Alright, a lot of good things so far for this story. Glad to have all the support I seem to have. Now, I hope you all enjoy how I'm getting Sora involved in the battle with Phantom.

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ahurtrojo: You are welcome, and will indeed continue!

Guest (Adrian): Yes, I was able to translate it correctly the first time. Glad to hear you like this story so much! Having Sora be able to create an intelligent pet might be tricky, as he currently can't make anything too complicated, but maybe in the future because that does sound fun. I do have an idea for a small OC arc I can put Sora through soon, but another one after the Tenrou island arc might be interesting as well. Will definitely take it under consideration. As for OCxErza, since no one else is suggesting a different one, I think I will work towards that one. All in all, thank you for the review, and feel free to leave more in the future.

pokeheroaadyn: I do plan on that Centurion spell being used in the future, though it may be a while. As for the bit about the clothing, I mostly put that in there as a little gag and to demonstrate that he still doesn't have full control over all his abilities. Feel free to forget about it, because I will likely never mention it again save for someone messing with him about it.

After he and Loke walked around a while longer, Sora set his decision for acquiring the 2 story with basement he found before. He quickly got in touch with the real-estate agent and went about setting things up and put in a bid to hold it, and would be paying the rest once everything was setup. It would take a while for them to finalize everything, so until it was done, Loke said he could stay with him for the time being.

The next morning, Sora was out for a stroll back towards the Guild, taking a scenic route to become more familiar with the city while Loke went straight there. After a while, he noticed people rushing in a direction. Getting a bad feeling, Sora ran after them. Coming to a park with a massive tree at the center, Sora looked and was shocked at the site before him.

High up the trunk of the tree, Levy, Jet, and Droy hung unconscious as their arms were held by metal braces, the symbol of Phantom Lord painted onto Levy's stomach.

Sora stood there, frozen, for several minutes. Then his face adopted one of fury. He soon noticed that Natsu and his team were at the front of the crowd, their own looks of horror and anger present. He then saw Master Makarov walking through the crowd, but gone was his orange jester-like outfit. Now he wore a white jacket with a furred collar and edges, a blue circle with a cross on the back. The symbol of the Wizard Saints.

He came to a stop behind the others, and looked at what had happened to his charges. "I can stand being reduced to a run-down beer hall… But no parent can stand idle while the blood of his children is spilled!" The grip he had on the staff he brought with tightened to the point of shattering it! This display had Lucy frightened, as magical energy and pure anger rolled off Makarov in waves. "This means war!"

In full agreement with the master's words, Sora strolled up to them and to the tree. Not letting this continue any longer, he created a platform and rose it to Team Shadow Gear's level, surprising the others as they hadn't noticed him in their shock.

The crystal mage then closed his eyes and brought his hands together, slight sweat on his brow, causing some crystals to rise and form from the platform and carefully around the waists of the wounded mages, before glowing a soft, clear yellow. As the light spread through the mages, Sora separated his hands and opened his eyes, creating a crowbar in his hands. "Well said Master. Go on, I'll get them down and to a safe place. I need to practice my healing abilities after all."

"I-I'll stay and help you." Lucy then climbed the steps he had created and stood beside him. "Levy is my friend. I'm not going to leave her here."

Nodding, Sora handed her the crowbar and made one for himself. He then turned to look down at the others. "Natsu! I'll be busy here, so make sure to take out at least as 30 of them for me. Any less, and I'll give you a ride on my board for 5 minutes for every one you miss! Now go kick their asses!"

Natsu nodded, before he and the others went to mobilize the guild. Meanwhile, Sora turned back to Shadow Gear with Lucy and their crowbars. "Alright. These are in pretty deep, but it's still just nails and a strip of metal. We'll pry the nails out, then the crystals will keep them from falling. Once their all down, I'll reverse the creation of the platform and slowly lower them to the ground." He then turned to the crowd. "Hey! What are you all standing around for?! Someone get us a cart already! Anyone who gives us their cart to use will be compensated, so hurry up!" Roughly half of the crowd ran off in search of a cart while Sora and Lucy went to work.

Several hours later, Sora and Lucy had gotten them to the city hospital to be treated for their injuries. They had healed a little as they got them down, and Sora managed to create a kind of Citrine Lamp in order to pour more healing magic into them, placing one at each of their beds. The staff had tried to stop him for legal reasons, but the look on his face told them they'd have better luck talking down a monster.

Sora and Lucy were sitting in the room waiting for them to show any sign of getting better. Lucy looked at each of them in worry. "Droy… Jet… Levy…" She then looked out the window, staring at the ruined guild hall. "Phantom really does horrible things…"

Sora sat facing the door. "Fairy Tail may have a reputation for breaking things, but Phantom Lord is filled to the brim with rumors of their personalities. Especially the one who must have done this. Black Steel Gajeel."

Lucy clenched her fists closed at the name. "The others told me about him last night. Phantom Lord's Iron Dragon Slayer. Why did they do this?"

Sora sighed. "I wish I had a good answer for that. Everyone knows they don't get along well with Fairy Tail, but this is going too far!"

"… I promised her she would be the first to read my book when it was ready…" She then clenched her teeth as she began to cry. "They're… unforgivable!"

Sora closed his eyes as he let her cry for a bit, before she got herself together. "Sorry."

"Don't be. We all need to cry every once in a while."

"Yeah." She then got up. "I need to go out for a bit. Stretch my legs and all that. I think I'll also take the opportunity to get some groceries."

Sora nodded at her. "Okay. I have some Lacrimas set up to keep Levy and the others safe just in case. Also, hold on to this." He then tossed her a Lacrima the size of a bead. "Keep it on you at all times. If something happens, it will notify me. I don't trust Phantom to not be up to something right now."

Lucy nodded, before leaving the room. "I'll be back when I can."

Half an hour later, Sora still kept his eyes trained on the door, waiting either for Lucy or someone else from Fairy Tail to come back and check on Shadow Gear, or for a member of Phantom to walk in and try anything. Hearing a noise, Sora turned and saw Levy stirring slightly, as an eye cracked open. "Wh… Where…"

Sora got up and walked in sight. "Easy Levy, take it slow. You're in the Hospital right now. You were hurt pretty bad."

She trained her eye on him. "... Right… What about…"

"Jet and Droy are here as well, right behind the curtains to your right. They have yet to wake up, though it looks like they'll be fine."

She gave a weak smile at this. "Thank goodness… How is… everyone else?"

"Well, Lucy was here with me keeping an eye on you three until a little while ago, needing to stretch her legs. As for everyone else," Sora looked to a clock in the room. "I imagine they are waging war right about now at Phantom's closest location."

