A/N: A second chapter? Well, this did hit one hundred favorites and follows, didn't it?

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The Assassins of Fairy Tail

Job Thirty Two: The Dragon's Breaking Point

Lucy was sleeping soundly on Natsu while Happy was still awake. All the Exceed could do was just watch his best friend recover. "Natsu…"

He still couldn't forget what Zeref said to Natsu back at their fight. "If you kill me, you will cease to exist as well."

Happy had a determined look on his face as he would never let that happen. "I'll never give up, no matter what! There has to be another card we can play. I won't stop believing that!"

B

In the main hall of the guild, Akame was just sitting at a table all by herself while eating a BLT. Her fiftieth one and she was only halfway through with her pile. She needed all the energy she could get when a fight against the enemy does happen. Akame needed to be prepared and alert. While she was eating, Akame overheard what was currently happening on the other lines. Mavis approached Warren. "Warren, how are the battles at each locale?"

Warren checked his radar. "Zeref's main forces in the west are showing no signs of movement. Up north, Pegasus and Sabertooth were in a deadlock for quite some time but…once Gajeel's squad arrives, the battle should start to shift in our favor."

Max was worried about something else. "What about the east? The Wizard Saints are holding down fort down there, aren't they?"

That was the part Warren was worried about the most. "I have no clue what the hell happened out there. All I know is that three Spriggan Twelve members were reduced to two and they're currently heading straight for the guild!"

Jet and Droy became very worried when they and everyone else heard that. "Are you telling me they were able to break through?"

"Then that means…Jura and the others must have been…" Mavis didn't even want to think about what may have happened to Warren.

There was only one more location Makarov needed to know. "What about the south? What's the status of Erza's squad?"

Warren looked over at the main the radar where it displayed Erza's and the other's locations. "One of the Twelve's signals has vanished! It looks like someone managed to take down one of them!?"

That was the first piece of good news everyone heard during the whole war. "Hey, do you think maybe…we've actually got this?"

"Damn right! One of the Twelve is our prisoner after all."

"In other words, there are eight members remaining!"

"We can win this war!"

"Not so fast." Everyone turned to Makarov as he had a very serious look on his face. "They've broken through our last line of defenses on the eastern front and we have no backup plan. To make matters worse, we have no clue when Zeref will make his move from the west." And that warning dashed away everyone's cheers away. Perhaps it was too soon to be celebrating after all. Makarov turned to Mavis. "Given the dire situation, I humbly ask that you lend us your wisdom once again, first." He saw that Mavis had something on her mind. "First?"

All Mavis could do was look away from the eight master. "Please allow me some time to ponder." Mavis had to come up with a plan and quickly so that the war can end. "For the sake of defeating Zeref…what I'm able to do is…"

Akame overheard everything everyone was talking about and became more worried. With the east now breached, two of the Spriggan Twelve were making their way to the guild now. She set down her sixty-fourth BLT down and gripped the handle for Murasame. "They may be stronger than Esdeath but as long I can cut them with Murasame, that'll be enough." As of now, all Akame could do was to bide her time. She looked over at the radar where Erza and the others were and couldn't help but feel worried. "I hope you're doing alright, Leone."

B

The battle to liberate Hargeon raged on. Gray and Lyon charged in together toward a group of enemy soldiers. "Gray!"

"I'm on it!" They used their ice magic together and trapped the entire group in ice.

Juvia was busy herself in dealing with some of the soldiers. "Water Slicer!" Her attack managed to go through several of the enemy soldiers.

However, she was so caught up in attacking the enemy, she failed to notice two soldiers jumping from behind to attack her. Gray managed to notice it but feared he was too late. "Juvia, look out!"

The two soldiers came in close but were then struck away by several swords. Magic swords to be in fact. Everyone saw who managed to save Juvia. "Whew…it's been a while, hasn't it?"

Crime Sorcière guild member: Meredy

Juvia was happy to see an old friend again. "Meredy!"

While Gray was happy to see her again (and for saving Juvia), he was wondering why she was here. "You're…what the hell are you doing here?"

Meredy smiled at them and waved. "Crime Sorcière joins the battle!"

Meanwhile, Lyon really couldn't take his eyes off of Meredy. "S-She's adorable…"

Back at the town, Erza and Kagura were making their way to the port where the third Spriggan Twelve member resided. "I see it! The port's just up ahead!"

Kagura noticed from up ahead. "Someone is there!"

