Iron in the Stars

AN: Story is my idea, but I do not own anything Fairy Tail.

Chapter 14: Stones

As soon I saw the stone in Lily's hand I felt the pull drawing me in to grab it. He handed it to Bunny instead. I felt rage inside of me that he didn't hand it over to me. The feeling caught me off guard. Why was I feeling such hate against them all of a sudden? I didn't understand what was happening. "Gajeel, this stone is radiating magic. It's strong too. This must have been the fuel to make it more than just an illusion. I guarantee that all of these beasts have these stones fueling them." Bunny was feeling the power of the stone that was meant for me. I had to take the stone away from her. I didn't have a choice in the matter.

"Fuck!" It was almost like the stone was burning itself into me. I saw the smoke and smelt the flesh being burned. The pain was unbearable, but I didn't want it to stop. With the pain I felt the power of the stone. It was beyond what I knew before. It was like taking a whole other type of magic into my system. I could feel the swell of pressure build in my chest. I loved the feeling. It felt more amazing than I could ever dream. At that point every thing else didn't matter. It was just this magnificent power and I.

Who was talking to me? I heard someone calling out my name, but I didn't know who it was. "Gajeel?" She called out to me again and again. Who was this woman? I felt like I knew her, but everything inside of me was screaming that she was an enemy. How could someone this gorgeous be an enemy to me? She had a black cat with wings holding onto her. It looked like he was trying to hold her back from me. She wasn't having that though. She made her way closer about to touch me. Big mistake. Don't touch me. She wanted to take the power away from me. No, she couldn't have it. I had to do whatever no matter the cost to protect the stone inside of me. I pushed her away. Granted the force in my push was much more than I expected. As she got up I saw the sadness in her eyes. She needed to get away before she got hurt. I could feel a confliction in my system. I had a blood lust to hurt everyone around me, but something was screaming at me not to touch her or the others near by.

I wanted to apologize. I knew I shouldn't have hurt her, but she couldn't have what was mine. She stepped closer to me again. I growled at her in warning. Hopefully she would take the hint and back off. "Gajeel?" She went to get closer and this time the black cat was ready. As soon as I went to attack again she was in the air and making her way towards the other dragons. I could feel something inside of me screaming. It was like another part of me was fighting it's way out, but I couldn't have that. I didn't need emotions filtering my job. I had to collect the stones and bring them to the master who created them. He was calling to me and expected my presence. I could not disappoint him.

I watched while the dragons fought. They were magnificent. It was a shame that I had to destroy them to get what I wanted. For some reason I wanted to avoid fighting the other people as much as I could. I decided to go after the dragons making their way over to the town instead. I knew that these other dragons had no chance against me. They were a shell with some magic coursing through them. I somewhat remembered the challenge they were when I was against them without this power in me. I had to roar in laughter. I was weak before now. It was certainly time to change that. It was my turn to take the power I could and do what I wanted in this world.

I made my way over to the dragon closest to the town. It held a yellow mist and looked like rain clouds were following it. The lightning coming down around it was certainly threatening. The dragon that I fought had a green fog around it and dealt with my own magic, which was earth magic. Seeing as this one was yellow and held the lightning I'm sure they all followed the same pattern. I wasn't with the other dragons so for now I had to assume that the coincidence was enough to tie it together. The dragon looked down to me like I wasn't a threat. Wrong move you over grown lizard. I am going to end your pitiful nonexistent life. You have what I want. "Oi! Turn around and fight me!" The dragon kept walking through the forest to its destination. Fucking annoying beast. Didn't even have the decency to see me as a fucking threat.

"Iron Dragon's Roar!" I shot shards of iron towards the dragon successfully forcing the fog to go into his body and lightning to cover its skin as a secondary defense. "Iron Dragon's Lance: Demon Logs!" My arms grew to be spears and went straight for the beast. I felt the lightning against my metal, surprisingly though it didn't hurt. It was almost a tingling feeling. The feeling was similar to one of a limb being asleep. It was still very uncomfortable, but manageable. I felt the steel spears penetrate the thick hide and heard the beast cry out in pain. The lightning was getting thicker and stronger and I knew I had to pull back before I got injured from the sheer intensity. I had to jump away from where I was standing because the beast started to throw lightning bolt after lightning bolt at me. I felt like I was running around the beast. He wouldn't let up though. The dragon kept throwing attack after attack towards me so I couldn't be on the offensive during it's weakened state. Smart. I didn't give the beast enough credit.

"Iron Dragon's Roar!" I saw the fog reappear and hoped that the same attack would work a second time. I only needed one good hit to bring this beast down, but getting that hit would be more challenging. My roar was cancelled out by its own attack. Damnit! I ran up to be closer to the beast and went to attack again. Hopefully this time it would do some damage? "Dragon Slayer's Secret Art! Karma Demon, Iron God Sword!" I clapped my hands over my head and pulled down the enormous sword down onto the lightning beast. It didn't even get a chance to defend itself because the hit took the dragon out completely. The beast's body combusted into yellow glowing sand then began pressurizing into the now yellow stone hovering where the beast was. I grabbed it leveling myself for the unbearable pain I knew was sure to come when the stone made its way into my body, but it didn't. I grabbed it and it held no affect on me. What the fuck? Why was it not doing anything?

