Chapter 23: Fire vs Steel
A ball of fire surrounds Natsu as he stands ready to fight Gajeel as Lucy still on the ground behind him.
"It's so easy to lure you out, Salamander." Gajeel says.
"That's 'cause you keep playing dirty, Iron Dragon!" Natsu retorts.
"Natsu!" Lucy happily calls but gasps when noticing a serious look on his face.
"Lucy, get back." He tells her.
"Gajeel!" Boze yells out.
"Stay outta this!" Gajeel yells as he launches himself forward.
"Bring it!" Natsu yells as the fireball disperses and he launches himself forward with flaming fists.
Gajeel extends an Iron Club out at Natsu who grabs it under his arms and swings it around sending Gajeel flying into the wall as Gajeel plants his feet into it. Natsu flies down at Gajeel again and throws his right fist down, but Gajeel blocks it as the fire explodes out in all directions before causing a massive explosion as the Phantom wizards below begin to run away in panic.
"Keep us outta this!" Boze yells out as the explosion catches up and sends them all flying forward.
Gajeel flies out from the smoke and Natsu soon appearing above him as Gajeel grunts in shock seeing Natsu and having himself wide-open. Then Natsu slams his fist across his cheek, sending him flying to the other side of the room into the wall as Gajeel crashes into it. Gajeel wipes some dirt off the side of his mouth and looks forward.
"Fire Dragon's Claw!" Natsu yells out as he jumps flips forward in the air with his right foot on fire and brings it down on Gajeel who blocks it again with his left armed Iron Club. Subsequently, the attack creates an explosion that propels Natsu back.
"E-h?" Lucy whimpers out seeing the insanity of the battle.
"Lucy, are you okay?" Happy asks running up to her.
"Happy!" Lucy happily calls before looking back at the battle with a worried look on her face.
"What's the matter?" Happy asks.
Gajeel is back up on his feet as a lot of smoke is in the air and he could see the outlines of Natsu walking towards him through it.
"I've never seen Natsu like that." Lucy states.
"Aye. Neither have I." Happy says while Natsu coming out of the smoke with a really angered look on his face. "But Natsu is really powerful right now."
"You're sure actin' uppity, trash." Gajeel says after he cracks his neck.
"Same to you! You beat Lucy up… So I'm gonna bend that face of yours and turn it into iron filings. Natsu says as he holds his right wrist and lights his fist on fire.
"Gihi. Sounds like fun. Try me!" Gajeel taunts with a cocky look on his face.
The two run at each other, Gajeel transforms his right arm into a club again as Natsu launches himself at Gajeel. The two throw both of their attacks forward and cancel each other out as they fly past each other. Both of them turn around and throw a flaming/iron club kick at each other, once again cancelling their attacks out as they both launch themselves back. Gajeel extends his left armed club at Natsu who jump flips over it, planting his hand on it and using it to launch a kick right into Gajeel's face.
Gajeel then retaliates by transforming his right arm into something different as Natsu sees this and quickly launches himself backwards to avoid it as Gajeel swings it up. Natsu lands on his feet and launches himself further away from Gajeel, landing on one knee and hand with his back turned to him as Natsu turns around.
"What's that dangerous looking thing?" Natsu questions.
Instead of his club, Gajeel's right arm is now a jagged steel blade with spikes along the edges.
"Iron Dragon's Sword. There's nothing that won't be cut to shreds when it with this!" Gajeel states when the spikes begin to spin around the sword like a chainsaw. "I want to test how well this cut you, Salamander!"
"That ain't nothing." Natsu retorts with confidence.
"What's that?!" Lucy questions in shock as her eyes are widened.
"It's Iron Dragon Slayer Magic!" Happy yells.
Gajeel leaps up into the air and comes down towards Natsu bringing his sword down. Natsu quickly jumps back as the sword slams down into the ground, sending out a shockwave which traveled towards the other Phantom again.
"We're caught up in it again!" They cry out as they are send flying.
Gajeel swings his sword again causing more destruction as Natsu once again jumps up into the air to dodge the attack.
