Back with this story guys at long last sorry for the wait but I was figuring out how long I wanted to make this chapter and what to put in it while still leaving some stuff for the next chapter. At any rate I hope the wait wasn't too bad and that you all enjoy this chapter an important note for this chapter is that I purposely chose to save Dimaria's fight till last and having the short Neinheart fight before it for my own reason with that out of the way enjoy.

"How does it feel Titania? How does it feel to be helpless before the foes you once stood against?" A smug Neinheart asked as Azuma and Ikaruga took turns in attacking the already injured fairy queen. "…Ugh…" Era was unable to respond as a large tree root struck her in the stomach knocking the air out of her lungs as well as slamming her up the far end of the ship.

"This is becoming less of a battle and more of a one sided onslaught" Azuma commented before giving a flick of his wrist causing more roots to sprout before they held Erza up by her hands restrain her allowing Ikaruga to walk up to her and using her sword magic gave a gentle tap to the scarlet knight's armour resulting in nothing initially before a light surrounded it followed by the top half of her armour shattering.

"I must agree with Mr. Azuma here; this fight is certainly lacking the initial bite it should have" Ikaruga added before she walked back over to Azuma. Neinheart then walked up to Erza before a golden glow extended from his hand and elongated into a whip shape. "How long before the Fairy queen breaks?" the Historia user said with a sadistic smile on his face as he raised his hand up.

In the port

Multiple battles were raging throughout the port as guild members young and old, injured or not fought against the forces of the Alveraz empire and their own Historia.

"Ice make Volcano" one such Historia was that of Leon and Gray who currently had to fight against their long diseased master, teacher and surrogate mother Ur Milkovich. Gray and Leon could only roar in pain as wave after wave of ice magic hit them from the attack not to mention the chunks of ice the rained down upon them. "This is insane; I never knew she was this powerful, how can we fight against this?" Gray groaned out as he pushed himself up from the street.

"I know, there's no way we can beat Ur…" Lyon started as he too began to push himself off the ground, "That isn't Ur! Get that through that thick skull of yours!" Gray snapped in anger. "Our teacher died long ago because of my stupidity and my mistake, that thing in front of us is nothing but a mockery and a cheap imitation of our master!" Gray shouted in a mixture of anger and sadness causing Lyon to give him a sympathetic look "Gray…"

Meanwhile Meredy and Juvia were currently struggling with their own Historia as the Maguilty sense and water mages face off against two extremely powerful slayers both of whom were once part of the two strongest dark guilds in the Baram alliance.

"Flame God's Bellow!"

"Ice Demon's Rage!"

Meredy and Juvia appeared helpless against the two roars, one of black flames and the other of purple ice. "I can't do this to Gray again, I can't kill his father again" Juvia sobbed as the tears ran from her eyes causing Silver to give her a look of sympathy. "Young miss I was already dead the first time you 'killed' me, it's no difference this time either; please I just want to be with Mika" Silver thought to himself as his face showed a twinge of sadness which didn't go unnoticed by Zancrow.

"What's the matter frosty don't tell me you feel sorry for that pathetic excuse of a mage?" Zancrow asked in a deranged voice which earned him a death glare from Silver, "If my body were my own I'd skewer you bastard!" Silver threatened gaining Juvia's attention and causing her to smile, his body may no longer have been his but his thoughts and personality were all there.

"Come on Juvia we'll pull through this; I know we will, as long as we work together we'll get through this trust me!" Meredy said in a determined tone as she offered her hand for the water mage to take while summoning a large amount of teal coloured swords around her.

At the same time Laxus and Hades were duking it out, exchanging blow after blow neither one back down. "Is that the best you can do brat, Yury would turn over in his grave if he saw this pitiful display!" Hades shouted before sending a blast of dark magic towards the lightning dragonslayer who shot a blast of lightning magic in response to intercept.

The two mages struggled to force one another back, "Why can't you ever stay dead!?" Laxus shouted as he forced more of his magic into his attack resulting in an explosion pushing each mage back a couple of metres, "Why the fuck can I never catch a break!"

