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The Assassins of Fairy Tail

Job Twenty Five: The Assassin's Triumph

Electricity was coming out Ichiya's body while he did his usual pose. His arrival was very unexpected and to Evergreen and Bickslow, shocking. "Ichiya!?"

"What the hell are you doing here?!"

Badd hadn't seen Ichiya before and observed him. "I cannot believe you would forget how cruelly you treated me. Well, no matter. First and foremost, I supposed I shall eliminate this ruffian."

Bickslow and Evergreen had no idea what Ichiya was going on about. "Cruel treatment? Did something happen?"

Evergreen was just as confused. "Who knows?"

Freed couldn't help but feel this was all his fault. "I've failed. To think that Ichiya would bump into Laxus…"

To Badd, Ichiya's arrival didn't mean anything to him. "No matter how many people show up, the outcome will remain the same." He scanned Ichiya's entire body while Ichiya was doing various poses. "I see everything. All of your weaknesses are as plain as day to me!" Badd completed his scanning and for the first time ever, he had a shocked expression on his face. "You have too many weaknesses for crying out loud! Analysis Error!"

Evergreen was between surprised and not surprised about Ichiya. "I'd expect nothing less of Ichiya."

Bickslow had similar thoughts on the matter. "To think Ichiya has so many weaknesses that he can't focus on a single one."

Despite their unknown cruel treatment to Ichiya, he had a good reason in coming to their rescue. "Although it may have been short-lived but you were all once fellow members of Blue Pegasus. In other words, you are my family. And I…will never forgive anyone who harms my family. Whether they are fairies or demons, it matters not." Ichiya spread his arms apart while pointing. "Now come! Quiver in fear before my overwhelming parfum!" Badd was just standing while looking at Ichiya like he was an idiot. "Have you begun to feel the effects of my poison parfum?"

Badd just stayed silent for a couple of seconds while continuing to stare at Ichiya. "I do not have a function that allows me to detect smells."

Now that Ichiya took a closer look at him, Badd was right which surprised him "It…It's true! He doesn't have a nose! He was a machine from the start, so it makes sense…"

Badd just had about enough of Ichiya and rushed over to him. "Your overabundance of weaknesses caused me to hesitate for just a moment. However, in the end…" He uppercut Ichiya away from him. "All it means is that you're just pathetically weak!"

"Ichiya!" Bickslow called out before one of the Weakness Soldiers struck him on top of his head.

Evergreen also continued to have problems with her opponent as she was guarding against their mist. "We've encountered quite the troublesome enemy!"

Freed knew he had to help them out but moving would dispel the barrier which he couldn't do. Not as long as the enemy's forces in the west were still active. Ichiya managed to land on the floor and slid a little before reaching for one of his parfum vials. "Leave it to me! Even machines have one infallible weakness!" He shoved one vial each in of his nostrils. "Thunder Parfum! Direct Inhalation!" Freed felt grossed out after seeing what Ichiya did. Ichiya's body was emitting electricity all over his body. "That's right! Machines are weak to electricity!" He pointed at Badd and electricity was sent over right at him. "Manly Thunderbolt of Justice!"

His attack struck Badd and to Freed, it looked like it could work. However, Badd had a counter to this attack. "It may be true that machines made of organic metal are susceptible to electricity. However, do you really think that I, one who has ascended to the Spriggan Twelve, would overcome such a vulnerability?"

Ichiya saw Badd transforming once again while his attack was still active. "Impossible!"

Badd's body became larger as it continued to change from Ichiya's attack. "My magic identifies my enemy's weaknesses. It is only natural that I would conquer my own weakness as well. And that's not all. I have mastered a technique that enables me to freely convert and use electrical energy." Badd discharged all the electricity he took from Ichiya's attack and powerfully dispersed it everywhere through the room of the cathedral. "Vortex Charge!" The attack destroyed parts of the building from the inside. Evergreen, Bickslow, and Ichiya were caught in the attack and were severely damaged.

Freed couldn't believe how powerful their opponent had become. "I had heard that there were machines with alchemic abilities but to think he's also to completely alter his form as well…"

Badd's transformation was complete and looked more machine-like before as a result of Ichiya's attack. He also became more powerful. "By absorbing electrical energy…I can enhance and augment my strength even further!"

Hearing that gave Evergreen a sense of dread. "In other words, Laxus' magic would be completely ineffective?"

Bickslow also came to the same conclusion. "I was disappointed that it was Ichiya that showed up here instead of Laxus but…in the end, it seems it was for the best that Laxus didn't come here."

