Okay hey guys we're back with this story after so long and taking into account the amount views, favourites, follows and reviews on average per chapter this story is easily my most popular with something like 40k plus vies 300 plus favs and follows and over 100 reviews so thanks everyone for the support on this story and I shall continue to try a do my best. Now on with the story.
Hargeon port
Currently we see a 'man' with a crazed grin and interested expression on his face perched on top of one of the port town's buildings, he is of average height, has short messy spikey hair, fang like teeth and numerous metal studs decorating his face. This was Walcht the adjudicator, one of the spriggan twelve and he was anything but human, no he was 100% machine but he had the ability to use magic just like ordinary human mages.
"Hoh they came back pretty strong but it nothing…" He started in a cocky tone but stooped to turn around when he felt an immense amount of magical power and murderous intent from behind him but when he turned around he saw no-one. "Must have been my imagination…UGH!" Walcht said walking across the main beam of the house he was currently standing on until he was silenced by an incredibly powerful punch to the back of his head causing the house to collapse in on itself from the force of the blow.
"You're the scumbag who took out Freed and the others!" a voice said in a deadly tone through the smoke which slowly cleared to reveal Laxus with an expression of anger and one that promised pain on his face. "What never heard of them!" Walcht shouted recovering from the surprise attack and seemingly being fine as he grabbed a hold of one of Laxus' arms. However, what he said pissed the lightning dragonslayer off even more and with his other free hand using pure physical strength back handed the weakness magic user a good 20 metres across the street.
Walcht wasn't going to lie despite the fact he was immune to lightning the physical strength of Laxus blows were impressive and he could land a successful barrage of those hits he didn't know if his current personality setting's exoskeleton could withstand it. But that was neither here nor there he had finally found a worthy challenger and with a few fancy flips and gripping into the ground he skidded to a stop.
"Alchemically Fuse Copper and Zinc and Drill them into 9mm Bullets; Fire!" lumps of metal ore seemed to rise out of the ground as Walcht shouted this before they started combining and refining in shape and then finally shooting off at incredibly speeds. However, as they sped towards Laxus who had a bored look on his face Walcht noticed that strands of lightning were wrapping around each of the bullets and the closer they got to the lightning mage they would break apart faster and faster.
It was now Laxus' facial expression changed as he closed his eyes before swiftly opening them again making the clouds darken and the air become thick with magical energy all in a split second before a massive bolt of Lightning struck the area between Walcht and Laxus shaking the port itself. The explosion from the bolt was enough to cause force Walcht back a few more metres although the lightning wouldn't affect him it's by products still could.
"Tch what a pain, analysing target…" Walcht began analysing everything he could get on Laxus, his physical strength, speed and magical output. But Walcht could only shake in response to what he just came across, "What the hell? Your organs are…" Walcht didn't get to finish as Laxus charged him lightning coating his right fist. This caused Walcht to smirk before parts of his own right metal arm started moving about and puffing out steam buffing his strength.
The two punches met one another the physical struggle against one another created such force the earth below and them shattered not to mention the stray bolts of Lightning that were darting off here and there were also causing a bit of destruction to various buildings. "You're really somethin' ain'tcha punk; how are you even alive there's no-way you are human?" Walcht asked in an amused tone but Laxus was still going on the attack and had already readied his left fist.
"I never have and never will sweat the small details; what matters is how I live my life now!" the lightning mage roared out before planting a lightning coated left hook to Walcht's jaw the force of which drove him into the further down in the ground. As his fist collided with the spriggan Laxus could feel his bones ache in response he was definitely sure he broke something in his hand but he also felt part of the spriggan's jaw give way a bit in the blow.
"Give me a break you humans are always going on about your little speeches and morals…let me tell you something lightning ain't gonna do shit to me so you better think extra hard about how you wanna die!" Walcht shouted in a crazed voice still going like he wasn't being affected by Laxus' attacks before he swung his right fist socking Laxus in the jaw sending the blonde flying only stopping when he dug both his feet into the tiles of a house roof but by this time Walcht had already got to him and punched him again except the force from this punch was almost triple that of the previous ones and the gales it created were enough to wreck houses and lift the earth up from the streets.
