Hi babes I hope you're all okay. I haven't updated in a few like months or weeks idk, and I'm going to just say that this story will have longer parts (hopefully). And I know that Lucy seems OP, but really.. she isn't? I'm not entirely sure how to explain this, but, with the Copying magic (Mimic Magic, I guess), it boosts her power.. I'll just explain how it is cos I really can't be asked to deal with the backlash bc of how I portrayed Lucy's character loooooooool

BTW i like the ending of this even though it's a bit dumb lmao it's legitimately rare that I'm super duper impressed by my works even though I like my works :}

When using Copying Magic, it likes copies and duplicates the other power, and stores it away in a Mages body for further use. Basically, for example, if Lucy was fighting against anyone, she could use one of the powers she has memorized against her enemy or comrade. Say, like, she copied Juvia's magic? And like stored it away in her magic power system I guess, then later on, she would be able to use it too. Somewhat like Cloning Power Magic or some shit like that

I forgot the definition behind it and came up with this bc I have a poor memory, plz help

That's all.

And to do with the fights, I'd like to say that this First strike, second strike, and "out!", is only the beginning of battles. I'm hoping that this story has at least over twenty parts, each to do with something that is the epilogue (basically).

also I realised that Mirou may have died in the other battle, but just as a spoil, don't expect it to be the last of him

He's gonna be a sort of catalyst (a bad one tho) for something to do with future battles which will eventually lead to the end of this story and then also here's some WONDERFUL news that I thought of not so long ago

I'm contemplating whether to create a sequel or not, depends when I finish this one and the exact ending. Because it'll have to link to this in some sort of way (that's how i see it but it's cool if others don't idk bye) so maybe it'll have something to do with a second generation idkkkkkkkkkk

btw Iroshiya fighting Mirou is like her way of getting payback, for what he did to her younger brother

Also, I'd like to apologize for how OOC some characters seem. I'll be editing some more things from now on. AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF OC'S BUT

plz can u just put up with it for now :(?

I may also be making a story (another one) soon about Yukiro (Yuko) and Iroshiya's relationship which also leads up to so many things to do with ships in modern magic au

And I would just like to say aswell, I do like Lisanna, it's just that she fit the role of one of the several villains in this story quite well so.. yeah. I do genuinely like Lisanna, she's a mini-matchmaker, she's beautiful and kind, and basically ships Nalu so yeah, I do like her. Plus, she's the sister of Mirajane, who's like my sixth favoruite FT character ever. I couldn't bring myself to hate her (but I can bring myself to kinda dislike NaLi loooooooool).

I'll try to post longer parts of Think Once, Think Again, so I hope you look forward to that dearies

Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed the story so far, and please feel free to comment your thoughts on it as for I would like to know if you like it or not loooool

Goodbye, and have a lovely weekend babes

Now: STRIKEOUT! Lucy versus Master Zianna & Atsuko!

(Normal POV):

Flipping her hair over her shoulder, Lucy's eyes narrowed in concentration as she focused on using offensive spells to wipe out the rows of Bladed Heart mages that seemed to be crowding around her old friends.

The guilds were holding up well, but those who had already participated in battle were resting. Gray and Juvia were moved to one side, holding Silver protectively in their arms.

Mirajane and Erza leant against each other, panting, as they watched everyone else battle.

Gajeel and Levy waiting with Rena, as the Light Dragon Slayer rested on the makeshift bed that was on the floor.

"So, you're the girl who seems to be madly in love with Minato-kun."

Turning around, Lucy lowered her guard, if only by a little bit, as she observed the midnight-blue haired woman striding over to her, a hand on the hip.

Involuntarily blushing, Lucy cleared her throat to speak. "I'm not madly in love with Minato. I'm just his.. friend."

"Are you sure that your heart agrees with that statement?" The bluenette asked, her light blue eyes becoming soft. "I felt like that after the breakup, you know. I was still hopelessly in love, but then.. I got over it."

"You mean, you got over the fact that you abandoned your son with a man who is incapable of being alone- due to the fact that Zeta was killed right infront of his eyes?" Lucy replied, eyebrows raised. "And I pick up that you truly do not care about that."

"Ding ding ding! Correct." Master Zianna said, cackling evilly, the sound drilling into Lucy's ears. "Minato.. he was too focused on showering Zeta with love.. he was too focused on training so that he could protect our family. I was strong enough..!"

"Surely.. the fact that he was training to protect his family would be a good thing- why aren't you happy? That's a good thing. What if you one day was diagnosed with MDS, and could no longer fight. Wouldn't you be happy that at least someone close to you has the ability to use magic?" Lucy retorted. "You're deluded by hate for the man who you used to love, right?"

