Everything started to happen all in a flash. All of a sudden the kings voice began to echo across what was soon to become a battle field. I listened vaguely to the words that he spoke, though I knew that it was a garbage. Though, I was sure I recognized his voice. For some reason, it comforted me - But why? This was the evil king of Edolas. The way he spoke about Mystogan really irritated me. Mystogan was his own son! I could feel the raging fire inside of me begin to grow restless. I looked downwards towards the ground, that's where the sound seemed to be coming from... I was surprised to find that the ground was glowing a strange green colour. I could feel it rumbling from far up in the air. "The air id trembling from magic power!" I heard Lucy speak. She was right, I could feel the tremendous magic power across my whole body... "This is not a fight!" I heard the kings voice speak out, "It is retaliation against those who defy the King! A one sided extermination!" from the ground I began to see something start to emerge. Soon the light cleared to reveal what looked like a metal cocoon with chains coming off of it towards the ground. What could it possibly be? What was the king trying to do? The chains instantly snapped away from the cocoon which was flung into the air (not as high up as we were, just slightly above the ground) . It began to glow slightly with an eerie white colour - light began to seep through the cracks...

Without warning, the cocoon exploded to reveal a large metallic dragon-like being. Accept, it was obviously a machine. What was supposed to be the eyes began to glow a violent red colour. I had a feeling that his metal dragon thingy wasn't here for a hug... The creature roared a large loud powerful roar. It felt like it would be powerful enough to cause a massive earthquake the sky... And that was just the roar... "Dorma Anim!" I heard The queen of the exceeds speak. Dorma Anim!? What was that supposed to mean? By the look on the queen's face I could tell that it wasn't going to be good...

"It means 'dragon knight' in our native tongue." Mystogan answered. Though that didn't help answer any questions that I had about it. I instinctively reached for the book on Edolas that I still had in my possession to see if I could find anything. "Now is not the time for reading Faya," I heard Bluebell say from above.

"Sorry," I muttered putting the book away. Apparently from listening from the others speak I heard that no wizard could breach the armor. "My soldiers!" I heard the king call out, "capture the exceeds!" The enemy legions and soldiers began to fly towards us. "Run for it!" Mystogan called out. The exceeds all began to run away from the legions. "You should go too Bluebell," I said, "Go make sure they're alright!"

"I'm not leaving you! You'll fall if I'm gone!"

"I'll be fine."

"Well I'm staying until you have the opportunity to get to lower ground!" Why did Bluebell have to be so stubborn? The enemy soldiers then fired cannons projecting strange beams of light towards the exceeds. These transformed the exceeds into cat-shaped lacrimas. Bluebell set me back upon Coco's legion with the others. "I'll go and find any who escaped the blasts and keep them safe," Bluebell spoke. I nodded.

"Good luck," I murmured - though she was now too far away to hear me now.

We then st off on the legion to go protect the exceeds. "You should go with Bluebell," I heard Miriza say to Melody. I looked towards the two of them, as I gazed upon Melody I was surprised. She hardly ever looked this confused or conflicted about what to do... Just then a great burst of magic power was sent towards our legion, for a moment - I thought it was going to be too late... Just then I spotted the white legion with Mystogan in front of us. "Mystogan!" Mystogan was able to block the attack with his stave magic. "Mystogan!?" the king yelled, bitterness in his words, "Is that what you called yourself in earth land!? Your name is Jellal!"

"Take this chance and go!" Mystogan spoke.

"I don't want to leave you..." Miriza mumbled softly. The two of them were close friends after all since she had helped him make S-class rank. "Three layered magic circle, mirror water!" The dorma anim's attack was reflected straight back at itself. There was a mighty explosion. "Is it over?" Lilias sighed.

"I wouldn't count on it," I answered. Nothing was ever that simple. The smoke cleared to reveal the dorma anim... Without a single scratch... How were we supposed to fight it if wizards were completely useless. Exceeds were still being shot at. I looked around at the catastrophe before us. I was unable to see Bluebell anywhere. I reached for the amethyst pendant Bluebell had bought me for my 16th Birthday and clutched it in my palm. Please be safe...