They saw two enemies who donned knight armor. "Halt! We are the Four Knights of the Standard from the Neinhart squadron!"

"We shan't allow you to proceed any further."

Erza and Kagura didn't slow down one bit. "Erza!"

"Indeed!" Erza transformed into her Clear Heart armor and both she and Kagura were able to bowl through the two knights over. "Push straight through!" They continued on to the port. "We work well together you and I."

Kagura wondered if Erza ever injured at all. "Weren't you supposed to be wounded?"

They soon quickly noticed two more enemies above them and looked up. "Dumbasses! Did you forget already?! We're called the Four Knights!"

"You're far too nonchalant!" Before the last two knights could do anything, a certain someone blasted them away with ease.

Crime Sorcière guild member and founder: Jellal Fernandes

Both Kagura and Erza were surprised to him to see. Especially Kagura. They saw him land in front of them. "You're…"

"Punctuality was never my strong suit."

Erza instantly realized that Jellal was here, in front of Kagura. "Hide your face at once!"

Jellal would do no such thing. "No, I won't flee any longer. I've come to here to…defeat Zeref once and for all."

Kagura was feeling a myriad of emotions going through her right now as Jellal, the person who was the one responsible for her older brother's death, was standing in front of her. "Jellal…" Erza couldn't help but feel worried about how this'll play out further on.

Turning back the clock, Wendy, Carla, and Chelia were about to fight Dimaria. "To tell you the truth, I could kill you both with a snap of my fingers. You heard correct. In the blink of an eye, you two would be reduced to corpses."

Carla took up a defensive stance. "Here she comes!"

"Indeed. A split second…from your perspective, that is." She made a clicking noise with her teeth and it echoed throughout the battlefield. Everything went still and eerily silent. Dimaria hugged herself as it was just her and her alone. "At this moment, I am alone in the world. This world is mine and mine alone." She giggled as she put a finger on her lower lip. "Everyone's wished for it at least once, haven't they? 'If only I could make time stop completely' that is." She walked up to a still standing Wendy and leaned in toward her. "Time-sealing magic: Age Seal. Catch my drift? It's the absolute strongest magic that cannot be possibly be overcome." Dimaria stood next to Wendy and squeezed her cheeks with one hand. "That much is obvious, is it not? In this world, you three are completely and utterly defenseless, as you can see." She let go of the young dragon slayer and stood in front of the trio. "Let's see…shall I rip this cutie pie's clothes to shreds as well? No, I suppose I've indulged myself enough."

She summoned her sword as she thought of a much simpler way to deal with her opponents. "I would be a simple task to fell all of you with one strike but alas, that would be no fun at all. When you snap back to reality, I'll make you wonder 'why is one of your friends suddenly dead?!' Yes…that sounds positively marvelous!" She observed each of the girls one by one. "Now then, who shall I start with…" She made her decision quite quickly as she patted Wendy's cheek. "I suppose there's only one answer. Naturally, I'd have to off you first. The darling who had the gall to strike me." Dimaria pulled her sword back and aimed at Wendy's neck. "Au revoir."

She swung her sword directly at Wendy's neck. As it came close, Wendy unexpectedly jumped over Dimaria's attack which surprised the Valkyrie. "Chelia!"

Chelia also seemed to be able to move within Dimaria's Age Seal magic. "Wendy?"

Dimaria couldn't understand how they were able to move while everything else was still in time. "How…This can't be! How are you able to move in my world!?"

Both slayer girls attacked Dimaria at once using their teamwork. "Primary Sky Arrow!"

"Secondary Sky Arrow!"

Their double attack struck Dimaria and managed to push her back away from them. Wendy and Chelia looked at each other confused. "Just now…I heard a voice in my head."

"Same here."

"A distortion in time has arisen. This place is a valley within the fabric of space-time continuum." Everyone saw a new figure appeared before them. "You thought that you alone lived in that world? That it belonged to you? That is where you were gravely mistaken. This is my world as well. This is the gaol of time. For your sins, I shall bring down the hammer of justice upon you; in the name of Crime Sorcière!"

Crime Sorcière guild member: Ultear Milkovich

Wendy didn't expect to see her again at all. Much less in this a situation like this. "You're…Ultear?!"

Dimaria could care less about her intruder's name. What she wanted to know was how she was responsible for her two opponents moving in her world. "I take it you're responsible for re-activating the flow of time?"

She couldn't be further from the truth. "No, time is still frozen."

Wendy wasn't sure if she heard that right. "Time?"

