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The Assassins of Fairy Tail

Job Four: Leone's Rampage

Leone really didn't understand what was going on. Gray was being an asshole to all of them before and now he was helping out. One clear difference she could see was how Gray was acting. She didn't see any hint of what he was like before. All kinds of questions were running through head trying to figure all of this out. Natsu only had one. "Undercover mission?"

Gray nodded at his friend. "That's right. There's no way I'd join some creepy guild like this anyway." He turned around facing the open cell door. "We don't have time now so we'll talk while we move." Leone was still confused about all of this.

B

"I found out about Avatar and how it was connected to Zeref half a year back with some help from Jellal, of course." Gray and the rest of them were riding on large cats to where Avatar was while Leone was running behind them in her beast form. "But we hit a dead end and it was then I met Gray."

Happy couldn't take his eyes off the device Gray had. "Hey, that lacrima's amazing."

"It's a miniature communications lacrima." Erza explained over the device.

Leone was very impressed by it. "Again, that would've been useful back in my world."

Gray thought this was a good a time as any to explain what was going on. "I began getting these weird marks on me so I've been going over to old Lady Porlyusica's place and well, it's as you see, I've learned to control it."

On the other side of the line, Erza prepped her horse. "And then we talked about how we were then we came up with this plan."

"I guess you could call it a request from Erza." Gray continued. "After all, I was interested in the Book of E.N.D personally with my old man's last request being 'destroy it.'"

Natsu still had a question about Gray's part in all of this. "But man, you didn't even tell Juvia about this? You're a jerk."

Gray didn't reply to that. "I told him not to." Erza rode her horse to the outside. "It's always better to have less people know about the mission as it raises the rate of success and could never tell what if she had gotten trouble over it?"

Now Happy understood why Gray hadn't returned to Juvia for so long. "So it was for Juvia's sake too."

Natsu still thought it was cruel to her. "But still…"

As much as Leone hated to admit it, Erza was right. "She has a point. Sometimes you have to keep your allies in the dark if you want to succeed in the mission even if it is cruel to them. Still, this was kinda of a prick move on their part to keep all of this from Juvia for six months."

Erza felt guilty in all of this but she had her reasons for doing so. "I do feel sorry for Juvia. We didn't think the mission would drag out this long. The situation has changed. It was only supposed to be a scouting mission at first but then came the whole Purification Ritual mess. Avatar is planning on wiping out an entire town to lure Zeref here because for some reason, seem to think that Zeref appears in places where death is abundant."

Leone chuckled at that little fact. "Then he would feel right at home back in the Capital."

Lucy thought it was just shocking and horrible that Avatar would do such a thing. "We've gotta stop that from happening." Erza continued over the device.

Natsu didn't see the problem at all with this. "Well, all you've got to do is crush them! Easy! If it were you and Erza, there wouldn't be a problem."

As usual, he didn't see the big picture. Gray knew this was a lot more and difficult than what the fire dragon slayer suggested. "No, we can't. Avatar isn't an organization small enough for us to 'crush' it. Its size alone is more than we've ever imagined. I've only infiltrated one small part of it. I still haven't gotten anything on the main branch's location or even the other branches."

Leone wondered how large Avatar was in general. "And if we make any careless moves, we could lose the chance to stop the whole ritual. That's why we've been waiting up till now."

Gray couldn't agree any more with Erza. "Yeah, for the day when all the branches get together and destroy them all once and for all." He glanced over at Lucy. "Lucy…" The blonde wondered what he had to say to her. "Hey, I'm sorry about what I said just now. I had to in front of them. Also…" Gray looked back at Leone. "I'm also for freezing you over but you were kinda aiming for my neck."

Leone slightly lowered her head. She kinda felt guilty about before and now it was a little awkward for her. "Yeah…well, you acting like a jackass. Key word acting. You really fooled me and I could've killed you. So…yeah, sorry about that." Obviously, Leone wasn't good at apologizing.