"How can you say that? Aren't you?!" Zianna screeched, anger coursing through her veins. "Weren't you driven by hate, weren't you the one who wanted revenge on Fairy Tail?!"

"Tch, this in't about me." Lucy ground out, clicking her tongue in lack of patience for her foe. "Yes, I was driven by hate, but then I remembered how Master Makarov took me in when I needed it the most. I remembered how I made so many good friends here, in Fairy Tail. I can ignore the people who dislike me, it's as easy as that. However, unlike you, I am not forming a Guild, sending my teammates to murder my nakama, in retaliation."

Left speechless, Zianna did the only thing she could at that moment in time. Bringing up her hand, she punched Lucy in the face so hard, the blonde-haired girls head flew to the side. Hearing the sound of a "clap", everyone stopped what they were doing momentarily, curiousity taking over.

Wiping blood away from her mouth, with the back of her hand, Lucy stared back at Zianna. "Is that all you've got, girl?"

Summoning a weapon from her Weapons Space, Lucy charged forward, hitting Zianna with the brunt end of her spear. Grunting in pain, the Master of Bladed Hearts clutched her stomach.

Fury coursed through Zianna's veins, summoning a Lance from her own Weapons Space.

Anger and Zeal fueled Lucy's determination to bring her friends to their great, destined salvation.

Swords clashed and sparked, the battle between Lucy and Master Zianna was truthfully quite darkly beautiful. Being in sync with each other, it was interesting to watch how two of the most strongest mages to be known by Guilds fought, yet it was frightening because of the amount of power that emitted from the two. Lucy's aura was golden yellow and jet black, the two overlapping each other. Zianna's was silver and blood red.

It flared and fluncuated at points when their weapons collided, spreading and creeping through the cracks of broken down Fairy Tail.

Deciding to tinge the fight, a silver haired boy walked in the middle of it. He stood by Zianna's side, resting his arm on her head.

"Atsuko.." Zianna panted, dropping her weapon to the floor, her eyes widening surprise at Lucy's expressionless face. "Charge up."

"As you wish, my lady." The boy complied without so much as a mutter of protest, energized Zianna with Black Lightning magic.

It flickered around her body and made the visible signs of stress, fatigue and tire, vanish from her face.

Her posture became straighter, her grin even more confident, and her eyes even more narrowed.

"Cloning magic.. isn't it just handy?" Zianna said. "This time, I swear, you're going down."

"Dear mavis, you're oblivious.." Lucy retorted, rolling her eyes.

They began the same battle but instead replaced their weapons with Magic spells.

Zianna started the fight first.

"Black Lightning: Piercing Bolt!" She yelled.

Several rays of lightning attacked Lucy, all in a flurry, too quick for Lucy to stop and fight back.

She grunted in pain but absorbed the magic, unimpressed with the blisters that formed on her arms.

"Fire Poison Dragon Wing Attack!" Lucy yelled back.

The attack of a plum, blood-red tinted vortex swept Zianna up in one go, throwing her back and forth until she couldn't even stand.

It seemed like an easy win for Lucy, and the Legal Guilds were on the verge of cheering. However, they realised the truth of the situation, as Zianna got back up.

(Lucy's POV):

I sensed an awakening, something that stirred deep within the back of my mind..

I carefully, cautiously watched Zianna's movements..

Her height had grown, she had darker blue eyes, near enough turned black. Her thick, hip-length hair was becoming longer and silver.. it reached the floor. Horns, that curved downwards, becoming crimson..

"Could this be.. her true form..?" I asked myself, eyes wide.

"I am Zianna Shikaosu, the Demon of Destruction. This is my etherious form.. in which, I will be able to destroy you." Her voice boomed all over the building. "What about your true form, Miss. Heartfilia?"

"I don't have an etherious form," I said. "I can defeat you without the help of Etherion infused into my body."

"You won't be saying that when I beat you to a pulp." Zianna retorted, malice lacing her words.

I re-equipped into my Dragon Avenger armour, which was one of my top three strongest.

Midnight Blue scales which formed a.. top thing that covered most of my body, but left a portion of my stomach uncovered. I had elbow length black gloves on, and knee-high black socks on. Replacing my skirt, jeans tucked into sturdy golden combat heels came on. I had shoulder armour on, though attatched to it was a long gold cape, and in my hands two twin bladed sword.

"That isn't going to scare me. I've been through the same situation over and over again, people have said that exact thing to me at least fifty times in the space of two months." I grumbled, angrily. Taking a deep breath, I inhaled the air.. "Aagar Yeris."

Aagar Yeris, a spell which encases the enemy in a Glass Cage, negating magic infused into the box.

