The conclusion of the Phantom Lord Arc is here! Read, enjoy, and review!

(Fairy Tail Cellar)

The morale of Fairy Tail was at its all time lowest. With both the guild building destroyed, their Guild Master having been incapacitated, and finally being force to retreat with their tails between their legs, the guild members had never felt so miserable. Now they were licking their wounds in the guild's cellar, as well as other activities. Macao and Wakaba were sorting through explosive lacrima to be used later. Azlack and Bisca had just returned from bringing Makarov to Porlyusica to be treated. Mirajane and Cana were trying find/contact Laxus and/or Mystogan. With the Master out of commission, Gildarts still on his mission, and Mira unable to fight, that left Erza as the only S-class mage fighting right now. However they had no such luck. Cana was unable to locate Mystogan with her cards and Laxus refused to help, saying that if they couldn't beat Phantom Lord then Fairy Tail was not worth saving. That only infuriated Mirajane as she crushed the communication lacrima.

Natsu had arrived half an hour ago with Lucy safe and sound. He had then gone outside, to keep an eye out in case Phantom Lord made a move. Meanwhile some of the Fairy Tail members stood around and listened to Lucy's story of her past and how her father was the one to hire Phantom Lord to attack the guild in order for Jude, Lucy's father, to get her back. None of them placed blame on her even though she said it was. It wasn't Lucy's choice to have her father hire Phantom Lord to bring her back and declare war on Fairy Tail. Her friends were going to win this war and protect their nakama or die trying.

With Natsu, said person was sitting on top of the rubble that was once the Fairy Tail guild building. He was deep in thought with the other voice about the recent events. 'Back when I was saving Lucy, I felt two Etherious present. One of them was still sealed in its book though. Could Phantom Lord have acquired one of the books?'

"Possibly. From what we've seen so far that Jose guy is willing to buy dark items to ensure his guild is at the top. As for the one who is free from its book, I can't say for sure but that Etherious and Jose must have made some kind of deal. Either way we should proceed with caution. You haven't fully regained all your curses. So far you only have Purgatory Curse. And you only can access a minimal amount of your Hellfire Curse and have not yet awaken your other curses yet. I would for now focus on relearning of how to use Dyrnwyn." The voice suggested.

Natsu nodded as he lifted his hands and stared at the bracelets. They quickly changed into a pair of demonic-looking pistols in his hands one white and the other black. He felt a bit unsure, since he never really used firearms before, though he had also gotten use to using a sword. Though it might take him a while, Natsu figured he would get the hang of them the same way he did with Dyrnwyn. It was kind of like the memories in his body were waking up of how to use a sword and would most likely do the same with these gauntlets.

THUMP!

Natsu's eyes shot up. His enhanced hearing caught the sound of what sounded like something hitting the solid ground hard. Turning his eyes towards the ocean, Natsu tried to see if anything was approaching from that direction. At first he could see nothing past the large mass of clouds but slowly something was starting to come into view.

THUMP!

Natsu's eyes widened as the source of the nose was a moving castle. The same castle that Natsu had rescued Lucy from. That meant it was Phantom Lord who was behind this. It seemed as if though they were bringing the fight to Fairy Tail. Speaking of which, said mages were already gathered outside, mixtures of shock and horror on their faces as they stared at the mobile Guild Building.

"Damn it! I did not think Phantom would go to such extremes…" Erza cursed. She was in a towel after just coming from the showers but was now in her usual armor.

"How the hell are we supposed to fight that?!" Wakaba exclaimed as he shifted his pipe nervously.

(Inside the Phantom Headquarters)

Jose sat on a chair in the control room. Surrounding him were several of his men working the controls of the moving guild hall while Jose gave orders. "Prepare to fire the Magical Convergent Cannon Jupiter!" Jose ordered his men.

"Are you sure that is wise?" A voice asked. Jose looked and walking up to his chair was the cloaked figure. "Not that I care what you humans do, but isn't your objective amongst them as well? Won't killing her go against the parameters of your job?" The figure asked.

"If I know Fairy Tail, most of them will manage to survive and then I'll deliver my ultimatum. They're like cockroaches in that regard." Jose mused to himself.

The hooded person said nothing as he looked at the screen. His eyes focused on the figure of Natsu Dragneel. Underneath his eyes widened as he saw the Dragon Slayer's face. 'There's no doubt about it. It's him.' The being thought to himself.

