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The Assassins of Fairy Tail

Job Fifty Two: The Guilds' Strength

"You're not the first person to underestimate Fairy Tail and you and the Empire are going to learn that the hard way."

Esdeath couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at Wendy's statement. "Oh? You have that much confidence in them despite the situation you're in?"

Wendy kept her smile and her expression didn't waver. "No matter who we're up against, no matter how strong the enemy is, that's where our true strength comes through."

B

Thunderous booms could be heard on the battlefield as Doctor Stylish continued to attack the scattered guild members. It was almost as fun as dissecting and experimenting with a new subject. Unfortunately, the other guild members didn't share the same feeling. "How are supposed to fight that thing?! It's so damn huge!"

"We'll never get to the guild at this rate!"

As Stylish slammed his giant fist to the ground again, he heard a large rumbling sound and raised his head.

Insert Fairy Tail OST: Lightning Fire Dragons Firing Hammer

What Stylish saw was Makarov, growing larger and larger until he was equal in his size. The other guild members saw this and cheered for their guild master. Stylish was astounded to see a person who could grow to the size of his giant form but for some reason, he had an unnerving feeling about the way Makarov was glaring at him. He's seen many things but what he'd never encountered before; the rage, fury, and anger of a parent. "SO, THIS IS THE EMPIRE I'VE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT? PERHAPS WE SHOULD SEE THIS AS A BLESSING IN DISGUISE! NOW I CAN MAKE YOU PAY..." He pulled back his right arm. "FOR WHAT YOU AND YOUR EMPIRE HAVE PUT MY CHILDREN THROUGH!" He threw his punch at Stylish's giant head and it struck the left side of it. A deafening noise reverberated throughout the air from the impact as Stylish took a step back.

Of course, Stylish wasn't going to this lying down and take it. "Why you..." He recovered from Makarov's punch and pulled back his arm before throwing it forward. "Go rot in a grave where you belong!" However, Makarov easily caught the punch by the wrist and pulled him forward to him. He raised his right knee right at Stylish's abdomen. Makarov let go of his enemy's wrist as they hurled forward and raised both his arms above him with hands clasped together. He dropped his hands together and it was the last sight Doctor Stylish saw before they struck the head and slammed the body into the ground with a thundering impact.

That was one from the Empire eliminated and more still to go. "MOVE FORWARD, MY CHILDREN! THEY MAY NOT BE THE EMPIRE WE'RE FIGHTING AGAINST BUT WE'LL SHOW THEM ALL THE SAME OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO UP AGAINST FAIRY TAIL!"

Cosmina was more confused than afraid by Makarov's words. "What's the decrepit old man talking about?" She heard a faint sound and looked in the direction it was coming from.

Cosmina saw Elfman not only standing again after taking her attacks but smiling as well. "That's our master. He's a man among men!" His body glowed and took the form of another different beast. "Beast Soul: Weretiger!"

If Cosmina wasn't impressed by what Elfman has done thus far in their fight, she wasn't impressed now. "You still haven't had enough? Fine then. This'll kill you for good!" She brought up Heavy pressure to her mouth and inhaled deeply. "Trump Card: Nasty Voic-!" She was struck by a swift uppercut with Elfman's claws and was sent high into the air. Thanks to his Weretiger's Beast Soul form, Elfman was quick enough to attack before Cosmina had a chance to activate her trump card.

After the first attack, he chased after the witch and bypassed her before turning around to face her. His body began to glow again. "Full Body Takeover: Beast Soul!" He began to drop and extended his right fist right at the witch.

A look of doom and dread was clearly present on Cosmina's face when she saw the attack coming. "No, wait, this isn't right! I can't be beaten by an ugly gorilla like you-!" Elfman's fist slammed into her body and soon crushed her completely to the ground with deep cracks spreading around the impact site.

Champ chuckled triumphally evil when he was the parents struggling against him. It won't be long now until they were finally out of his way and give his precious angels all of his love. There was one thing he didn't account for. "HEY, YOU STUPID CLOWN BASTARD!" Champ looked ahead behind the parents and saw Romeo running toward them. Romeo was scared. Beyond frightened, actually. He was nowhere at the level of fighters like Natsu, Erza, or even Wendy. But he couldn't just sit idly by while his father, Wakaba, and Asuka's parents were doing all the fighting. While everyone else was fighting. How could he call himself a man if all he was able to do was be scared and run? He decided enough was enough and now he here was running straight at the clown who he knew had done unspeakable things to children. "If Wendy's able to fight him, then I'll help fight him too!" He took a large jump into the air. "YOU WANT ME, WELL, HERE I AM!" He raised his right arm above him and yellow flames surrounded his hand. "TAKE THIS!" He threw his flame right at the clown. "GO, YELLOW FIRE!"

Champ was caught off guard by Romeo's arrival and the yellow flame struck him in the head. It didn't hurt much at first but as soon as he smelled it, he yelled in disgust and covered his face with his hands "AH, WHAT IS THIS!? IT SMELLS LIKE SHIT!"

Romeo landed on the ground. "DAD! WAKABA!"

Wakaba was the first to stand and laughed. "Attaboy, Romeo!" He summoned multiple smoke fists from his cigar. "Smoke Crush!" He sent them all at Champ while he was distracted and they all struck him into the air once.

Macao laughed proudly at what his son did. "That's my boy!" He aimed at Champ. Purple Rain!" He sent out countless small purple flame bullets and the clown was pelted all over. Macao ceased his attack. "Alzack!"