"Can't stop it how like you did before, huh?" Gajeel questions with a sadistic look on his face as he continues swinging his sword at Natsu who is being on the defense who constantly to dodge every swing. "I thought you said it ain't nothing!?" He yells as he continues swinging his sword at Natsu who manages to dodge each swing as the last one he launches himself away from Gajeel giving themselves some space for breather. "You actually move pretty well there."
"Same to you." Natsu replies.
"That last time was just the preliminaries after all. That and the tamer girl got in our way and helped you out. But this time it doesn't look like she's coming here to save your ass, so let's finish our fight, Salamander!" Gajeel says as he transforms his arm back to normal.
Natsu swipes his thumb across his nose. "Now I'm fired up, you scrap-iron bastard!"
"Both of them are Dragon Slayers who can transform their bodies to take on characteristics of dragon! For two human Dragon Slayer wizards to battle… What's going to happen?" Lucy thought with a worried look on her face as she and Happy continue to watch the battle before them.
The two are still separated as they stare each other, waiting for one another to make a move. Just then, a green magic circle appears below Gajeel and his skin turns into iron-like scales in the bright flash of light.
"I will destroy you!" Gajeel declares.
"His body!" Lucy exclaims in shock.
"Scales of the Dragon!" Happy exclaims.
"Iron Dragon's Hard Fist!" Gajeel yells as he launches himself forward towards Natsu and Natsu throws up his arms to block the attack as Gajeel's right fist connects into his left arm. A magic circle appears between them as it disappears immediately and Natsu is sent sliding far back and eventually flying away from Gajeel, slamming into a wall as the other Phantoms are barely able to dodge him.
"We're caught up in the third time!" Boze cries out.
"I've had enough!" Sue cries out in terror with blank eyes and tears on them.
Gajeel's face is covered in shadow leaving only his glowing red eyes and grinning teeth as he chuckles and looking down at Natsu.
"That made a nice sound." He says as Natsu is on the ground holding his left arm in pain as a purple bruise mark is seen on it from Gajeel's punch and he grits his teeth from the pain of the punch.
"Natsu was bruised with just one hit?" Lucy says worriedly with her right hand over her mouth.
"Those scales are made of the hardest steel." Happy states.
Before he knows it, Natsu finds Gajeel throwing an uppercut right into his chin sending him up into the air and immediately follows with another punch across Natsu's face that sends him flying back as he chuckles as Natsu grunts in anger as he looks back at Gajeel. Gajeel appears in front of Natsu and swings his left foot at him before Natsu throws himself to his right at the ground as the pressure of the kick destroys the ground behind him in an arc.
"No way! That's the air pressure from his kick?!" Lucy questions while closing one eye and holding her skirt down from the incoming black of wind, dust, and debris as Happy holds onto her so he doesn't send flying.
"Those steel scales have doubled the strength of his attack!" Happy yells out.
Natsu gets an opening and throws a flaming right fist into Gajeel's face, however it doesn't do anything as Gajeel doesn't flinch from the impact causing him to chuckle.
"These steel scales render all your attacks powerless!" Gajeel states with a grin on his face as Natsu pulls away his bruised fist. Natsu grits his teeth and grunts in pain and reeling back his whole body and fist which is still smoking from his fire as he cries out.
"Oh no! His defense is upped?!" Lucy yells.
"Natsu!" Happy calls out.
Just then, Natsu is rolling back and forth across the ground in front of Lucy and Happy, holding his fist in pain with blank eyes.
"It doesn't hurt! It doesn't hurt, damn it!" He cries out.
"…he says." Lucy says.
"Aye." Happy says.
Natsu then stands back up still clenching his fist with his other hand as Gajeel walks up to him.
"Shut up already!" Gajeel yells as he slams his head into the back of Natsu's head sending him face first into the ground. "That's enough pretending you're okay!" Gajeel then brings back his right arm and then slamming it down toward Natsu, but Natsu quickly jumps up into the air barely dodging it as the impact sends a shockwave forward. Natsu lands on his feet as he bends forward and slides to a stop, planting his right hand on the ground.
