Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks.
Kanji's POV
"So where can I find Jellal?" I asked the man with the metal mouth.
"He'll be at the top of the tower." Simon explained.
"HEY!" I turned around and saw Natsu trying to catch up.
"Where the hell have you been, you smell like vomit."
"I don't wanna talk about it." Natsu explained.
"Fine, where are Gray and the girls?"
"Happy took Gray outside. I haven't seen Lucy or that other girl anywhere."
"Don't worry; I instructed Wally and Millianna to take them outside." Simon explained.
"Wow thanks for filling me in."
"According to Sho all of the Trinity Raven have been defeated, and since the man from Grimoire Heart fled, Jellal is the only enemy left. That is where Erza is headed; she plans to settle this with her own hands." Simon said.
"Well I can't let her do that now can I?" I smirked.
"What are you saying Erza can't take that guy?!" Natsu countered.
"No, on the contrary I think she'd win if it was any other face, am I right Simon?"
"Yes, Erza still wants to save Jellal."
"Exactly, to Erza that man is still a childhood friend. That's why I have to be the one to beat him, she can't fight him, and she won't be able to do what it takes. Besides if she takes out her friend she'd never forgive herself, that's why I'll do it for her."
"You know an awful lot." Simon observed "Erza had Sho get everyone out of the tower. We are the only ones still inside. The council is going to fire Etherion in ten minutes."
"What!"
"Why didn't you say that sooner!" I yelled taking off up the stairs.
"Wait for me!" Natsu yelled after me.
I ran up the stairs as fast as I could.
How tall is this damn tower?"
I looked out the window as I climbed higher and higher. The clouds were parting and the light of the Satellite Square was in position.
It's coming faster than we thought!
"ERZA!"
And then it fired. Etherion destroyed the tower like it was nothing. The light was blinding and I couldn't see. The light drifted away and somehow, I was still standing.
"How?" I looked over and saw the tower had turned to crystal "This whole place, was one giant lacrima. It absorbed the shot?!"
That doesn't matter keep climbing!
I wasn't too far from the top of the tower. When I managed to finally make my way to the top, I found Erza yelling at a man with blue hair as she was being sucked into one of the crystals.
What the hell's he doing to her?
I ran over and pulled Erza out of the lacrima "Hands off!"
The only other man on the tower with us looked a lot like that guy from the council that was always creeping on Erza.
"You're Jellal?"
The man didn't answer me; he only gave me a rude look.
"Erza is mine, you can't have her." I glared back.
"Jeez! You could have waited for me!" Natsu yelled making his way to the top as well."
"What are you two doing, I told everyone to leave?" Erza said.
"So what, we gotta get you back to Fairy Tail. Lucy's got rent to pay, we've got missions to take." I told her.
"I can't move." Erza told me.
Natsu started tickling Erza as pay back for all the times she beat him up.
"Knock it off Natsu." I told the man child.
"Kanji, you have to leave, please." She begged.
"No way. I gotta beat this guy first." I told her.
"You don't know him you can't beat him." She told me.
What a joke.
"You know I haven't spoken to my father in years but he used to say 'I don't need to know a guy to kick the crap out of him'. I like to think that applies here." I told her.
"Please just do what I ask."
"Alright." I picked Erza up off the ground "You know what sweetie, sometimes I don't get you at all."
"Huh?"
"Take a nap Gorgeous." I said punching her in the stomach.
I'm sorry. Just let me handle this
"You're even more reckless then I had heard. did you enjoy hitting you lover like that."
"Erza was crying. That something I swore never to let happen. That's not my Erza; my Erza is strong and brave. So when she wakes up I'll make sure she never has to worry about someone like you again."
"Then show me your true power fool!" Jellal taunted.
I ran at the man and tried to punch his lights out with a charged fist. He slipped to the side and avoided the attack.
"Got ya."
"Fire Dragon Talon!" Natsu kicked Jellal in the face and made him stumble back.
"Lightning Combination!" I delivered and rapid attack of short-range punches to Jellal's torso.
I stopped short on the final punch right in front of his face "Electric Shotgun!"
I blew Jellal back with a blast of electric power.
Natsu hopped back into the fray "Fire Dragon Roar!" a stream of fire engulfed Jellal.
"Really is that all?" Jellal asked as the smoke cleared.
The man cloak had burned away leaving him in only a skin tight tee-shirt.
What the hell he's dressed like me now!