"On it!" Alzack stood up and jumped right toward Champ. Once he was near enough, he spread his arms wide. "Guns Magic!" Multiple guns appeared surrounding the clown from all sides and angles. "Omnidirectional Expansion!" All the guns fired at once and shot Champ with multiple gunshots. They stopped firing and Alzack began to fall with Champ following closely behind nearly unconscious. "Bisca!"

Bisca smiled at her husband. "You got it, hon!" She switched out her weapon for a sniper rifle and aimed at Champ. "This is what you get when you mess with parents, you damn pedophiliac clown!" She fired her rifle and the bullet went through his chest. Bisca fired another round and it went through his head next before he hit the ground. Bisca lifted her rifle to her. "Double Tap."

"Mama! Papa!" Bisca looked back to see Asuka running toward them. As Alzack just joined his wife as their daughter ran to her mother and hugged her. She looked up at her mother and smiled brightly. "Mama, you were so cool! Papa too!"

Both parents smiled at their daughter and Bisca patted her head. "Thank you, Asuka. Now, remember not to repeat the bad words mama said.

Romeo ran up to his father and Wakaba. "Dad, Wakaba, are you okay?"

Wakaba gave Romeo a reassuring smile. "A licks here and there but nothing we old timers can't handle. You did a good job out there, Romeo."

Macao placed his hand on his son's shoulder and smiled at him. "I'm proud of you, Romeo."

Romeo laughed a little and smiled back at his father. He felt like he took his first step to manhood. "Dad, let's go kick Alverez to the curb!"

"I hope you're ready to scream like the whores you are!" Enshin swung Shamshir and sent several wind blades at her. Before they could reach her, Pisces appeared and it took the blow for their master. A move that irritated the pirate. "Tch, damn fish!"

Now would be as good of a time as any for Yukino to reveal her ace. She raised Pisces' key above her. "Now, Pisces!" Her key began to glow and gave off a brilliant, radiant light. "Form Change!"

Pisces' bodies glowed and reshaped themselves into a human-like form. The light faded and Pisces took on a different form. "So, we're in this form again."

"Looks like that guy's our enemy, mom."

"I'm not your damn mom!"

The son Pisces charged right at Enshin and swung his lance at the pirate. Enshin brought up Shamshir to block the attack. The mother Pisces appeared behind him and pointed her right hand at him. She sent a powerful blast of water at Enshin and sent him away. The brief time Enshin separated from the son Pisces gave him the opening to chase after the pirate and swung his trident upward. Enshin was sent flying into the air and Yukino saw this as their chance. "Sister!"

Just this once, Sorano would let Yukino call her that. "Leave it to me!" She brought out three gold coins and held them close to her chest. They glowed brightly before she tossed them into the air. "Appear!" A brilliant flash of light shined throughout the battlefield and a giant white figure with three heads, two wings, and arms appeared. "Barakiel!" As the angel appeared, the light became brighter and enveloped Enshin, and shot up into the sky. When the light faded and the angel vanished, Enshin was no more. Yukino cheered at their victory while Sorano smirked. "And that's what you get when you mess with an angel."

Syura continued to scowl at Mirajane. To him, she was just another plaything. "I'll make you regret hitting me, you bitch!"

"And I'll make you pay for hurting my friend." Mirajane retorted. Her body glowed and took on a frightening form similar to a demon. "Satan Soul: Sitri!"

Upon seeing Mirajane's Satan Soul, even Syura felt slightly unnerved but not afraid. He was the one that did the scaring. He vanished in front of her and appeared from behind. Only for him to be heavily punched in the abdomen and he let out a loud, pained gasp. The pain he felt was beyond anything he'd felt before. He was then grabbed by the face with a strong grip and was slammed to the ground. Mirajane used her Sitri form's fire magic and ignited Syura's face. He screamed out in pain and horror while his body flailed about. Once Mirajane thought she'd done enough damage, she lifted her hand from Syura's face but only slightly. She formed a black sphere in the palm of her hand. "Evil Shower!" She fired her attack point blank at an already down Syura and he was shot through by countless darkness bullets. Once she stopped her attack, Syura was left with countless holes in his body and didn't move any longer.

The fight was over much quicker than Cana thought. "Nice work, Mira. I usually feel bad for anyone fighting you, but for this guy, I'll make an exception."

Rugoro roared as delivered a powerful blow to Taurus but the spirit managed to block the attack and slid through the ground a little. Taurus let out a taunting laugh at the demon. "That all you got?!"

Rugoro growled out of annoyance because this cow was giving him more trouble than he thought. It also didn't help that Taurus kept smiling throughout the fight. That only enraged him more and roared."Damn cow! I will end you!"He raised both his arms and a large sphere of sludge formed in the center.Once it was complete, he threw his attack at his enemy. "Rotting Death!" Taurus lifted his axe high and swung it down when Rugoro's attack came close. He split the attack in two and the two halves crashed into the ground. He was about to attack when he and Rugoro noticed a bright, golden light behind him and looked back. "What is that light?"

"Survey the Heavens, open the Heavens...

All the stars, far and wide...

Show me thy appearance..."

Taurus saw Lucy speaking an incantation with her eyes closed and laughed as he looked back at Rugoro."Looks like your luck's run out!"

They then found themselves in a space where Rugoro was surrounded by countless differently colored small spheres that appeared to be miniaturized planets.

