Chapter 19: Jupiter

Following the retreat from Phantom Lord's Guild, Fairy Tail returns to the guild to rest, recuperate, take care of the injured, and plan out the next attack on Phantom's main headquarter. Master Makarov is taken by Alzack and Bisca to an old friend of his in the East Forest.

Eventually, Natsu and Happy returns with Lucy where she explains to everyone who she really is and why all of this happened. After that, Lucy hands the poke ball to Sakura and Sakura promises that when this is over, she will heal Aiko. Then, Macao, Wakaba and two other members are looking at the man as everyone else is treating.

"Ah, damn it…"

"I can't believe we had to retreat!"

"This sucks!"

"And we didn't get revenge for the guild and Levy…"

"Damn it!"

As the members are saying this, Lucy sits on a barrel with Natsu and Happy right beside her as Lucy still blames herself for all this.

"This is their headquarters." Macao points at the map where Phantom Lord's headquarters are. "If we attach them with ranged magic from the high ground to the southwest…"

Gray and Elfman stand near the three as Macao's group are getting ready to attack.

"Next time I'll bring explosive lacrima with me!" Wakaba shouts and puts the lacrima into a bag.

"Bring out a stack of powerful magic books for holder-type wizards from the warehouse!" Macao shouts as he holds a book in his hand.

Gray notices Lucy is still looking down and turns to her.

"What's the matter? Still uneasy?" Gray asks causing Lucy to hunch over.

"No, it's not that. It's just… I'm sorry." Lucy apologizes.

"Well, it's the fate of rich heiress' to get chased. And the ones who protect them are Men." Elfman says.

"Don't say things like that!" Gray tells him.

"But I'm really surprised. Why did you keep it a secret, Lucy?" Happy asks.

"I wasn't trying to hide anything. After I ran away from home, I didn't really want to talk about it. For a full year, he never showed any interest in his runaway daughter. And now he wants me back? My father went to such terrible length to take me back… He's the worst! But when you get down to it, it's originally my fault for running away from home, right?" Lucy says.

"That's not true! Your father's the bad guy here!" Elfman states.

"You idiot!" Gray says in anger.

"I mean, Phantom!" Elfman corrects himself.

"Thanks to my selfish actions, I've caused all this trouble for everyone. I'm really sorry. I guess if I went home it would end this right?" Lucy asks.

"You really think so?" Natsu says catching her attention. "But 'rich heiress' just doesn't strike the right tone. Laughing in this dirty old beer hall, and making a ruckus while on some adventure… That's the Lucy I know." Natsu says causing her to blush a little bit as she looks back down. "You said you wanted to stay here, right? What's the point of returning someplace you don't want to go?" He questions causing Lucy to gasp in realization. "You're Lucy of Fairy Tail! This is your home to return to." Natsu finishes with a grin as he points his thumb to himself causing Lucy to cry from hearing that from him.

"Don't cry, sheesh… You're stronger than that!" Gray says while Elfman trembles at the situation.

"Oh right! Men are weak to tears!" Elfman says.

"Lucy." Sakura calls getting her attention. "You're not alone. Even if you're a rich heiress, you're always part of this guild. Even though you and I became one on the same day."

"Sakura…" Lucy calls through the tears.

Suddenly, the entire building shakes catching everyone's attention.

"What's that?!" Gray questions.

Just then, Alzack appears down the stairs and shouts. "Outside!"

Soon after he said that, the rest of the Guild hurries themselves outside with Erza having a towel wrapped around her body after she took a shower, and they look out to the lake to see a massive shadow slowly coming towards them.

"What the hell?!" Natsu says in shock.

The shadow that is slowly coming towards them is the Phantom Lord's Headquarter holds up on a massive piece of land by six huge mechanical legs similar to a spider.

"The guild is walking!" Happy yells.

"Phantom?" Loke questions.

"W-what are we going to do?" Wakaba questions.

"I didn't predict this… This is how they attack us?" Erza says with her eyes widen in shock as she trembles.

Just then the Phantom Lord Headquarter's walkers set down in the middle of the lake, kicking up a massive wave. The center of the building lowers down, allowing a long, metal cannon beginning to extend out from it until it is all the way out, pointing towards Fairy Tail. After that, dark energy begins to gather around the barrel and growing more and more intense as it grows into a massive dark ball of energy.

"This is bad! Everyone take cover!" Erza alarms as the dark energy is now a massive ball as it continues to power up for a massive blast.