"You clanky bastard! I'll blow you away! Fire Dragon's…"
"Iron Dragon's…" Gajeel says as he also gets ready his roar attack.
"Eh?!" Lucy exclaims.
"He can use a breath attack too!" Happy exclaims in shock.
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
Natsu's fire breath and Gajeel's iron breath attacks collide between them and neither one gaining ground over the other as dust and debris kick up before the two attacks explode. Lucy covers her closed eyes with her right arm while Happy is hanging onto her hair as massive amounts of dust and debris kicked up into the air from the explosion. Eventually, the power of the shockwave send Lucy and Happy flying and even destroying the wall leading to the outside.
"That's the 4th time we're caught up in it." Boze says as he and the other Phantom also had gotten caught up in the explosion as they are all on the ground.
"That's our Gajeel…" Sue whimpers out with blank eyes of terror.
"It looks like the difference in the two dragons is obvious, Salamander. Even if your flaming breath can wipe out enemies, against steel it doesn't even make a scratch." Gajeel says as he stands at the hole in the wall as small pieces of the ceiling are still crumbling down around him. His arms are spread out as there is a hole in the middle of his tunic from Natsu's attack, smoke coming out from it as well as from below his eye, but he doesn't faze the attack. "But my breath of iron blades has torn your body to shreds." He finishes as Natsu has his clothes torn up except for his scarf, scratches, dirt, and bruise marks cover his body as his eyes are squinted towards Gajeel as he holds his left arm.
"Natsu…" Lucy worriedly calls as she sits on the ground with Happy standing in front of her.
"He's… strong!" Happy says.
"Not a scratch you say? Sure you're not a bit groggy?" Natsu questions raising his eyes a bit as then a crack appears on his scales on the right side of his face causing him to widen his eyes in shock.
"It cracked!" Lucy yells out as Gajeel puts his hand on the crack.
"My flames are not just fire! The flames of Fire Dragon destroy everything!" Natsu shouts as he throws his vest off. Then a magic circle appears beneath his feet as fire shoots upwards from it. "If you don't get serious, I'll crush you to pieces, Black Steel Gajeel! Enough felling each other out!"
Gajeel chuckles at hearing this from him as a green light erupts upward from his magic circle. "Sound good to me!" He yells as a blast from his magic circle blows his tunic off.
"Eh? Feeling each other out?" A Phantom question at the statement while still terrified by the fighting between the two.
"Neither of them were being serious?" Sue questions in shock hearing this.
"They're monsters!" Boze says holding an unconscious comrade up with his arm over his shoulder.
"They're Dragon Slayers!" Happy states.
"Incredible…" Lucy says in awe then putting her right hand to her cheek and squints her eyes. "And wait, why did they strip?"
"Come 'ere, Black Steel Gajeel!" Natsu says.
"There's not enough room in the sky for two dragons! I'll drop you, Salamander Natsu!"
Lucy grits her teeth with a worried look on her face as she holds her right and over her chest. "Natsu…"
Outside
The Fairy Tail wizards and Sakura's Pokémons continue to fight the Shades, but suddenly, the Shades begins to gather at one spot as they transform into a dark sphere with red glowing eyes and several hands coming out of it.
"Hey, wait… What's with the creepy hand movement?" Lavi questions.
"That's what you're worried about?" Wakaba questions her.
"This doesn't look good." Macao says.
The sphere pulls its fists back before it begins to destroy the Fairy Tail guild as the its guild members watch this.
"Our Guild! What are you doing?!" Cana questions as she has tears on her eyes.
"Shoot it down!" Macao shouts.
Inside
Natsu and Gajeel both launch at each other and throw their punches forward until they slam into each other and send out a massive shockwave which caused another explosion. Through the smoke, the two fly up and break through the ceiling, destroying it as they both propel themselves into the air. From far away, only red and green twinkle of light with smoke trails could be seen.
"What's with those two?" Boze questions on the ground as he and the others look up after them.