Meanwhile with Wendy, Chelia and Carla the trio of mages were working their way through the groups of Alveraz foot soldiers making sure to keep an eye out for any potential spriggans. That was until suddenly, "Hey aren't you that pipsqueak dragonslayer from the boss's old guild!" a voice shouted out causing the group to look up at a roof only to see Jackal standing there with a dumbfounded expression.

"It's you, did Natsu send you?" Wendy asked running over to the demon leaving two still uncertain members of the group behind. "Yeah he was worried about the spriggans here so he sent me and Kyouka as back up" Jackal revealed causing a look of worry to come over Wendy's face. "Wait what's wrong?" the etherious demon asked curiously. "Well you see considering her past dealings with Kyouka I'm not sure how Erza will react" the sky dragon answered making a look of understanding make its way onto his face.

Slowly but surely Chelia and Carla made their way over to the two to see what they were talking about. "thanks for the heads up I'll make sure to try and keep Kyouka from running into Titania, you all stay safe because if you don't Natsu will have my head" Jackal shouted back to the group as he took off sending explosions in one direction or the other. "I really don't know how you can trust him child, I mean even with Natsu being their master the guild still attacked our own, took countless lives and almost wiped the one thing connecting you to your dragon" Carla commented in an exhausted voice but Wendy just smiled. "Yeah, but that was before Natsu set them on a different path, now I know I can trust them or in the very least trust Natsu" Wendy said with a reassuring smile before returning her attention to the fading figure of Jackal.

Back with Erza

Still bound by roots Erza remained unmoving, except now she various gash like injuries all over her body, each ranging in size, depth and as a result fatality. "The mighty Fairy Queen still refuses to beg for her life, your will is strong; I must admit I am impressed" Neinheart said truthfully but then his expression turned serious. "However, let's see how strong you can stay when you have to relive the fear of enemies past!" Neinheart said in a sadistic tone but Erza was unfazed and mumbled something that the Historia user was unable to hear.

"I'm sorry what was that" Neinheart asked in an amused voice, but Erza raised her head revealing the look of rage on her face, "Why should I fear the ghosts of those I have already defeated; be gone spectres of the past, remember the fear you tasted at the hand of my blade!" Erza shouted before Azuma and Ikaruga faded out from existence resulting Erza dropping onto the deck of the ship in a pool of her own blood and lost consciousness.

Neinheart was frozen on the spot, he had seen those eyes only once before, "No it couldn't be that person, but the red hair and those eyes; Lady Eileen?" Neinheart thought to himself in worry but he didn't have much time to recompose himself as a flash of gold landed in front of him revealing a familiar blue haired figure who was tending to Erza.

"I thought I took care of you" Neinheart muttered out before Jellal turned around to face him, "One more" he whispered before his face became fully visible and showed the rage and anger on his face, "Here and now I shall commit one more sin!" Jellal shouted before a surge of magic power radiated from his body and the clouds overhead dispersed revealing a starry sky.

"Meteor!"

Surrounding his body in a golden light Jellal rocketed at Neinheart before upper cutting him using his speed and momentum to increase the force of his punch. As the punch connected it sent Neinheart a few feet into the air before Jellal put his arms out at his sides gathering magic up in his palms. "HELIOS" clapping his hands together Neinheart was surrounded in a burning ball of heavenly body magic that raised higher and higher into the air until "Red Nova!" as Jellal shouted this while pointing his right index and middle finger at the ball of magic it began to condense before it exploded resulting in a nuclear sized explosion that sent shockwaves throughout the port.

Returning his attention to the scarlet haired knight Jellal lifted her up carefully, it was only now that he realised just how dangerous the world is, if he didn't find someone to treat Erza soon he would lose the most important person on his life. "Erza, hang on"

At the exact moment Jellal attacked Neinheart everyone across port town began finishing up their battles, Laxus and Hades were butting heads growling at each other, Meredy and Juvia were combining their magic and Gray and Lyon were well stripping.