Laxus was internally cursing he could slowly feel the poison accelerating the effects but had on his body the magic he used but he didn't care this guy hurt Freed and the others when he could have been there to stop it but he wasn't and that's what pissed him off the fact that once again just like Tartaros he wasn't able to help his family.
Finding the roof of a distant house Laxus used it like a string board coating himself in his lightning body before flipping forward a few times and slamming his right heel into the back of Walcht's head sending him rapidly towards the ground with such force that he crashed straight through the street down into a sewer way.
"Analysis complete, somehow large quantities of anti-magic barrier particles have made their way into his body, but even still this lugs magic power is top tier within Fairytail. With my current frivolous personality setting there's a chance no almost a certainty that I'd get the carpet pulled out from under me. Re-setting personality to cold and ruthless, setting Laxus as sole target, diverting all power to magic ignition oven; estimated time for eradication 90 seconds!" Walcht said as different metal and ore's started joining to his exoskeleton.
Meanwhile up top Laxus was wondering what the hell was happening down below, he could hear the joining and clanging of metal as well as fell a build-up of magical energy. He suddenly found himself dodging to the right just managing to dodge a concentrate ball of immense heat that had it made contact with him probably would have killed him luckily only his shirt suffered any damage. The ball of fire continued to fly skyward before exploding with a tremendous show of power, it was almost as if the sky had been set on fire.
Looking back down Laxus could now see a very different Walcht, "Walcht Assault mode; Ready for Sortie" even the voice had changed to a colder more calculating tone but what worried Laxus now was the fact that the magic barrier particles seemed to be doing even more damage than usually to the point where breathing was a pain.
"This damn body of mine…now of all times!" However, he didn't have any time to organise himself as Walcht now charged for the dragonslayer slamming a fist into his chest before several protrusions appeared out of Walcht's fist shooting a powerful shockwave off that sent Laxus skyward.
"Missile Bombardment!" showing no mercy Walcht shot numerous missiles towards Laxus each making contact with the blonde who could only roar out in pain when he wasn't coughing up some blood. But Walcht wasn't done not by a long shot, "Anti-matter Cannon!" Walcht's left arm opened up to reveal a cannon barrel that charged itself up with energy before firing a concentrated beam of energy which exploded on contact with Laxus "Railgun Bombardment!" landing on a nearby building a large structure began constructing itself quickly on Walcht's back before it fired a large stream of electricity which only caused Laxus to smirk at this small stroke of luck.
Walcht had expected that last attack to do the trick but he was surprised when Laxus emerged from the smoke his magic power more than doubled and even in his injured state it was still an incredible amount of magic enough so that Walcht would admit that it probably could have ranked him 4th or 5th among the spriggan twelve. But he wasn't worried he still had the fact that Laxus used lightning which was ineffective against him.
"Error, target seems to invulnerable to electric based attacks ugh!" Walcht said to himself before being slugged in the jaw by Laxus who was now in his dragonslayer form. Despite the fact Walcht was flying the punch still sent him back a good few metres, "However I also remain invulnerable to electric based attacks as well!" Walcht finished as he began shooting magic bullets at Laxus who used his Lightning speed to dodge in-between the blasts until he got close enough to Kick the mech in the side of the j=head causing him to crash into a large wooden crate on the ground.
"This human…!" Walcht said to himself in an agitated tone before stopping when he saw the imposing form of Laxus land on the ground with a thud, his face shadowed as he walked towards the downed mech dangerously. Sadly, it just didn't seem like Laxus' day today as he found his body being forced to the ground, his muscles no longer obeying him as an overwhelming sense of pain enveloped his body causing to cough up even more blood than before.
"I see it appears the targets body has hit its limits; the magic barrier particles have reached their peak stage where they are no affecting his vital functions to the point where even breathing must be a difficult task" Walcht summed up as he started walking towards the downed lightning mage who was trying to force his body to move even if it was just one inch. "Come on move dammit!"