Levy's eye widened slightly in shock. "W-What? But Master said…"

"He said, that he was alright so long as none of his children were harmed. Now look where we are." Sora smiled softly. "Now get some rest. I made sure this place will be safe, and you know your guild mates better than I do. They'll seriously kick some ass for all 3 of you."

She smiled at those words and gave a small nod in thanks, before going back to sleep.

Sora went back down to his seat, feeling better now that one of them had woken up, and let out a sigh in relief. "Man, this is beyond brutal. I almost wish I had gone as-"

He stopped as something in his pocket began to stir. Reaching in, he pulled out a Lacrima of similar size to the one he gave Lucy, and saw it flashing red. Eyes widening, he got up, and left the hospital.

Once he left the hospital, he immediately hopped on his board and used the Lacrima to point him in the direction of where the other one was. After some time, he was in an area that looked like a badlands, rocky outcroppings everywhere like spikes or teeth, still racing ahead but with no idea where he was going. "Damn it, I knew something else was going to happen! Man, where is she!?" He then jumped over yet another large outcropping of rock, then spotted a flash of pink and a floating ball of blue. "Hey, don't I know those colors?" He then spotted a surge of fire from right behind the pink with the sounds of someone begging for mercy. "Yup, gotta be him."

"I told you, I don't know! Seriously! Ouch!"

"If any more of my friends get hurt… I might just-"

"Ah, Natsu!" Natsu broke from threatening/barbequing the Phantom Lord member he was dragging to looking at Happy, who was pointing at something behind him. "Look!"

Raising an eyebrow, Natsu turned and was surprised to see Sora speeding over to them over the outcroppings. "Huh? Sora?! What are you doing out here?!"

Sora pulled up right next to them and looked at the nearly burnt Phantom Natsu was still holding onto. "I would guess the same thing you are." He then looked at Natsu. "You hear about Lucy?"

Natsu regained his dark look again. "Yeah. I overheard Gajeel as everyone else was beginning to retreat like wimps from attacking Phantom Lord. They apparently kidnapped Lucy while we were fighting!" Natsu then turned back to the member he was dragging along, making him wince in fear. "I was just about to get some 0information out of this grunt when you showed up."

Sora blinked, then looked back at the grunt with an evil smirk. "Oooh? Sounds interesting. What did you have in mind?"

"Well, I was just going to keep him on fire until either he tells us what we want," He then glared at the guy he was dragging. "Or until he turned to ash!"

"EEEEEEK! I don't know! Really! I dunno who this chick- I mean lady- of yours is!"

"Oh, really?" Sora then knelt down next to the guy. "Well then, if you won't be able to tell us even a little detail," Sora then covered his hand in a ruby gauntlet and held it out in front of the grunt. "Maybe I should add some fuel to the fire so you cook even faster?" A surge of fire then shot straight out of his palm as the grunt paled in terror of both fire users looking ready to burn him alive, Natsu and Happy looking slightly excited about the idea.

"Ah, good idea Sora! That way, we won't need to hear his screams as long."

"Why, thank you Happy."

"Aye!"

"AH! Um, oh! Our Headquarters! Our He-Headquarters are just up the p-path! If members of our guild really did take her, th-then they probably took her th-there!"

Sora then let the flames die and his gauntlet faded from red to clear, as he gave the grunt a sunny smile. "See? Now was that so hard?"

Natsu then dropped him. "Seriously, about time you gave us something."

"Aye!"

The grunt then looked at them pleadingly. "S-So, does this mean you'll let me go?"

Sora nodded. "Of course! You now get a free pass out here!" The grunt's face lit up. But before he could say anything, Sora's gauntlet glowed purple and he punched the guy in the gut, hitting him so hard he passed out seconds later from the pain as the gauntlet faded away. "So feel free to pass out right here." He then stood straight and looked at the other 2 seriously. "Alright, let's get going." They all nodded and Sora got back on his board as Happy picked up Natsu.

After a while of traversing the path, Sora checking his Lacrima every so often to confirm they were going the right way, they spotted a structure out in the distance. They then got into a position near the perimeter and looked about the place, Happy looking at it nervously. "Natsu, Sora, this place gives me the creeps."

Sora just looked at it critically. "No kidding. The place has no heart or feeling in its design. It's just so damn simple in appearance."

Happy looked at him in disbelief. "THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH?!"

"Hey, I'm a craftsman. After wandering around as long as I have, you start to analyze everything. Really, this place is so dull."

Happy didn't even have any words for that while Natsu looked about, sniffing the air every once in a while. "I'm not too certain, but I think Lucy is around here somewhere."

Happy then landed on Sora's shoulder. "Hey, why don't you use that peeping power you have to find her?"

Sora slammed the back of his hand into Happy's face. "Don't call it that you damn cat! But not a bad idea, assuming I can keep it under control." Sora then focused his magic into his eye and let the illusion around it drop, focusing on how it felt to look through objects. After a few minutes, he was able to see through the stone. "Okay, I got it working. Here's to hoping I don't strain myself with this."

Natsu grinned maniacally. "Alright! Once we know where she is, we'll kick the ass of everyone in our way!"

Sora grinned at the mental image before chastising him. "As strong as you are, I'm not too sure you're ready for a Wizard Saint." Sora, using the Lacrima to guide him a little, turned to the tower on his left and looked through it, ignoring Natsu's comments on how he was definitely ready, and spotted Lucy in the top room with another person in purple clothing, complete with a wide-brimmed hat and… were those wings? "Okay, I think I found her."

Natsu stopped arguing and looked at him expectantly. "Really?"

Sora then cringed as Lucy somehow made the guy turn around, before striking the weak point of every male. "Urgh! Yup, that's probably her. Top of that tower there. Problem is, I don't see any stairs to get there and someone else is in the room as well."

"WHAT!? LUCY, I'M COMING!" Natsu yelled this out and began to run at the tower, Sora and Happy looking at him with sweat-drops.

"Hot head."

"Aye."

Sora then looked back up at Lucy to see her at the opening to her cell, then watch her jump backwards. "What the hell?! NATSU! SHE'S FALLING FROM THE TOP, CATCH HER!"

Hearing this, Natsu looked up and ran even faster. "LUCY!" As she continued to plummet, Natsu roared out as he ran, and when he deemed himself close enough, he launched himself and grabbed her, the both of them flying towards a broken down brick wall that Sora and Happy headed towards.

"Lucys are falling out of the sky!"

"Enough with the jokes, are they okay?"

When the dust cleared, Natsu was under Lucy, his face muffled by her breasts. "Man, that was insane…"

Lucy just looked down at him happily, hands tied behind her back. "Natsu… I knew you'd be there!"