"I really wanted to see your true strength. That was just sad. You're getting in the way of my plans so it's time for me to crush you with my Heavenly Body Magic!" Jellal told us.
"Shut up!" Natsu said running forward.
"Wait Natsu!"
"Meteor!" Jellal became incredibly fast as he was engulfed in a golden light. He moved behind Natsu and plowed him into the ground.
Jellal laid into Natsu with a series of powerful blows.
I have to find him. He's moving so fast I can't see him to shoot him. I'll have to find his signal if I want to help Natsu.
THERE!
"Arcing Bolt!" I shot and I missed
He's faster than lightning!
"Give up!" Jellal said kicking me in the back "It's time for you to witness true power!"
Jellal flew up higher and a magic circle formed.
"Be judged by heaven's light. Seven Star Sword: Grand Chariot!"
Beams of light fell from around Jellal and crashed into the ground pelting me with the force of a rock falling from space.
The area around me crumbled and I was beaten up and thrown around by the blast.
Everything hurts.
"I'm surprised. You're both still in one piece." Jellal observed "That should have killed you. Well time to go Erza. There's much work to do. The Magic energy is starting to leak out; the tower can't take much more damage."
Is that so?
"Natsu did you hear that. He wants this place kept in one piece."
"Yeah it'd be a shame if someone wrecked it." Natsu said punching the floor.
"Yeah especially after all the years of work he put in." I said kicking the ground and causing an explosion "Let's keep going Jellal I still have a few more rounds left in me!"
"You insolent punk! I'll make you regret getting up again!"
"Let's go!" I said running forward.
Jellal launched a series of weak projectiles at me put I avoided them like it was nothing.
"Keep trying to protect your tower, you can't win that way. Lightning Explosion!" I kicked the ground and shattered more of the tower.
"Knock it off you brat!" Jellal said forcing me back.
"Static Stingers!" I shot off ten beams that dug through the tower "Come on this isn't even me best stuff."
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu yelled punching away at the tower.
"You…I spent eight years building this tower! What you've done here is unforgivable, I'll kill you both!"
Jellal crossed his hands above his head and the air went still and began being sucked towards him.
This spell it's deadly. He's not toying around anymore.
"Fall into darkness Dragon Slayers!"
"Stop!" Erza yelled getting between us and Jellal "You need a sacrifice don't you! Do you plan to kill me as well?"
Jellal stopped for a brief moment "While it is true Zeref's sacrifice must be someone on a level similar to a wizard saint, but there are many just as strong as you so it makes no difference! You'll all die together!"
It'll kill her!
"ERZA MOVE!"
"Don't worry, I'll protect you." She smiled.
"Don't do it!"
"Altairis!"
Jellal launched a ball on black energy forward straight at Natsu, Erza, and me.
"No!"
But the shot never hit us. It was stopped in its tracks by someone else.
"Simon."
"Ugh." And he fell to the ground barely breathing.
Why did he do that? I don't understand. Why die for people like us? I barely know this guy, he hasn't seen Erza in years, but he's still willing to die for her.
"Why didn't you escape like I told you?!"
"I'm glad I was able to be of some help Erza."
He doesn't have much time left.
"Don't talk!" Erza pleaded.
"I've…always…loved you…Erza."
Why am I not angry at him for saying that?"
"Simon…Simon…SIMON!"
He's dead…
"How utterly foolish, they call that dying in vain." Jellal harassed.
I can hear her, Erza is crying.
I bolted forward and punched Jellal in the face.
"Shut your God Damn mouth!"
"Kanji."
"You! You made Erza cry! I'm gonna kill you!"
"Your eyes."
Erza's POV
"Your eyes. There seeping lighting energy."
"What the hell's with him?" Natsu asked.
"I don't know."
His magic, it feels so powerful.
Kanji's POV
I'm gonna kill him! No more holding back
I felt the energy leak out of my body. The skin around my eye separated and my scar came to the surface for the first time in years.
I've kept this scar hidden ever since Laxus and I drifted apart. It makes me look like him, except mine is flipped and mirrored compared to his. I'm sick of hiding my true self. No more hiding, it's a scar who cares. It's magic who cares. If Natsu's angry he can shove it, I'll do whatever I need to kill Jellal.
"Lightning Dragon's…"
"WHAT?!"
"Yes show me your true power!" Jellal yelled.
I clapped my hand together over my head.
"Heavenward Halberd!"
I threw the bolt at Jellal and pierced him sending him back.
"I hope you ready to die Jellal."
AN
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