Chapter 8: Lullaby
Clover Canyon
The wind all around the group intensifies, Natsu looks angrily at Erigor as Sakura stands behind him.
"Natsu! Sakura!" Happy yells worried for them.
"Don't you get it now, Fairy Tail brats! Flame can never defeat wind!" Erigor says.
"You some of a bitch…" Natsu curses.
"This is like a typhoon…" Sakura says.
"You flames can no longer touch me!" Erigor yells in a triumphant tone as the wind picks up even more, Natsu and Sakura barely able to hold their own from the strong force of the blowing winds. "Eat this! Storm Shred!" He shouts as he summons a magic circle in front of him which then begins firing out a barrage of wind blades at the two. Natsu jumps around in the air to dodge the blades as Sakura also jumps backwards away from the wind blades.
"Damn… you…" Natsu yells in anger as he then launches himself towards Erigor as his attack ends his fist and feet covered in fire. Then Erigor laughs maniacally as he holds his right hand outward, the wind all around him seeming to pick up and stopping Natsu just short of him. "Break through!" Natsu exclaims but finds himself blown back towards the tracks, crashing upon impact. "It's not just my flames, but my fist can't even get close to him! Damn it!"
"Natsu!" Sakura calls as she rushes over to check and see if Natsu is all right.
"What's the matter punks? That all you got? I'd thought you'd be tougher. No matter. I'll end this now. This is Flying Phoenix magic that will tear you to ribbons! Emera Baram!" Erigor yells as he holds his arm out to his side, a magic circle appearing in front of him which then splits apart into a few more that spreads out in front of him.
"Emera Baram he said? If you get hit with that you'll torn apart!" Happy yells in fear.
"Scatter to the wind! You Fairy Tail brats!" Erigor yells as he crosses the middle and index fingers on both of his hands in front of him which summons a massive tornado which towards the two which sends both Natsu and Sakura flying back as they yell out in pain. Happy covers his face and Latias closes her eyes from the wind, dust, and debris blowing towards them. As it dies down, Happy lowers his arm and Latias opens her eyes and they notice both Natsu and Sakura flying over and landing behind them.
"Natsu! Sakura!" Happy yells and Latias goes to Sakura to check if Sakura is all right. "Natsu, Sakura, get up!"
"Oh? I'm impressed their bodies are still one piece. Not bad for some young wizards." Erigor says.
"Natsu! Sakura!"
"Worry not. The old geezers will be following them shortly. From the sweet sound of the Lullaby…" Erigor says.
Just then, Natsu's fist slams into the track, catching Erigor's and Happy's attentions as they look at him, Erigor with a shocked look on his face.
"Lullaby this… Lullaby that…" Natsu says as he stands up and then tosses away his waist coat. "If you want the old man's heads then fight them fair and square!"
"That's my Natsu!" Happy says in joy as he jumps up and down.
"Impossible, he's still standing!?" Erigor exclaims.
"Natsu is not the only one…" Sakura says as she pushes herself up onto his feet as Latias carefully helps her.
"If you don't have the will to fight, then lay off!" Natsu yells.
"You brats are really stubborn." Erigor says.
"Just in time…" Sakura mutters as Erigor sees a ball of lightning surrounding her gloved hand.
"What the heck is that?" Erigor questions.
"It something that can stop you." Sakura replies and she aims the sphere at Erigor.
"Oh? Let see you can stop me. Emera Baram!" Erigor yells as he fires another blast of his most powerful attack at both Natsu and Sakura.
"Thunder!" Sakura fires a blast of yellow electricity at Erigor and it collides Emera Baram, causing a stalemate between the two attacks. Despite that, Emera Baram pushes forward a little bit as the electric blast is being push back. "GO—!"
The electric blast pushes forward until Emera Baram is being swallow up by it, shocking Erigor as the electric blast continues coming towards him.
"What!?" Erigor exclaims and the blast hits Erigor, subsequently getting rid of most of the wind armor off. "My Storm Mail!"
Once the electric blast is gone, Erigor crashes into the tracks.
"Amazing...!" Natsu says.
"Natsu." Sakura calls and Natsu looks at her. "Erigor is on the ground, he's all yours!"
Natsu looks down at Erifor as he pushes himself up. Natsu smirks as he looks at Sakura.
"Thanks, Sakura!" Natsu yells as he looks back at Erigor. "Now it's my turn!"