"With such shine.

Oh, Tetrabiblos...

I am the ruler of the stars...

Whatever Lucy was planning, Rugoro was determined to stop whatever it was. "No! I won't allow it!" He slammed his fist into the ground and generated a large, rotting wave of sludge. "Rotting Tsunami!" The attack was too large for Taurus to stop but he had confidence in Lucy.

"Aspect become complete..."

"Open thy malevolent gate."

"Oh, 88 Stars of the heaven..."

Taurus looked back at Lucy again. "Do it, Lucy!"

"Shine!" Lucy opened her eyes to reveal they had magic circles in them. "Urano Metria!" Lucy aimed her attack at Rugoro and he and his attack were completely overwhelmed by a tremendously strong light. It was as if the stars themselves were striking the demon down.

Rugoro let out one final scream before the light completely took him over. "MASTER EZEEEL!"

When the attack was over, Rugoro was nowhere to be seen. Taurus cheered as he turned around to face Lucy. "That was great, Lucy!"

Lucy let out a sigh of relief now that Rugoro was gone. "Thanks, Taurus. I couldn't have done it without you." Her spirit gave her a cheerful grin for a second before he groaned and fell on one knee. Lucy immediately became worried. "Taurus! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Taurus responded. "I think fighting that demon took more out of me than I thought."

Lucy brought out Taurus's gate key. "You did a great job Taurus. You deserve a rest now." Taurus continued to smile at his friend before she closed his gate and vanished. With Taurus back in the Celestial World, Lucy now only had one question to ask. "Now where's Natsu?"

"Painful Impact!" Gray was pushed back by Raid's attack and slid through the ground. Throughout this entire fight, any damage he's done to the demon only made his enemy stronger, and was feeling the results. Raid felt very proud of this fact. "Face it, Fairy Tail, you can't beat me! I'll make you pay for killing Mard Geer!"

Gray narrowed his eyes at Raid's words. "You guys really don't know what happened to Mard Geer, do you?"

Raid thought that was a stupid question to ask. "We know alright! Beatrice saw you and Salamander fighting him!"

"But she didn't see the fight all the way through the end of the fight, did she?" Gray retorted. "Hate to break it to you, but we didn't kill Mard Geer."

"BULLSHIT!" Raid shouted with fury in his voice. "YOU TWO WERE THE LAST ONES TO FIGHT HIM! I'M NOT FALLING FOR YOUR LIES!" He raised his right arm and conjured a massively large red sphere.

Gray tried his best to tell the truth but it seemed Raid wasn't interested in hearing him anymore. "Fine, if that's how you feel." Chilly wind began to come out of his body.

Before Raid could throw his attack, he saw Gray's body change and saw half of it being covered in black. The magic power he was feeling from the ice wizard was very familiar to him. "Wait, this magic. Is that...Master Silver's?!" Raid and the other demons knew very well what Silver's magic could do; the magic to slay demons. "Don't tell me you defeated Master Silver!? How did you get it?!"

Gray kept glaring at Raid. "I was given this magic so I could kill E.N.D! The magic my father passed on to me!"

Gray's words deeply shocked Raid when he heard that. He didn't even know Silver had a son. "Master Silver was your dad!?"

The time for talk was over and Gray leaned forward. He put his two hands together and before Raid knew it, Gray had already passed him with hands apart wielding an ice sword. "Ice Devil's Zeroth Longsword!" Raid screamed in pain as a giant ice crystal formed in the center of his chest. Gray stopped using his ice devil slayer magic and returned to normal before turning to face Raid. "Before you die again, I'll tell you the full truth; Zeref was the one who killed Mard Geer."

Raid heard Gray's voice before the ice fully encased him. "Zeref? No, it...can't...be..." The ice broke apart and so did Raid along with it.

Skalde swiped his scythe at Juvia from the side but like all of his attacks before, it did not effect on her. Juvia's attacks, on the other hand, kept hitting her. "Water Nebula!" Juvia cast two strong columns of torrenting water swirling around each other and struck the demon away from her.

The attack pushed him back but it didn't bring him down. All it did was soak him thoroughly and angrier. "I will not lose to the likes of someone like you!" Red energy surrounded his scythe and raised it. He slammed the blades into the ground. MADNESS DEVASTATION!" Pillars of red light erupted from the ground and traveled in a straight line while destroying everything in their path toward Juvia. All the pillars struck Juvia at once. Sklade felt rather accomplished what he'd done. "There. Fall into the darkness, Fairy Tail."

"Water Cyclone!" A cyclone of water destroyed the pillars of red light and revealed that Juvia was unharmed.

A sight Sklade found hard to believe. "Impossible! How are you not driven to madness yet!?"

"Juvia already told you. Juvia is already madly in love and your madness cannot compare!" Her body transformed into rapidly swirling water before charging right at the demon. "Water Jigsaw!" As Sklade saw the attack coming at him, he did what any normal person would in this situation; he jumped into the air to avoid the attack. He turned around for a counterattack but was surprised Juvia was chasing after him with his attack. Unfortunately, he had no time to react and Juvia's attack struck him head-on. The water shredded through his body when she passed him and screamed in pain. When she stopped her attack, Sklade let out one last groan before his life left him again. Juvia landed on the ground and she may have won the fight but she still had something important to do; finding Gray. "Now, where did Gray go?"