Sora jogged up next to them and created a knife, bringing it to the bindings on Lucy's wrists. "Let me guess, it was the way he was shouting, wasn't it?"

Lucy pushed herself up when her hands were free and looked at Sora in surprise. "Sora? What are you doing here?"

He then pulled out the Lacrima he was just using. "Told you I'd know if something bad happened. I'm just glad to have run into these two on the way here." He then straightened up as Natsu pulled himself to his feet and dusted himself off. "Alright, now what?"

"If Lucy's alright, we should head back to the guild like the others!"

"Huh?!" Natsu looked down at Happy in anger. "This is their headquarters! In that case…"

"But Erza said to retreat!"

"She's a wimp then!" Natsu got down in Happy's face at that. "I'm not scared of these guys one bit!"

Sora looked away from their argument with a sigh and looked at the guild headquarters in front of him, keeping an eye out while stray thoughts entering his head as he looked at it. Eventually, an idea that felt rather interesting popped up in his head and left the corners of his mouth twitching.

Before he could voice anything, soft spoken words broke through his train of thought. "I'm sorry." Sora, Natsu, and Happy all looked at Lucy in confusion as she tried to hold back tears while kneeling on the ground. "I'm so sorry…" Her hands gripped the edges of her skirt as she began to tremble slightly. A tear then landed on the guild mark on the back of her hand. "It's… It's all my fault…" Natsu just made a noise of confusion as she continued to cry. "Even so, I still want to be in the guild…" She looked to them, tears streaming down her face. "I love Fairy Tail!"

Natsu and Happy looked at her in worry. "O-Oi! What's going on?! What are you talking about?"

"Lucy?"

Sora merely narrowed his eyes as she continued to cry, thinking about what she was talking about. 'Is she saying, they did all this, just to get to her? What in the actual hell?!'

"Then just stay with us. What's the deal?" Natsu asked, still confused.

Happy looked back at Natsu while he was floating. "Natsu… Let's go back…"

The fire mage rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Y-Yeah… I guess we gotta…" He then walked over to Lucy and began to help her up. "Here, Lucy. Get up."

"You shouldn't pull her up so hard!" Happy chastised.

"Uh, I'll carry you on my back then. Okay?"

Lucy just began to cry even more, freaking the two of them out. "Look! You made her cry!"

"I-I did not!"

Meanwhile, Sora was once again staring at the guild building. "You guys go ahead. I need to take care of something. I'll catch up later."

Happy and Natsu looked at him in confusion as the blue cat floated up to him. "What is it?"

"I'll tell you later. Just get moving. It shouldn't take too long." Sora then strolled over to one of the walls as the others cautiously began to leave.

Sometime later, Sora was messing with something on the roof of the building when he felt an intense amount of magic power coming from the room Lucy was in. Seeing as he was nearly done, he took a quick peak with his eye and saw the same guy from before, but could now see an emblem for the Wizard Saints acting as a brooch at his coat collar. 'Oh crap, she kicked the guild master there?! I need to hurry up and get out of here!' He then went back to what he was doing, but then it began to rain a little.

Looking up, Sora was surprised to see large rain clouds when there were previously none. "What the…? That was way too fast for a normal weather pattern. Is this…?" He then heard a window opening and turned his head to see a blue-haired woman with a pink umbrella and blue clothing, a rain doll hanging around her neck. "Uh oh."

"Drip, drip, drop." The woman began to speak, opening the umbrella as she stepped out onto the roof. "Yes… Juvia is a rain woman. What matter of person are you?"

Blinking owlishly, Sora thought fast. "Decorator. Was told this place could use some personality, so I was outfitting the place to look flashier."

Juvia of the Element 4 looked about the roof to see some crystals embedded into the roof, before glancing back at him. "Juvia was not informed as such. Who was it that told you so?"

Sora blinked again, trying to think, then came to a decision. "… Ah, screw it. Diamond Storm!" He then unleashed a flurry of crystals to try and knock the woman back into the building, but was shocked to see them go right through her as her body became water to ignore the attack! "Okay… Didn't see that coming."

"So you are an enemy? No matter, your magic is ill equipped to deal with Juvia's Water Body. And it is Juvia's duty to eliminate any and all enemies. Drip, drip, drop." She then held up a hand. "Water Nebula!" A surge of water then shot forth, quickly consuming Sora from sight and shooting out past the boundaries of the perimeter. Keeping it up a little longer to be safe, Juvia was shocked to see Sora pop out of the vortex right in front of her, and even more so when his blue-clad fist struck her body and sent her back through the window!

Sora latched onto the side of the building to stop his fall as the gauntlet shifted to clear. "Holy crap! I knew Sapphire let me move through water easily, but I didn't think it would work that well with SURGING water! But it at least let me get through her defense as well..." He then hauled himself up and checked on the last crystal he was setting up, then grinned. "Alright. Everything is set. Now…" He then formed his board and shot off. "To get the hell out of here!"

As he shot off, he glanced back and snapped his fingers, getting a very satisfied look on his face with the results, before going to catch up to Natsu and Happy.

After meeting back up with them and being very evasive at their questions, they continued to make their way back to the guild, Lucy continuing to merely cry and be unresponsive to their questions throughout the trek back to the guild.

When they got back, they got an update from the rest about Makarov's condition, Lucy and Sora shocked to hear that he had been drained of his magic and collapsed. Bisca and Al had taken him to an old friend of his who stayed out in the forest for treatment, while the rest began to regroup. After hearing what happened, Lucy spilled the beans on her circumstances, being the runaway daughter to a business tycoon who hired Phantom to bring her back. She apologized profusely and endlessly to the shocked guild members, but much to her surprise it merely spurred their spirits and they began to prepare even more.

Sora was helping Wakaba with the explosive Lacrimas they had stockpiled, checking their quality and modifying them as best he could to give them just a little more kick. The smoke mage looked at him with a smirk. "Didn't know your magic could mess around with Lacrimas as well. What other tricks do you have up your sleeves?"

Sora smirked at the older mage. "Not too many more that you guys aren't already aware of. I may have a few secrets of my own I'm not too comfortable with sharing, but that holds true for just about everyone." He then focused back on the Lacrima he was holding, causing it to glow softly as he modified it.

"Fair enough. A lot of the mages that join up with Fairy Tail have some pretty bad pasts." He moved some of the modified Lacrimas into a bag and pulled a bag of un-modded Lacrimas closer. "There are actually quite a few here that joined the guild as runts without any other family to call their own."

"That's just what this guild is." They both turned to Macao as he looked at them from the map in front of him. "A place for the lost and weary to call home and have the family they couldn't find on their own."

