Upon the Emperor Island of Lingyue, the battle is still continuing to its highest climax as the Four Great Guardian Beast of Lingyue rages their power against the Ashura Statue with the help of the Genju that are ripping off some small parts of the Statue's metal skin. While for Natsu with the Four Animal Spirits; they battle against Orochi Ikaruga upon the palace which is getting wrecked upon their battle.

Natsu and Orochi Ikaruga are currently locked in a sword battle against one another before Enra came jumping in, the Monkey King spins his staff around before he swung it down on Orochi Ikaruga who pushed away Natsu before dodging the Monkey Spirit's attack, but got intercepted by Tengu and Taka, both avian celestial spirits swung their talons at her back and sends her crashing right into the palace's chambers.

Giving chase, Natsu and the others didn't stop for a second to give her a moment to breath or to recollect her strength as they have to stop Orochi no matter the cost.

Orochi Ikaruga quickly got up as she is situated within the Emperor's chamber where she continues her battle against Natsu and the three Celestial Spirits who is joined by Seiocho who arises within the chamber with a geyser of water upon her command.

'how is this possible?! This human's power is resonating with that katana! why?! It's made out of my broken fang! It should be in my control! Not his!" thought Orochi inside Ikaruga's body as Natsu swung Chitetsu's blade against the violet black sword, Orochi Ikaruga wielded. "is this human really a human!?"

"Saru Ninpou: Saru Hari Senbon no Jutsu!" chanted Enra while weaving hand signs before the hair around his body rises up like spikes before rains of needle hairs flies towards Orochi Ikaruga who is blocking Taka's leg talons with her sword before dodging the incoming hair needles.

"you cannot escape our fury, Orochi!" said Seiocho as she spins her trident before swinging its tip forward, summoning water spheres around her that formed water spears that instantly flies towards Orochi Ikaruga who had just landed a few feet away from Enra's attack, now jumping and then running away from the water spears that destroyed parts of the palace upon missed collision.

Orochi Ikaruga runs along the hall before Tengu came bursting out of the floor below, the Raven Spirit weaving several hand signs in a fast pace before taking a deep breath.

"Hai o Suu!" Tengu breathes out black and grey smoke out of his mouth at Orochi Ikaruga who covered her mouth with one hand before she swung her sword at Tengu who caught it with his bare hands then grit his teeth hard once that caused a spark before the black and grey smoke exploded into flames.

the entire one floor of the palace exploded into flames as Orochi Ikaruga came jumping out of a window as her attire is burned up from the explosion.

"is he trying to kill the owner of this body?!" said Orochi Ikaruga with a frustrated look before she sees a bright light shining behind her, she turns and sees Taka who has both hands in a prayer motion while his eyes are shining a bright yellow colour.

"Senko Issen!" chanted the eagle spirit as his eyes fired a white laser at Orochi Ikaruga who jumped away, but Taka's eyes followed her movement and so did the laser.

Orochi Ikaruga runs along the palace's tiles as the laser followed her while burning and destroying the tiles behind her, before long Orochi Ikaruga threw her sword at Taka who swung his talons and deflected her sword away but that gave the possessed woman the opportunity to jumps straight at the Eagle Spirit to land an attack, only to get grabbed by tree vines that came springing out of the palace by control of Enra.

"what?!" said Orochi Ikaruga in surprise as her whole body got wrapped entirely in the tree vines before Enra commanded the vines to spin her around then the vines threw her away upwards to the night sky where Natsu appeared as the man wields Chitetsu with both hands and this alarmed Orochi Ikaruga. "damnit!"

Natsu swung down his cursed katana directly towards Orochi Ikaruga's stomach, instantly causing her to spit out blood and saliva that are mixed before falling straight to the city.

"this man! He's going for blood! He doesn't care anymore if this body belongs to his beloved?!" thought Orochi inside Ikaruga before the woman did several handsigns as the Ashura Statue that is getting bombarded with blasts of lightning, fire, wind, and earth from the Four Great Guardian spirits, turns its head to the right side for a happy smiling face that made the Ashura to be protected by a barrier that blocks the four attacks from the four Great Spirits.

Orochi Ikaruga flew in the air before one of the Ashura Statue's four hands caught her upon its palm. The possessed woman huffs her breathing before wiping off some blood on her lips and sees it upon her hand.