"To think a human with a body in such a state could force me so far even existed, I wonder just what you would have been capable of had your body not poisoned and at 100%. I'll admit if that was the case there is no doubt that I would have lost this battle. So in recognition of your skills I shall provide you with a fitting end" Walcht honestly admitted before lifting his hand up "Activating illegal magic conversion cannon; Etherion" Walcht tone turned deadly as the mech started charging up his miniature etherion cannon.
However, before he could fire it a large circle of strange purple writing enveloped both himself and the dragonslayer, "What, a jutsu shiki?" Walcht shout in surprise as he quickly began examining the writing, "Magic Barrier Particle Eradication!" Laxus muttered out so Walcht wouldn't hear what type of barrier it was as well as activating the circle but Walcht only laughed. "Foolish human it would seem your memory capacity is lacking, have you forgotten barriers such as these have no effect on me observe!" Walcht said in a cocky tone before giving a wave of his hand dispelling the barrier but what he heard next puzzled him greatly; Laughter?
"Hahaha, thanks a lot Freed I owe you one" Laxus said as he to Walcht surprise shakily rose to his feet his magic power increasing as he got up. "There aren't many wizards who could dispel your barriers and even if there was one he or she would have to neutralize the magic barrier particles completely meaning he or she would be my cure" Laxus said with a vicious grin. "Shit" Walcht could only curse at his own mistake, how could he a perfect machine make such a blunder. "MOTHER FUCKER! ERROR PERSONALITY ERROR!" Walcht literally went haywire unable to comprehend how he made his mistake but Laxus knew.
"I hate to bare my fangs at my saviour but you really did a number on my friends and now it's time to pay!" closing the distance between himself and the mech instantaneously Laxus smashed his right fist into Walcht's stomach, "Allow me to enlighten you the weight of my life alone pales in comparison to theirs, you may be some super powerful magic robot but you still lack heart!" the blond roared out as he continued to drive Walcht further back.
The mech however was laughing like a maniac, "And I told you before Lightning ain't gonna do shit…huh" Walcht started in a twisted cocky voice but it became puzzled when he saw the golden lightning Laxus was using turn a deep blood red colour, "What the fuck red lightning…. analysis impossible!?" the mech shouted out in what he could only assume was what the humans called fear.
Before Walcht could do anything he felt his armour literally explode into a million tiny pieces from an even larger source of magic than before and his power source soon followed suite resulting in his world turning black. "MERCURY FULMINATE THUNDER GOD!" surrounded by blood red lightning a tired and heavily damaged Laxus passed straight through Walcht breaking the robot into multiple pieces as well as defeating one of the spriggan's single headedly. (A;N for those of you who were wondering how Laxus' lightning affected Walcht well mercury fulminate is a highly volatile substance that explodes violently once friction is applied, or something like that, so Mashima actually used some science in that chapter)
Laxus knew he had to prolong the fight in order to rid his body of the magic barrier particles, that was Freed's plan from the beginning after he told him that Walcht could cancel out his barriers. Granted he didn't expect his illness to act up in the middle of the fight causing him to take more damage than necessary but as long as he didn't have to fight any spriggan level enemies for a while he would be back to full strength if not more since the particles limited how much power he could use so he would have to new unexplored power to use later in other battles.
"Hehehe…three down…nine to go" Laxus huffed out as he counted off another spriggan Walcht made the third spriggan Fairytail had dealt with, however he was completely unaware of God Serena's demise which made for four but there were still two more spriggans here in Hargeon so he couldn't afford to let his guard down so he prepared so defence spells in advance before deciding to catch his breath by leaning his huge frame up against a partially still intact house.
He could see explosions in the distance but they didn't have a signature of magic off them instead they emanated the familiar feeling of curse power. This could only mean one thing "That idiot actually sent someone huh" Laxus thought while smirking internally before focusing his magic onto his healing factor, being a dragonslayer did have it perks sometimes. Although it was nowhere near as advanced as a demon's, it could still heal you providing you weren't beyond its healing capabilities, luckily Laxus was currently still within its healing abilities.