"Leave this to me!" Sakura yells as she rushes forward.

"Sakura!" Erza yells out.

"What do you plan to do?!" Wakaba questions.

Sakura arrives at the edge of the cliff that overlooks the lake, and points her gloved hand in front of her as her body begins to glow light-blue.

"She's planning to use Protect!" Happy yells out.

"Don't tell me she's going to block it?!" Bisca yells out.

"I don't care if she has some kind of lost magic, there's nothing that can defend us from that thing!" Alzack yells.

"Stop it! Sakura!" Wakaba shouts.

Sakura!" Natsu yells out and behind him, Lucy eyes are wide open with complete terror.

Just then, the massive cannon fires a massive stream of black energy towards them.

"PROTECT!" Sakura shouts as a huge turquoise force field appears surrounding the guild and herself as the energy impacts into it, causing Sakura to dig her heels into the ground. "So… heavy…"

Just then, five out of six of her poke balls pop open showing Vent (Jalorda), Tsubasa (Kenhollow), Takeru (Lucario) , Recca (Ulgamoth), and Latias.

"Minna…" Sakura calls as she looks back.

Then Vent jumps up with a burst of speed with a clear aura, Tsubasa 's body becomes surrounded in an orange and gold sparkling aura, Takeru forms a blue ball of energy in between its hands, Recca's wings glows light blue, and Latias begins to charge Dragon Pulse. The five pokemon then charge/send/fire their attacks to help Sakura to hold the force field.

"Yosh… Let's keep holding out like this!" Sakura shouts and the five pokemon cry out in agreement as the energy gets thinner until it subsides. Sakura releases the force field as she collapses to the ground and her pokemons gather around her.

"I'm fine. I'm just exhausted." Sakura assures them.

Quickly the others rush up to her who turns towards them.

"Sakura! Are you all right?" Erza asks.

"Yeah."

"T-That was amazing, Sakura." Alzack says.

"No, it wasn't just me. It was my pokemon who helped me to block that blast." Sakura says.

"Well, well. Very impressive, young wizard." Jose's voice announces over a loud speaker from the Phantom Lord Headquarters, bringing everyone's attention back to it with serious and anger look on their faces. "Nevertheless it won't matter, with Makarov out of the picture none of you have the power to stop me. Hand Lucy Heartfilia. Right now."

"Not on your life!" Alzack yells out as he and everyone else is now full of anger.

"Are we a guild that hands our friends? I don't think so!" Bisca yells.

"Lucy is one of us!" Macao yells.

Soon the rest of the guild joins with them in shouting out that they won't give up Lucy to him. Lucy shakes as she hears this with her head hangs low as her eyes stares at the ground.

"Hand her over…" Jose demands again.

Lucy has her hand over her closed eyes as she begins to cry again before putting her hand back down. "I… I…!"

"We'd rather die than sell out our friend!" Erza cries out in full of anger like the others.

Lucy opens her eyes as tears fly out from it as her head perks up in shock at what she is hearing as everyone else cheers at what Erza said.

"OUR ANSWER WILL NEVER CHANGE, NO MATTER WHAT! WE WILL KICK YOUR ASS!" Natsu yells out.

"We will protect Lucy at all cost!" Sakura yells.

All of the Fairy Tail mages continues to roar out in agreement as Lucy has her hands covering her face, tears streaming down her eyes as she sobs in happiness.

"Then you'll get a second extra-large helping of Jupiter! Quiver in fear for the 15 minutes it takes to charge!" Jose shouts.

"What?" Elfman says in shock as everyone quiets down and they start to worry again.

"Jupiter…" Cana says.

"They're gonna shoot it again?" Loke questions as Sakura barely stands up with Latias' help.

Just then, purple cloak like ghost begin to fly out from the windows of their guild towards them.

"Are their forces coming?"

"Weren't they supposed to fire Jupiter again?"

"Don't let your guard down!"

"Stare into the pits of hell, Fairy Tail! You have only two choices left. Be destroyed by my troops. Or be blown away by Jupiter!"

"I can't believe this! He plans on blowing up his own allies?" Macao cries out in shock with sweat flying from his face.

"It's a bluff! They won't shoot…" Wakaba says.

"No, they're shooting." Cana says causing the two jaws to drop open in shock.

"E―H!" The two gasp.

"That's Jose's magic, Shade. They're not human. They're phantom soldiers that Jose created." Cana says.