"this is madness! He loves the owner of this body and instead of trying to save it, he's trying to kill it along with myself?!" Orochi Ikaruga turns and sees Natsu with the Four Animal Spirits coming right at her, the man's eyes glowing red as Chitetsu's blade emanates a dark aura. "is this human no longer sane?! Have I gone too far that I will surely perish like that fox predicted moments ago?!"

Orochi Ikaruga stands up as she did several hand signs before taking a deep breath and then breathes out white mist, intending to cover herself and disguise her location upon the Ashura Statue, but before she could finish covering herself in mist, several Genju came climbing up the Ashura's body and some runs to the hand where Orochi Ikaruga is and attacked her instantly upon reach.

"filthy weaklings!" exclaimed Orochi Ikaruga as she dodges several strikes form the Genju before she did a hand sign and then breathes out flames right out of her mouth. The Genju backs away before one jumped up and sends several black hands strikes at Orochi Ikaruga who dodges but got several strands of her hair cut off.

Before long Natsu and the Four Animal Spirits sends a barraging element attack upon the Ashura's barrier that is blocking the Four Great Guardian Spirits' attack as well. This continued as Natsu and the 8 Celestial Spirits of Lingyue endlessly fires their attack against the Ashura's barrier while the Genju are facing Orochi Ikaruga inside the barrier, not giving her a chance to give any counterattack.

Orochi Ikaruga kicks away a Genju before looking at the bright flaming explosion outside as she smirks in seeing the barrier withstanding their attack.

"this Ashura was able to withstand my attack centuries ago, it's defense are impregnatable" said Orochi Ikaruga with a smirk as she had a flashback of the Yamata no Orochi in its monstrous snake form, the large snake creature is facing the Ashura Statue that has Kaguya standing on its right shoulder in a Lingyue Moon night. The flames soon died down and Orochi Ikaruga soon sees Natsu flying right towards the barrier. "what?" said Orochi Ikaruga with a slightly confused and surprised face.

"Raaah!" Natsu let out a battle cry as he swung Chitetsu's blade right at the barrier and caused a powerful static clash, the cursed katana's blade clashing against the energy barrier before piercing right through it.

"i-impossible!" exclaimed Orochi Ikaruga as Natsu pushes Chitetsu's blade through the barrier, creating a tear upon it. "how can a human like him tear open the perfect defense!?"

Natsu roars out as his eyes glows red before the man went right through the barrier and wielded Chitetsu in a drawing stance. His eyes glow redder as the man pulls back his left fist that is coated in raging red flames.

"Raaaah!" roared out Natsu as he went straight for the Ashura Statue's smiling face and punches his flaming fist right at it. The power of his punch caused a crack upon the Ashura Statue's smiling face before it spreads and the whole face crumbles to pieces.

"he broke it with brute force?!" said Orochi Ikaruga in shock before she sees the barrier around the Ashura Statue disappearing. "impossible!"

Before a moment could passed, Orochi Ikaruga got assaulted by several Genju that rammed her body and threw her off the Ashura Statue's palm, them all falling into the air and down the city.

"Enra, Tengu, Genbu, Houou, Draco!" shouted Natsu as he jumped into the air and Taka caught him by his right hand before flying away.

"Saru Ninpou: Yūgana Tanpopo no Jutsu!" chanted Enra while doing several hand signs before inhaling air and then breathes out a brown gas from his mouth.

Tengu did the same as he slapped his hands together before forming a hand sign. "Tengu Jutsu: Kuro Kiri Senpo!" chanted Tengu before he flaps his wings several times, creating smoke that has black feathers mixed in it.

Brown gas and black feathered filled smoke covers the Ashura's whole barrier in a veil of smoke as it shrouded everything inside the barrier.

"Kame Abura!" chanted Genbu before the large Tortoise Spirit fired a stream of brown oil right out of his mouth that instantly hits and covers the Ashura Statue in oil as well.

Natsu flew in the air with Taka as the salmon haired man took a deep breath making his chest expand while his sight is upon the Ashura Statue. "Karyu no Hoko!" exclaimed Natsu before he fires a stream of flames right out of his mouth. Draco, and Houou followed by as they pulled back their head as they soon fired blast of lightning and fire from their mouths that joined in with Natsu's attack, instantly causing a powerful flaming explosion upon the Ashura.

The Ashura fell slowly before it crashed upon the city, wrecking many houses and buildings at one go.

Natsu looks at the fallen Ashura Statue before he set his eyes on Orochi Ikaruga who is running away from the Genju chasing after her, she weaved several hand signs and breathes out a torrent of water right at the Genju and washed them away.