Natsu coats his fists in flames and jumps towards Erigor.
"Your friend may be able to hit me, but you still can't!" Erigor yells as he sends a blast of wind at Natsu as he is forced backwards into the air. Natsu manages to stick the landing back onto the tracks, but the flames that was coated his fist fizzled out.
"Damn…" Natsu says as he then grabs the train track bar below him, fire then explodes outward from him and surrounding him as his eyes become completely blank. "Damn it! Why can Sakura hit him and I can't!?" He yells out in rage.
Then Happy seems to notice something. "That's…"
"I can't stand it! You son of a bitch!" Natsu yells as then fireballs appear on four nearby mountains surrounding Natsu and Erigor. Sakura then notice something begin to happen with the surrounding wind.
"More eerie magic… it's like his emotions are manifesting themselves as flames…" Erigor thought.
"The wind…" Sakura trails off.
"This is… Erigor's wind is flowing in a strange direction…" Happy says.
"Natsu then pulls up and breaks apart the train track bar he was holding onto as he continues to scream in anger which seems to increase the size of the fire surrounding him, the wind all around begins to act strangely.
"Flames of emotion? It's true that there was an ancient magic like that… No, this kid couldn't possibly… Hm, what's this? My wind is heading towards him!" Erigor thought as he notices something wrong with the wind especially his Storm Mail.
"I see!" Happy yells.
"Natsu's flames are sucking in Erigor's wind!" Sakura says.
"Natsu!" Happy calls out, catching his attention. "Give up. You can't win. Just let Gray handle it." Happy says while waving his left hand towards him. This seems to stop Natsu cold as he stares blankly and in shock at him and the flames died down.
"H-Happy?" Sakura says.
"! WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!" Natsu yells out as he explodes once again with fire surrounding him but much higher and seeming to be out of control.
"Oh, I see." Sakura says as she balling her fist and placing it on her palm.
"He's drawing away my Storm Mail!" Erigor yells in shock as soon his Storm Mail armor is completely no more. "You bastard!"
"The super-heated air around Natsu moves upward extremely fast, creating an area of low pressure. And the wind blows towards areas of low pressure!" Happy thought.
"I'll be the one to defeat you!" Natsu yells as his fire is now shooting straight up into the air like a fire pillar.
"Such incredible superheated magic! He couldn't be…!" Erigor thought.
Natsu then launches himself forward, surrounding by fire at high speed as he then headbutts right into Erigor's chest, gagging as he loses his breath.
"Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" Natsu yells as he then has his fire explode upwards, propelling Erigor high into the air with a pillar of fire going into the air and curving away from him.
"So a Dragon Slayer really exists? And that girl… what is she?" Erigor thought as he falls to the ground, his eyes blank and devoid of like before finally crashing into the train tracks and getting halfway buried into the dirt.
"How's that Happy!?" Natsu says.
"Right! That's Natsu, 'The Salamander' all right!" Happy says.
"That's not what you said a second ago." Natsu says with an annoyed look as he peers towards Happy out of the corner of his eyes.
"Cats have very weak short term memory." Happy says.
"You said that I couldn't beat him so Erza should do it!" Natsu yells at him.
"His memory is even worse that a cat's. Not Erza… Gray! But anyway, you won Natsu!" Happy says.
At first Natsu is still annoyed by what Happy said, but then turns away and puts on a smile.
"Yup, so we're good! I wonder why that last attack worked?" Natsu wonders.
"Cause you're just tha awesome Natsu!" Happy yells as he then sprouts his wings and flies up into the air at Natsu's level.
"So that's why!" Natsu agrees as he begins laughing.
"Actually, it's more complicated than that, you know…" Sakura says and Natsu looks at Sakura.
"Still that attack you did was awesome." Natsu says.
"Really. You see that attack, Thunder, is the most powerful electric move from where I'm from."
"He—h." Natsu says.
"Natsu! Sakura!"
Natsu, Happy, Sakura, and Latias look down the tracks after hearing what sounded like Lucy's voice and see the others coming down the tracks on the car.
"You guys are late! It's already over!" Natsu yells at the group.
"Aye!" Happy agrees.
"They can tell." Sakura says.
"As expected."
"Erza, are you okay?" Lucy asks as she helps Erza from the car.
"Don't worry about me." Erza says.
"You actually had trouble with this guy?" Gray questions.