"They jumped!"
Firing jets of fire from his feet, Natsu propels himself high into the air and eventually stops as Gajeel using his magic to do the same as they are both high above the Magic Giant. Natsu throws the first punch, slamming it right across Gajeel's face and then Gajeel returns the favor as the two continue throwing punches back at each other while somehow managing to hover in the air. Down in the room, all the others could see where shockwaves and sparks while low booms could be audible through the air.
"The heck?" Boze questions.
"Light?" Lucy questions.
Soon the two land on top of the Giant's head on opposite ends of one of its horns before both of them launches themselves forward and ramming their heads into each other as once again, they begin jumping around all over the place in the air causing more shockwaves and sparks and booms to erupt in the air.
"W-Whoa…" Sue says in awe.
"He's keeping up with Gajeel like that!" Boze exclaims.
"I can't believe it!"
Natsu kicks Gajeel on the chin while Gajeel retaliates with a punch around his right cheek. Both of them throws more punches at each other and then both throw their right leg up towards each other. Their legs cancel each other out in mid-air as the air pressure from the kicks cause them to fall through the ceiling and even destroying the center horn on the head of the giant. Subsequently, the horn begins to fall towards the room where Lucy, Happy, and the other Phantom wizards are. Lucy cries out in shock as her and everyone else's eyes widen in horror.
"Now we're getting caught up in it!" Lucy cries out in terror as she dives for cover with her eyes going blank as the rubble crashes right behind her and Happy.
As the smoke from the rubble begins to clear, Natsu and Gajeel are seen again in the middle of the destroyed and messed up room as Gajeel on one hand and knee while Natsu is standing. Both of them pant heavily and tired out from the battle.
"Gajeel's getting beaten down!" Sue says.
"No, but look! Salamander's also outta breath!" Boze points out.
Natsu continues panting heavily when he then notices something that Gajeel is eating pieces of scrap metal off the floor.
"That's so not fair!" Natsu cries out in anger as he jumps up with two vein marks above his head and his eyes are blank and narrowed with sharped teeth. "Don't eat by yourself!" He yells out back on the ground with his fists down as he still staring angrily at Gajeel who continues eating away at the metal.
"Shubab!" Gajeel retorts with his mouth full causing Natsu to begin jumping and throwing his fists up and down with two vein marks pop up again above his head.
"He really does eat iron…" Lucy trails off in shock with wide eyes.
"Does it taste good?" Happy questions.
"Gihi. Now that I've eaten, I'm all revved up!" Gajeel says with a smirk.
"Don't copy me!" Natsu yells back.
Suddenly, Gajeel cries out as green light erupts from beneath him.
"What? He's suddenly full of energy!" Lucy exclaims.
"Dragon Slayers can restore their energy and power up by eating their respective element!" Happy explains.
"Then Natsu needs to eat fire!" Lucy says gasping though upon realizing the problem.
"That's right… Natsu can't eat his own magic flames!"
"But… What should he do?" Lucy questions.
"I'll tear you to shreds! Iron Dragon's Lance: Demon Poles!" Gajeel yells throwing his right arm straight forward with his fingers, stretch forward, and a magic circle appears in front of it as he sends a barrage of spears at Natsu. The spears are shooting too fast for Natsu to dodge as they all impact into him breaking upon the impact as Natsu cries out in pain.
"Fire, fire, did I have a fire spirit?" Lucy questions herself reaching for one of her Celestial Keys when she gasps upon realizing.
"Oh yeah… I lost my keys." Lucy thought having lost her keys upon being captured the first time by Juvia causing her to tremble in place at the fact she couldn't help Natsu. Meanwhile, Natsu falls face first to the ground after the attack after the attack sends him flying back as Lucy manage to find a gold key in her back pocket after receiving from the people of Galuna. "The only key I was on hand is the new one, Sagittarius. I haven't made a contract yet but…"
"But this is the only chance we've got!" Lucy shouts as she swings her key and then points it outward. "I am the lined to the path to the world of Celestial Spirits! Now! O Spirit, answer my call and pass through the gate!" Lucy chants as the golden light appears beneath her. "Gate of the Archer, I open thee! Sagittarius!"