"THERE YOU ARE!" I tried to spot where the voice was coming from. I looked from left to right: nothing. Then I looked upwards only to see a legion carrying a soldier who I thought was down for the count: Aki Marshland. "You can't keep this girl down can you," Lokni stated. Just then I heard a crash down from the dorma anim. I quickly glanced down to see the 1st generation dragon slayers attacking the machine. It seemed to be working. "We should get down there and help them!" Miriza called.

"Go go on and do that," I responded looking back upwards, "I'll take on Aki."

"Altair, Candy, come with me." Melody spoke. The three exceeds the flew off into the stary night sky. I suspected that they were going to help Bluebell protect the other exceeds. With that, I got ready for my fight with Edolas Aki. I jumped straight off the legion. Luckily there was some rubble not too far below. I was able to land on that. Edolas Aki had also landed her legion as well. I thought back to the battle we had just had with her. I was not looking forward to those elements, especially water and that strange 5th element: Aether... What had I just signed myself up for again!

"I can't believe you broke my 4 elements staff..." Edolas Aki spoke, "It took me ages to find another weapon which was any good." That was when I noticed the white and gold spear in Edolas Aki's hand.

"What is it?" I asked. Edolas Aki smiled a rather evil looking smile.

"It's an angel staff, it allows me to use the light of angels to vanquish the wickedness of this world..."

"What!?" What she had just said sounded like nonsense to me.

"Well that's what the girl I stole it off said anyway, her little sister was in tears when she found out what I had done!" I gritted my teeth. "You'd better return that staff."

"Why should I?" she grinned. She was obviously trying to aggravate me.

"If you're not going to give it back, then I'll just have to take it to them!"

"You don't even know what they look like," Edolas Aki smirked as she dodged my fire dragon iron fist.

"Well I bet some of their scent is still on the staff, I'll be able to find them eventually!" Edolas Aki grimaced as my fire dragon wing attack made contact. The next thing I knew she was running straight towards me - about to stab me with the spear. I cursed slightly as I had to dodge last second. "Fire dragon brilliant flames!" I sent the long range fire attack straight towards Aki. Luckily, she didn't have enough time to dodge. From then on we ended up throwing attacks at each other with the other continuously dodging. Before long I could tell that we were both low on magic power. We'd fought each other twice now in one day. I'll have to end this in one shot! "I'll end this in one shot!" Edolas Aki screamed. She took the words right out of my mouth. "Fire dragon secret art! Flame lotus exploding flame blade!"

"Let the light of angels banish all wickedness!" Edolas Aki was blasted by my dragon slayer secret art, but at the same time I was blasted by a beam of light and feathers. It must have been an edolas form of Angel magic. I'd never felt anything like it before... But still, we were both now on the ground - no magic power left.

We'd resorted to fighting to old fashioned way, sadly though - Edolas Aki's spear could still be used as a spear without magic. I aimed a punch at her while she dodge and tried to stab for the hundredth time with her spear. In an attempt to dodge, she ended up piecing my leg. I fell to the ground. On the ground I noticed there were chunks of brick. That gave me an idea. I decided to chuck the bricks at Edolas Aki. One seemed to hit her ankle, but she was able to maintain her balance. I couldn't help but feel guilty looking at her. She still had her injuries from her last fight, but now she had hurt her ankle and was covered in burns. Slowly, I got back up onto my feet. My leg was stinging - but I could manage. Just then Edolas Aki rushed (as fast as she could with her ankle) towards me. Using my uninjured leg, I was able to kick her. HARD. Edolas Aki doubled over, as she began to fall back - I noticed her loose her grip slightly on the spear. Quickly, I was able to slip it out of her hands as she slumped to the ground. As I looked down, I noticed tears begin to form in her hazel eyes. "I'm sorry," she spoke, "For everything." I was taken aback. How could she change so quickly from 'Let's kill Faya' to: 'I'm so sorry Faya please forgive me.' It hadn't even been a minute! I sighed. As I turned to leave, I heard Edolas Aki say one more thing. "I promise I'll be a better person from now on... I'll be kind and selfless... like your Aki..."


Author's note:

We've reached 50 chapters! I never thought I would ever get this far when writing something. The support has been Phenomenal! I would like to thank all of you who have made any suggestions regarding the story, as well as everyone who had been reading it this far! Thank you so much! I couldn't be more grateful! :D