Feeling Natsu's stare, Orochi Ikaruga looks up to see him flying in the air with the help of Taka before she ran off.

Natsu lets go of Taka's hand before he went flying down right at Orochi Ikaruga who was about to make a turn in a dark alley, crashing right into her and through a restaurant's walls

tables, chairs, and dishware were all broken were everywhere and so were dust from the broken wall. Orochi Ikaruga got up as she coughed a few times from the dust before Natsu came and sends a kick right at her stomach that causes her to gasp in pain.

Natsu quickly follows his attack by grabbing Orochi Ikaruga's hands from behind before kneeing her back hard and then kicks her right leg, causing her to buckle. Orochi Ikaruga fell before Natsu grabs her neck from behind while his left hand holds Chitetu up above his head, the sharpness of the katana's blade glints once before it is leaned against Orochi Ikaruga's right eye.

The two are now in a standstill moment as Natsu has overpowered and pressured Orochi Ikaruga to a pressing submission.

"i-if you kill me…the owner of this body will die too…" muttered Orochi Ikaruga while Natsu holds her neck and then proceed to grip it hard. "…are you mad?...any pain that I feel through this body, the owner will feel it as well…"

"I made a vow once..with her father.." said Natsu with huffing breathes. "..i vowed that if any evil possesses her…..i would end it even at the cost of her own life…"

Flashback

It was a dark night upon Lingyue many years ago as within the Emperor's chamber, there is Natsu and the previous Emperor, Ryujima; Ikaruga's father.

"you must be willing to stop Orochi no matter what, Natsu" said Ryujima as he holds Chitetsu in his hands before passing it to Natsu who sat in front of him. "he's an evil reincarnation of the world's evil, you must stop his revival no matter the sacrifice"

"but….if what you say is true" said Natsu as Ryujima nodded before he turns to look upon the city by a nearby window.

"he will try to take over by the shadows first, and then use Nagano's body before taking over Ikaruga's" said Ryujima in a sad voice as he sighs before looking down with a frown. "it pains me to think of such things…..but fate is something that neither of us can escape from"

"must I take her life?" muttered Natsu while holding Chitetsu tight in his grasp, the thought of killing Ikaruga comes to his mind and pains him.

"that is a decision that you must take, Natsu" said Ryujima as he kneels in front of the salmon haired man before placing a hand on his shoulder then gives him a smile. "I'm certain that you will be able to cut down the cruel fate and create a new one"

Flashback

"I've decided to cut you down even with my beloved's life on the line" said Natsu as he slowly lifted Chitetsu up, the cursed katana's blade glint from its sharpness making Orochi Ikaruga's eyes widen in shock. "are you prepared to die, Orochi?"

"this shouldn't be how it is supposed to end! This man is going to kill me with this woman's body! he's a mad man!" screamed Orochi inside Ikaruga's body before Orochi Ikaruga's eyes and mouth flashes a violet colour and a brown serpent came springing out of her mouth as it is Orochi. "I have to escape!"

The brown serpent slithers out of the building through a hole as it escapes from Natsu who dropped Chitetsu to the floor so that he can use both hands to hold Ikaruga in his arms.

Natsu gently got down to his knees while he holds Ikaruga close to him. The serpent scale skin around Ikaruga's face started to fade as the partial part of her black hair turns back to its pinkish color.

Gently lifting her head up, Natsu looks at Ikaruga's face as her eyes squinted a few times before slowly opening. Her vision blurry before focusing after a few seconds and sees Natsu who has a soft smile to her.

Her lips forming a smile, Ikaruga sighs before lifting up her right hand and cups Natsu's check then said "you've kept your promise…"

"I won't ever leave you or our family ever again…" muttered Natsu as a tear slides down his right eye. "I promised that with my life"

"yes…..yes you have" said Ikaruga before Natsu leans down to take her lips, both sharing a moment of reunion together as Natsu got her back with him.

Unknown to the two, Chitetsu was fading away before the cursed katana disappears into thin air.


Out of the city and within the forest, Orochi is slithering away as the cowardly snake is escaping.

"to think that in this age there is such a human! What was he!? I've seen countless types of creatures from my long life, he was not any creature of this realm!" thought Orochi while slithering away, planning to hide and make a new plan to conquer Lingyue after another failure yet again. "I need to find a human body and use it to hide myself for as long as it lives!"