Koro roared as it brought its fist down on Erza. She jumped back to avoid the attack and quickly requiped into her Black Wing Armor. She was about counterattack when she saw Syka jump over the Imperial Arms with her arms lifted over her and a large purple sphere formed with lightning-like effects coming out of it. "Venomageddon!" She hurled the sphere at Erza overhead right at her. Erza flew toward the sphere and swung her sword to cut it apart. Syka began to drop to her enemy and both her arm spikes glowed a deep purple. "Venom Cross!" She crossed her arms as soon as she was close enough to her enemy. Blade met spikes and a thunderous boom erupted.

It was a stalemate for the first few seconds before Erza noticed Koro appeared from behind and delivered another punch on top of her. The punch sent Erza straight to the ground with a crash. She groaned a little before looking to see both Koro and Syka descending with their respective arms pulled back. She quickly stood up and jumped back in the nick of time when their attacks struck the spot she was previously at. Once she had enough distance, she carefully observed them. "They certainly are strong when they work together. I have to end this quick." She looked past them and saw Seryu smiling thinking they'd already won this fight. An idea struck her as she remembered that one of the weaknesses of an organic Imperial Arms has is if the user is taken out, it won't be functional anymore. "So, I'll get rid of her first." Then she had a second idea. "Actually..." Her body glowed and she requiped into her Piercing Armor. She pointed her lance and aimed at Seryu before charging straight at her.

Koro saw this coming and moved in front to protect its master. Which is what Erza wanted it to do and easily pierced through its body and left a gaping hole in her wake. Seryu was astonished to see such a thing happen to her ally. "She went through Koro like it was nothing!"

As Erza came closer, Syka moved in front to protect Seryu. "You won't-!" Like Koro, Erza pierced through Syka's body with ease.

"Syka!"

When Erza came closer, she requiped back into her Black Wing Armor. "If you strongly believe in justice so much..." She rushed past Seryu while slashing her body twice with her sword and was sent into the air. "Then you should relearn the meaning back in the afterlife!"

Before the darkness consumed Seryu, she saw Syka one last time and her hand tried to reach her. "Sy...ka..."

Syka did the same."Ser...yu..."

Erza stopped and let out a sigh of relief. However, that relief was short-lived when she heard a loud crash not too far from where she was. She turned in the direction where she heard the sound and saw a large column of dust kick up into the sky. "Somebody's nearby." She ran to where the dust column was.

When the dust cleared, Dorathea growled out of annoyance while Leone had a cocky smile on her. She already dealt with Suzuka previously. "Is that all you have? I haven't even gotten serious yet." The alchemist continued to scowl at her enemy and said nothing.

Leone was about to attack when she felt someone grab her from behind and something wrapping tightly around her legs and arms. She struggled to break free. It was Suzuka using her Rakshasa Demon abilities to stretch out her limbs and wrap around Leone's. "What the hell?! Let me go!"

Suzuka laughed slyly as she neared her face to Leone's. "There. You can't use your strength if you're tied up like this." She looked over to Dorothea. "I know how much you want revenge on her so I'll let you have the kill."

Dorothea smiled at her companion. "How kind of you. Now, you stupid animal, I can't drink your blood but I'll beat you to a bloody pulp!" She was about to attack when she heard a noise and noticed Suzuka had a shocked expression. "Hey, what happened?'" Her answer quickly came in the form of seeing blood trickling out of the corner of Suzuka's mouth.

Dorathea then saw Leone smile. In fact, she also saw that her hair had become silver-colored "That's what you get when you come at me from behind." Her hair pierced through Suzuka's body multiple times. Imperial Arms Magic, Take Over: Lionel Beast Soul Combination!" Suzuka's limbs unwrapped themselves around Leone and fell to the ground lifeless. "Spiky Silver Beast!"

Upon seeing this, now it made more sense to Dorothea how she could summon such hard scales and break her Imperial Arms. New power or not, that wasn't going to stop her from getting her revenge. "You damn animal!"

Leone wasn't intimidated by Dorothea's tantrum in the slightest. She took up a stance and was ready for the last round. "Come on, Pipsqueak! I don't have a boulder to drop on you this time but I'm still going to kick your-"

Suddenly, both of them felt an immense, terrifying pressure. "You..." Leone quickly recognized the voice and she and Dorothea turned to the direction where they heard it. When they did, that dreadful feeling increased tenfold for Leone as she saw Erza walking over to them and could visibly see a threatening, deep scarlet aura surrounding her. Leone only felt this afraid two other times in her life; when she was tailing Esdeath and when she first met Brandish. To say Erza dwarfed those in comparison was an understatement and she wasn't the one receiving her ire. No, Erza's attention was completely on Dorothea.

Speaking of Dorothea, she was absolutely terrified and frozen in fear. "W-What is this? Who is this woman? What is she!?"

Erza kept glaring at Dorothea and the closer she came to her, the angrier she became. "You were the one that gave Wendy her scar."

Dorothea was too scared to process what Erza said to her. "Wha? What scar?"

Erza thought back to when she saw Dorothea bite into Wendy's shoulder and gave that bite scar. She remembered what Wendy said about her scar when they were bathing together. "I know I didn't ask for this scar. Every time I look at it, it reminds the horrors of what I went through in that world."

As if it was impossible, Erza's rage for Dorothea intensified. "For what you did to Wendy…" She spoke in a low, furious, voice as she requiped into her Purgatory Armor. Leone and Dorothea saw the raging blood-red glow in her eyes. "IS BEYOND UNFORGIVABLE!"