(Outside)

Back with the Fairy Tail mages, they watched in horror as magical energy began to power up within the cannon. Said cannon was pointed right at them. "Are they going to fire that?!" Macao exclaimed as he watched the dense magical energy gathering.

"I won't let them!" Erza declared boldly as she stood between her guild mates, the guild building and the cannon. Her body flashed brightly for a second before revealing her in armor. On both arms were the halves of a single round shield. Apparently the other mages recognized it.

"The Adamantine Armor!" Wakaba said.

"That armor has the strongest defense!" Bisca stated.

"Wait Erza you're not going to try and block that are you?!" Gray asked as Erza stood defiantly before the Jupiter Cannon.

"That's insane, even if that armor has a powerful defense, you can't stand up to a force like that!" Max exclaimed.

"I don't care! I won't allow them to destroy my home!" Erza declared as she formed her shield in front of her. A magical barrier expanded from it as Erza prepared to block the beam.

"DIE!" Jose shouted as the cannon fired. The beam of magical energy shot out as it headed straight towards Erza. The redhead gritted her teeth as she prepared for the impact of the beam.

However it never came. A figure suddenly appeared, stepping up before Erza. It was only the familiar mop of pink hair that allowed Titania to recognize who it was.

"Dragon Slayer Secret Art! Crimson Louts: Exploding Flame Blade!" Natsu cried as he unleashed a torrent of flames from his arms. The flames were moving in a spiraling formation, exploding as they struck each other. The torrent headed forward, soon clashing with the magical beam. The two forces of destruction clashed briefly before the flames overcame the magical beam and pushed it back. The flames completed dispersed the beam of energy and entered the cannon, striking its Lacrima core and destroying it completely.

Everyone, both Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord mages, could only gap in shock at what just happened. Meanwhile the source of the flames had dropped to the floor, smoke coming from Natsu's mouth. "Damn, should not have used so much power after just waking up." Natsu muttered.

"That was actually a good idea of using your magic rather than your curses. You still need some time to wait for your curse to properly settle in. Otherwise you won't be able to settle in." The voice said.

Natsu did not really like the idea of waiting but knew it was the logical choice. His thoughts were broken when he heard several people approaching him. Turning around Natsu couldn't even react when Happy tackled him.

"Natsu! That was so cool! You completely blew that magic beam away!" Happy exclaimed with excitement. The rest of the guild shared his thoughts as they were now cheering for Natsu and for this one victory for them.

"Natsu!" Running towards the Dragon Slayer were most of the other Fairy Tail mages. Many of them were still stunned speechless of how Natsu managed to deflect the beam of magical energy and destroy the Magical Cannon Jupiter at the same time. "Are you okay?" Lucy asked as she looked at the Dragon Slayer worriedly.

Natsu had managed to get Happy off of his face and looked down at the blue cat with a smirk. "Yeah but now I'm low on energy. I just need a little rest till I'm back on my feet." He said with a smile to the blonde, who returned the smile.

Behind them, the rest of their friends began to cheer. Their morale returned after Natsu's actions. However it was soon cut off when Jose's voice was heard.

"Well done Fairy Tail!" Jose said, as if the destruction of his cannon was just a minor setback. "However you only delay the inevitable. Surrender Lucy Heartifilla and I may show mercy!"

"Like hell we'll do that!" Azlack shouted as he pointed his pistol at the moving guild building.

"What kind of guild would give up their own to the enemy?!" Bisca yelled in agreement with her partner.

Macao spoke up next. "Lucy is a part of Fairy Tail! There's no way we'll give her to you!"

Erza stood beside Natsu as he got up. "Never in a million years will we abandon our nakama! The only way you'll have to do that is over our corpses!"

The rest of the guild followed in agreement, shouting out towards Jose with swears and declarations of how they would never hand over Lucy. Said person could only stare in shock as how they all were prepared to protect her. She was so move that she couldn't stop the tears from coming out. Suddenly Lucy felt a hand on her shoulder and looked to see Natsu smiling at her. Not the usual toothy smile she had seen him with, but a kind, compassionate smile. "You know tears don't really suite you Lucy. After all with so many friends, you don't have to cry." Natsu said encouragingly.