Sora smiled and nodded at those words, before going back to the task before him as Wakaba looked right at the fire mage. "Just so you know, once Sora here is finished, I'll be taking all the explosive Lacrimas with me."

"So long as they don't blow up in our faces, I won't argue it."

"It's good." They both looked to Sora as he held up the Lacrima and the Fairy Tail symbol flashed on its surface. "I made it so only someone with a Fairy Tail guild mark can activate them. They won't be going off accidentally, and once thrown, they'll blow up against the next surface they touch. And if it so happens to be too close to another Fairy, then it SHOULD just drop to the ground inactive until used again."

The two of them were feeling pretty impressed, until they picked up on one of the words. "Should?"

Sora shrugged. "Hey, it's not like I ever tried something like this. The only thing I can actually guarantee is that they'll have a bigger Boom than before." He then placed it in the bag with the other modded Lacrima and stretched his arms. "Give me a minute to rest, I don't usually mess with this many Lacrimas at once." They nodded and he wandered over to where Natsu, Happy, Gray, and Elfman were standing around, Lucy sitting on a barrel.

He got there in time to see Gray looking over at her. "What's the matter? Still feeling uneasy?"

Lucy continued to look at the ground sadly as they all paid attention to her. "No, it isn't that… It's just… I'm sorry…"

"Well, it's the destiny of rich daughters to be targeted by people. And men are duty-bound to protect them." Elfman said proudly.

"Don't say stuff like that!" Gray chastised.

Happy walked up to and looked at her pleadingly. "But it came as a shock to me. Why did you hide the truth, Lucy?"

"It wasn't that I was hiding it. I was a runaway, so I just never really wanted to talk about it…"

"Makes sense." They turned to Sora as he walked up. "I never really liked the idea of talking about my past either. It may not be the same as yours, but I do understand not wanting to talk about something that makes you sad to think about it."

Lucy nodded gratefully before looking down again. "Yeah. Thing is, he didn't care about his daughter being gone for a year, but then suddenly he wants to drag me back… My father really did all this to bring me back… He's the worst!" Sora leaned against a nearby pillar as she kept going. "Still it was my running away that caused all of this…"

"That ain't right! Your dad's the one to blame!" Elfman stated, getting Gray and Sora to turn to him.

"You idiot!" "Seriously man?"

Elfman quickly realized what he was saying and tried to recover. "Oh, I mean Phantom is!"

Lucy just kept going as if she hadn't heard them. "I never thought my selfish actions would cause you all so much trouble… I'm really sorry… This would all end if I went home, wouldn't it?"

"I dunno about that…" Lucy looked up at Natsu in confusion, seeing the smile on his face. "I just can't see you being called "Lady." If anything suits you, it's laughing in this filthy pub and freaking out while on an adventure." Lucy looked down again at his words as he took a step towards her. "Why would you go back to somewhere you don't want to?" Lucy gave a surprised reaction to those words, as Natsu kept going. "You're Lucy of Fairy Tail. This is where you belong." Natsu stated, as if it were always true.

Lucy didn't know how to respond to those words, and simply sat there, starting to cry.

Gray and Elfman began to get nervous at that. "Ah, don't cry. It ain't like you."

"That's right! Men are weak against tears!" Elfman said as he began to shake.

"I can't help it." Lucy said through her tears

"Well put man." Natsu grinned at Sora's compliment. "Although, I don't think it would matter if Lucy went back now anyway."

They all looked at him in confusion. "What do you mean by that?" Gray asked.

Sora rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, for one, while Lucy was being held prisoner, she apparently kicked Jose in the unmentionables while trying to get away."

They all processed that for a few seconds, before Lucy paled in horror of how pissed he would be and the boys started trying to hold back laughter. Well, except for Natsu. "Hahahahaha! Now that's what I'm talking about! No "Lady" would kick someone there!"

Lucy then turned to Natsu angrily. "Shut up, you idiot!"

Sora laughed with the others, glad to have gotten her to stop berating herself for the moment, and simply talked with them for a little while, before the ground began to shake.

"W-What's that?!"

Al then came running down the stairs leading in. "OUTSIDE!"

They all quickly ran outside, and came to a sight they never thought they would. Sora even rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't hallucinating or something. "… Well… Damn…"

Natsu looked at the sight in shock. "Wh-What is that!?"

They were all staring at the sight of the Phantom Lord Guild Headquarters, the ground beneath it having been lifted by a series of large metal legs that carried it across the water. For a moment, that was all that the guild of Fairy Tail could focus on, until something else caught their attention. Across the surface of the roof and walls, large spikes were jutting out every which way, making the guild look like a large porcupine or hedgehog.

"It's a walking guild!" Happy shouted.

"Phantom?!" Loke said.

"Wh-What do we do?!" Wakaba said shakily.

Erza looked at the thing in shock, still wrapped in a towel from taking a shower minutes ago. "I never anticipated that they would attack like this…!"

Lucy looked at in both shock at its presence, and confused at its appearance. "Wait, where did all those spikes come from? It didn't look anything like that when Natsu and Happy were getting me away from there."

Gray then tilted his head to the side as he looked at the damage that was done. "Hang on, don't those look like they're made of…"

Everyone present slowly turned their head at a certain mage who was trying to whistle innocently at their stares. Sora then glanced in their direction, then looked up and rubbed the back of his head. "Well, it wasn't like the conflict was going to get any worse, considering everything else." He then looked back at the legs of the walking guild in thought. "Though if I knew that they could do that, I might have tried to make it harder on them to do so before leaving."

Everyone looked at him in disbelief, not thinking he would trash a guild hall, before the thing stopped, getting their attention once more, coming to a resting position as it dipped in the water a little. A section of the guild then opened up, and they were all shocked once more to see a large cannon then slide out, extending to its full length.

Sora's eyes widened in shock. "You gotta be kidding me! They have a Jupiter Cannon?! Are they NUTS?!" The cannon then began to charge energy.

Erza turned to the rest and took charge. "Not good! Everyone get down!" She then turned towards it and ran to the edge of the cliff, shocking other members of the guild.

"Erza!" "What are you doing!?"

As she ran, Erza was enveloped in light, then came out in silver and blue armor, 2 large half-shields on each arm as she looked at the cannon with determination. "I won't let you destroy our guild!"

"Adamantine Armor!" Happy announced.

"Don't tell me she's going to take the blast herself!" Bisca shouted.

"Not even armor as powerful as that can withstand it…!" Al said.

"Stop this Erza! You're going to die!"

Sora meanwhile was tuning all this out as he focused within himself, then knelt and placed both hands on the ground. Light then shone from the ground going from Sora, to the edge of the cliff, surprising everyone. As the light reached the edge, it branched off in two directions, going along the edge for 10 meters in each direction. When it stopped travelling crystals began to emerge as Sora pushed himself. He'd never tried anything of this scale before, but damn if he wasn't going to try!