Freed knew the situation was only growing worse for them. "He's the worst possible match for Laxus…" With the state of his friends were in, Freed was left with no other option. "I have no choice." He began to lift his hand up and the barrier started to disperse.

"FREED! DON'T UNDO THE RUNES! THEYR'E ATTACKING THE GUILD AT THE WEST!" Laxus yelled in Warren's ear which he didn't like too much.

However, his message came too late and the barrier was completely removed. Something Badd noticed. "My, my…it seems that you instantly dispelled your runes just now. Self-preservation over your precious runes. If you don't dispel your runes, you'll be killed and thus, you dispelled them without hesitation."

Laxus needed to know what was happened with Freed and the rest of the Thunder Legion. "Freed! What the hell is your status over there!? I'm coming to back you up!"

Warren was in major discomfort by Laxus' yelling. "Hey…you don't have to yell, he'll still hear you."

No matter what, Freed would not allow Laxus to arrive in such a disadvantageous situation. "No! Do not come here! We are the Thunder Legion…your bodyguards. We exist to protect you, Laxus! No, not just you…the entire guild!"

Both Bickslow and Evergreen attack Badd from behind while his guard was down. "I see…you still have quite a bit of fight left in you…"

Even in the state, they were in, Bickslow and Evergreen were far from defeated. "The Thunder Legion is far from running on empty!"

"It'll take more than that to bring us down!"

Badd turned around and smacked the two of them away with his arm. "Weakness Soldiers! Eliminate these imbeciles at once!" Both of his soldiers were making their way to them.

"If you have more than two over there, then let's switch opponents, Ever!"

Evergreen recognized who was speaking to her. "Elfman?"

Over at Elfman's side, they were doing just that. Everyone switched opponents. Gray was taking on the steam user Juvia was fighting against. "These guys are no big deal!"

Juvia was making quick work with the flame user Gray was fighting before. "Agreed! Juvia can easily handle the fire types with water!"

Mirajane took on the power type her sister was fighting. "I'll take the brute force type!"

Lisanna managed to damage the speed type soldier. "I won't lose in a battle of speed!"

And Elfman ended up with punching himself. "How the hell did it come to this…me smacking myself around!?"

The tide of battle changed into their favor which made Gray smile. "Even these Weakness Soldiers have their own weaknesses."

Akame had her own way to deal with the Weakness Soldiers she and the other former assassins were fighting against. "Not only that but it seems our opponent wasn't aware of what their enemy can be truly capable of." She sheathed Murasame and looked over at Leone. "Leone! Time to shine!"

Leone groaned in pain due to the noise she kept hearing but was able to hear Akame and grinned at the meaning behind her words. "You got it!" She started to yell and started to change forms. The bone armor and fur Leone had changed to white and so did her hair with streaks of yellow and orange. Her eyes went from orange to a pale blue and a symbol of a circular cross with a spot in the center appeared on her forehead. Leone let out another powerful roar. "Take Over: Lionel Beast Soul Combination! Radiant Sunne Lion!" She raised her arm up. "Everyone, cover your eyes now!" An overwhelming bright light shined out of Leone and enveloped everyone in the vicinity.

Most of them did cover their eyes except for Akame. Thanks to the light Leone was giving off, Akame now had a shadow to work with. She put her hands together and held them back. "Shadow-make…" Akame slammed both her hands on the ground and her shadow reached over to the Weakness Soldier she was fighting and the ones Chelsea and Leone were fighting while spreading apart. Several pikes came out of the shadows and impaled the three Weakness Soldiers at once while hoisting them in the air. "Shadow Pike Impalement!"

The light faded away and the two former assassins saw Akame's work. Leone laughed at Akame's victory over them. "Awesome Akame! They didn't know what hit them! And thanks for shutting that guy up."

Chelsea sighed out of relief. "We're finally done with them."

Back in the cathedral, Ichiya groaned while lying on the ground. "How useless can I be?"

Evergreen and Bickslow took up on Elfman's idea and switched opponents. "In that case…" Evergreen used her magic on the Weakness Soldier that used purification. "My white magic is still effective!"

Bickslow used his babies to attack the mist Weakness Soldier. "Even in the thick fog, I can capture the enemy with my soul magic!"

While they were busy taking out the Weakness Soldiers, Badd already reached Freed and grabbed him by the head. "But it appears as you were simply one step too slow!"

Evergreen looked over at Freed with a panicked look on her face "Freed!"

Freed thought it was over until he heard something. "Enemies from the west…el…inated…" Freed recognized the voice as Natsu's. "Hey! Can you hear me!?" Natsu raised his arm as the wreckage of the enemy's forces were behind him, Gajeel, and the Exceeds. "Can of whoop ass opened on the invaders from the west!"

