sagitta has been de-summoned. So, it was perhaps killed and sent back to the celestial spirit world.

A man calmly strolls into the room, a frown upon his face, he has long, straight, dark red hair tied up behind his head and a thin mustache.

He wears a blue and gold coat that trails down to his knees, hanging loosely off his left shoulder is a brownish cape sporting a wide golden-colored stripe near the edges.

He has dark green eyes that trail across the room and lips covered with black lipstick.

"Hn. I should have known that Aria wouldn't be enough to handle your lot after all of the other S Class failed." He huffs.

A purple aura of magical power wafts off him causing the metal beneath his feet to creak and groan.

"You flies should know not to bother your betters... don't resist and I'll give you a painless death!"

Shadows billow throughout the room.


Pov: Outside, minutes ago.

A teen with long black hair flips through the air with a snarl as he falls from a tremendous height.

"Iron Dragon Hook!" He calls out as he swings out an arm, forearm extending as he continues to plummet towards the water below, his hand becoming long and scythe-like.

A pink haired teen being carried by a blue cat flies out of the hole the iron dragon was just knocked through and grins down at him.

"FIRE DRAGON-"

The scythe blade connects with the draconic skeleton's knee.

"ROOOOAR!"

Gajeel is dragged out of the way of the large cone of fire that shoots off into the water below, kicking up a tremendous puff of steam.

The iron dragon flips and lands on the skeleton's knee in a crouch.

He's at a tremendous disadvantage out here.

He runs up the leg briefly and shoots out another pillar of iron that has a hook on the end.

The blade sinks into the walls of iron bolted into the dragon's ribcage and allows the dragon slayer it is connected to pull himself up and away from a burning kick from the pink haired mage.

"After him, Happy!" Natsu shouts.

"AYE!" The cat exclaims.

"IRON DRAGON..." The phantom lord mage calls out as he is tugged through the air. "ROAAAAAAR"

A tempest carrying dozens of sharpened shards of metal shoot down towards the fairy tail mage and fairy tail cat.

Happy serves to the side, avoiding the brunt of the attack and speedily evading the rest as the iron dragon slayer turns his head to track the two fairy tail wizards.

The winged cat zips through the air in a zig-zagged pattern as the iron dragon slayer pulls himself up onto the arched metal plating that covers the ribs.

With a running jump he leaps up onto the back of the dragon, stopping just in front of the large phantom lord guild hall.

The cat twists and hurls Natsu forwards, flinging him up onto the back of the bone dragon as he lets out a ferocious roar.

"FIRE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!" The dragon slayer calls out as he flies through the air.

His punch connects with the cheek of the iron dragon slayer, snapping his body aside.

"Grk-" Gajeel grunts as he staggers to the side.

Natsu flies past him, flipping around through the air and landing on his feet a short distance away, sliding to a halt with a cocky grin.

"You done running, punk? I'm all fired up now." Natsu chuckles as he punches his hands together, flames crackling around his fists.

"Tch..." The iron dragon slayer growls as he wipes his mouth, glaring down at the blood which now lightly stains his hands.

"You'll pay for that." He announces quietly before slinging his arm to the side, the appendage transforming into a large sword with large spikes along the edges. "LETS SEE IF YOU CAN KEEP UP THIS TIME SALAMANDER!"

The two dragon slayers lunge forwards at high speed, Natsu ducks a horizontal slash and counters with an uppercut that smashes into an iron chin, doing little damage and tilting his opponent's head back. Two more swift flaming punches smash into the iron dragon's torso, but even those don't do much.

The pink haired teen barely avoids a downwards slash that carves into the metal floor, cutting a gash about two feet long, his leg is cloaked in fire as he whirls around and smashes a kick into his foe's cheek.

"You're faster than you were before!" Gajeel snarls. "Were you holding back?!"

"No." Natsu grins as he dives forwards, twisting around a steely punch and hammering a flaming punch back into the iron dragon slayer's side. "This... is the power of my friend that you are trying to hurt."

Natsu's cheeks puff up.

"ROAAAAR!"

A torrent of flames shoot from his mouth, far weaker than usual, but they block his foe's vision and cause him to let out a small grunt of pain as he is slightly slow in turning his flesh to iron and shutting his eyes.

Natsu drops low and sweeps one of Gajeel's legs out from under him, causing him to stumble back, his ankle rolling slightly.

With a blast of flame from his palms, Natsu leaps to his feet, fire spewing from his foot as his knee comes up.

There's a resounding crack as the fire dragon slayer's knee smashes into the chest of the phantom lord mage, the wind is knocked from his lungs as he is sent flipping down the back of the dragon.

"This is the power of my friends!" Natsu declares as he clenches and raises a fist.

"Lucy's speed..." Fire crackles around his hand, briefly growing smaller and shaking as if it were going to be snuffed out, but returning to not only its original size, but double that. The inner parts of the flame brightening in color, inching closer and closer to a white hue. "And Pierce's magic."