As the formation of the structure ended, everyone saw a raised platform 2 meters tall, with stairs leading up in front of Erza. On both sides of the platform, walls of similar height went out as far as the light had traveled, with a small pillar rising up every so often until there were 4 equally spaced pillars on each side, rising an extra meter up with a sphere at the top. Every inch of the structure was made of soft yellow crystal.

Erza looked back at Sora in confusion, only to see him with sweat on his face and a look of determination of his own. "Get on the platform now! The cannon is about to fire, and I'm not letting you do this alone!"

Looking at him a moment longer, she nodded and ran up the to the platform, the cannon now nearly fully charged. As she reached the middle of the platform, she shouted back to the rest of the guild. "Get down!"

"Erza!" Natsu tried to get up there to stop her, but Gray held her back.

"Natsu! All we can do right now is have faith in Erza and Sora!"

Sora smirked at those words, before looking directly at Erza. "Quick, bring out the barrier in the armor!"

"Right!" Erza then brought the 2 shields together, creating a large green magic circle. As it appeared, the pillars closest to Erza shone at the tips, then the next pair. This went until all 8 pillars were shining. The outermost then fired light inwards towards the pillars next to them. A second beam went from those pillars to the next ones, even brighter than the last. When it got down to the last two, they each fired nearly blinding light at Erza's barrier just as the cannon fired. Before impact the magic circle doubled in size, and received an outer layer that was just as thick as the inner layer but a bright yellow, the entire thing now being 4 times as wide as the one Erza had originally created.

As the energies of the barrier and cannon clashed, Erza noticed how the energy didn't feel as strong as she had felt when it was charging, and held her position easily. Everyone who was watching noticed this as well, and was amazed at the strength of the barrier before them, some turning to Sora who was partly responsible for it. Even Erza stole a glance at him.

They then noticed how much strain was being put on him. His form was shaking as if in a whirlwind, hair flying about as magic energy surged around him. Sweat was covering his face and arms, and teeth clenched in effort as he worked to maintain the construct as long as he could. The illusion around his eye had long gone away, and was even glowing with the colors of the rainbow as he pushed himself. There were even a few people who thought they saw similar lights coming from under his shirt.

Lucy saw this and fear raced across her face. "Sora! What are you doing!?"

Sora turned his head and smirked at her and the others. "What's it look like?! I'm testing a new idea!" He then returned his attention to Erza, who was glancing back at him. "DON'T look over here! That barrier will only last as long as you maintain your own!" Erza's eyes widened, before she nodded and looked back at the energy rushing towards them and putting more magic into her barrier, hoping to alleviate some of Sora's burden.

After several more moments, the energy from the cannon faded away, and Erza let her barrier go, requipping into her standard armor and rushing to Sora, who had released his hold on the platform and walls and fell onto his back as they began to fade. Several others ran to his side as he lay there panting, Natsu leading them. "Sora! Say something!"

"… hah… Holy… hah… Hell… hah… I need… hah… more practice… hah… with that one… hah…"

Loke helped him to sit up. "Hey, Sora, you okay man?"

Sora flashed them all a weak grin. "Hehe… Never better…"

Macao looked at him and Erza in shock with the rest of the guild. "Wh-Whoa… They stopped it…"

"We're saved… Those two were really something…" Elfman said.

Cana looked at the state Sora was in, and looked at Erza. "But look at what happened to Sora. Imagine what might have happened to Erza if he weren't here…"

Gray looked back at the crystal, slowly fading away. "What the hell did you do there?"

Sora took a few deep breaths before answering. "New idea I had recently. I call it the Citrine Palace. It's a barrier enhancing construct. Depending on the size of the construct, I can theoretically make a barrier that can stand against anything."

Erza caught on to what he was saying. "That explains it. When I was holding up the barrier, I didn't feel even half of the full power that should have been behind that blast."

He nodded slightly at that. "That's the idea. Only issue I had was in trying to make it that big, and trying to keep up the enhancement as long as I could. I was lucky that Citrine is my primary type, or that might not have gone as well as it did."

Erza then slapped the back of his head, which stung since it was now armored. "That was still a foolish thing to do! What if you didn't have the power to sustain such a thing?! You could have exhausted yourself for nothing!"

Sora smirked at her through the ache. "Says the girl who was about to shoulder the entire thing all on your own. How were you certain you'd be fine after taking a blast like that?" Erza's silence was all the confirmation he needed. "That's what I thought. Sorry, but with the master gone and other S-class wizards not here to help, you are currently the strongest mage present. As such, there's no way I'm letting you wear yourself out at the start of the battle." He then smirked at her as he continued. "Let the new guys have that role."

They all then heard a loud voice coming from the mobile guild in the water. "I must say, that was rather impressive." They all turned to look at the structure that had launched the attack, each of them with their own looks of anger. "I didn't think there were any among you rabble who could stop my Jupiter Cannon's assault so well. I may have expected Erza to stop the blast, though I would have guessed that she would have been knocked out of commission, and yet it seems she had a bit of help. This wouldn't happen to be the same unknown trouble maker who damaged my headquarters, now would it?"

Sora smirked before donning a crystal gauntlet, then raised it up and let it shine, letting Jose get a good look at him from the throne he just knew the bastard was sitting in and shouted as loud as he could. "Yup, that would be me! You like the remodel I gave your place?"

"Hmm, you are certainly strong for your apparent age. I'm told you even managed to knock one of my Element 4 away while you were meddling with my base." The rest of Fairy Tail looked at him in surprise at those words. "Tell me boy, why don't you join my guild? Fairy Tail will be no more pretty soon, so why not join the winning team?"

Sora blinked a few times, before furrowing his brow. "Did he just try to recruit me after insulting, threatening, attacking, and kidnapping my friends?"

Happy raised an arm. "Aye!"

"Hmm. Then I think I have my answer." He then stood up, shakily but supported by Loke and Erza, walked forward so he could be seen clearly, stared right at the mobile guild, then flipped them the bird. "Screw you Jose! I'd rather go to hell then then work under a bastard like you!" His actions got a few chuckles, cheers, and quite a few grins from the Fairy mages.

"Hrgh. Impudent brat. No matter, I have already disposed of Makarov. Victory is beyond your grasp. Hand over Lucy Heartfilia. This instant."

Those words ignited a fury from the guild. "The hell with that!"

"What guild would just hand one of their members to the enemy?!"

"Lucy is one of us!"

Similar shouts of agreement shot from the entirety of the Fairy Tail guild, as Lucy looked down guiltily.