"Trouble? It was a cinch! Easy!" Natsu retorts.
"It was pretty touch and go there… even with Sakura and Latias with us." Happy adds.
"And beside, you're gonna attract weirdos with your bare chested muffler look." Gray says.
"I don't wanna hear that from you." Natsu says and looks at Lucy. "Lucy, give me your clothes."
"Why me?!" Lucy yells and Erza begins to laugh.
"Anyway, splendid work, Natsu. We've protected the Guild Masters." Erza says and the rest of the Fairy Tail wizards nod their heads. "Let's go to the meeting hall. We'll report what happed and let the maters dispose of the flute."
"Cover's not far from here." Happy says.
Suddenly the car jumps over the Fairy Tail wizards as four claws coming from it.
"Kage!" Erza yells.
"That's dangerous!" Gray yells.
"I've got the Lullaby! You let your guard down, flies!" Kageyama yells with an evil grin look on his face as the car then lands back on the tracks and driving down at full speed, soon driving out of sight of the Fairy Tail wizards.
They can't help but stare in complete shock at what just happened, Natsu, Gray, Happy, and Lucy's eyes all blank and their mouths wide opened.
"That bastard!" Natsu yells.
"What the hell? And we saved him!" Lucy yells.
"After him!" Erza yells.
"Latias!" Sakura calls and Latias flies towards her before she jumps on Latias' back.
~A few hours later~
Night has fallen, a full moon in a partly cloudy sky. Kageyama overlooks the legal Guild Masters' meeting hall from a close by hill from behind a tree.
"Okay, the sound of the Lullaby should reach them from this distance, no problem. Finally… finally the time has come…" Kageyama thought with a gleeful smile on his face.
Just then, what sounds like someone kissing and then an old man giggling is heard frightening Kageyama as he lets out a terrified yelp.
"These girlies are quite the lookers, yes!" The voice turns out to belong none other than Fairy Tail Guild Master, Makarov himself who seems to be unaware of Kageyama being behind him as the Eisenwald wizard turns around and spots the short man. "Young wizards these days have upped their levels of looks and skills! Photo spreads are the best…" Makarov says as a small heart flies away from his head, in his hands appears to be the weekly Sorcerer Magazine as on the cover appear to be two female wizards dressed as nurses. "Hah!" He yells as he hops up from the small rock he was sitting on and puts the magazine behind his back, Kageyama having a few sweat drops going down his back in a confused state. "No, no, no! I don't have time for this, I have to find out where they're head–" Makarov then turns around somehow seeming to sense Kageyama standing there and then cries out in shock holding the magazine tight as his eyes are blank. "It's not what you think! This is part of my studies! I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about–" Makarov yells as he wildly waves his arms around with sweat flying from his head.
"You don't have to make excuses…" Kageyama thought as he then sighs in relief.
"Oh, you're injured. What the heck are you doing wandering around here?" Makarov says as he notices the bandages around Kageyama's body.
"Uh, well…" Kageyama says.
"Wait! Isn't that Fairy Tail's Makarov? Fate won't let me escape from these flies, will it?" Kageyama thought as Makarov turns around and lets out a sigh.
"Um…" Kageyama says drawing Makarov's attention back to him. "Would you listen to me play a tune? I'm not allowed to bring instrument into the hospital, so… I-I wanted someone to hear me!"
"That's one creepy flute you got there." Makarov says.
"It might look strange, but it has a lovely tune." Kageyama says.
"… I'm in a hurry. But I suppose I could listen to one song." Makarov says with a smile.
"Okay." Kageyama says as an evil glare appears in his eyes.
"I win."
"Listen up now."
Kageyama punts the flute close to his mouth preparing the song that will kill all of the Guild Masters and finally achieving the goal that his guild set out to do.
"Finally…" However, Kageyama stops as sweat runs down his forehead as he then begins thinking back on some of the things his fellow guild mates, including Erigor said.
"We're just getting even with all the Legal Guilds!"
"They sure got a lot of nerve for a bunch of no-talent idiots!"
"With this we'll lock ourselves onto the road of darkness, and get our revenge on the people of the magical word that stole out livelihoods!"
Kageyama inches the flute closer to his lips but then stops again, thinking about what Fairy Tail wizards said to him.
You won't get your rights back by doing something like that!"
"Try to think about the future a little. All of you lot."
"Kage! We need your power!"
Wasn't he an ally from your own guild?!"