Before Dorothea knew it, Erza vanished from her sight and was struck heavily by her spiked mace. The force of the attack caused a large crater to form and sent her into the air. Dorothea could only think of one thing. "I didn't think it was possible...but this woman is more terrifying than Esdeath!" That was the last thought she had before seeing the last sight of Erza's enraged expression before swinging her mace down on her again to the ground and another crater formed.

As Leone saw Erza land on the ground, even in her Beast Transformation, she still felt deeply afraid and trembled in fear. "Erza's a hell of a lot scarier than I thought. Man, I'd hate to be her enemy."

"Leone!" Erza's voice snapped Leone out of her fearful trance and she saw the other girl requip out of her Purgatory Armor.

"Uh, yeah?"

All that threatening rage and aura Leone felt before vanished in an instant as she saw Erza smile at her. "It's good to see you. Are you alright?"

Leone closed her eyes and let out a sigh of relief. She really was lucky to have Erza as an ally and she opened her eyes to look at her. "I'm fine. Nothing I couldn't handle."

Since the fighting was over now, Carla flew back to join the two women. "I believe that was the angriest I've seen you, Erza."

"I'll say." Leone agreed. With Dorothea and Suzuka now out of the way, she could focus on finding Wendy. "Hey, Erza, me and Carla are going after Wendy. I don't like how Esdeath has her all to herself. If it ever comes down to it, I'll fight her alongside."

Erza shared Leone's sentiment. She was also worried about Wendy's safety since she was in the hands of a homicidal woman right at this moment. "That's fine. Make sure all three of you come back."

Leone gave Erza a reassuring smile. "You got it." She walked past her but then stopped. "Hey, Erza?"

Erza glanced back at Leone. "Yes?"

Erza saw Leone lift her right arm with her hand closed. "Kick some major ass."

Erza smiled back and looked away. She raised her left arm and closed her fist as the back of it bumped into Leone's. "I will." With that said, Erza left to deal with the rest of the enemy forces.

Carla grabbed Leone's back tightly. "Are you ready?"

Leone nodded and sniffed the air a few times. Her sense of smell may not as be as good as Wendy's, but it still got the job done. "Yeah, I got Wendy's scent. She's over in that direction. Let's go, Carla!" Carla nodded and both girls flew in the direction where Wendy went as fast as the Exceed could go.

As Akame and Izou passed by each other while swinging their swords, a victor had yet to be decided. This fight was becoming more irksome by the second and Akame decided to end this fight now. She turned around to face her opponent and went into her Maker stance before extending them forward. "Shadow-Make: Shadow Binding!" Long shadow tendrils stretched out from her shadow over to where Izou was.

Izou turned around to see the shadow tendrils moving toward him and avoided them. As best as he could before one of them wrapped around his leg and he stopped. Soon, more came and they completely wrapped around his body. He struggled to break free. "What...is this!" With Izou now tied up, Akame leaned forward and rushed at him. The Wild Hunt members saw her coming and couldn't escape this time as she passed him while cutting his throat with Murasame. He choked on his blood and Murasame's poison began to spread from the injury. He glared at her for what she'd done. "You...cheated."

Akame just turned around away from Izou and flicked Murasame to get the blood off. "I told you, didn't I? I never once considered myself a swordsman." Those were the last words Izou heard before the poison did its work and the tendrils unwrapped his dead body for it to drop on the ground.

Chelsea and Lisanna continued to stare at Bols in bewilderment. Of all the people Chelsea had to face, why did it have to be him? The mask he was wearing didn't help ease the tension either. "I remember you. It's been a long time, hasn't it?" Chelsea didn't say anything back to him. "Since I believe this'll be the only time, I'll be able to talk to you. Let me just say I don't hate you for killing me. Like me, you were just following orders. And to answer your question, you're right. I didn't recognize that girl."Chelsea was surprised to hear that coming from him. He was talking about when Chelsea took the appearance of a young girl to fool him to kill him. "But there is one thing I do remember and it was their screams. I could never forget that. There were times when I woke up at night because I always heard their screams. The only thing that kept me going was my family. I'd do anything to protect them because they meant the world to me. Even if all the things I've done were unforgivable, I'll bear all the sins I've committed for them" Though, Chelsea couldn't see it, Bols was giving her a fierce and determined look. "If it means protecting my family, I'll become the devil himself if I have to!"

Lisanna couldn't help but admire Bols's dedication to his family. He was willing to sacrifice anything to protect his family. It reminded her of her own. They saw Bols finally pointing his Imperial Arms, Rubicante at them. "I believe that's all I wanted to say. What do you say we get this over with?"

Chelsea's eyes widened with fear and looked over at Lisanna. "Lisanna, get back!" Before the other girl had a chance to speak, Bols fired a large stream of flames at the duo.

With no time to react, Chelsea ran straight to the flames. An action that deathly worried Lisanna. "CHELSEA!"

The flames came into contact with Chelsea and Bols expected to hear screams of agony. But instead, he heard a strange sound and his fire began to act strangely. As if it was being eaten. He then quickly saw what was happening and was surprised to see Chelsea eating his attack. In all his years of being in the Incineration Squad, he's never seen anything like it before. "Are you...eating my fire!?"