"Hand her over!" Jose's voice came out once more, but was nearly drowned out amongst all the voices from the familial guild. Amidst it all however, Lucy began to cry at what she was putting her friends through, just because of her father wanting to bring her back.

She was snapped out of her thoughts, at a declaration from Erza. "We would rather die than betray one of our own!"

Lucy looked up in shock as the entire guild gave a loud war cry. "Our answer won't change, no matter what!" Natsu roared at Jose. "We're gonna destroy all of you!"

As everyone continued to shout and cheer, Lucy began to cry tears of happiness and covered her mouth to try and stop her sobs. This went on for several seconds, before Jose's voice went out in anger. "In that case, I'll give you an even bigger taste of the Jupiter Cannon! You have 15 minutes until it recharges! Tremble in fear!"

This got the guild to calm somewhat as they processed the news.

"W-What?!"

"The Jupiter Cannon?!"

"He's gonna fire it again?!"

Erza looked back to Sora. "How long until you can create another Citrine Palace?"

Sora shook his head to clear away some of his fatigue. "Okay, not gonna lie. I don't think I can pull off that trick again in 15 minutes. I haven't practiced that one enough. Or, at all really."

She nodded in understanding. "Alright." She then looked back at the cannon in question. "I can probably manage to hold it off once on my own, but without the enhancement I can't say I would be any help afterwards."

At that moment, a number of figures flew out the windows of the guild building, and began to fly their way over to the mages on the ground, shocking many of the mages and getting Sora to instinctively use his eye to get a closer look at what was coming their way. "As the young brat wishes, I will now prepare to show you hell, Fairy Tail. You've only two choices left. Be destroyed by my soldiers, or be eradicated by the Jupiter!"

Macao looked shocked at what he was saying. "Unbelievable! He'd kill his own men with the Jupiter too?!"

"H-He's bluffing! He won't shoot!"

"He doesn't need to bluff. Those things are expendable." Macao and Wakaba, and some of the others looked at Sora in shock as he stared at the creatures coming their way, analyzing them with his eye. "Those things look like they were created from magic, nothing more than drones created to do their master's bidding."

Cana grimaced at those words. "Jose must have made them with the Shade magic he's known for."

Bisca and Al looked at the creatures in shock. "Wait, Shades!?" "They're ghosts!?"

Sora smirked a little. "And me without my exorcism equipment. I might be able to whip something up for the shades, but I would need a few minutes."

Erza looked away from the encroaching enemies and at the weapon still aimed at them. "We still need to do something about the Jupiter Cannon. Another blast will be too damaging to us."

"I'll take it out!" Natsu punched his palm as he declared his, filled to the brim with enthusiasm. "15 minutes right? I can do it!"

Sora smiled at him. "With your track record, there's no contest. You could break the unbreakable."

Erza nodded at that. "Alright, get moving."

Nodding, Natsu ran to the edge of the cliff. "Happy!"

"Aye sir!" As Natsu launched himself off the cliff, Happy flew by and grabbed him, flying him straight past the Shades and right at the cannon.

Gray and Elfman began running as well. "Elfman! Let's storm the place too!"

"Alright!" Gray then made a floor of ice that led straight to the building and they ran as fast as they could.

Erza then turned to Sora. "You said you could make something to help us fight the shades?" Sora nodded. "Then get moving. The faster you do that, the easier this fight will become."

"Got it. Oi, Wakaba! Those Lacrimas still in the same spot?"

The smoke mage looked at him in confusion. "Probably, why?"

Sora then jogged away. "I'll be borrowing them again, just hold Phantom off as long as you can!"

Erza then requipped into her Heaven's Wheel armor. "The rest of us will hold this position. Take down every Shade that comes in range! FOR FAIRY TAIL AND THE MASTER!" Everyone gave a heart-filled cry as she raised a sword to rally them. While this was happening Mira led Lucy away, catching Loke's eye.

Back in the guild basement, Sora had just found the Lacrimas in question and was going over them. "Alright, the way these are now will be useless against the shades. Let's see, they are primarily designed to discharge high amounts of magic energy. So if my hunch is right…" He then closed his eyes and focused on a Lacrima he picked up, being among the ones he already adjusted. After a minute, the Lacrima shifted from white to a light yellow, Sora opening his eyes in satisfaction. "Okay, now to copy this data to another…" He then grabbed hold of another one and focused, causing the second Lacrima to shift in the same way after several moments. "Good, no problems so far. Now to confirm this will work on the bastards."

He then ran out and looked for the closest mage, chancing on Wakaba nearby and on the ground looking weak. Running over to him, he checked his condition. "You okay Wakaba?"

"Urgh, one of those things flew right through me. Left me feeling really weak."

"Okay, try holding onto this." He then moved the Lacrima into his hand, which he weakly grabbed.

A surge of light then pulsed through him for a moment, before fading. Wakaba then sat up with no problem. "What the? What just happened?" He patted his own chest to make sure things were good as Sora smirked.

"I noticed before that these things were basically curses given physical form, so thought the best way to fight them would be a cleansing spell. This Lacrima will now deal with whatever curses they place on you guys, and even slow them down if they get too close, though it won't help against any physical attacks they try. But if you keep it on hand, you'll even the playing field."

Wakaba just blinked at him, looked at the Lacrima, then smirked at Sora. "You did this with a measly explosive Lacrima?!"

"They were already designed to emit energy. I just changed what they emit from explosive to cleansing." He then stood up and helped Wakaba up. "This confirms the test, I gotta go make more. Go back the others up!"

"You got it!" Wakaba ran back into the thick of it while Sora ran back to the basement, glad he made another for quick copying.

3 minutes later, he was running out with an entire bag of Anti-Curse Lacrima over his shoulder and one already in his hand, gauntlets and greaves already prepped. He then ran amongst the mages, giving a Lacrima to everyone he could see, prioritizing those most affected by the curses and getting them back in the fight. For those who needed both hands for their magic, such as Al and Bisca, he fastened the Lacrimas with straps to be held over the shoulder, keeping hands free and curses away.

Eventually, he made his way to Erza, who was holding back dozens of Shades that kept trying to go for her. "Erza, special delivery!" He then tossed her a Lacrima with a strap which she quickly put on, quickly realizing what it could do and looking back at the creatures with a look of ferocity, before going on the offensive against the shades.

As they dissipated, Sora dropped his bag near her and took his own fighting stance, forming a citrine lance in his hands. "Alright, the Lacrimas I just passed out to everyone should give us an edge. They won't stop the Shades from reforming, but it will make it harder for them to take us down."

"Good. Can you determine Natsu's progress on the cannon?" They each sliced a few shades as they got closer.