Kageyama opens his eyes and seems to catch his breath.
Nearby
"There he is!" Gray says.
"Master/Gramps!" Erza and Natsu say.
"We need to stop Kageyama before he plays that flute!" Sakura says.
"Shh!" An elderly man bald, and cross-dressing man. He wears a purple spaghetti-strap shirt accessorized by a gold and fuchsia hoop necklace, and vertical-striped pink and purple shorts, red lipstick and blush on each cheek and small, white winds on his back.
The sudden and physical appearance frightens Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Sakura who is still sitting on Latias and Latias flies away a bit from the man as Natsu, Gray, and Lucy stand away on one leg, having black eyes and cry out in fear with sweat flying from their faces.
"We're getting to the good part. Now watch!" The man says as a pink heart appears by his head as he says so. He then notices Natsu and Gray who hug each other out of fear and start shivering. "And wow, you are all so cute! Totally my type!" The last part causes them even more fear.
"Who the heck is this?" Lucy asks as she hides behind Erza with Latias and Sakura, watching as the man tippy-toes over to the scared Natsu and Gray and proceeds to bumping them away with his hip. Then the man notices Lucy, Sakura, and Erza.
"That's Master Bob." Erza says.
"Erza sweetie, how you've grown!" The man, Master Bob says.
"This is the Master of Blue Pegasus?!" Lucy says still frightened by his appearance.
With Master Makarov and Kageyama
"What's the matter? Hurry up and play it." Makarov says and Kageyama gulps as he then gets closer to playing the flute.
"We can't let him!" Erza says as she, Natsu, Gray, and Sakura notice this.
All of a sudden Master Bob has Natsu and Gray in his arms as he uses his wings to hover a few inches in the air as the girls then spots another Guild Master leaning against the tree. The man has light brown hair that almost reaches his shoulders, wearing sunglasses, plain black t-shirt and pants and a pointy hair with a lighter band sporting massive, rounded spikes on it and another such band around his neck.
"We said, keep quiet and watch. This is the good part."
"It's the Master of Quartro Cerberus!" Lucy says recognizing him as well.
"Master Goldmine!" Erza says in surprise.
"If I just… If I just blow, then everything will change…" Kageyama thought.
"Nothing will change." Makarov speaks, breaking the silence. This causes Kageyama to gasp. "Weak humans will always be weak, no matter how long you wait. But weakness is not always a bad thing. Humans are weak creatures from the start. Uneasy about ourselves, we form guilds. Where we have allies and friends! In order to thrive, we bind together and progress forward. These awkward combinations might run into more walls than a single person… And we might take a long time to get where we're going… But, as long as we believe in tomorrow and place one foot in front of the other, we will be filled with power from within. Living a strong life means being able to smile! And not relying on something like that flute."
As the wind blows silently by, sending a few leaves, Kageyama, understanding what Makarov is saying, finally give in and drops the Lullaby flute. The trainer and the Fairy Tail wizards looking on with smiles on their faces, happy that their Master was able to stop Kageyama with just words.
"I surrender!" Kageyama says as he goes on his knees and bows down to Makarov.
"Master!" Erza yells.
"Gramps!" Natsu and Gray yell as the group runs towards him and Makarov yells out in surprise as he sees them.
"Why are you here?!" Makarov asks as Goldmine and Bob watch from nearby.
"Excellent as always! Those words were so moving!" Erza says as she grabs Makarov and slams his head against her armor's chest piece, giving him a hug.
"That's gonna bruise!" Makarov yells in pain.
"And that settles that." Gray says as he stands in the center while various things happen around him, Master Bob, Goldmine, and Erza watching Natsu pats Makarov on the head with Happy next to him watching and Sakura watches Lucy who seems to be chastising Kageyama for his action earlier.
"Way to go gramps!" Natsu says.
"Stop patting me!" Makarov says.
As the group celebrates their victory, the Lullaby flute's eyes suddenly light up with dark purple light as dark purple mist begins to seep out from its eyes and now opens up the mouth and purple electricity seems to surge in the air around it.
"A bunch of cowardly wizards, every last one of you!" A demonic voice with both female and male voice speaks from the flute.
The Fairy Tail wizards and their Master hear this and all look towards it with shocked look on their faces.
"Something's coming out!" Happy yells.