"You can't keep a demon in a cage!" Zianna said, starting up her irritating cackling again. "Yssir Zumomo!"

"Regulus Impact!" My spell had directly hit her in the face, scorching a bit of skin off. Smoke and flames blinded my vision, so I couldn't see the upcoming danger.

Suddenly, her hands were around my throat, lifting me high into the air.

Darkness quickly filled my vision, and despite my thrashing about, my attempts to escape her grip..

There was no sign of light.

(Normal POV):

It was almost as if time had stopped. Seeing the powerful, great Stellar Mage succumb to death, had shook Fairy Tail. They held their breaths, waiting for a sign of life.

However, when Lucy's body slumped to the floor, they released that breath.

They (Mainly the Slayers) couldn't even hear her breath.

"N-No.. that's not right. Lu-chan can't.. c-can't be dead," Levy tried to delude herself into thinking her best friend was sleeping, but.. "Come on, Lu-chan, wake up."

"Levy.." Gajeel placed a hand on his mates shoulder, slowly shaking his head, silently breaking the news. "Bunny Girl is dead."

"S'Funny," Zianna said, kicking Lucy in the ribs, smirking as she watched her enemies motionless body roll around. "Who would've thought that the Queen of Draconia would be defeated by the Demon of Destruction.."

Something moved, and Natsu's gaze moved over to Lucy's twitching body. A light glow had surrounded it, and a smirk began to curl at her lips.

He raised an eyebrow at this, but said nothing. She's been faking it all along, he thought.

A gigantic, shadow-like claw came out from the floor, crushing Zianna in it's iron clutch.

Lucy arose from the floor, quite literally too, she was hovering or something.

"Did you really think that I would die today? Let alone be killed by something like you?" Lucy asked, angrily. "I am the Queen of Draconia for a reason.."

"W-What? How?! How are you still alive- I, I choked you!" Zianna roared, her etherious form slowly disappearing. "My power!"

"Unfortunately for you," Lucy whispered in Zianna's ear, in a creepy, sweetly satanic tone. "My power eradicates your type."

Without so much as a thought of mercy, Lucy held out her hand, and clenched it, the giant shadow one seeming controlled by the Draconian Queen herself. Master Zianna's body was squeezed until it made a pop and cracking sound, blood splattering just about everywhere. The whole of Fairy Tail matched the Red Sea- that much blood was spilled to compare it to such a vast thing.

The fight was brutal, but it definitely wasn't the end. Nobody had bothered to wash the blood off of their skin- to them, it was a symbol that implied "We defeated Bladed Hearts" to everyone.

Atsuko had eventually made his appearance, but was lingering. He was surveying the mages of Fairy Tail, from afar..

It was only select few who acknowledged his presence, yet did nothing about it.

"You actually defeated her," Atsuko said, as he crept up behind Lucy.

"Indeed I did." She mused, a pensive expression on her face. "I'll be assuming correctly when I say that you want a fight, right?"

"Bravo.. correct, Mrs. Heartfilia." Atsuko replied, with a bright smile. "I'll kill you in vengeance for taking my girlfriends life."

"Well. Alright." Lucy didn't care about his attempt to intimidate her, she just wanted to end this war.. even if it was the last thing she did.

It was just Lucy, Natsu, Yukiro, and Iroshiya standing. Gray and Juvia left to take Silver to a safer place, Mirajane and Erza had passed out long ago, Levy and Gajeel were tending to Rena's wounds, and everyone else was either passed out or dead.

Feeling an overwhelming urge to protect Lucy, Natsu suddenly ran between the fight and socked Atsuko right in the jaw. Whilst the Black Lightning mages face flew up a bit, Lucy used Natsu a vault, and done a regulus kick to Atsuko's head. He flew back a bit, but struck back.

"Black Lightning: Roar!" Much like an Iron Dragon slayers roar, a grey/silvery beam of lightning attacked Lucy and Natsu with extreme impact.

The two mages who had once been enemies, absorbed the magic, then paused. Natsu collapsed, unable to hold such magic in his system. Lucy moved the Fire Dragon Slayer to the side, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand, the hand which formerly had a Fairy Tail insignia on it.

"It's my fight, idiot." Lucy mumbled.

Transforming her arms into swords of Ice, she bonked Atsuko on the head, very hardly, and repetitively, until he dropped to the floor in pain. Then she stepped on his face- her heels digging into his eyes, causing him to let out cries and cries of sheer horror.

Sending magic to her legs, she stomped on his head, manically grinning as a sickening crunch came to her ears. He was half dead before, but now there was no coming back.

"Don't fuck around with me, Bladed Hearts." She sent a final message to the end. "You mess with my friends, you mess with me. You mess with me, you're fucking history."