"Give me a moment." He then looked over to the cannon's barrel and used his telescopic vision to get a better look and caught him running down the barrel. "I don't think he made a lot of progress just smashing the barrel, but he just started running inside it."

"Good. Knowing him, unless something gets in the way, he'll have a way to break it soon."

Sora sliced through a couple more shades as he watched Erza's back. "Yeah, well soon better be in less than 10 minutes. I still haven't recovered enough to be able to do another Palace, and we can't lose you in this fight either."

They continued to fight off the shades for 8 more minutes, and by then the cannon was beginning to look like it was about to fire again. As everyone else began to worry, Sora looked at the cannon. "Well, might as well see if I can double the two." Using telescopic vision, he got a closer look at the cannon getting ready to fire, then tried to tap into the new vision to see through the walls at the same time. With some difficulty and a slight headache, he managed to get a look as Natsu was engaging a mage. "Hey, Erza? Does Phantom have any prominent members with black and white hair? With a Katana as well?"

"That sounds similar to the stories of the Element 4's Totomaru, a mage capable of controlling all forms of fire. Why?"

"… Natsu's up against him…"

"… That would explain why this is taking so long. No matter. No one knows Natsu's flames better than him. He will most assuredly get past him and destroy the weapon!"

"Love the confidence, but we are running out of time here!" Sora spun his lance above his head, then swiped it to the side, creating a slash of light that shot out and destroyed every Shade that hit it.

As the cannon came within seconds of firing, an explosion sounded from the Jupiter cannon and the energy dissipated, pieces of the barrel coming off as it fell apart!

Sora looked at it in relief as the Fairy Tail mages cheered. "Alright, sorry for doubting the guy."

Erza smirked and raised her sword. "The Jupiter Cannon has been destroyed! Now, let's win this battle!" The guild gave another war cry and redoubled their efforts against the Shades, destroying them even faster than before.

After several moments, the mobile guild shifted once more, seeming to fold into and away from itself in varying ways as Shades flew around it. As the mages looked on in confusion, they observed as the guild building took on a new shape.

"What is that?! You have to be kidding me!" Cana exclaimed.

"It's a giant…" Loke looked at the large figure in shock. "A magic giant!"

Sora looked up at it apprehensively, noting that the spikes he shoved into it had made the end result look more intimidating. "You gotta be kidding me… This makes Clay's Gigas look like an ant!"

As the towering giant looked down on them, Jose's voice sounded out again. "Kneel before me, detestable brats… and know your place! Savor the final moments of your lives while filled with despair!"

"The Shades are coming back!" Al warned. As they surged towards them.

"A giant and ghosts! How are we supposed to deal with that!?" Bisca declared, readying her guns.

Cana readied her cards. "We'll just focus on the Shades. I'm sure Natsu will handle the giant for us!"

Wakaba and Macao on the other hand looked worried for a different reason. "B-But…" "Natsu and vehicles…"

At that, the entire guild paled at the thought of what that meant, all releasing sounds of pitiful realization. Erza turned to Sora, who was staring intently at the giant. "Sora, how is he?"

Sora used his eye to zoom in on the room Natsu was in, glad that the guy had done enough damage to put some holes in the room. "Well… about as good as you would expect. The Phantom guy is about to get the drop on him." He then smirked as he saw what happened next. "But it looks like Gray and Elfman decided to show up just now, so he'll be fine."

Sighs of relief echoed out amongst the guild, as they witnessed a frozen object get shot out of the giant and into the sky, disappearing like a star. Sora whistled impressed. "Wow. That Elfman has quite the arm on him. Remind me not to piss him off too much."

As the Fairy Mages continued to fight off the Shades, they began to take notice that the right arm was writing something as it moved. Al and Bisca looked at it in worry as they fired their magic guns. "Writing? No…!" "It can't be…!"

Erza looked at it in worry. "A magic circle. From the design of it… It's Abyss Break, one of the forbidden spells! And at the size of it… Its power will take out all of Magnolia!"

Sora turned to Erza wide-eyed. "He's gonna what now?! Ah, son of a nutcase…!" He then noticed a large wave of shades coming and created a small, round platform with a cone-shaped object attached to the platform on a center pedestal. Sora then grabbed the 2 handles on each side of the smaller end and aimed the larger one at the shades. "Please work, please work, please work!" He then sent some magic into the construct, making the cone turn a clear yellow, and making it shoot out a large beam of light that grew in size as it traveled, vanquishing shades as they were consumed by it, and putting a large smile on Sora's face.

He then swung the cone to the side and destroyed some more that nearly got the jump on Erza, turning her attention to Sora's latest construct. "Does this one have a name as well?"

"At the moment, I'm just calling it Citrine Spotlight. Might try a better one later. You know, when we aren't fighting for our lives or anything." He then turned his Spotlight around at all the other nearby clusters of shades, giving the mages a bit more breathing room as they fought back.

After a few more minutes, Sora saw something that was slightly confusing to him. As the mages looked in surprise, they all saw Lucy walking forth through the battlefield and up towards the cliff. But what confused Sora, was that at the same time, he was faintly seeing Mira. "… Okay… What?"

As everyone who knew tried to stop her, Lucy/Mira held out her arms. "I'm the one you want! Stop attacking our guild this instant!"

After a few seconds, Jose gave his reply. "Begone… Imposter!"

Lucy/Mira looked shocked as Jose laughed at her. "I've known from the very start that Lucy isn't there!" As he spoke, the image of Lucy faded, leaving only Mira standing before them.

As Mira and the other mages looked pissed at how well Jose knew what they were up to, Sora looked at Mira in thought. 'So she was using transformation magic to look like Lucy? What the hell, what else can my eye do?!' He then turned his attention back to the assaulting shades as he grimaced. 'I swear, if this thing starts showing me the future, I may start considering taking it out!'

After a little while, the Giant had nearly finished the outer layer of the circle, when a green light drew Sora's attention over to Mira, seeing a green magic circle underneath her. As everyone watched in shock, Mira fell through and vanished from sight, the circle quickly disappearing. "Deplorable girl, attempting to fool us like that…" Everyone looked to the giant to see it looking at its left hand, seeing Mira stuck in its grasp. "Now you will witness the end of your friends as you are slowly crushed."

Everyone looked at Mira in varying degrees of shock, anger, and fear. Sora, deciding to take a chance, shifted his Spotlight into something of a large crossbow with a glowing purple bolt. Carefully taking aim, he fired at the wrist of the arm holding Mira. It hit with a powerful bang, but left not even a dent in the thing. "Okay, that isn't going to work. I'm of no use trying to help her from here…"

At that moment, a part of the building's wall burst, the smoke clearing away to show a wounded Elfman. Mire looked in fear and called out the name of her brother. "Elfman!"