Lucy nodded, her cheeks tinted pink as she wiped away the tears. "Yeah, your right."

"We have no time to waste!" Erza said, getting everyone's attention. "Even though the cannon is destroyed, Phantom Lord is still a threat. We'll have infiltrate that moving guild building and take out Jose! It's the only way to end this!"

The rest of the guild shouted in agreement. However they were soon silence as Phantom's guild building began to shake. The mages of Fairy Tail watched in a mixture of shock and horror as the moving fortress began to shift and then what appeared to be a pair of large metal hands coming out from the sides. Eventually it stopped moving and now looked like a giant robot.

"W-what the hell is that? Why did it transform?" Gray asked as he couldn't help but feel a sense of dread at the sight of giant mech.

Suddenly one of the giant hands began to move, resulting in panic actions from several mages. "Ahhh! They're going to crush us!" Wakaba exclaimed.

But instead of doing that, the right hand began writing what looked like a large magic seal. It was Cana who reached the horrifying conclusion. "T-that thing is using magic! It's a giant mage!"

"EH~!" That was the response coming from nearly the entire guild while the giant robotic mage kept writing the seal in the air.

"I recognize that seal! That's Abyss Break!" Mirajane pointed out, adding her own two cents in.

Now that made all of them pale in horror at that. "Shit, that's a forbidden spell! Doesn't Phantom realize how much damage that will do?! That dark blast will take out everything from here all the way to Kardia Cathedral!" Loke said.

"Shit! Is there anything we can do?" Macao asked as he clenched his fists.

"The only thing we can do is defeat the caster! We have to find Jose and stop him." Erza declared as she summoned her regular armor.

"Actually it might be the Elemental 4 that are the source of the spell." Natsu said. "Each one uses one of the four elements necessary for Abyss Break: Fire, Earth, Water and Air. I bet if you take them out then the spell casting will slow down and eventually stop."

Erza blinked as she realized the logic behind that. Though she was also surprised that Natsu of all people thought of that. Either way she had to focus. "Gray, for an ice bridge and get us up there!" The redhead ordered. Meanwhile Mira was taking Lucy away from the battle, in order to get her somewhere safe.

"Right!" Gray replied as he prepared his magic.

"I'll go too! It's a man's duty to protect civilians!" Elfman roared.

Erza looked at Natsu, who was now sitting on a rock. Seeing her gaze, Natsu said, "I'm still charging up after using that much magic. I'll join you guys soon." Natsu looked at Happy. "You go with them too buddy. They might need you." The Dragon Slayer/Demon said to the blue cat.

"Aye sir!" Happy replied.

Gray began making a pathway over the water towards the giant mech mage. As he did, he along with Happy, Erza and Elfman followed behind towards Phantom Lord's headquarters. While doing so multiple beings began flying out of the fortress and heading towards the Fairy Tail mages. They were covered in purple robes and had a rather ghastly appearance to them with a matching aura.

"Wait are those Jose's men? Is he going to use the Abyss Break with his own forces on the battlefield?" Max asked as the figures did a dive towards the mages.

"No those aren't humans." Cana replied, getting everyone's attention. "That's Jose's magic. His shades!"

"Eh?!" Everyone cried in shock. "Y-you mean like ghosts?" Macao stuttered.

"Now's not the time to get scared. We got to hold these things off!" Bisca declared as she began firing at the shades with her magic guns. The magic bullets tore through several shades, only for the ghostly figures to reform seconds later. The rest of the Fairy Tail mages began fighting, using their magic to fight off the shades. While everyone was focus on fighting off the shades, no one noticed Natsu move back to a safe position to recharge his reserves.

(With Jose)

"Master Jose! We've detected Fairy Tail mages entering the mech." A Phantom member reported to Jose. A screen soon appeared in front of him and the hooded figure, revealing Erza's team moving through the Phantom Base.

Jose raised an eyebrow at the three mages and cat, as if they were some kind of interesting bug. "So it appears they're going to try and stop Abyss Break."

"It appears they figure out that the Elemental 4 are the key to the Abyss Break spell. Which has already been slowed down by Totomaru losing conscious because of the cannon's destruction." The hooded figure commented. Another video screen popped up and revealed a room with several destroyed large lacrima. Lying on the floor was an unconscious young man dress in a samurai attire and had a stripped black and white hair. "Also it looks like they took your target somewhere else, a safe house obviously. But what are you going to do about the intruders?"