Orochi continues to slither away, before Chitetsu came flying in as the cursed katana's blade pierced right through the snake's mouth.

Letting out hissing sound, Orochi's body wriggles around while its head is stuck upon the ground because of the katana pinning itself.

"did you really believe that you will have a happy ending, Orochi?" said Chitetsu as his demonic skeletal shadow appeared upon the blade. Chitetsu cackles as he watches Orochi's body wriggles around in pain. "it hurts, right? The sensation of pain to your…..weakling body"

"you were made by my broken fang! How dare you harm me! I am the one who gave you a form!" Orochi's eyes glows yellow as he glares upon Chitetsu who merely cackles in response.

"it's true that my form is made from your fang, but my presence within it? it didn't come from you" stated Chitetsu as his demonic skeletal shadow laughs. Orochi glares at Chitetsu before he sees a sight of raging red flames which surrounds a shrouded figure who has horns and raging black greyish flames upon both hands. two glowing black and red demonic eyes appeared upon the figure's head as the eyes were piercingly corrupt with hatred and evil.

"y-you! You are that offspring! You are that man's cre-!" thought Orochi in shock before the snake's body started to wither and became gray as its blood is getting sucked right out of it by Chitetsu.

"you are slow in realizing whose soul is sealed within this form of mine" said Chitetsu with a cackle before the cursed katana's blade emanated a black aura then soon fades away.


Upon the destroyed Emperor Island's city, everything is in a big wreck as not one house or building is sparred.

Nearby the barely standing Emperor's palace, Yuuko stood nearby while having Kiara riding on her shoulder. The Fox woman looks around to see the damage before she caught sight of all 8 Lingyue Guardian Spirits coming by as they surround the center of the hole.

"it would seem that Kaguya-sama's prediction has finally come to an end," said Yuuko as all 8 Lingyue Guardian Spirit nodded in unison.

Before long, Yuuko's large Pop Fox Children came jumping out of the large hole as they had Gray and the others along with the rebellion members riding on their backs. All of them getting off a few minutes later as Lucy and Mira also brought Haruka, Haruo, and Ikki with them.

The twins look around before they saw Natsu with Ikaruga coming by as the man carried his wife in his arms.

"Mama! Papa!" the two screamed out as Haruka ran right towards them while Haruo was limping slowly, the young boy's body a bit weak just after an hour of his resurrection from the dead.

Natsu gently kneels on the ground as Haruka jumped right to the parent's arms, the young girl crying with a happy smile. Ikaruga smiles and petted her head before giving her a kiss then turns to look at Haruo who is coming close even with a limping leg.

The twins got a big and tearful reunion hug with their parents as they are happy to have each other back. Natsu smiles to his twins who are crying so much to have their mother and father back, he petted their heads before his eyes caught sight of something that made him smile even more.

"Ikaruga" said Natsu while looking to Ikaruga who embraces Haruka and Haruo in her arms with a happy smile before turning to look at him. Natsu pointed forward as Ikaruga turns and her lips formed a happy smile.

With hands being held by Mira, Ikki is wobbling his little legs on the street as the young boy is learning how to walk. A few seconds of wobbling, Mira gently let go of Ikki's little hands as she lets the young boy go to his family.

The twins separating from the hug with their mother as they stood beside their father who watches as Ikki goes to them. Ikaruga smiles as she watches her youngest child coming to them just by himself, seeing him walk for the first time gave tears to her eyes.

Everyone watched as Ikki got closer and closer to Ikaruga who opened her arms for her young child and in a few seconds time, he reached his mother who hugs him and carried the young boy in her arms with a happy smile.

"I'm so proud of you.." muttered Ikaruga with a happy smile as she pecks Ikki's head, getting a happy giggling smile from the young boy.

Soon enough, Gray and the others went to the happy family as they congratulate on Ikki who can now walk or rather wobble his legs to his family.

Daichi and the other Generals stayed by their place as they watch the happy crowd.

"like the sun that rises and sets upon the edge. It's warmth never ceases upon the life on the earth" said Daichi in a poem like tone as he smiled and nodded.

"a haiku at a moment like this" added Raikou while crossing his arms and smiles a bit "sounds pretty good"

Yuuko who is nearby giggles a bit with a smile as Kiara squealed before getting some chin scratches from her mother. The Fox woman glance to the side as to see the rising sun from the horizon that signals the start of a bright new day.


That's a wrap!

Bye bye