It seemed to be enough for Gray, though. "Don't worry about it. Like I said, I had to in front of them. I was serious about what I asked you before. Who are you?"

Lucy decided to answer the question. "Her name is Leone and she's actually Wendy's friend. In fact, there are two others with her."

"Others?" Gray observed the second blonde a little closer. "When I arrived at the cell, she was the only one who broke out of those anti-magic cuffs. That's strange considering the form she's in now. It kinda looks like Take Over but the cuffs should've suppressed the magic to do that. So how was she able to use Take Over magic while being cuffed?" These kinds of questions are something Gray would have to look into later. There were more pressing matters to be dealt with.

"Hey uh, Gray?" The ice mage looked back at Lucy who seemed guilty for some reason. "I'm sorry for hitting you earlier."

Gray just grinned at that. "Well…having a maid hit, though…ha ha ha."

Now Lucy felt a little embarrassed. "U…uh…that's…not…"

The ice mage continued to chuckle. "I still think of you guys as my friends, you know." He looked back at Leone. "And that goes for you too. If you're a friend of Wendy's, you're a friend to all of us." Leone smiled at the words.

Lucy smiled at as well. "That's great to hear."

Natsu grinned as he felt excited about all of this. "Now that makes our job easier. Let's go wreck that ritual together then!"

The others were just as determined. "Yeah."

"I'll do my best too!"

"You guys…"

Erza felt a little differently about their involvement. "We didn't want to get you involved."

Natsu could care less about that. "It doesn't matter if we did or we didn't! We're gonna fight together again! It's been a year since!" He raised his arm up. "And there's nothing more we can say now other than…"

"I'M ALL FIRED UP!" All four Fairy Tail members shouted at the same time.

Leone couldn't help but laugh at the sight before her. "You gotta give them points for being spirited about all of this. Still, I wonder if they'll be enough to take down Avatar? I guess I'll see for myself then."

B

All of Avatar gathered in front of a town called Malba. Arlock and the rest of his group were present. Jerome was still curious as to why two of their own weren't with them. "Where's Gray and Goumon Briar?"

"With the prisoners probably?" Briar guessed.

It made sense but that didn't rid Jerome of his curiosity. "Well, I understand Goumon but why Gray? Could it be…"

Briar wasn't concerned with the small details. "Hey, nobody cares what happens Underlashes."

The other Avatar raised an eyebrow at the new name. "Underlashes?"

"Look at the number of followers we have. Everyone's here now, just for the ritual. Even if the 'traitor' or the council comes at us, there's no way they'll win with our numbers."

Jerome rubbed his chin as he admitted Briar had a point with all that she said. "Hmm. You have a point. And Underlashes works too." He mumbled at that last part."

Abel was feeling anxious about the whole thing. "So it's about to start. Our ritual."

Mary couldn't wait for all their hard work to pay off. "We're finally meeting Zeref. Lol."

Arlock raised his arms to his army. "We begin our Purification Ritual with the town of Malba! This town has no sin and its population of thirty thousand people continue with their daily lives without an inkling of what is to come. I'm positive that this purity will bring our savior to us. ZEREF THE BLACK WIZARD! Accept our offering of these thirty thousand souls so that you may walk alongside us!" He raised his staff high. "WE WILL PURIFY THE SOULS OF THIS TOWN! CHARGE!"

With the soldiers rallied, all of them screamed as they ran toward the unsuspecting town. When they were nearing it, they saw several people in front of them. "There's someone in front of the town."

"It doesn't matter; we'll start with them!"

"Purification!"

"FOR ZEREF!"

Just as they neared the town, the soldiers in the front were suddenly blasted off everywhere. Arlock and the other Avatar members were surprised to see such a thing as they saw their men flying off in different directions. One of the people responsible smiled. "You ain't getting past me! So come at us!" Natsu shouted with everyone else right beside him. He looked over at the ice mage and grinned at him. "I hope you've been training."

Gray smiled back at the fire dragon slayer. "Wanna try it out later?"