After hearing that, Freed had no reason to be afraid anymore and smiled. "I'd expect nothing less of you, Natsu." Badd noticed the smile on Freed's face while Ichiya wasn't done yet. Freed's left eye appeared and grinned. "Now then…I can fight to my heart's content!" Freed used his magic to transform and ripped right through Badd's body. Ichiya did the same almost simultaneously with Freed's attack while looking a little more buff than usual. "Dark Écriture: Severing Shadow!"

"Parfum of Power: Maximum Manliness!"

While Bickslow was glad their enemy was finally defeated, he couldn't help but feel a little cheated. "Damn it! In the end, Ichiya managed to steal our thunder!"

Evergreen was still trying to get over what Ichiya currently looked like. "I can never…unsee that…"

Over at Gray's group, they managed to defeat the Weakness Soldiers. "Hoo…we've taken out all the garbage on our end."

Juvia agreed with him as always but Lisanna noticed something unusual about her. "Uh…what happened to your clothes?"

Elfman was, of course, worried about Evergreen. "Are you alright Ever?"

"I don't need you of all people to worry about me!"

Mirajane was also worried about someone else. "How's Erza holding up?"

At the West Cliffs, Wendy made sure Erza was healed from her injuries. "She just needs a bit of rest…"

Lucy had a bit of good news of her own. "We managed to capture one of the Twelve. Even if it was a fluke."

Cana was carrying Brandish on her shoulder and was smiling. "We'll bring her back to the guild."

Everyone in the guild cheered at their first victory over the Alvarez Empire. Makarov was extremely relieved. "It seems like we managed to endure the enemy's first assault."

Mavis felt the same way as the Eighth. "Indeed. We performed magnificently."

Lisanna looked over at Chelsea and ran up to her. "Chelsea! Are you okay?"

Chelsea rubbed her arms as she still felt a tingly sensation coming from them. "I'm fine. I'm just glad this is over for the time being." Lisanna smiled at the other girl as she was Chelsea wasn't too terribly hurt. "What about you?"

Lisanna chuckled a little at the question. "Same as you, I guess."

Leone returned to her normal human form and sighed out of exhaustion while rubbing her head. "About damn time we won. I feel like I need a drink after this."

"You've done well, Leone."

Leone turned to Akame and smiled at her. "You did great yourself, as always." She turned to Gray and the others. "Them too."

Badd's head let out a distorted groan while Evergreen while trying to figure out something. "Ichiya, you were in Magnolia the whole time?"

And Ichiya was back to being annoyed. "Did you really forget about me?"

Bickslow was still confused as well. "What the hell is going on?"

Ichiya had no choice but really explain to them what happened. "Good grief. You fairies are so forgetful. You don't even remember what happened a few days ago?" He explained how Gajeel's group from earlier came into Blue Pegasus one day, said something about getting the Thunder Legion and Laxus back, taking the Christina to Alvarez, heard the cheesy speech of how family was great, and then landed back at Magnolia where everyone ran off. He was left in Magnolia ever since. "That was a week ago, you know!"

Freed now remembered and questioned something else about Ichiya. "Well, you could've gone home."

It wasn't as easy as he thought it was which pissed Ichiya more. "How far do you think we've flown!? Christina needed time to refuel and restock! And then boom, Alvarez attacks out of nowhere! I'm very angry right now! Damn you!" He started to stomp on Badd's head multiple times.

Now Bickslow started to feel bad for Ichiya. "Uh…sorry."

Evergreen was still grateful for what Ichiya did for them. "But you've saved us, Ichiya."

Ichiya scoffed as he looked away from them. "Hmph, as if that's going to soothe me."

Freed could almost facepalm about Ichiya's attitude now. "This guy's a pain." He then noticed something odd about Badd's head and sensed something was wrong. Freed ran to Ichiya. "Ichiya, watch out!"

Ichiya didn't know what Freed was freaking out about until he saw a light coming out from underneath his foot and looked down to see Badd's head was glowing. "Th-That-!" Badd let out one last distorted laugh before blowing up to cause a massive explosion.

The explosion could be seen from where Gray's group was. "What?!"

"It's from Kardia Cathedral!"

"Ever!"

Leone groaned out of frustration. "Are you kidding me! I thought we done here!?"

Akame was worried about Freed and the others. "Let's go check it out."

Over at the cathedral, the smoke began to clear up and Ichiya was trying to piece together what just happened. He finally recognized that Bickslow, Freed, and Evergreen were on him. Ichiya figured that they must've shielded him from the explosion. He stood up and checked to see if they were alright. "Y-You guys, get a grip on it! Hey! Freed! Ever! Bickslow!"