Ultear started to look around her surroundings. "I am merely a resident of the valleys of time. Meaning I only exist in this frozen valley in time." She started to walk away from a still battle. "Because you stopped time, I, who normally does exist in the natural flow of time, have appeared here."

Dimaria gritted her teeth in anger. "How dare you…defile this world of mine!"

Carla pieced together everything that has happened. "Truth be told, if she were, in fact, the only one capable of moving while time has stopped, this fight would have been over literally before it began."

Chelia also figured how Dimaria was able to shred her clothes from earlier. "So all of that stuff happened while time was stopped!"

Wendy turned to Ultear for more answers. "Ultear, what's going on?!"

Ultear just causally raised a hand at the question. "This woman's magic stops time. But, while time is stopped, for whatever reason, I am able to exist in this form. I have used my power to allow you all to move."

While Carla was grateful for Ultear's save, there was one question that remained unanswered. "What did happen to you? You went missing after the Grand Magic Games and…"

Ultear remembered that time all too well but didn't regret what she did. "Those who walk the valleys of time are not all bad."

Dimaria had enough about her new annoyance and charged right at her with her sword ready. "YOU'RE NOT WANTED HERE!"

Ultear didn't seem too worried about Dimaria's incoming attack. "I am but a 'concept'. I cannot fight alongside you." A crack appeared underneath her left eye."

Wendy had to warn Ultear before it was too late. "Ultear!"

Her warning came too late but for some reason, Dimaria's sword simply phased through Ultear. "A though projection?"

Ultear knew there wasn't much time left for all of them. "Hurry! You are only granted mobility as long as I hold the flow of time steady!"

The two slayer girls didn't need to be told twice. "Yes!"

"We owe you one!"

Dimaria sent several attacks coming from her sword at the Sky Lovers. "This world is mine and mine alone! I won't let anyone interfere!"

The two slayer girls avoided the attacks and gathered the wind around them. They attack simultaneously at their enemy. "Sky Dragon's Wing Attack!"

"Sky God's Boreas!"

Dimaria raised her sword to block the two attacks and decided to become serious. "Let me show you the true power of the Twelve. Let me show you what it means to control time itself!" She pushed Wendy and Chelia back and her armor covering her right arm was instantly destroyed. Dimaria took a step forward and put her right arm in front. The ground underneath the Sky Lovers was immediately destroyed and sent them away.

"Wendy! Chelia!" Carla was caught in the blast and was blown away as well.

Ultear couldn't fathom of what their enemy had just done. "What is… this power?"

They all saw a figure where Dimaria once was. Once the smoke started to clear, everyone saw what happened to their opponent. Dimaria looked completely different. Her body was cloaked in shadows with most of her body being covered with ethereal lines. Only her jaw was visible in all of this and her eyes were replaced by two small bright discs while her hair was flowing upwards in that same shadow. "Take Over: God Soul."

Everyone was speechless at what they were seeing. Ultear could scarcely believe what she was seeing while more cracks appeared on her face. "The power of a god…"

Carla was in the same mindset. "There's no way…"

Dimaria roared as a monumental pillar of magic erupted out from her body and struck everyone in its vicinity. It quickly subsided and only a large crater was left after the attack's wake. "Know fear. For my name is Chronos and I am the goddess of time."

Wendy was still recovering from Dimaria's previous attack The same with Carla. Chelia had to know if everyone was alright. "Everyone, are you okay?"

Ultear had never seen anything like this before. She'd never expected their opponent having a power of a god. "So she still had this trick up her sleeve. The power of the goddess of time? What on earth did she do to get her hands on something like this?"

Dimaria didn't mind to explain since she'll eradicate them all shortly. "I, enshrined in the ancient capital of time, Mildean, and the descendant of its people, Dimaria, are both as one in this form."

Chelia felt more pumped up since they were up against a god now. "If you really are a god, then that means it's my time to shine!"

Dimaria, or rather, Chronos, raised her left arm up and pointed her finger at the trio. Carla gasped and immediately pushed Wendy away to the ground. "Wendy!" Chronos' fingertip glowed briefly just before she fired an energy beam. The attack instantly pierced through Carla's abdomen from the side. All everyone could do was just stare in horror at what had happened to Carla. Wendy couldn't believe what happened to her best friend. "CARLAAAAAA!"

Ultear was still in shock at what happened. "I couldn't even see her attack."

Carla coughed out blood and grabbed her injury while shaking violently. "I predicted it but I couldn't…react fast enou…" She dropped to the ground.