Chelsea managed to scarf down the entire attack and let out a small burp. Despite being a hefty meal, she couldn't help but let an out exasperated sigh. "Damn, that was close." If it were any closer, she may have not had the chance to eat Bols's fire. "Thanks for the meal. Now..." She took out Gaea Foundation and a few makeup brushes from it. She swiped at herself and took the form of Natsu. "Let me show you what real fire can do!" "He" leaned forward as fire enveloped "his" body. "He" launched himself right at Bols and before he could react, "Natsu" kneed him in the face before turning his body around and fire surrounded "his" left foot. "Fire Dragon's Talon!" "He" kicked the right side of Bols's head. The attack managed to send him away while his feet tore through the ground.

Bols managed to stop and groaned in pain a little. "That is impressive fire. Never felt anything like it before. But I won't lie down without giving a fight!" He pointed Rubicante at "Natsu" and the tank began to rev up. "Magma Drive!" He fired large spheres of what seemed like lava spheres at "Natsu". "He" just stood still as the spheres came close to him and "his" fists ignited. When they came close enough, "he" began to punch them and destroyed them with ease.

Once "Natsu" was done, "he" took in a deep breath. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" "He" let out a stream of fire right at Bols. The fire attack completely enveloped him and once it passed, he groaned tiredly as he dropped to one knee.

Despite being on a bit of a losing streak, Bols couldn't help but chuckle. "Not bad. That's some fire you have there. I'll admit you have me beat in that aspect. But..." He revealed a trigger in his head. A trigger that Chelsea recognized which frightened her deeply. "I'm not going down without a fight. Do you think you eat the explosion Rubicante can create?" Chelsea could try to negate the explosion, but she didn't have enough confidence to attempt it. What's worse, Lisanna could get caught up in it and the explosion would kill her. That was something she couldn't risk. She could teleport him using Mest's magic away from here but then Bols would detonate it and she wouldn't escape in time. She cursed herself. She had all these abilities and all of them came up short with the push of a button. "This is checkmate." Chelsea's widened and heard her heartbeat. What she saw next was blood spurting out of Bols's neck and Lisanna, in her Animal Soul Cat Form, had blood trickling down her left hand.

Lisanna turned around to face Bols for him to see her one last time. He saw that she had a remorseful expression before he dropped dead to the ground. Lisanna felt...numb looking at Bols lying lifelessly on the ground. Then she started to breathe a little faster as the realization hit her. She knew this was a war and things like this were going to happen but actually killing a person felt something different entirely.

"Lisanna." Lisanna turned around to see Chelsea back to her regular self. She saw the other girl with a worried expression. No doubt she was worried about her. "Are you okay?"

"Y-Yeah." She didn't believe her answer and sighed while looking down. "Okay, I'm not. I know this is a war but-"

"You didn't have a choice." Chelsea interrupted. "He could've pressed that switch and you and everyone else that can get caught in the blast would be killed. Sometimes, all it takes is a split second to decide how a battle ends and you made the best decision you could in the situation."

"Does it get easier?" Lisanna asked.

Chelsea closed her eyes and sighed before opening them again to look at the other girl. "In some cases, it does. Other times, it can be harder and some it never gets easier. It depends on the person. Me, I'm fine with it but after learning about Bols-"

"He was willing to do anything to protect his family." Lisanna interrupted "Honestly, I can relate to him. I want to protect the people who are important to me." As soon as she realized what she said, she slightly blushed as did Chelsea. "Y-You know what I mean."

"Y-Yeah." Chelsea cleared her throat. "How about we split up and find the others? I'm sure they can use our help. We still have Alverez to deal with."

Lisanna nodded in agreement. "Sure. And Chelsea, be careful."

Chelsea chuckled. "Sure thing." She saw Lisanna change into a harpy Take Over and flew away. Meanwhile, Chelsea closed her eyes and tried to sense the aura of anyone nearby. The good news is that she found two nearby auras. The bad news is that she felt two powerful auras coming in. She opened her eyes and ran in the direction where she sensed the previous two auras.

Gildarts breathed heavily as he was still recovering from Budo's attack. Despite the damage he'd taken, he couldn't help but laugh. Budo raised an eyebrow upon hearing his laughter. "What seems funny to you?"

Gildarts lifted his head to look at Budo and gave him a cocky smile. "You've heard the old man. You guys are nothing more than an obstacle in our way and us in Fairy Tail are good at taking down obstacles that you're going to find out the hard way. He raised his right arm and slammed it into the ground. "Mizuwari!" As soon as he did that, a tremendously strong shockwave erupted and destroyed the ground beneath the two men. The shockwave blasted Budo away from Gildarts.

To avoid further damage, Budo flew up into the air. When he was far enough, he charged up his Imperial Arms. "YOU WON'T DEFEAT ME! FEEL THE POWER OF THE EMPIRE!" Once he was fully charged up, he fired a powerful blackened electrical beam at Gildarts. "SOLID SHOOTER!"

Gildarts stood in place as he continued to smile and pulled back his right arm. "CRUSHING EVIL, SPREADING THE TRUTH..." He thrust his arm forward at the attack. "EMPYREAN!" His attack collided with Budo's and it was crushed immediately followed by an immensely powerful shockwave that traveled to where the Great General was. He screamed as the shockwave tore through his body and destroyed his armor. He lost consciousness and fell to the ground. To Gildarts, this fight was won and he was the victor. "You put up a decent fight, Budo."