Following the appearance of a magic circle in front of Lucy, the Celestial Spirit of Sagittarius appears before her. However, his appearance for a half-man, half-horse, is unexpected. Sagittarius is a tall, black haired man and lanky sporting a horse costume as his attire consists of a green shirt with yellow trims followed by a red and yellow pair of striped pants and purple frills. His weapon is a large bow that he has in his hand and a quiver strapped to his back will a bundle of arrows in it.
"Horse! I am here! Moshimoshi." Sagittarius says while giving a left-handed salute.
"Look, he's here!" Lucy says with widened eyed and pupils of excitement.
"And wearing a horse-suit!" Happy points out with blank eyes.
"I'll explain the details later! Can you shoot fire?" Lucy asks.
"Horsemeat…" Happy whispers behind her.
"No. For I am an archer, as it were! Moshimoshi!" Sagittarius replies while turning away from her and saluting up to the ceiling with a sparkle by his horse head.
"R-right…" Lucy says becoming saddened by the fact while Happy closed his eyes.
"Where are you saluting?" Happy questions.
Just then, Natsu jumps back. "Lucy! It's dangerous so get back!" Natsu tells her. Hearing this, she quickly grabs Sagittarius and begins to drag him away.
"A-Aye!" Lucy complies.
"Moshimoshi!" Sagittarius says.
Lucy falls onto her hand and knees as everything around her darkens and a spotlight shines on her as Happy holds a sign up with sweat on the back of his head with the sign reads, 'Getting Down on Yourself Time'.
"I'm so useless!" Lucy says to herself.
"Now, now, look on the bright side." Happy says trying to reassure her.
"As it were! Moshimoshi." Sagittarius says once again giving a salute.
"Here I go! Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" Natsu yells as he lights himself on fire and launches himself head first towards Gajeel, slamming into his chest with a headbutt. However, it has no effect on Gajeel as Natsu gasps in shock.
"Don't you have any power on an empty stomach?" Gajeel mockingly questions and elbows his back sending him to the ground and then throwing an iron club into his head, pinning Natsu on the ground as he begins extending it outward dragging Natsu along with it. "Then eat some iron!" He yells as Gajeel has Natsu's face pinned to the ground unable to do anything.
Lucy's eyes widen in terror seeing Natsu getting beaten around so easily as the other Phantoms watch this as well.
"I knew it… Gajeel is…" Boze trails off.
"…way stronger!"
Gajeel then tosses Natsu into the air with his club and transforms his arm back to normal.
"I've got no more use for you." Gajeel says as Natsu face forward to the ground at the hole in the wall. "Disappear, trash!"
Happy has his eyes closed and covers them with his paws as he whimpers in fear.
"Oh no!" Lucy whimpers with her hands over her mouth with tears on her eyes. "I don't want that!" She says as Natsu doesn't make a move while on the ground. "I can't stand Natsu losing!" She exclaims on the verge of crying and then Gajeel laughs.
"Take a look at what's happening to what you're trying to protect!" He says and Natsu manages to open one of his eyes as Lucy and Happy see what Gajeel is talking about and gasp in shock as Natsu's eyes widens open in shock as well.
The dark sphere continues to slam its fist into the guild destroying it. The Fairy Tail wizards gathers around it trying to destroy the sphere but to no avail as then the guild collapses into rubble and ruin casing all the wizards to stop what they are doing and stare on in shock and horror as they all cry out. Seeing this cause Gajeel to begin laughing more maniacally then ever with his tongue sticking out as he raises his head up and closed his eyes. A massive pillar of smoke rises into the air from the crumble of the guild as Natsu and the others continue to stare on.
Natsu pushes himself up a little, and opens both of his eyes as he looks on what just happened to the guild as all the memories from there begin to flashing back to him. Now that Phantom destroys place where they return to. He then pushes himself up to his feet as remembers the previous events and he slowly makes his way towards Gajeel.