"Nothing" Jose said with a smug smile. "They cannot hope to defeat the remaining Elemental 4. And even if they do, they have no hopes of defeating me." Jose said arrogantly.

"What about Gajeel?" The hooded figure asked.

"I had a feeling that they would try and move Ms. Heartifilia somewhere else. So I had Gajeel on standby to track her down." Jose replied.

The hooded figure said nothing and just walked away. "In that case I'll just go and watch how things progress. If it comes down to it I will fight as well." He said before blending into the shadows. Jose frowned before turning his attention to the book that he had in his hands. Grinning sinisterly, Jose placed his other hand on the book's cover, which soon began to glow a vile greenish aura. Jose smirked as he rubbed the cover before looking back at the screen, just as the Fairy Tail mages split up, searching for the remaining Elemental 4.

"Now then, let's see if I can install some more despair into these faeries." Jose mumbled as the book glowed.

(Back with Natsu)

Natsu's eyes snapped open as he sensed demonic energy nearby. It was faint but it was definitely another demon of Zeref. One of the weaker Etherious, the ones who could not use curses, but a threat nonetheless. The only problem was that Natsu could not figure out which one it was but he knew that it was coming from the Phantom Building. 'Just what the hell are those idiots doing?' Natsu thought.

A yell got Natsu's attention. Turning the Dragon Slayer saw that Max had been hit by one of the shades, which now had a light green to its shadowy figure. The Sand Mage soon fell to one knee and was now painting heavily, his face sweaty.

"Oi you okay?" Nab asked as he rushed over to help Max up.

"I-it felt like I had the life sucked right out of me." Max painted as he tried to stable himself.

"Are you serious?" Cana muttered as she overhead Max's words. "Damnit don't let those things touch you! They'll drain you of your magic!" She shouted as she blew away another shade with her magic.

"Shit as if things weren't bad already." Macao cried as he fired another purple fireball at a shade. The projectile struck the creature head on but it was brief as the shade quickly reformed. "These bastards keep regenerating without end."

Suddenly a large mass of black smoke shot pass the mages, surprising them. The smoke headed towards the Phantom Headquarters while at the same time consuming any shade that was in its way. And unlike with the mages, the smoke seemed to have destroyed the shades it consumed as it continued on its path. Cana watched as the smoke reached what was left of the Jupiter Cannon. Her eyes widened slightly as the smoke changed into Natsu, whom landed safely on top of the cannon before heading inside.

"Whoa…"

"Did Natsu just do that?"

"I didn't even know he could do that…"

"Amazing!"

Those were the few of many comments as the mages watched in awe of Natsu's move. It was Cana though who snapped them out of it. "This isn't time to be sidetracked! Natsu just helped us big time, there are few of those things now! But we still got to deal with the rest. Let's show them what Fairy Tail mages are!" She shouted.

Roars of agreement were the response as the mages readied their magic again, just as the remaining Shades charged in again. While that was happening, Mirajane returned, a determined look on her face as she prepared her Transformation magic. She had seen Natsu head towards the mobile guild building, and knew that her brother and friends were also fighting in there. Even if she could no longer fight, Mirajane was determined to do her part to protect her home and friends.

(Inside Phantom Headquarters)

(A/N: I'm kind of changing the order of the fight scenes with the Elemental 4, as well as skipping the Elfman and Gray's fights. I want to get to Natsu's scenes)

"SO SORROWFUL!" Aria cried in dismay as he landed on the floor with a loud thud. The leader and strongest of the Elemental 4, had just been defeated by Erza Scarlet. And despite removing his blindfolds he was still no match for Titania.

Erza, in her Heaven Wheel armor, glared at the fallen mage. "There's no way our Master would lose to someone like you. Such a title will never belong to Phantom." She said with fierce conviction. At the side, Happy was staring at Erza in a mix of shock, awe and a bit of fear of how quickly the redhead defeated Aria. "Way to go Erza!" Happy cheered.