With a sudden blast of speed he lunges forwards, hammering his fist into the iron dragon slayer's crossed arms.

Gajeel grunts under the new heat his hand is putting off as Natsu allows his fist to hang against the iron dragon slayer's forearms for a long moment.

The fire dragon slayer eventually leaps back as the black haired mage's forearms turn sharp and he swipes outwards with both of his hands.

"I'm not as strong as Erza or Mira. I'm not as fast as Jet. I'm not as smart as Levy, I can't even create things like that damned stripper, but each and every one of them is here fighting with me!"

The entire area shakes, as the skeleton slowly takes a step forward... and strangely, neither dragon slayer is affected by the floor's rocking. In fact, to the fire dragon slayer it almost feels... nostalgic... not as if he is riding a hellish boat or train, but... riding atop the back of Igneel.

"IRON DRAGON CLUB!"

"Over power him." Natsu quotes as he punches forwards, meeting the metal pillar head on, the flat end of the club denting in slightly.

Natsu dives forwards as it ripples slightly, remembering what Pierce said about his metal 'tree' limbs.

"Branches." He whispers, dodging the numerous extending sharpened spikes that stab through where he was standing moments before.

He leaps and begins running along the pillar of iron. "Outmaneuver him."

"FIRE DRAGON!" Natsu shouts as he takes a deep breath, continuing to run.

The iron dragon slayer raises a hand that expands into a large shield.

Natsu leaps off the metal pillar, avoiding the spikes of iron that sprout from the top of it.

The roar never comes as Natsu slides on his knees in between the iron dragon slayer's legs.

Gajeel whirls around as his extended arm returns, transforming into a thin blade.

He stabs behind him... but hits nothing but open air.

Three blows smash into his open back as Natsu had returned to his feet and stayed behind the iron dragon slayer as he turned. "Outsmart him..."

He ducks under the swipe of the blade and uppercuts the iron dragon slayer.

"HRAGH!" The phantom lord mage roars as he raises a bladed arm, spikes appear on the edges and begin rapidly spinning along the sword's length, shrinking down to nothing as they reach his shoulder.

He swings his chainsaw sword arm down at the fire dragon slayer, but he punches his flaming fists together stopping the attack before it can reach him, a move similar to what Grey would do against a sword wielder, but... Natsu can't freeze his opponent.

The fires around his hands grow yet again.

So, he'll do the opposite and melt them.

Gajeel grits his teeth as yellow spots appear on both sides of his sword arm, he brings his other hand back as the knuckles extend into spikes and punches forwards, narrowly missing Natsu as he tilts his head to the side.

Natsu twists suddenly, flinging his arms outwards as he shoves the saw blade roughly to the right, causing the spinning blade to come into contact with the iron dragon slayer's other extended arm, causing sparks to cascade across the floor as he quickly turns his appendage to iron to lessen the damage, but even still, a large gash appears in the iron dragon slayer's bicep, sending blood splattering across the metal floor.

A sudden kick knocks the iron dragon slayer across the skeleton's back.

"Fire Dragon..."

Natsu quickly flips backwards to gain distance, taking a deep breath.

He continues inhaling even as his lungs begin to ache slightly, an orangish red magic circle appearing in front of his mouth, a cone of air is almost pulled towards his gaping maw as he continues to inhale.

His eyes narrow slightly, power wells up inside of him, his magic power grows as he absorbs some of the ethernano within the air, a tremendous heat appears in the pit of Natsu's stomach, one that is uncomfortable to even him.

"IRON DRAGON-"

Natsu hunches forwards and expels the air in his lungs. "ROAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR"

"ROOOOARRR"

A tremendous wave of fire spews from the fire dragon slayer's mouth, yet instead of a simple orange or red, a torrent of dull white flames rush towards the iron dragon slayer's own whirling twister of metal.

The white fire blasts through the roar, causing pieces of molten metal to rain across the skeletal dragon's metallic back.

The iron dragon slayer holds out both of his hands in front of his body, hands rapidly transforming into large walls of iron as he abandons his own roar.

The fire washes over him as he lets out a shout of pain.

The wave of heat continues for a good ten seconds, only halting after the floor beneath the two dragon slayers abruptly fall downwards.

The skeleton falls forwards, sinking into the lake.

Water begins to rush over the back of the beast, going up to the knees of the two dragon slayers and leaving the phantom lord guild building a short distance away an island.

Natsu takes in the damage his new and improved attack did to the iron dragon slayer, his arms are orange hot, as is some of his torso.

His jacket seems to have burned off, leaving him shirtless.

"Gihihihihi." He lowly chuckles as he stumbles forwards slightly, letting out a hiss of pain as the heat gets to him. "Is that it, Salamander?"

"you'll need to try a little bit... harder than... that." His forearms transform into long blades as he falls forwards, causing the water to hiss and bubble.