Wendy immediately went over to where her friend was and shook her a few times to hopefully get a response. "Carla! Hang in there! Carla!"

Chelia couldn't believe this was really happening right now. "No way…"

Wendy continued to shake her friend but she didn't seem to be receiving any response. "Carla! Carla!"

Unfortunately for them, Carla was only the first one to go and Chronos had no intention of stopping. "Ye who have committed the sin of defiling my world, repent thy sins as corpses!"

Wendy didn't hear any of that. All that she could think about now was that Carla wasn't moving no matter how much she shook her. Wendy stopped as the terrible truth had donned on her. "No…Carla…you can't…you can't…" Tears were coming out of her eyes while her breathing became quicker. All Wendy could hear now was the increased beating of her heart.

Chelia recognized what was happening to the young dragon slayer. "Wendy, please no! Try to count!"

Her words fell on deaf ears. Wendy was hyperventilating at this point as she continued to stare into Carla's lifeless eyes. "It's my fault. It's my fault Carla is like this. She's gone because of me!"

"How right you are." Wendy gasped as she raised her head to see Esdeath standing across from her and had a sadistic smile on her face. "Didn't I tell you, Wendy? This is what war is and in a war, people will always die. Including your little friend there." She pointed at Carla and Wendy followed. "Her death doesn't have to be in vain, you know. I know in all of that anguish, you have anger bubbling deep inside of you. Anger at the person who killed your friend. Use that anger, Wendy. Unleash all of your anger and hatred upon your enemy."

Wendy's eyes started to become blank and turned her head to face Chronos. "My enemy…"

Esdeath laughed gleefully. "Yes. That being right there is your enemy. Make her pay, make her suffer. Make her wish she'd regret to have ever crossed paths with you. Destroy her even if it means destroying yourself!"

Wendy's pupils shrank at the sight of her enemy. "Destroy…my enemy…"

Chelia knew Wendy was close from being thrown into the deep end of her madness and had to do something to snap her out of it before it was too late. "Wendy, no! You can't go up against her! You'll be killed!"

Her words didn't reach Wendy as she stood up while continuing to stare at Chronos. "Kill…destroy…" The wind began to circle around her.

Even to Chronos, she couldn't help but sense something strange coming from her enemy. "What is this child?"

Esdeath cackled wildly. "Yes, Wendy. Show your opponent what you're truly capable of!"

Wendy's eyes widened as she screamed loudly and the wind blowing fiercely from out of her. Wendy had a look of anger in her eyes and bloodlust. "YOU BITCH!" She activated Mastema and her wings spread.

Chelia started to run up to the other girl while extending her arm forward to reach her. "WENDY!"

"She's still alive!" Those three words were strong enough to reach Wendy and she gasped. The wind died down and Mastema retraced back into the discs. Chelia stopped and both girls turned to Ultear. "Carla is alive…for now. I saved her from the valleys of time. Simply put, her time has stopped."

Wendy looked down at her friend. "Carla's time…has stopped?"

"This is just a stopgap. Once time starts moving again, Carla will in fact…" Cracks started to appear all over Ultear's body "Before that happens, we must defeat this woman and the moment time starts moving again, give Carla the healing magic we can."

Chelia was worried about what was happening to Ultear. "But, Ultear, your body…"

Ultear didn't care for that at the moment. "You all can remain in this valley for only a short while longer. You must hurry and…"

Wendy wiped her tears away and took in a deep breath. "Carla…"

Chelia stood next to her girlfriend and wanted to be sure of something. "Are you feeling better Wendy?"

The sky dragon slayer sniffed and exhaled. "Yeah. I am."

Chelia smiled at that and they both faced Chronos. "Then let's do this, Wendy!"

While Ultear was glad they can still go up against Chronos, she still had some doubt within her. "But what can they do? This is not an opponent these kids can hope to defeat." She saw the determined and absolute look in their eyes and that was enough to convince her. "Such gallant eyes, replete with resolve. These girls can…to this extent…" Ultear had just the ace up her sleeve that may guarantee their victory. "I wonder…are you prepared to use the power of the future?"

Wendy glanced back at Ultear. "The future?"

Ultear brought up her orb in her hand. "Yes…right now I can give you the opportunity to use the power that may one day develop. If you choose not to do this, you have no hope of defeating her. But if you use this secret art…you will never again be able to use magic. Such is the power of the future. The power of the Third Origin."