"Natsu… Enough, Natsu… If… If they have me, then…" Lucy couldn't hold her tears back anymore.
"Lucy…" Happy calls getting her attention down to him as he also in tears and hold onto her boots with his right paw. "Natsu hasn't given up yet." He says. Lucy looks down at him with a saddened face as she continues to cry but then looks back at Natsu with a determined look.
"Your guild has fallen. You lose!" Gajeel states with his arms crossed. Natsu raises his right fist back but is backhanded into a nearby machine by Gajeel as he hits it and slides down to the ground and eventually falls forward with no strength in him.
Seeing this brings Lucy back to her saddened state as she covers her face with her hands. "But, any more of this, and I…"
"Stay down already, Salamander. I really hate holding back you see… I don't know what might happen to you." Gajeel says with a smirk as Natsu still doesn't give up and attempts to push himself back up.
"Destroying Jupiter, battling fiercely with Element 4… He used up too much magic power!" Happy says. "If only he could eat some flames! Natsu wouldn't lose to anyone!"
"So they say… Too bad for you." Gajeel says as he picks up Natsu by his scarf and transforms his left arm into his sword, ready to finish Natsu off.
"I see. It seems I has a slight misunderstanding as it were. Moshimoshi." Sagittarius says as he pulls back an arrow on his bow. Lucy and Happy see this and gasp in awe. "You inquired whether I could shoot fire, Lucy-sama and I replied 'No'. However, what is crucial at this point is not shooting fire, but the fire itself, am I right? Moshimoshi." Sagittarius says with a sparkle appearing beside the horse head as blue light appears beneath him and pulls harder back on the arrow and string.
"The final blow. Salamander!" Gajeel yells as he brings his sword back. Then Sagittarius releases his arrow as it splits apart into few more arrows as they all strike the machine beside Natsu and Gajeel in different areas. Suddenly, electricity surges through the machine causing Natsu, Gajeel, and Lucy to gasp in shock seeing this as Gajeel releases his grip on Natsu and barely jumps back in time as the machine explodes; enveloping Natsu in it.
"Fire!" Happy yells.
"Flames from causing the machines to explode!" Lucy says with her hands over her mouth.
"Depending on how one shoots, it is possible to pierce through or shatter, as it were. Moshimoshi."
"What the hell is that horse-ish thing?" Gajeel questions as he just notices Sagittarius.
"Wow! You're like a genius archer, Sagittarius!" Lucy says happily with a heart appearing by her head as it disappears.
"Correct, moshimoshi." Sagittarius replies with a sparkle appearing beside and then disappearing again by his horse head.
"But where are you saluting to?" Happy asks again as Sagittarius is saluting his right hand looking up at the ceiling.
Then, all the fire around the room is sucked up into the air and down into Natsu's mouth, bloating him up at first until his stomach returns to normal.
"Hehe. That hit the spot." Natsu says with his arms and head down. "Thanks, Lucy!" Natsu says winking at her and giving her a thumb up.
Lucy gasps in joy seeing Natsu once again energized as she returns the thumb up and nods at him with a smile on her face.
"Don't get full of yourself, just cause you are some fire!" Gajeel yells as he runs towards Natsu and launches himself up and comes down at Natsu throwing a fist at him. With his fist, mere inches away from his face, Natsu turns towards him with an anger look and suddenly, Natsu lights up both of his fists and punches Gajeel before he can touch him. The punch so powerful, it produces a wave of flames that engulfs Gajeel as he is sent flying back.
"All right!" Lucy cheers.
"Now he is at full power!" Happy yells raising his left paw.
Gajeel slams into a large piece of rock in the middle of the room, his eyes blank from the power of the punch he had received as he also grits his teeth together as the rock begins to topple over.
"A–H! This isn't good! No way!" A Phantom yell out.
"Levy, Jet, Droy, Gramps, Lucy, my friends… And Fairy Tail…" Natsu says angrily with his right fist raised as he bends forward slightly.