A massive darkish-purple magic circle appears in the sky right above them as electricity surges out from it. Far away from them a massive army of the Fiore Military who caught wind of Eisenwald's plans and attempted to stop them, also spot the magic circle as well as all of the soldier look on wondering what's going on. "What the heck is that?"
"I can't stand anymore! I'll devour them myself!" The dark purple mist rising into the air and seeming to go into the magic circle as just then, the magic circle lights up and something falls out from it to the ground. Something that easily towers over the Master Meeting Hall and appears to be the size of a mountain.
"Your pitiful soul that is!" The massive wooden creature with three cutout holes where it's stomach should be, as well as cutout holes at the upper parts of both of its arms, horns on its head, three holes where dark pink eyes glows out from them and a massive lined with sharp teeth mouth.
"Is that… Lullaby…!" Sakura says.
"That's way too big!"
"So that's what you complain about?!" Happy questions.
"What is that thing? I had no idea about this!" Kageyama says as Goldmine and Bob seem to not be as afraid of the thing as everyone else is.
"Oh my! How upsetting." Master Bob says with his mouth covered.
"This is a demon of Book of Zeref." Goldmine says with his tone a bit more serious.
"Demon of Book of Zeref…?" Sakura repeats.
"Why did the flute turn into a monster?" Lucy asks.
"That monster IS Lullaby. In other words, it's living magic. That's Zeref's magic." Goldmine informs.
"Living magic?" Erza asks seeming to not even how what this magic is.
"Zeref? Isn't he ancient history?" Gray asks.
"The Black Wizard Zeref was the most evil wizard in the history of Magic World! To think that a part of his legacy would appear before us after all these centuries!" Bob says.
Lullaby then begins to lean forward towards the group. "So then, which one of your souls should I partake of first?" Lullaby says as Erza, Gray, Natsu, Sakura, and Latias look like they're prepared to fight the thing.
"Say what?!" Natsu says and turns to Gray. "Are souls tasty anyway?"
"How should I know? And don't ask me!" Gray says annoyed by Natsu's question.
"I figured that's what he'd be wondering about." Lucy says as she appears behind the two.
"But still, why would that even be a question?" Sakura asks.
"Natsu, Gray, start moving people to a safe distance." Erza says to the two.
"How bossy!" Natsu complains.
"Don't order me around!" Gray says quietly.
"I'm counting on you!" Erza says as a glint on the corner of her right eye appears and Natsu and Gray then happily running with their arms around each other's shoulders.
"Aye sir!" Both of them say.
"There's Happy #2 again…" Lucy says with her right hand to her chin finding it still unbelievable.
"The big guy's all bark and no bite! He ain't got nothing!" One of Fiore soldiers yell out.
"Charge!" Another one yells out which makes all of the soldiers tell out in a battle cry, catching Lullaby's attention as it shifts its attention to them.
"Back off, small fry!" Lullaby yells as it rears its head back and then going forward opens its mouth as a purple magic circle appear and a yellow magic blast comes from it and flies towards one of the nearby mountains. The blast impacts into the mountain causing a massive explosion as the Trainer and the Fairy Tail wizards cover their eyes from the bright light of the explosion as the Guild Masters and Fiore army look towards the mountain to see the damage caused by Lullaby.
"Captain, the mountain has disappeared!"
"What?!"
"R-retreat!" The captain orders as all of the Fiore soldiers turn tail and begin running away.
Lullaby sees the Fiore soldiers running away and turns its attention back to the wizards.
"Okay, I've decided! I'm going to eat all of your souls, you pitiful wizards!" Lullaby says.
"Sound like fun! Go ahead and try it!" Natsu yells, eagerly to fight the demon.
"You can do it." The Guild Masters cheer from a far off the distance as Lucy who is a bit closer to the other looks on with a worried look on her face.
"What do they plan to do with just the five of them?" Lucy wonders.
"What about you, Lucy?" Happy asks appearing in front of Lucy on her left.
"I'm out of Celestial Spirits I can use today, and I just might hold everyone back, see…" Lucy says turning away to her right.
"Excuses." Happy says now in front of Lucy on the right side.
"Shut up, cat!" Lucy yells at Happy.
Lullaby's eyes brighten up us then the Demon begin roar loudly, the air around it seems to go upward as then it looks up to the sky and a purple magic circle appears right above its head. Lucy and most of the other masters cover their ears while Goldmine and Bob do not.
"What a horrid voice." Master Bob says.