"Your era is long over you damn relic! It's about time you repent for what you did to the first and go back to hell where you belong!" Laxus shouted in anger as he pushed Hades back slightly before readying his magic.

"Lightning Dragon's Jaw!"

"Unison Raid; Maguilty=Water!"

"Ice Devil's Zeroth Long Sword!"

"Cygnus Bladed Icewings!"

One by one the fearsome enemies in front of them were defeated before moments later they faded out of existence leaving some fighters with various injuries behind Despite still be conscious the worst of those injuries was probably Laxus and he was severely internally injured as well as having some severe external injuries. Erza definitely had the worst external injuries what with her range of gashes and cut littering her body.

"There you are!" Laxus heard a feminine voice call out to him as he lay down against a building completely exhausted. "Y-you" even talking hurt for the lightning mage right now, "Stop moving I'm here to heal you, trust me from what Natsu has told us you're gonna need it" Kyouka said as he clawed hands glowed a bright yellow before being replaced by more human like hands that then glowed a green colour.

"Since when can curses heal?" Laxus was barely able to ask, "They can't, before you leave this place you'll have to find someone with healing magic to treat your external injuries; all I can do is undo the internal damage that was inflicted by the magic barrier particles" Kyouka revealed surprising Laxus who was able to feel relief in his lungs and heart which made breathing and speaking easier. "Just what is it that I'm going to need this for anyway?" Laxus asked half not wanting to know the answer.

"A number of things really, the remaining member of the spriggan twelve towards the North and west and extremely powerful but the biggest worry is that Acnologia has shown up" Kyouka replied in a nervous tone because as strong as she and some of the other demon gates had become only Natsu and Mard Geer would be able to stand against the higher ranking spriggans with Sayla maybe being able to stand against some of the mid-tier ones while it would take everyone to stand against Acnologia.

"Fuck, that dragon always has the worse timing" Laxus huffed out as he felt his internal injuries healing and his dragonslayer magic moderately healing his external ones. "Sorry that's the best I can do for you; it would be best if you avoided combat for now and focused on getting one of your friends to heal you" Kyouka said earning a nod from the dragonslayer before she moved off to join Jackal in the fight.

"Heh, stay put my ass; there's still too much fighting to do"

Elsewhere

Upon seeing the explosion Jellal caused Kagura smirked a little, but being the innocent little cinnamon bun she is she believes that by giving Jellal mouth to mouth she had stolen Erza's first kiss with him; but she had a way to remedy that.

"Guess I made the right choice" she huffed out, it went against everything she believed in. She saved the man she had wanted to kill for so long, it just went against what she had led herself to believe so it was difficult to sum up how she felt right now. Since saving Jellal she had re-joined the fight against the Alveraz soldiers, cutting through them with her sheathed sword like they were butter, those who tried to overwhelm her with numbers were acquainted with the ground curtesy of Kagura's gravity magic.

However, it wasn't long before she was forced to draw her sheathed sword but not because of the soldiers but by a familiar foe, "Oh it's you, I'm a pleased now that I can see that embarrassed face of yours again" the war princess Dimaria Yesta said in an amused tone as she slung her large sword over her shoulder.

"Wouldn't it be just my luck to run into you" Kagura said sarcastically as she tightened her grip on her sword making Dimaria smirk. "I must admit myself that we underestimated your forces, I didn't think that other than God Serena there would be mages who alone could stand up any of the twelve; actually I never imagined any of us losing at all, but know Walcht been destroyed and Neinheart has been taken out of the equation guess it means I'll have to go all out sooner or later" the war princess said as she took a few steps towards her target.

"Alright little rabbit, show me what you got" Dimaria spoke in an amused tone before she charged Kagura and clashed swords with her, although with superior strength and swords added weight she began to force the Mermaid Heel ace back.

"Gravity Push!" Kagura shouted before Dimaria felt an invisible force slam into her stomach and push her back. "Oh so you have a few tricks up your sleeve, good maybe I can enjoy myself a bit longer this time" the war princess said as she recomposed herself from the blow before she was encompassed in a golden aura and then charged once more this time engaging Kagura in a flurry of blurred strikes.