Meanwhile…
Jackal and Kyouka had arrive on scene a little later than they would have liked, but then again using Jackal's etherious form as a mode of transportation was exactly the quickest way to get about, never the less it still got them there. Of course Jackal had returned to his normal form before entering the town in order to conserve energy.
"Okay let's see what we can do" Jackal said as he cracked his knuckle…er paws whatever you want to call them, while Kyouka extended to tendrils of green energy from her clawed hands nodding in agreement. "Remember Natsu has set us a task we must not fail him now go!" Kyouka shouted before the two split off from one another taking on battalion after battalion of Alveraz warriors. Kyouka enhancing their senses of pain to the point they pass out and Jackal using either physical strength to combat individual's or controlled explosions to take out large groups.
Kyouka and Jackal were quickly making their way through the forces of Alveraz, but suddenly they found themselves halted as they saw reanimations appear of people who according to Natsu were supposed to be dead. All across the port this was happening and the level of person capable of such an area of effect would be someone at spriggan level or higher.
"Humph the one with Yuri's blood flowing through his veins" a very unamused Hades said to a still pretty exhausted Laxus who could only curse his luck "This has got to be some god damn sick twisted joke" he said in a dry humour voice as he forced himself back up for the next upcoming battle.
"Hey Meredy" a crazed voice shouted from behind a busty young long pink hair girl, "Zancrow!" Meredy almost paled when she saw her ex-psychotic guild mate who only grinned maliciously at her surprise.
"I'm sorry young miss that we have to meet like this under such deplorable circumstances, to think my body would not be my own once more" a reincarnated and depressed Silver Fullbuster said from behind Juvia Locksar who could only turn around in shock to see the man who acknowledged her as 'Gray's woman' as well as his own daughter in law. "No not again I can't do this to Gray.
"Is that the best you two can do, guess I'm gonna have to whip you two into shape and show some real ice make magic" Ur Milkovich said as she froze a group of Ishgar mages while striding towards Lyon and Gray. "No way this can't be real" Lyon spoke up which was then followed by Gray "You've got be kidding me this isn't happening.
"My, my Titania won't you entertain me and dear Mr. Azuma here once more" Ikaruga said in a sweet tone as she ran her pinkie finger along the handle of her sword, "Yes even in death I longed for a rematch with the fabled Titania, you've grown stronger since our last encounter show me" Azuma said in a battle crazed voice to which Erza Scarlet only growled in response. Meanwhile up on the masts of the ship she was currently aboard a blond haired man in shiny silver plated armour sat with an amused cocky grin plastering his face.
"This is the power of Historia, all of Fiore shall succumb to its own Historia and pave the way for Alakatasia to rule a new world of acceptance, none will be able to stand in our way" his tone was arrogant and cocky, his name Neinhart and his magic allowed him to bring memories a person has of someone that is dead to life, not in the literal sense, they are more like magical copies that have physical bodies and all the magic power of the memory but they can only remain in this world as long as the caster of Historia is still active.
"Now Fiore how will you respond?"
Chapter end
Okay that's it for this chapter, I'll first up apologize for leaving this story for so long my bad, secondly sorry to the Laxus haters/dislikers for this chapter being pretty much about him but I needed this to be a bridge chapter for my upcoming chapter of two. I have a plan for the next few chapters involving pairings other than the main ones and ypu guessed it Laxus is one of the people I'll be pairing with someone. Because Mira is now taken by Natsu I'm going change how the battle for Hargeon progresses slightly to suite the pairing I'm thinking on and I want your honest opinion who would you I rather pair Laxus with Kagura or Meredy in the next few chapters or Sorano in a later chapter although I would have to think of a way to work that out but I still like the idea of that craic pairing in fact I like the idea of any of the three. So let me know what you thought of the chapter and what you think I should do for pairings concerning Laxus and maybe some of the demon gates like Mardgeer and jackal should I create original characters for them, an already existing character or not pair them? Let me know