Behind him, Sora could just make out a man in an orange suit swaying back and forth. Describing them to Erza, she gave him a quick run-down on the man, Sol of the Earth. Needing very little time to decide, seeing as the man was now apparently turning Elfman to stone, Sora took careful aim and fired another bolt.

As Sol watched in glee as Elfman began to turn to stone, he didn't notice in time as Sora's crystal bolt fired at and into him, tearing him away from the ground and down the hall, stopping the spell's momentum. After a few seconds, Sol got up and rushed to the entrance. "What was that! Non, non, who had the gall to strike me when I wasn't looking?" He then spotted Sora, who even from this distance he could tell was grinning like a madman with a mock salute. While he perceived this, he didn't notice how Elfman was beginning to regain his senses at Mira's words and tears. "Non, non, non! That man knows nothing of being a gentleman! And right when we were reaching the finale!"

"Why?"

Elfman's quiet words made Sol turn to look at the man he was now next to. "Oh?"

"I swore I'd never see your tears again!" As Elfman began to talk with more and more determination, a powerful light come off of him, surprising Sora at what he was seeing, and hearing. "So why are you crying now?! Who made you cryyy?!

After a few moments, an image overlapped onto Elfman's and Sora became shocked at the monstrous behemoth that was now in his place, staring down at a now panicking Sol. "Uh, Erza? Has Elfman ever done a full-body takeover?"

Erza slashed at several shades in her Black Wing armor before answering. "Once, but he lost control and something tragic happened. Why?"

"… Uh, no reason." He then watched in stunned silence through a combination of Telescopic and X-ray vision as Beast Elfman completely thrashed Sol, not even letting the bastard go unconscious! He then noticed as he shrank in size after letting the bastard finally pass out and hop onto the arm holding Mira and run to her. Taking precautions, Sora loaded another bolt, larger than the previous, and prepared to fire at Elfman should he be out of control, hoping he wouldn't have to fire.

As he watched, he let out a sigh of relief as Elfman only freed Mira and held her close in a hug. Deciding to get back to helping out, he looked around at the situation and noticed something. "Hey, is it just me, or is the Giant moving slower?"

Erza and some of the others took a look at those words and noticed the same thing. "It would seem that whatever they're doing in there, it's working."

Sora nodded as he brought back his spotlight. "Then let's continue giving them less to worry about!" He then shone his light on the shades again, quickly gaining their apparent ire since they seemed to start gathering around him. "Well what do ya know. Guess my over-sized Night-Light is starting to get their attention."

Erza cut down some of the shades that slipped past his light. "I'll keep them off you as best I can. You continue to provide support to the rest of the guild."

"Sir yes sir!" Sora grinned as he swiveled his Spotlight at every large concentration of shades he could see, while Erza watched his back and kept the shades away from him as best she could.

As their numbers increased, no doubt to Jose's doing, some began to slip through and get some cheap shots in on both Erza and Sora. If not for the Lacrimas that Sora had made, they might have gone down already. After another one got a good hit on him, Sora let out a cry of pain and loosed a flash of light from his gauntlet. "Shit, these things just keep coming! How many of these damn things can that bastard make?!"

Erza had switched back to her Heaven's Wheel armor some time back and was moving her swords around in an orbit, trying to get every shade that came close. "He doesn't bear the title of Wizard Saint for show. It also doesn't help that they are mostly coming for you and me for the damage we've done to their numbers."

"Gee, I'm really feeling the love from these guys!" He then focused a bit of magic into the platform he was on and several spikes and such jutted out, revealing 8 spikes about half a meter long and up at a 45-degree angle. As the spikes glowed the same color as the Spotlight, a sphere of golden light encompassed Sora just as another couple of shades ran at him, being repelled by the field and at the mercy of Erza's swords. "Okay, I have no idea how long this barrier will last, but I am sick of these things landing hits on me! Just focus on taking those things down for now!"

"Alright!" Erza then became more aggressive with her attacks now that she could let Sora be for a while.

Taking a quick breather, Sora wiped some sweat from his brow and took a moment to look at the Giant to see the others progress, and noticed some rain clouds clearing away that he didn't even notice had formed earlier. "Wait, did that Rain Woman just get involved? I hope that means someone managed to beat her." He then looked at the arm casting Abyss Break and noticed it was moving even slower than before. "Wow. Looks like they're nearly there! Alright, then I shouldn't be slacking off either! Alright you bastards! Come see the light at the end of the tunnel!"

After a few more minutes, the shades began to die down a little, and both Sora and Erza took a break. As they caught their breaths, Erza looked to Sora. "Can you tell how the others are doing in the Giant?"

Sora nodded. "Maybe. Give me a minute, haven't really practiced using two vision-types at once very much, but I seem to be figuring it out." Focusing, he managed to not only be successful at combining the two again, but managed to get a lock on some of them. "Alright, looks like after helping Mira, she and Elfman managed to catch up to Gray, who appears to have taken down the 3rd member of the Element 4. As for Natsu…" His eyes widened when he found him. "He is getting his ass handed to him by a guy in green robes and wearing a blindfold!"

Erza's eyes widened in shock at that. "What?! He's fighting Aria on his own?! That fool, Aria is the strongest member of the Element 4!"

Sora thought for a few seconds, before getting an idea. "Say, who would win in a fight? You, or Aria?"

Erza looked at him in confusion. "What are you getting at?"

Sora then dismissed his platform and Spotlight and created a large Ballista, loaded with a long tipped bolt with a pair of rungs sticking out on each side. Grabbing onto one rung and placing a foot on the one behind it, he looked at Erza. "I can get you in there in time to help him, but it will be up to you to take the guy down. Now, can you do it?"

Erza looked at him in surprise, before shifting to a look of determination and hopping on next to him as she shifted back to Black Wing Armor. "Without a doubt."

"Good. Then hold on tight."

Erza then turned to Cana. "Take care of things here. We're going to reinforce the others."

The card mage nodded in response. "Alright, these Lacrimas Sora gave us have done a good job of keeping us going. You guys go take care of things up there."

After they each took a firm grip, Sora triggered the ballista and launched them with as much power as he could. Watching carefully to make sure they weren't deviating from their destination, Sora created a spike of amethyst in his hand aimed at the giant in front of them. "When we burst through, head straight ahead!" Seeing Erza nod to confirm she heard him, he waited until the last moment to launch the spike, creating a hole that opened up into a hall that led straight to the room Natsu was fighting in.

A/N And break time. This chapter was getting long, so I decided to cut off the rest and save it for next time. Hope you all enjoyed what you saw so far, and that nothing was too unreasonable for what he can do. So, please review this story and let me know what you think.