"What's this terrible feeling?" Lucy asks.
"It's begun…" Master Goldmine says.
"Oh no!"
"It's the Lullaby!"
"Our souls are being devoured!"
Makarov looks up at the demon like Goldmine and Bob not showing any fear nor covering his ears, as then he smiles sinisterly.
"Let's go!" Erza says as she requips two of her magic swords into her hands.
"Right!" Natsu and Gray say as they slam their fists into their hands.
Erza launches herself forward first, followed by Natsu, Gray, and Sakura who jumps on Latias back before Latias flies up.
"Requip!" Erza says as she requips into her Knight armor. She then flies past Lullaby's face and slashes with her two swords across the demon's cheek.
"Ice Make Lance!" Gray yells as he forms a ball of ice and he summons forth a barrage of ice lances that hit Lullaby across the body.
"Latias, Dragon Breath!" Sakura yells and light blue waves of energy start swirling around Latias before she fires a light blue beam of energy from her mouth at Lullaby's back.
"Take this! Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu yells as he slams his fire fist into Lullaby's face.
"He's punching with fire!"
"And this one's an ice wizard!"
"She's requipping armor!"
"And that tamer commands a creature I've never seen before."
All of the Guild Members look up in awe as they continue to watch the Trainer and the Fairy Tail wizards do battle with Lullaby, amazed at what they see their mouths hang open. The three wizards land on some rocks behind Lullaby while Latias hovers in the air above them.
"You're really pissing me off now!" Lullaby yells as it then swings its arms at them, causing the group to scatter as the demon destroys the rocks.
Erza slashes past Lullaby's side, Gray seems to make a giant ice crossbow as he then fires a barrage of ice towards the demon.
"How about another one? Fire Dragon's Wing Slash!" Natsu yells as he jumps up and brings a fire blast down on Lullaby.
"Dragon Pulse!" Sakura yells and Latias fires a multicolored dragon-shaped beam of energy from her mouth at Lullaby causing an explosion at the demon's chest.
"Amazing! I've never seen such a combination attack before!" Kageyama says in awe.
"Their movements are perfectly sync!" Lucy says.
"Aye!" Happy says.
Lullaby roars out angrily as it then rears its head towards the sky and consumes the magic circle.
"I don't have a good feeling about this!" Lucy yells.
"Here comes lullaby!" Happy yells.
"Purple light from Lullaby's mouth as it keeps its head pointed up at the sky, sucking in the air all around it as then all the greenery from nearby starts to withering and dying.
"The plants are withering!" Lucy yells as she notices it.
"It's the curse of the Lullaby!" Happy says.
Lullaby lowers its head and looks down at the Trainer, wizards and Guild Master.
"I'll be dining your souls!" Lullaby says as it then yells out, causing Lucy, Happy, and Kageyama and many of the other Guild Masters to cover their ears in pain, while Master Bob and Goldmine are once again showing no concern about what's about to happen while Makarov is still smiling. Instead of a tune coming out, nothing but a really bad wind except for a few bad notes coming out from the demon, which confuses it.
"What the heck?!" Lucy yells shocked with her eyes and pupils wide, her mouth opens up and her hands to her cheeks.
"It didn't do anything!?" Happy yells in shock with earplugs in his ears.
"What's this this sound?! What happened to my beautiful sound?!" Lullaby cries out in shock wondering what happened.
"I see! After those attack from before…" Kageyama says.
"They open up a bunch of holes, so he can't play properly. So after all this build up, this is the punch line?!" Lucy yells.
"Look, his stomach is empty." Happy points out.
"HOW DARE YOU MOCK ME!?" Lullaby yells out, now full of anger as it then kicks one of the mountains where some of the Guild Masters stand as Natsu, Gray, Erza, Sakura, and Latias are another mountain away as they seeing this.
"He's snapped!"
"Both big and bad-tempered!"
Various Guild Masters yell as some of them are flying into the air from the attack while the others run away to try and get to safety. Lullaby then turns its attention towards the group where Master Makarov, Bob, and Goldmine are.
"Latias!" Sakura yells as he notices where Lullaby is going to attack next and Latias flies quickly to where the Masters along with Lucy, Happy, and Kageyama are. Gray jumps in between Lullaby and the others as Sakura jumps off Latias landing next to Gray.
"Ice Make… Shield!"
"Protect!"