Ichiya finally heard a few words coming from them. "Now…we're even…"

"Thank god…you're okay…"

"You're…like…family…to us…"

Ichiya had tears running out from his eyes and snot out from his nose as he couldn't help but feel this was his fault. "You guys…YOU GUYS!" He let out a mournful wail.

B

South of Fiore Sea near Hargeon

On the main ship of the fleet, one individual was laughing maniacally while lying on the deck face first. The laughing was getting on Dimaria's nerves. "What a disgusting laugh. Can you please stop already? You're ruining the sound of the waves."

The individual continued to laugh as if he was having one hell of a time and he was. "Oh man…things have become way more interesting than expected but then I could…" He continued to laugh. "Oops, I guess I should stop with the talk."

Spriggan Twelve member (Real Form), The Adjudicator: Wahl Icht

"So machines won't be enough, huh?" His laughter continued.

Hearing that gave Dimaria a good clue what happened. "Oh, did you break that toy of yours?"

Wahl stood up while keeping that playful grin on his face. "Well, I did expect that to happen, though, what's really interesting is how they've taken Ajeel down and captured Brandish."

Dimaria caught that and couldn't help but contain her amusement. "What's with that? Randi's been captured by the enemy? How pitiful."

Wahl thought it was funny as well and still laughed. "Phew, that was a laugh. These Fairy Tail guys really have it in them."

It was obvious to Dimaria. "They did make the Emperor send out his entire army after them you know."

Wahl leaned forward with his arms swaying. "But I can't have them underestimating me now…that'd be boring. Boringggg Dimariaaaa!"

Dimaria looked out in front of the ship. "Calm down. We'll be reaching them soon and our first mission is to take control of that port once we've landed." Wahl was the impatient type and threw his arms together. He creating something massive. "You planning to blow up the port? We still have thirty kilometers to go."

That wasn't the issue for Wahl. "No problem." He created a massive long cannon and took aim. "Target: Fairy Tail."

Dimaria put her hand on her forehead to see where Wahl was aiming. "That's four hundred kilometers. There's no way you'd actually hit them."

Wahl began to charge up his cannon. "Don't you underestimate me. The Machina's tribe elite, Master Wahl!" When charging was complete, he fired a single powerful shot out of the cannon. "Super Long Distance Anti-Material Magic Cannon!"

The shot traveled fast and far and was coming at the guild hot. Warren's sensors picked up on the attack. "The sensors are picking up a heat source coming from the southeastern part…wait, Is that magic? Either way, it's coming at us fast!" The other members were surprised to hear that.

This was very unprecedented to Makarov. "A new enemy?"

Mavis didn't think that was the case. "No, it's probably one of their attacks."

That didn't make much sense to Romeo. "Just how far are they shooting at us from?!"

They had little time to react and Mavis needed to make a move fast. "Freed! Could you recast your Jutsu Shiki! Freed!" She didn't hear a reply from Freed or anyone from the Thunder Legion. "It's no use! They're not responding!"

The attack was coming in closer to the guild which was freaking out Warren. "Incoming seven hundred, six hundred, it's a direct hit!"

Now everyone in the guild was scrambling to get out quick as they can. "Everyone, seek cover!"

"The guild's gonna be destroyed again!?"

"I won't let that happen!"

Levy recognized the voice that spoke out to them. "That voice…"

Everyone saw the Christina flying right in between the guild and the attack. "MEEEEEN!" The attack struck the Christina instead and the ship was destroyed.

Wahl saw what happened and was disappointed. "Man…"

Dimaria couldn't help but chuckle at his expression. "Did you miss?"

Happy and Natsu were surprised what Ichiya had done. "He used Christina as a shield!"

"Why did Ichiya…"

Leone and the others saw what happened as well while they were carrying the injured Thunder Legion. "I was wondering where that guy was and he does this?"

Akame had respect for what Ichiya had done for them. "He sacrificed himself to ensure that the guild would be saved."

Chelsea was still confused by this act of kindness. "But why did he do it?"

In the wreckage, Ichiya had a good reason for doing what he did. "This is a fight…but not one you guys will fight alone…" He stood up in front of the dashboard and smashed a button with his fist. "Fiore Communications Network onnn!" He wanted to make sure everyone would hear his message far and wide. "DO YOU HEAR ME LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!? THIS…IS…OUR FIGHT!" The other guilds, Lamia Scale, Mermaid Heel, Sabertooth, and even Quatro Cerberus heard Ichiya's message. The fight against Alvarez was only beginning.