Every now and Kagura noticed Dimaria clicking her teeth together in a vicious smirk, whatever the purpose for doing so it unnerved Kagura seeing her do that. "Archenemy slashing form!" Parrying Dimaria's blade to the right Kagura managed to cause and opening which she then used to attack before her blade unleashed a blast of white energy as she brought it down.

Kagura had put nearly all of her magic into that strike, even if they were a spriggan none could come out of a direct attack like that uninjured. "That was a pretty good attack, I'm not gonna lie that actually hurt a bit" Kagura froze at hearing her voice again, she watched as Dimaria emerged from the smoke and dust with no noticeable injuries bar some scuffs and small cuts as well as the gold plated shoulder guard being completely shattered.

Once again Dimaria became cloaked in golden aura as she stood opposite Kagura with what appeared to be a triumphant smirk on her face which pissed Kagura off but the Mermaid Heel ace knew she had every right to have that look, if things continued as they did then there would be no chance of her surviving let alone winning.

Muttering a few words under her breath Kagura became cloaked in a white aura as she hunched herself down holding her sword by the hilt as the blade extended out behind her. Faster than she had ever moved before Kagura steeled herself and launched off at incredible speeds closing the distance between herself and the Valkyrie using a quick draw cut across Dimaria side before she landed behind the war princess.

However, much to Kagura's surprise when she looked at her sword there was no blood and when she turned to Dimaria she saw the spriggan was unharmed. "W-what, impossible I'm sure my blade connected ugh!" Kagura stated before a wave off pain washed over her. She then felt her legs weaken as well as the grip on her sword before once again her clothes were split apart exposing her for all eyes to see.

"Hhm I was right you do have a figure remarkably similar to Randy's" Dimaria smirked as Kagura tried to cover herself up in the ground not noticing the shallow cut all over her body. "Guess I overdid it" the war princess scratched the side of her head as she approached the downed Kagura. "What the hell did you do" Kagura grunted out in pain as she glared at the approaching Valkyrie, "Simple really, everything happened in the blink of an eye in your perspective but in reality it took much longer" Dimaria explained cryptically as Kagura tried to force herself off the ground.

"It's sad to watch this so I'm just going to end you" Dimaria said in an emotionless tone as she raised her sword above her head making Kagura close her eyes waiting for the impending strike, but it never came; instead she heard a deep voice yell, "Dragon God's Lightning Chaser!"

When she opened her eyes Kagura saw that Dimaria was no longer standing above her, there was a house in the distance that had collapsed in on itself blood red lightning outlined in black sparking all over the rubble. The next thing she felt was something large and soft being draped over her causing her to look to her left to see Laxus standing next to her with the same lightning sparking weakly around his body. He was still injured that much she could tell from his exhausted pants, whatever mode or form of power he was using know was obviously very draining on him but even more so in his current state.

"You ok?" said lightning mage asked in a concerned tone which he saved for very few people, however even though she wasn't aware of it Kagura was one of those people that much had been clear for Laxus since seeing her at the grand magic games. Being a dragonslayer had it's perks in the sense that you could tell for lack of imagination your soulmate upon sight hence why Laxus was concerned for her wellbeing.

"Yes, but I can't feel my legs" Kagura replied quietly causing a snarl to make its way onto Laxus' face before he returned his attention to the rubble where he could sense a lot of magic power coming from. Then with an explosive shockwave Dimaria appeared out of the rubble this time sporting some more visible injuries, the most prominent of which was a small gash on her forehead that was bleeding over her right eye.

Most of her armour had now been shattered leaving her in only her baggy black pants metal grieves and slightly tattered black cropped top. "NOW I'M MAD!" the Valkyrie shouted before the golden glow around her intensified as did her magic power. "Take Over; God Soul Chronos" the war princess yelled out surprising both Laxus and Kagura. Now Laxus knew there was no way in his current condition that he'd be able to beat Dimaria now.