"Iron dragon slayer... black temper." He lowly whispers.

He remains on his hands and knees for a long moment, allowing the water to cool his body.

Natsu himself doesn't just stand around, he crouches, grabbing that white hot heat he felt deep in his core a moment ago.

"Fire Dragon's..."

Its much harder to gather that heat the second time, in addition the water around his legs isn't helping.

Even still... he has only one opportunity to end this.

He probably only has one last shot at this in him before he runs out of magic power.

The water around him turns to steam and boils as his opponent stands up, his arms and chest are blackened and charred, he enters a slight boxer's stance as he bends his elbows, holding up the two swords in an X shape in front of his face.

With a puff of steam and most of his remaining magic power, Natsu draws that power to the surface yet again, he leaps as hard as he can, blurring forwards as an aura of fire surrounds him. The outside is disappointingly a brilliant orange, yet the inside is dull white.

Wind magic comes to the forefront of his mind as he is launched forwards, the air slowly spinning him like a bullet and increasing his speed further.

"SWORD HORN!" He calls out.

Two blades of wind smash into the underside of Gajeel's blades, halting them from immediately skewering the fire dragon slayer as Natsu's head crashes into his stomach, the iron dragon slayer buckles as his swords bite into the spinning fairy tail mage's arms.

His eyes roll into the back of his head as he is shot back at high speeds and smashes through the wall of the phantom lord guild house, falling prone on the other side as his metal defense fades.

Blood drips from Natsu's new wounds as he falls onto his hands and knees.

His magical power is extremely low right now...

And his head hurts... like... really bad.

Ow.

Phantom lord mages begin to surface from under water, climbing out of the sunken dragon.

Natsu raises to his feet and clenches his fists as they begin to climb up onto the metal back.

He won't need much magic to take care of these guys.

The lake buckles suddenly as a hunk of metal is shot out of the water and into the sky, sending a large portion of the nearby lake's surface with it.

Shooting from the hole is a figure clad in a blue energy aura, clenched in a similar aura is a maroon haired teen and a horse sized snake.

With a wave of the original figure's hand, he flings away the two fairy tail wizards, seemingly without a care for their safety.

A torrent of shadow and darkness shoot from beneath the water, but the figure floats back to avoid it landing atop one of the phantom lord guild hall's many towers.

Jose Porla rises into view and lands across from him as the blue aura around the first figure fades.

"Pierce?" Natsu whispers with a slow blink.

In the green haired teen's hand is a purple orb that radiates maliciousness.

A figure claws his way onto the boat with a gasp.

The pink haired mage whirls around to see the maroon haired fairy tail mage drag his snake up onto the skeletal dragon.

"Erik!" Natsu calls out, rushing forwards and dropkicking a nearby Phantom Lord mage, causing him to fall prone with a splash.

The fire mage helps the sound mage to his feet. "What the hell is happening?!"

"Pierce touched the Tenrou jade to save us from Phantom Lord's guild master... he was horrifyingly strong... he nearly killed the two of us several times... Pierce was able to slightly get a hold on his emotions, but... he's slipping."

"Damn it." Natsu lowly curses as he glares up at the phantom lord guild master.

As it is, until Natsu gets some fire all he can do is hope Pierce can last.


WE'RE BACK LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! It has been a while, huh? It looks like I finally got around to finishing this chapter... who knows when the next will come, am I right?

Anyways, the Phantom Lord Siege continues, but now they are within their greatest weapon, so it may just be slowly winding down.

Natsu got his revenge on Gajeel for kicking his ass and spouted that friendship bullshit.

On the other hand, Pierce and Erik worked their way through the Blue Skull Dragon and wiped out everyone in their way.

I wonder how Pierce would react if he knew that all he needed to do to beat Jose was to utter the word 'Family' repeatedly like he is Vin Deisel. But here he goes touching a hyper dangerous magical artifact because it gives him a power boost.

Guest Reviews:

Guest 001: Wish granted!

Guest 002: Yep. Pre-Timeskip Laxus was a prick.

ToastedCookies: oh, Pierce is certainly going to have... fun... also nobody guessed who the third character is going to be despite the fact she was already shown in this story!

E: Sadly at the moment Pierce is extremely poor. Barely 20000 Jewel to his name... and that might sound like a lot, but it's barely 200 dollars... As for buying dragon slayer magic, Pierce in the past mentioned that buying natsu's would take roughly a billion jewel, and this is ark 1 Natsu we are talking about. That price is probably sky rocketing with the white flame nonsense he is working on.

Joker: exactly.

JustAFan123: Oh yeah, morally he won't buy things like 'love'. Loyalty is debatable, but only to 'evil' people.


Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and as always, I have a Pat Reon, at Pat Reon (Dotcom) (Slash) Flameclawsxx.

I'll see you whenever I decide to update this again~