"I'll fight too." Lucy's body shined brightly and her clothing was replaced. "Star dress: Taurus!"

Taurus himself appeared next to Lucy. "Moo! Unbreakable!"

Jerome was outraged by their interruption and that Gray was with the enemy. "Gray…you…!"

"What are you doing?! There's only four to five of them there! Get rid of them!" Briar commanded.

"Master Jerome!" Jerome turned around to see one of his men approaching him. "We're under attack from behind as well! And it's blowing holes in our ranks!"

Jerome wasn't expecting this at all. "What?! The Council's forces are already…?"

The soldier was afraid his superior was wrong. "Th…That's…" Galloping through the enemy's forces, Erza on her horse were making quick and easy work on the enemy. "It was only one…"

Natsu lit up his hand on fire as he was aching to fight. "So, let's get it started."

Gray was also ready for the fight to begin. "Let's go out with our guns blazing."

Lucy couldn't help but feel nostalgic being back together with all of them. "I've missed this feeling."

"Aye!"

Ezra was prepared to strike their enemy down once and for all. "You're the ones that'll be purified."

In the back of Natsu and the rest of the group, Leone decided to observe what the three in front could do. "Time to see what they can do for real this time."

Natsu pulled back his arm. "Let's go!"

Gray performed his usual stance. "Yeah!"

The enemy charged at the both of them. The two wizards unleashed their attacks at the same time side by side burning and freezing them far into their ranks.

Taurus smiled at their strength. "They're strong."

Lucy readied her whip. "We should go too." She cracked her whip to the ground and the ground itself broke apart underneath the enemy striking them all. "Earth Wave!" Taurus was making quick work of his own attacking the enemy. Lucy wrapped her whip around the arm of one Avatar member and smirked. "When I'm in Taurus form…" She lifted him up with ease over her "I'm extremely powerful!" Lucy sent the soldier into the ground and crashed others who were nearby into the air.

One soldier tried to jump at her from behind but became frozen by Gray. He was sent back to where other soldiers were and struck them all. Gray smiled as he snapped his fingers and a giant spiky ice pillar erupted from the ground scattering those who were near it. Natsu started to run up to the side all the way to the top and then jumped off of it with his fist engulf in flames. "Here you go!" He punched the ground and a large fire explosion sent the surrounding enemy flying away from him. The force of the blow itself raised the ground and struck other Avatar members. He took in a deep breath and let out a massive fire breath attack at the enemy far and wide.

While all three were busy fighting the Avatar soldiers, Leone just stood still not taking off her eyes at what each wizard was doing. She couldn't believe how easy they were making this. For the first time, she felt outclassed. "This is…insane. Just three of them alone are taking out so many of the enemy like it's no big deal. They're…They're…They're so much more than what I saw in Wendy's memories." She felt her heartbeat pound quickly the longer she continued to stare at the Fairy Tail members. "Compared to them, compared to every enemy I've fought, I…I…feel…" Her heartbeat became quicker and felt her blood pumping throughout her body. Leone couldn't ignore this feeling as she gritted her teeth. "Even if they are freaking powerful…I just can't stand around doing nothing. I won't be showed up by them." Her body glowed and entered beast form. Leone couldn't help but grin menacingly at the sight before her. "Time to show them not only what I can do but what a former assassin of Night Raid…can do!" The wind began to erupt out of her and yelled out. Natsu and the others briefly stopped what they were doing and looked back to see Leone on all fours. "Take Over: Lionel Beast Soul Combination!"

A dark light surrounded Leone and her skin began to change color into a deep purple. Her hair and fur changed from their golden color to a light blue. Leone growled deeply as she stood up to reveal her eyes had changed to red. She let out a loud beastly roar for everyone to hear. The roar itself managed to instill fear in some of the Avatar soldiers and they're core members. "Lion of the Full Moon!"

Gray had never seen anything like it before and didn't know what to think of it. "She can use a Take over on a Take over?"