"With another of the Elemental 4 defeated the Abyssal Break Spell should be closer to stopping." Erza commented as she changed back to her usual armor. "I just hope the others are doing-"

Erza stopped her sentence as her warning instincts went up. Immediately she summoned a sword and raised it in front of her. A black whip lashed out and wrapped around the blade. Looking closer, Erza saw that the whip was made out of black dust. Following the whip she saw that the source was from a newcomer, the hooded man with his right hand facing forward. "Who are you?" Erza demanded as she pulled on her sword handle but to no avail. "Are you a part of Phantom?"

The hooded man said nothing at first, but then used his other hand to remove his hood. His skin was fair and he had orange eyes. The man's hair was short, spiky and a bluish-grey color. What was strange was that two strands of hair stuck up straight on his head, looking similar to dog ears. Underneath his brown coat he wore a navy blue, long-sleeve denim jacket that was unbuttoned, revealing his chest. He also wore black jeans and boots. Over his chest was a large X-shaped scar.

"My name is Stein. And no I am not a part of Phantom Lord, we merely have goals that co-align with one another." The now revealed Stein explained.

"I see." Erza said as she still tried to free her blade. Meanwhile Happy took the air and watched the two from a safe distance. "And am I to assume that it was you who hindered our movements back at the Phantom building?" Erza asked as she recalled how many of the Fairy Tail mages were immobilized by some unseen force.

Stein just nodded before pulling his right arm back. The movement caused the sword to fly out of Erza's hand and the whip dissipated. Then he launched the sword back at Erza. Without wasting a second, Erza equipped two more swords and charged straight towards Stein, dodging the blade. While a simply move it was a logical one in Erza's mind. To her, if Stein used those dusts then that meant he lacked skills at close combat or at the very least not be as proficient in it.

She was proven wrong when Stein brought his hand down, fingers curled. "Five Electro Claw!" Erza was only a foot away from Stein when suddenly five slashes appeared on her body. She screamed in pain as they cut through her Heart Kreuz Armor like paper. If one looked carefully, you could see electricity dancing along Stein's fingers. But that did not stop Erza as she swung her swords at Stein, who effortlessly caught one while smacking the other aside.

"You thought because of my ability I would be lacking in close quarters correct?" Stein asked as he used his free hand to deliver a punch into Erza's unprotected stomach. "Well you guessed wrong." He added as Erza kneeled over, gasping painfully.

He was about to launch another punch but Erza managed to recover and jump backward. At the same time she changed into her Flame Empress Armor. Stein then formed a pair of black whips around both hands and latched out with them towards her. "Flame Slash!" Erza did a wide swing of her sword, alight with fire over the blade. When the whips and blade met, the latter managed to deflect the former. But that was a short victory as the whips quickly regrew and shot back at Erza, forcing the redhead to jump out of the way.

Realizing that she would need to face this differently, Erza changed into her Heaven's Wheel Armor. Suddenly dozens of swords appeared in the air around her, all pointing towards Stein. "Dance my swords! Circle Sword!" Erza cried as she launched her swords in a disk like fashion.

"Magnetkugel! (Magnet Bullet)" Stein yelled as he raised his right hand, forming it into a gun. From the pointer finger, a black sphere formed at the tip and then was shot out, followed by more. Flying through the air swiftly, each projectile met the swords head on, resulting in the blades being destroyed before they ever reached Stein. A few managed to reach Erza and while she was able to block most of the projectiles, some managed to leave some marks on her. One cut her right cheek, enough for a little bit of blood to show.

"Originally, I didn't plan on confronting you guys directly, but I got bored and decided to see what you people could do. Hate to say it but this is disappointing. You have yet to injure me and I have already drawn blood." Stein commented.

Erza growled, not liking to be underestimated. However before she could retort, Jose's voice could be heard from the loudspeakers.

"Attention Fairy Worms!" Jose sneered to the Fairy Tail mages, both inside and outside Phantom's headquarters. "I am pleased to announce that as of right now, Lucy Heartifilia-sama is now in our possession!"

"AHHHH!"

In the destroyed Lacrima room for the Jupiter Cannon, a certain Dragon Slayer heard both the announcement and the familiar scream. Releasing a feral growl, Natsu Dragneel's eyes turned a bloody crimson as rage seeped out of him. "Lucy…"

And there is chapter 9! Sorry it took so long, I have been focus on my other stories and college. Anyway I will be working on chapter 10 as well as the next chapter for "Rise of Hell" Be sure to review!

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