"What?! Shade…" Bisca says in shock with her eyes widen.

"You mean ghost?" Alzack finishes with his eyes also widen.

"G-g-ghost?!" Sakura stutters in a scared voice.

"We have to do something about Jupiter." Cana says.

"I'll bust it to pieces! 15 minutes, right? Let me at it!" Natsu volunteers and Cana nods her head before Natsu takes off running forward. "Happy!" He calls out as he jumps up.

"Aye sir!" Happy replies, picking up Natsu as the two takes off towards the Jupitar cannon.

"Elfman, we're going in too!" Gray says as he and Elfman run after them.

"All right!" Elfman replies.

"We'll make a stand here!" Cana says as she prepares some of her cards.

"Everyone! Get ready to defend the guild! Give them everything you've got for Lucy, Levy, Jet, Droy, and the Master!" Erza yells as she summons two swords and the rest of the guild erupt into cheers. Then Mirajane rushes over to Lucy.

"Lucy, this way." She says as she grabs Lucy's hand and leads her away from the battlefield.

Sakura slowly stand up. "I'm fighting too…"She says, but she collapses due to the Jupitar.

"You should rest, Sakura." Erza tells her.

"But–" Sakura pauses as she remembers something and then she hurriedly puts her hands in her bag before pulling out a shell-shaped ocarina. "'Use this when you're in a tough situation.' And right now is the time. Minna, can you protect me while I play this?"

Sakura's pokemon nod their heads and form a circle, surrounding her, and facing the shade.

The shades begin their attack on Fairy Tail wizards as Sakura's pokemon begin to use various moves on the shades.

"Take this!" Wakaba shouts as then one of the shades passes through his chest, shades pass through the others around him as well. "What's this? My strength is being drained." He weakly says as he collapses onto his knee whit the others around him also collapse.

"Wakaba!" Macao yells and looks at the shades. "Damn, these couldn't be…"

"Careful! They're cursed!" Loke warns the other members as he kicks away one and strikes a few of them with his ring magic.

"Exactly! Phantom soldiers where just a touch with sap away your life! That is Shade!" Jose says over the speaker.

"So just don't touch 'em, right?" Alzack questions.

"This is where we can shine!"

"Guns Magic! Sunlight Shot" Alzack shouts firing a blast from his revolver which illuminates everything brightly in front of him causing the shades to be disintegrated. "Bisca, now!"

"Ya!" Bisca replies and her magic shot gun disappears from her hands, raising both of them in the air as a green magic appears. "Requip!" She yells as two magic guns appear in both of her hands, aiming them forward at the large group of shades before her. "Yeehaw!" Bisca cheers as she let loose with her magic guns, destroying as whole bunch of them.

Vent uses Leaf Blade on his tail at the group of shades, Tsubasa uses Air Slash at bunch of them, Takeru uses Aura Sphere, lastly, Recca cloaks her wings as she dances and flaps them causing the fire to be shoot at the shade.

"Good one there!" Wakaba says as he picked up by Macao with his arm over Macao's shoulder.

"Nice shot!" Cana says.

However, all of the destroyed shades rematerialize in the air before the wizards and the pokemon.

"What's this?" Cana questions as she and everyone else stands complete shock by this.

"They came back to life?" Alzack says.

"Hey!" Bisca says.

"S-seriously?" Wakaba questions.

"You've got to be kidding me." Macao says.

"There will be no end to this will there?" Loke says.

They then hear Sakura playing the ocarina as her pokemon guard her.

[Pokémon Movie02 Japanese BGM - The Heartbeat of the Planet (Lugia's Song) 00:00-00:45]

"Sakura?" Cana calls.

Phantom Lord Guild

Natsu continues to pound away at the Jupitar Cannon barrel with his fire fist, but it has no effect.

"Damn it! Not even a dent!" Natsu yells.

"I guess we'll have to destroy it from the inside." Happy says and Natsu stops hitting the barrel hearing this from Happy. The two then jump inside the barrel and start running into it.

"All right let's go!" Natsu yells.

"Aye!" Happy agrees.

The two run down the entire barrel until they see a light at the other end and soon find themselves overlooking a massive room full of machinery, a gigantic clock, and a few crystal balls each in different color: red, blue, green, and yellow; as they hang off the wall around the room. Lastly, there is a massive clear crystal ball sitting in the center of the room hovering over a round stone table.

"W-what's that?" Natsu questions.

Just then, the hand on the clock goes down a minute.