Lucy shivered a little in fear seeing the new form Leone had taken. "That's…a little scary."

Natsu was just confused at what was going on. "What the hell? What did she do?"

Erza heard the roar from where she was from and was concerned. "What matter of a beast can roar like that?"

Leone was breathing heavily as she glared at the enemy as if they were her prey. She laughed wickedly at their fear. "Alright then, let's get this started. If you fuckers really want to meet Zeref that badly…" She leaned in forward with her claws ready. "I'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND ALL OF YOU TO HELL SO YOU CAN MEET HIM!" She launched herself at the enemy quickly. Before they had a chance to even act, Leone passed through a crowd of the enemy until she came out on the other end. "Luna Primal Hunter!" Countless beams of light suddenly came out of the soldiers in the spots where Leone had slashed them and all of them were blown away into the air. Leone brought up her left claw as it began to glow. "Luna Claw!" She swiped her claw across and rays of light came out of her claws slashing countless of the enemy soldiers away from her. "I'm not done yet!" Leone slammed her right claw at the ground and rays of light erupted once again tearing through the ground and through the enemy soldiers. The ones who remained cowered in fear when they saw the feral look in her eye. Leone cackled at how pathetic they were. "Never thought I would be taking on an army by myself. I've never would've done this back at the Capital but that was then and this is now." She presented her claws at her targets. "Come on! I'm not done with all of you yet and there's still plenty to go around until I have my fill!"

The core Avatar members didn't know what to think of their enemy's level of strength. It was unlike anything they've seen before. "What's that?! They're monsters, no, animals! Beasts!"

Briar was beginning to be annoyed by her fellow member. "Stop showing off how poor your vocabulary is Mary." She narrowed her eyes at the three Fairy Tail members and Leone. "Only we can stop them?"

Something about Leone bothered Jerome in some way. "The one who let out the roar, she was with the other intruders from before. I've never imagined she would be such a beast." Jerome didn't have time for all of this. There were more pressing matters to be dealt with. "I'll go after the enemies at the back of the army. I leave Gray and the others to you."

Briar and the others stepped up to the challenge. "It's about time that we show those rats how scary black magic is."

Smoke came out of Arlock's mask. Jerome brought up his sword. "They're pretty good if they could throw into chaos an army with just one soldier. However, I shall purify them with my dark sword and the forbidden black magic it holds inside."

In the back of the army, Erza continued to make quick work of the soldiers while riding on her horse. "Counter them with magic!"

The soldiers fired magic shots at Erza but she jumped off the horse and did a front flip while changing into one of her armors. She landed on the ground wearing Wingblade Armor. Erza stood up and swiped her arm across. "Dance!" The swords behind her moved around and slashed at the enemy around her.

They were having a hard time figuring out what they were being attacked with. "She has wings?!"

"It's swords!"

"They're flying around!"

After some of the enemies were taken out, the swords returned behind Erza with four on each side. "Don't you give up yet?"

The Avatar soldiers were afraid to confront her anymore. Then Erza noticed someone was coming at her and blocked an attack by Jerome. He smiled at his opponent. "What a beautiful knight." His sword destroyed the others swords Erza had use to block the attack.

The Avatar members cheered at his arrival. "It's Master Jerome!"

"Jerome of the Dark Sword!"

Jerome came in close with his sword ready. "I won't let you get in the way of my purification plans!" He swung his sword at Erza but she blocked the attack with her blade wings. As a result, three of them were destroyed by Jerome's sword. Erza did a back flip to gain distance between her and Jerome. "My sword corrodes anything it touches. It's a dark sword."

Erza slid back a little and pointed her remaining sword at Jerome. "My sword…" Jerome noticed something was wrong a little too late and was suddenly slashed all over his body. "Doesn't let you realize that it touched you." Jerome fell to the ground which frightened the Avatar members that one of their strongest was defeated. Erza changed back into her regular armor and stared at them all. "Still not giving up?"