Lullaby fires a magic blast at the group just as Gray puts up a giant Ice Shield and Sakura already puts out her hands with a turquoise force field appeared in front of her, protecting the others from Lullaby's attack. The two defenses protecting the Guild Masters, Lucy, Happy, and Kageyama behind them as the blast explodes in front of the two shields which blocks the explosion from engulfing everyone else.
"So fast!"
"He can use Maker Magic to create something that large instantly?"
"And the tamer can use magic as well?"
"Maker Magic?" Lucy asks due to having heard about Gray's magic not that much before.
"Magic that gives form to magical power. There's also magic that can steal form away." Happy informs Lucy.
"Damn you." Lullaby says as the fire in between it and the others begins to get sucked somewhere else. All of the fire flies into Natsu's mouth as he consumes all of it to power himself up even more.
"All right! Now that I've eaten, I'm all fired up!" Natsu says as he wipes his hands across his mouth.
"You… You're a figgin' monster!" Lullaby yells as he begins running the demon's arm.
"What did you call me?!" Natsu questions.
"He's climbing me!" Lullaby yells as Natsu then jumps up, bringing Lullaby's attention upward as it then spots Erza.
"Requip!" Erza says as she transforms again into an armor that is black with silver trimmings forming sliver crosses on different parts of the armor, and revealing silver-edge breastplate and flanking her hips that reach down to her waist-guard, large plates guarding her legs, and two wings that have black metal arms acting as the wings' leading structure.
Some of the Guild Masters can't help but blush due to the revealing nature of the armor as one Guild Master has hearts surrounding him, another has his mouth opened and another has smoke coming out from his nostrils.
"The Black Wing Armor!"
"That's a magic armor that will add tremendously power to a single attack!"
"Ice Make Saucer!" Gray yells as he creates a sideways flying saucer-looking ice object which then spins around and speeds towards Lullaby, hitting it in its chest as it roars out in pain. Erza meanwhile flies at its head and slashes it across the side of its right face causing it to rear its head back and roar out more in pain.
"Natsu!" Erza yells.
"Now!" Gray yells.
"All right! With a flaming right hand… and a flaming left hand… when you combine the flames together…" Natsu then slams both of his hands together. A fire ball forming together as he then holds it above his head and yells out as it begins growing bigger and bigger. "Try eat some of this! Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" Natsu yells as he then throws the giant fireball towards Lullaby, hitting the demon in the face, sending it tumbling to feet.
"It's still standing!" Erza yells.
"Leave this to me and Latias!" Sakura says as Latias is hovering above Sakura and Sakura is reaching for her Key Stone. "Latias, Mega Evolve!" Once Sakura touches the Key Stone streams of light comes out as Latias Mega Stone which is on Latias' collar starts to glow and streams come out. The two different streams connects to each other before Latias' body starts to shine and change, mega evolving into Mega Latias. Latias' body stops shining and everyone in the area see Mega Latias floating in front of Sakura.
"Did Latias change her form just now?!" Lucy asks in amaze at how different Latias' body has changed.
"Latias, Dragon Pulse!" Sakura yells and Latias fires a multicolored dragon-shaped beam of energy from her mouth at Lullaby before impacting into Lullaby's chest, causing the Demon to once again cry out from pain as it then explodes from the attack and incinerate into thin air.
Then a bright white light shoots out from the dying down explosion into the air and clouds which sends out some kind of shockwaves. A yellow electricity surge appears for one second as then strange magic looking dust begins gathering together in the air and scatters upwards as it begins to rain down like snow on the Guild Masters and wizards.
"Excellent!" Makarov says.
"Wonderful!" Master Bob says.
"They defeated Zeref's demon so easily…" Master Goldmine says.
Lucy gasps in excitement as Kageyama looks on with a dumbfounded look on his face.
"W-wow… So this is… So this is what Fairy Tail Wizards are like!?" Kageyama says as the smoke clears in front of his as he sees Erza, Natsu, and gray standing together with Sakura and Latias who transforms back into regular Latias having joined back with them, standing next to Natsu and the others.
"Those guys and Sakura and the others definitely make the strongest team all right! Super cool!" Lucy yells out in happiness.
"Aye!" Happy agrees jumping up beside Lucy.
"How about that? Incredible, yes?" Makarov says to his colleagues.
"Great going, everyone!" Lucy says as she Happy and Makarov greet the other from their victory.