"11 minutes until Jupiter fires." A female voice announces over the PA.

"It looks like a lacrima for concentrating magic." Happy says.

"I've never seen a lacrima that big before." Natsu says.

"A magic Focusing Cannon is a weapon that used concentrated magic power instead of a cannon shell." Happy explains.

"I don't get it, but all I need to do is break it, right?" Natsu asks.

"I won't let you do that." A male voice from below them says as they look down.

"A lookout?" Happy questions as the two spot a young man.

The young man has long, two-toned hair of black and white that is tied up into a Japanese-style top knot on the back of his head, with the black portion overlaying the front and left side of his head, leaving the smaller white portion concentrated on the left, with the top knot also having the two separate colors correspondingly. On his face, the man sports a simple marking consisting of three horizontal black bars passing across the ridge of his nose and both cheeks in a linear formation, with the one in the middle being the longest. He wears a ninja-like attire consisting of a long, orange reddish Karate gi-like cloth, held closed by a black belt, with prominent reddish fur around the collar, and with the sides being made of thick fishnet, with other, looser fishnet appearing on his forearms, with his robe's sleeves being rolled up. His attire is completed by a simple shirt appearing from under his gi, and a pair of loose black pants tucked inside simple black boots. He also carries around a simple katana strapped to his left hip.

"Whatever! I'll just get rid of anyone in our way!" Natsu yells as he jumps down towards him and pulls his fist back.

"I won't let you." The man says.

"I don't have time for this! Outta my way!" Natsu yells as he lights his fist up and throws at man. Suddenly, mid-throw, his fist seems to change course and slams into Natsu's own face.

"Natsu! What are you doing?!" Happy questions as he flies down.

"Uh, my body is… on its own…" Natsu says, recovering in the air as he flips and lands on his feet.

"It looks like… you're the one getting in your way." The man says as he turns and looks at Natsu with a smug look on his face. Then the clock hand moves again.

"10 minutes until Jupiter fires."

At Fairy Tail guild

"Circle Sword!" Erza yells after she requips into her Heaven's Wheel Armor as she sends a large array of swords flying towards and destroying more shades. As the Fairy Tail members keep fighting, Sakura keeps playing the ocarina as her pokemons protect her and blue eyes are glowing in the lake.

In the Phantom Lord guild

"Move it. I'm going to smash that giant crystal!" Natsu says.

"If you can break that lacrima, Jupitar shouldn't be able to fire." Happy says floating beside him.

"I won't let you. Didn't I tell you?" The man says.

"7 minutes until Jupiter fires."

"I don't have time to stand around blabbing at you!" Natsu yells as he lights his fist on fire and charges at the man. The man then widens his eyes a bit and suddenly Natsu finds his left fist slamming into his own face sending him flying.

"Natsu!" Happy yells as he flies over to him.

"Ow! Not again! What the heck?" Natsu says wondering why his hands were doing that.

"Natsu! We don't have time for you to fight this guy! You've got to hurry and destroy Jupitar!" Happy says as he frantically waves his arms.

"Why you little…" Natsu says ignoring what Happy said as he charges towards the Phantom mage again.

Natsu, listen to me!"

The man widens his eyes a bit again but this time a red magic circle appears in front of him as Natsu loses control of his fire fist again by spinning around in the air as the man then jumps at him and knees him, sending Natsu flying into the wall again.

"6 minutes until Jupiter fires."

"I am Totomaru, and I manipulate the element of fire." The man, Totomaru says and Natsu stands back up with his left eye closed.

"One of those whatchamacallit-something or other 4?" Natsu questions.

"Natsu, it's the Element 4! The only part you got right was the 4!" Happy points out appearing behind him.

"All flames are under my control." Totomaru says.

"Say what?" Natsu says.

"Whether enemy or in nature, all flame is mine!"

"My flames are mine!" Natsu retorts.

"Natsu! Who cares about that?! First destroy this thing!" Happy pleads.

"Seems you dray a mad match-up, my little fire wizard." Totomaru says.

Just then the crystal balls on the wall begin to light up, sending their respective color surging into the giant lacrima which begin to light up.

"Jupitar is staring to activate!" Happy yells.

"5 minutes until Jupiter fires."

Both Natsu and Totomaru stare at each other as the large lacrima continues to light up.

A/N: Hey guys! There is one question that's hung up in my mind lately... so I want to ask you! Do you want me to show you all the battles in the Phantom Lord Headquarters or not?