Beatrice extended her right arm forward while her other hand was holding it. A dark ring circled her hand as it glowed and glimmered. "SILENT OBLIVION!" She sent a large and powerful soundless beam right at Natsu and he braced for the attack. The attack swallowed him whole and when it subsided, he was still standing. A sight that annoyed the demon to no end. I won't rest until I end you. How our king fell to the likes of you, I'll never understand. I saw him fight you and the Ice Wizard. I remember when he entrapped you both with his Momento Mori and yet...how could you still defeat him!? In his place, I shall finish what he started!"

"So, you don't know then," Natsu spoke. "You should know that it wasn't me and Gray that killed Mard Geer. The one who killed him was Zeref."

It took several seconds for Beatrice to register those words before she became filled to the brim with rage. "HOW DARE UTTER SUCH FILTHY LIES!" She clapped her hands together and the sound echoed through the air.

A black spot appeared underneath Natsu and he looked down. "Wait, this is-!"

"I will send you into darkness as my late king has done before. Now fall and suffer in eternal silence!" The darkness enveloped Natsu and shot up into the sky. "SILENT MOMENTO!" Having her enemy within her attack wasn't enough. This time she'd make sure her enemy would be gone.

Beatrice made several gestures in the air and a magic circle appeared. A magic circle Happy recognized. "THAT'S AN ABYSS BREAK!"

"NOW DIE, FAIRY TAIL-!"

Intense flames exploded from Beatrice's attack and interrupted her Abyss Break spell. The demon shielded herself from the fire while still being astonished her attack was destroyed so easily. "No, that's impossible!"

"MODE!" Beatrice heard Natsu's voice and lowered her arms to see he was covered in flames. Not just him, but the area surrounding them. "BLAZE DRAGON KING!"

The heat was almost unbearable to Beatrice and couldn't look away from Natsu. "Who...what are you?!"

Natsu wasn't interested in her question. "I DON'T CARE IF YOU BELIEVE ME OR NOT! ALL I KNOW IS YOU'RE IN THE WAY OF REACHING OUR GUILD!" He pulled his right arm back and large quantities of powerful flames erupted from his fist. He launched himself right at Beatrice and threw his fist forward at her. "FIRE DRAGON KING'S DEMOLITION FIST" The attack struck the demon and a bright flash of fire appeared as the fire swallowed Beatrice whole.

As the flames consumed Beatrice, she thought back to what Natsu told her about what happened to her king and could scarcely believe it. "It's not true. It can't be true. Lord...Zeref..." The fire burned Beatrice away and the flames died out, she was nowhere to be seen.

As soon as Beatrice was defeated, Natsu exited out of his Blaze Dragon King Mode. "Way to go Natsu!"

Natsu looked over in Happy's direction as his friend flew toward him and smiled at him. "Hey, thanks. Now we just need to look for the others and keep heading to the guild."

B

Back to Esdeath and Wendy, Esdeath still had doubts about Wendy's confidence. "Even if you do defeat the Empire, you still have Alverez to deal with. I've sensed how powerful their aura is. Do you still believe you have a chance of defeating them?"

Wendy still didn't lose her smile. "I do."

B

The Empire may have been mostly defeated but there was still Alaverz to deal with. A fact Ajeel would demonstrate as he and the rest of the Alverez army arrived on the battlefield and he summoned a sandstorm. "So, these Empire fools were defeated, huh?! Pathetic! Let me show you the power of what a real Empire is like!" Everyone tried to protect themselves as they could from the sandstorm. "Dry out and wither to your deaths!"

Out of everyone in the guild, there was one who ran toward him. "Out of the way! I'll make a manly path for everyone!" Elfman's body glowed and took on a new Take Over form. "Just leave this guy to me! A little sand won't leave a scratch on a Sand Beast!"

Ajeel saw him coming and slammed both his hands on the ground. "Ant Lion Pit!"

Elfman found himself quickly sinking into a giant sandpit. He struggled to escape but it was a fruitless endeavor. That is until Lisanna appeared and pulled him out of the sand pit. With some struggles. "You could stand to lose a few pounds, Elfman!"

Elfman couldn't have been happier to see his little sister. "Lisanna! You're a sight for sore eyes!"

"Evil Shower!"

"Thunderbolt's Fate!"

Mirajane and Cana fought some of the soldiers off and they were blasted away by their attacks. A large dust cloud appeared and they waited for more to appear. What they didn't expect was to hear a voice coming from the dust cloud. "My, my. Quite the meddlesome bunch, aren't you?"

The dust cloud cleared out to reveal Jacob. Cana quickly recognized him. "That's the guy that showed up at our guild!"

Jason focused on Mirajane first. "Now, who'll be the first to di-" Once he shifted his focus onto the Cana, he immediately shut his eyes due to her revealing attire. "H-How utterly vulgar! How can you be dressed so shamelessly like that!?" Cana raised an eyebrow as she didn't understand what his problem was.

Along with Ajeel and Jacob, Wahl and Bloodman appeared on the battlefield ready to wreak destruction. Wahl cackled with delight. "Now that's what I'm talking about!"

"I shall deliver them all to the depths of the underworld!" Bloodman then noticed a shadow rushing toward him. "A shadow?" The shadow went under him and Rogue emerged from the shadow. He struck Bloodman from the back.

Wahl sent out multiple missiles while continuing to cackle. "Come if you dare! I'll blow you all to bits!" His smile quickly went away when he saw all of his missiles were destroyed at once.