"He wasn't nothing to special, was he?" Natsu says.
"A push over…" Gray says.
"Yay!" Sakura says with a victory sign on her fingers.
"And as for you two, you two were awesome. Especially with Latias!" Lucy says directing at Sakura and Latias.
"Aye! I couldn't believe it my own eyes and I still can't!" Happy says.
"That's go to show that Latias and I have a special bond." Sakura says.
"What a bunch of fools…" Kageyama says. "I'm no match for them…" He relents with a smile on his face.
All of a sudden he feels a hand touch his shoulder as he is then grabbed and hugged by Master Bob, scaring him as he is also being crushed by him unknown to Master Bob as he is also rubs his cheek against his.
"We've got to get you a doctor, yes we do!" Master Bob says.
"It's hugging me!" Kageyama says in fear.
"Well I don't know what was going on exactly, but it looks like we all owe Fairy Tail one." Goldmine says as all of the other Guild Masters stand behind him, but seem to be focusing on what's behind them.
"But look…" One of them says.
Erza takes a turn and she is completely shock and surprise at what she sees as Natsu and Gray also turn around wondering what it is she and the others looking at.
"THEY WENT OVERBOARD!" All the Guild Masters yell in shock as now a giant and massive crater in the center of the valley as the Master Meeting Hall is nowhere in sight.
Makarov has his mouth open and his eyes are blank as his whole body shakes in complete horror at what he is seeing before him.
"Where did the regular meeting go?" Lucy fearfully asks.
"Aye! A mountain or two are gone!" Happy says sprouting his wings and jumping up into the air.
Makarov's whole body then to shut down as his soul rises out form his head, frightening Lucy.
"Master!" Lucy yells in shock.
"Something flew out…" Happy says.
Natsu meanwhile can't help but laugh. "We really did a number on it!"
"This is no laughing matter!"
"Somebody capture them!"
All the Guild masters start yelling in anger at the Fairy Tail people as Lucy stands on one foot and being closer to them is more fearful for her life, Happy also looks at the Guild Masters, Natsu continues laughing while Gray looks away, and Erza and Sakura are in the background chasing after Makarov's soul.
"Heh. Kids take after their parent you know!" Goldmine says.
"Brings back memories of when we were active." Bob says.
"S-seriously?" Kageyama questions.
"You look just like I did when I was younger, Kage deary…" Bob says, causing Kageyama to gasp and fear.
Master Bob then takes out a photo of him, Goldmine, and Makarov when they were much younger in their teenage years, as they all appeared to have been in the Fairy Tail Guild long ago. Then showing it to Kageyama, some other people seem to be on the picture as well beside them.
"I sure hand a lot of fun back then, we all did so much crazy stuff, the Council was always angry at us! By the way the hottie is me…" Bob says pointing towards his younger self who was a lot more slender then he was now, short side-swept black hair, and wore an aubergine colored suit.
"No way that's you!" Kageyama exclaims.
"Kagywagy, you're the image splittin'!" Bob says in joy.
"Like hell I am!" Kageyama yells, scared to think that Master Bob looked a bit like him he was his age.
"Anyway, I think you should be able to understand a bit now." Goldmine says to Kageyama who seems to have frozen up in fear.
"About how guilds can be fun." Bob says as then Kageyama's soul comes out from his head.
"Something came out." Goldmine says as he and Bob notice it.
"Oh my." Bob says.
Nearby, the Lullaby flute is seen, its eyes still glowing purple.
"Okay then, I'll capture them!" Natsu yells.
"You're the one we're trying to capture!" Many of the Guild Masters yell out.
"Oh really?" Natsu says surprised, as then the Lullaby's flute eyes dies down and it cracks.
The Fairy Tail wizards and the Trainer decide that it is best that they leave now as Erza carries the still unconscious Makarov away with a disappointed look on her face, Gray and Lucy lead at the front with wide-opened eyes and looking like they're running, Natsu looking like he's having fun, Happy looking like he's crying, and Sakura rides on Latias' back as she flies away. Behind them, Goldmine and Bob watch them off, Kageyama still has his soul hovering over him, and the rest of the Guild Masters yell in angrily at them.
Author's Note: For the next chapter, I'm going ti skip the filler episode in the anime which follows the manga. Also, in the next chapter, a legendary Pokemon will make its appearance, but I'm not going to tell you which Pokemon it is so please look forward to it.