"What was it you called it Dragon God? It's almost a pity I would have loved to see which is stronger; Chronos the god of time or your Dragon God mode but sadly in your condition the answer is pretty obvious" Dimaria spoke except in her god soul her voice dropped a few octaves as she floated closer and closer to Kagura and Laxus. "Well at least now I can confirm that your powers are similar to that of time manipulation; but I assume even in that form your powers only affect a those within a certain area" Laxus summed up making the time god narrow her eyes.

"You may be right but you're both already within my ran…ugh" Dimaria started before being interrupted by two wind based kicks to the face catching her off guard knocking her back a bit. "Wendy what are you doing here?!" Laxus practically scolded her like an older brother would. "Don't worry Laxus we can take care of this" Wendy said in a determined voice already in her dragon force mode. "Be careful child" Charla said from behind her partner worried for her safety.

"Wendy's right, both you and Kagura are too injured too fight any further, both Wendy and myself have done hardly any fighting, besides our opponent has already sustained some injuries" Chelia piped in as she stood defiantly beside Wendy. "You think I'll let anyone leave you're mistaken, I'll kill you all in an instant" Dimaria said before clicking her teeth and just like that no one was able to move nor were they aware of what was happening.

"Like the big lug said, my power is time manipulation, now out of the five of you who should I kill first?" Dimaria asked knowing she wouldn't get a response as she floated towards the group. Raising her hand up and point one finger forward she moved it from side to side wondering who her first victim should be. "You" the time god suddenly said before she floated up close to Laxus, "That last attack of yours really hurt, so allow me to return the favour" she said as a golden glow surrounded her index finger and a malicious smirk made its way over her face.

However as soon as she fired the beam of magic her target very much so to her surprise ducked under the in before delivering a lightning imbued kick to Dimaria's face sending her back quite a bit. "What! Impossible how did you get free of my age seal!?" Dimaria demanded in a furious voice as the others were freed from her grasp. It was then they all heard the clicking of heels causing them all to turn to the source.

"In this realm you are not the only one who has mastery over time" a familiar voice spoke making Wendy's eyes widen in shock "You're…" "Crime Sorcierre's Ultear Milkovich will now join the battle, but first" Ultear interrupted Wendy before waving her hand causing cracks to appear in thin air before Laxus and Kagura were sucked out of the time dimension.

"Oi what the hell do you think you're doing!" Laxus shouted however he was now unable to see Wendy, Dimaria or anyone else it was just him and Kagura on the outside. "Damn" the lightning mage cursed before he got up and lifted Kagura into his arms getting a squeak from the usually stoic mage "W-w-what are you doing?" said swordswoman asked with an unusually red face.

"You said you couldn't feel your legs so I'm carrying you, just keep that coat wrapped around you; wouldn't want to distract anyone now would we" Laxus said with a slight smile that turned more into an amused smirk towards the end as he watched Kagura literally pull his coat around herself like a cocoon. "Will they be okay?" Kagura suddenly piped up, "Honestly I don't know, that other girl that was with Wendy was a god slayer so that provides them with some kind of advantage; but I can only hope that Ultear woman has a plan" Laxus revealed causing a frown to appear on Kagura's face

"I suppose so"

With Natsu and Co.

He stood frozen at the sight before him too many emotions circling through his mind, primarily anger, "Will you still want to save now after seeing what I've done brother?" Zeref asked in a serious voice. How did Zeref get here to the north before him, it wasn't possible, and what's worse is that lying just in front of him is his childhood friend Lisanna Strauss with a piercing hole in her chest. Slowly but surely his anger was over taking him as he unconsciously shifted into his etherious form alerting Mard Geer and Sayla to the dilemma but they were preoccupied with fighting at the moment.

"ZEREF!"

Chapter end

Okay I know I may receive some criticism for this chapter whether for it being late or for the way I did things in the end but in saying that I'm the writer and it's my story so deal with it, if my favourite character is one of the most disliked I don't give a shit I'll still give them a reasonable amount of time in the story. At any rate for those of you who did I hope you enjoyed this chapter.