"It seems something noisy has made its way into my territory."

Yukino was happy to see Minerva and Rogue. "Rogue! Lady Minerva!"

"Yukino!"

Yukino lowered her head to see Lector and Frosh. "Lector! Frosh!"

Lector raised a paw at Yukino. "Frosh and me managed to meet up with Rogue and Lady Minerva after we got separated when that giant guy attacked!"

Frosh also raised his paw. "I'm happy to see Rogue too!"

"Unfortunately, Sting wasn't with them when we reunited." Lector seemed a little down after learning that fact.

Rogue wasn't that worried about Sting, though. "This is Sting we're talking about. There's no cause for concern."

Speaking of Sting, Yukino was curious about something. "But how did you two find our way here?"

Minerva gestured to a woman that was them who was Kinana. "As it so happens, this young lass showed us the way." Kinana waved hello to the rest of the group.

Wahl laughed again when he saw the new arrivals while Bloodman took an interest in Rogue. "Things are finally starting to pick up around here!

"A shadow, is it?"

Rogue immediately noticed something was strong about their opponents. So did Minerva. "My Lady, their magic power."

"Indeed. It seems we're dealing with the walking dead." Minerva turned her attention to Yukino. "There should be a puppet master controlling them somewhere in the vicinity. Yukino, can I leave them to you."

Yukino nodded. "Understood!"

"By the way, Yukino..." Minerva then turned her attention to Sorano. "Who exactly is this swinging character?"

Sorano was moving her body side-to-side while acting all giddy. "You're all sweet! Even though it's not for your own guild, you're fighting so valiantly!"

An anime sweatdrop appeared on Yukino's head. "That's...um..."

"Natsu!"

Natsu heard a familiar voice and turned in the direction where he heard it from. He laughed happily as soon as he saw who called out his name. "Lucy!"

Happy was also glad to see her. "Hey, you're here!"

"It's a good thing we saw a raging wildfire from where we were. Otherwise, we'd never would've found you."

Natsu saw two others that appeared with Lucy. "Gray! Juvia!"

Juvia was happier to see Gray. "Oh, my darling! We've reunited once again!"

Juvia tried to hug him but he jumped out of way and she missed. "Looks like we all managed to beat our opponents."

Lucy nodded in agreement. "Yeah, and right now, there's only one thing left for us to do."

Natsu grinned and turned in the direction of the guild. "Yeah, let's go get our guild back!" He raised his fist into the air. The others followed suit and cheered as well.

End OST

B

"We'll do whatever it takes to take back our guild, save the First Master, and defeat Alverez! Just like I'll give everything I have in defeating you, Esdeath."

Insert Fairy Tail OST: Dragon Slayer Theme

Wendy yelled powerfully as the wind strongly blew out from her and she transformed into her" Dragon Force. Esdeath partially shielded herself from the wind and smiled at the younger girl. "Yes, I remember this form. This was the form you were in when you killed me. Fine then." She lowered her arm and laughed. "This time I'm prepared! You won't be the first dragon I've tamed or killed!"

Wendy said nothing as her wings spread wide. "Now, Mastema! Trump Card Activate!"

Esdeath's eyes widened with shock. "What?!" She was then blinded by a bright light that enveloped Wendy and shot high into the sky.

Meanwhile, Leone and Carla were flying in the direction where Esdeath took Wendy. "Come on Carla! Can't you fly any faster!"

"I'm flying as fast as I can! We'll reach her, I promise!"

Leone could only hope so. Since flying, she had some time to reflect on the recent events that'd happened recently, and after mulling over it, it was almost insane. "Damn it. How the hell did things get this fucked up? We have to get to Wendy before it's too late." She then felt Carla stop for some reason which confused her. "Hey Carla, why'd we stop?"

"Leone, look ahead!" Leone did what Carla told her and looked in front. What they saw was a pillar of light shooting up into the air still far away from where they were. Her eyes widened in disbelief as she and Carla knew very well what it meant. "Don't tell me…is Wendy really-"

"Yeah, it seems like it." Leone interrupted her. "I'm sorry, Carla but this is as far as we can go. If Wendy is really using that, then we'd just be in the way." Carla hated to admit but Leone was right. There was nothing they could do now but hope for the best. "We should probably find some cover. I don't think we're out of range of what's going to happen next." Carla agreed and they flew down to the ground to shield themselves from the upcoming storm.

Back to what was happening with Esdeath, she grunted while she shielded her eyes from the bright light. The pillar of light pulsated strongly and after a minute or so, the light began to dimmer. After the brightness faded, Esdeath managed to open her eyes and she was greeted by an incredible sight. Before her was Wendy in an entirely different form from before. Mastema's angelic wing-like appearance now looked that of a dragon's and her hair was pure white. Her hands and her arms were covered in white dragon scales up to her shoulders which looked like a slender dragon's claw and arm. The same-colored scales and features were also shown on her legs and feet. Both sides of her neck to her face had those same white dragon scales as well. Her wrists and her ankles had larger and longer wing-like appendages coming out of them. When Wendy opened her eyes, they were revealed to be azure blue and draconic in appearance. She flexed as she let out a mighty and powerful draconic roar that echoed through the air far and wide.

"IMPERIAL ARMS MAGIC: DIVINE SKY DRAGON MODE!"

A/N: Ladies and gentlemen, everyone...welcome to "the" moment I've been wanting to get to for so long.