"Iron Dragon's Roar!" Gajeel yells as he puts his hands in front of his mouth like a trumpet and sends his roar attack at Natsu. Natsu puts his hands together in front of him as the attack impacts into him, but he can withstand it and deflects it with just his hands and sends it exploding right behind him catching Gajeel completely off guard as he gasps in shock. "He deflected with just bare hands?"
"How much do you gotta hurt before you people are satisfied?" Natsu questions with a shadow covering his face as his eyes glow red from it.
"Impossible! I couldn't… To someone like him… To trash like him…" Gajeel says completely at a loss of words.
Natsu is covered in flames with a serious angered look on his face as his teeth completely sharpened. "I'm going to pay you back for everything! I'll show you that picking a fight with Fairy Tail was a mistaken!" Natsu declares.
Gajeel squints his eyes and cries out in anger. "Who the hell do you think I am? You trash?" Gajeel yells as green light covers him and he then launches himself towards Natsu. "Iron Dragon's Hard Fist!" He yells as he throws his right fist forward and Natsu throws his left fist as they both come into contact with each other. Natsu's red magic circle and Gajeel's green magic circle appears between the two fists as flames are blasted back form Natsu fist as suddenly the iron scales of Gajeel's arm begins to crack. Starting from his fist and travels upward to his shoulder as he cries out in pain.
"I am… the strongest…" Gajeel thought.
"This is the end for you! Crimson Lotus: Fire Dragon's Fist!" Natsu yells as his fists shoots fire out in all direction. Suddenly, Natsu lets loose a massive barrages of fire punches into Gajeel who is unable to retaliate for a second as he is constantly punched all over every second. "This is for Levy, Jet, Droy, Nab, Macao, Gramps, Erza…" Natsu yells as he delivers a powerful uppercut to Gajeel. "…and Lucy!" He cries out again as fire shoots up all around him. "And this is for destroying our guild!" Natsu yells as he throws his right fist forward and sends a barrages of fire punches at Gajeel sending him flying back up into the air and then does it again with his left fist.
All of those attacks cause massive explosions which sends Gajeel flying out of the wall and over the edge as he lands on a level below them. Also, the explosion destroys the room and causes the head of the Magic Giant to slide off into the lake. From the outside, the head falls into the water as a pillar of smoke now rise from the Magic Giant, the Fairy Tail wizards see all the explosions and destructions which immediately recognizes as Natsu and cheers on for him.
"Are you kidding me?!" Boze yells out.
"Gajeel lost?" Sue says in shock as she and the other Phantom are all on a lower level surrounded by the rubble of their headquarters with burn marks all over their bodies from the explosions.
"Natsu!" Lucy calls out as she is being carried by Happy in the air as the two of them looking for Natsu after the following explosion.
"Natsu!" Happy yells out.
"Natsu!" Lucy yells again when the two finally spots him as he is looking down at the defeated Gajeel a floor below him. Gajeel's Iron Scales no longer covering his body as bruise and burn marks cover his body.
"Natsu won!" Happy yells.
"That d-damn… tra…" Gajeel mutters.
"Now… were even." Natsu weakly says before he collapses onto his back from exhaustion.
"Natsu!" Lucy yells.
Natsu slowly breathes, unable to move his body which is covered with bruises and scratch marks as he manage to open one eye and looks at Lucy with a weak smirk. "I can't move right now…" He says.
"Sheesh… you really overdid it, you know that?" Lucy says as tears on her eyes again.
"Aye! He's Natsu all right!" Happy cheers.
Natsu gives off his signature toothy-grin as he lets out a small chuckle.
"But… that was kinda cool." Lucy thought with a happy look on her face.
Boze and Sue are a few floors above looking down at the three.
"Damn… He's on whole 'nother level." Boze says in shock as he sits down. "Is this… Is this what it means to be a Fairy Tail wizard?" He questions as Sue stands close to him with an impressed look on her face as well as blushing a little.
"I like it!" Sue says.
"What?!" Boze questions with his mouth dropped open.
"Never mind." Sue says as she looks away embarrassed with sweat running down her.