Before I could dwell on the stone not working I felt a magic presence to the left of me. I looked over in time to see the other beast come over to attack me. There was a large body of swirling water coming my way. I hated water attacks. I forced my arm into the ground and pushed myself up by forming it into steal and extending the length. The water grazed my hair as I made my way up, but I didn't get stuck in the attack. I had a second to access this beast. It was covered in a blue fog. The fog looked different though. Perhaps it was because of the beast's element? It held more of a water form than the others.

"Iron Dragon's Roar!" I was above the beast and he wasn't quick enough to dodge the hit. I watched as the iron hit and went into the beast. Its body turned to liquid. Fucking water magic. It was always a pain in the ass to fight against. "Dragon Slayer's Secret Art! Karma Demon, Iron Spirals!" My legs turned into a large drill and I pushed into the beast. I felt myself make my way through its body. I knew that I haven't even wounded it per say because it allowed me in. It allowed me in so I wouldn't harm its hide. I went deep into the belly of the beast and hoped I would find its heart or stone. Whatever powered these bastards? I still had two more after this one and I knew they were going to be harder to take down. I didn't even want to imagine fighting the other beasts and the mages. Whatever was fighting me earlier with the blonde wasn't even fighting me now. It was like there were two parts of me and as of the moment we were both content just kicking the shit out of these beasts.

Found it! My hand wrapped around the stone. I could see strings similar to veins branching from it powering the beast. I didn't care about the beast though so I easily ripped it away from the veins. The beast screeched for a moment before it became silent and started to dissolve into nothing. There wasn't any sand this time, just the stone and blue fog. The fog turned to a mist and disappeared within seconds. Three beasts down, four more to go. Two of the beasts stuck together and I figured they would be the hardest to take down. They were wreaking havoc in the forest near the town, but it didn't seem like they were very intelligent. They were going in the wrong direction. Well, I would assume they were at least. The other dragons were making their way in this direction at least somewhat. These two were just walking in the opposite direction. Almost as if they starting coming this way, got lost, and turned around to go back where they came from. I had to laugh. Fucking idiots.

"Iron Dragon's Lance!" Both of my arms turned into lances and stretched towards them. I felt them slam into their bodies pushing them to the ground. Yeah, this pair was certainly stupid. When they got back up though I was pretty screwed. The bastards worked together. I watched as they looked at each other. The one on the right had a light hide with a white fog surrounding its partner had a black hide with a black fog. The black one was the one that started their offense. It opened its mouth and a black ball started to form. What the fuck was that? The white one took notice as well because it joined its partner in the fight. It opened its mouth and started to form a white ball. They faced each other and pushed the ball out to collide into each other. Okay, I clearly had to take this shit down before something could happen.

"Iron Dragon's Roar!" Iron and steal formed and crashed into them. They growled out ferociously, but their attack didn't halt. Shit. Their attack grew to be the size of a watermelon. I was sure it packed a hefty punch too. I stood there waiting for them to release their attack so I could successfully dodge it. My eyes never strayed away from these two beasts. They were easily going to be the hardest fight out of all of them. I could hear the other two beasts in the background and knew that the other mages were winning their battles. Once I was done here I knew I would have to go up against them. After going against three beasts alone has actually taken its toll on me. I wasn't sure, even with this enormous amount of power coming from the stone inside of me, was going to be enough to take them down too. Especially the blonde one, that was one of the only things the other part of me inside was trying hard to protect. It didn't want me to lay a finger on her. It made me want to even more though. I couldn't let the weaker side of me win in this fight of power.

Finally! They released their attack and I ran as fast as I could over towards the trees near them. "Iron Dragon Spear!" I allowed my arms to form a lance and make its way over to the beasts again, but this time the ends were those of spears. I made contact with their bodies and felt the spear go through the thick hide. They roared in anger and pain when I made impact. "Iron Dragon Saw!" I switched the spears to rotating saws hopefully causing more damage to their body. The fog started to disappear. I had to be cautious. I didn't know what would happen with their second form of defense? I pulled my saws away to get my next attack ready. "Iron Dragon's Roar!" I went back to where I was standing before their attack hit. There was a clearing now there. They took down at least a dozen trees. I'm glad I made it away before it hit me. Ha! I would have surely lost this fight if that happened. We can't have that.

The fog was completely gone now, but the attack had no affect on them. There was a bright light that floated around them. The white dragon was protecting them with a shield of sorts. What was the black one doing? The shadows around me started to get thicker. He was controlling them! They were starting to form into spears. The moonlight created my own shadow and it worried me to know that it could control the shadows. Would it be able to control the shadows of people? Would it be able to take control of mine? "Iron Dragon's Secret Art! Karma Demon Iron God Sword!" I shoved myself away from the shadows before any damage could be down and slammed my swords into them. I pushed into their hide through there the throat hoping that this would be my last attack against them. It worked.

I already started to see their bodies start to fall. I knew I had won this fight. Before their body had a chance to turn to sand and release their stones I started to walk towards them. I didn't expect what happened next though. One of the black shadows that the black one formed into a spear shot up. I heard the swish in the air and then immediately felt the pain. It went through my chest. I fell to my knees. My power was gone. My strength was gone. I could feel the blood coming out of me and knew that I wasn't going to live through this. My mind wasn't clouded with power anymore. The stone must have been taken out of me. That's probably what pushed through my chest.

(AN: I'm listening to Awake and Alive by Skillet….it was a large motivation from this)

"Gajeel!" I heard her voice. The only voice that mattered to me was calling out to me. I felt despair and regret. I wish I had told her how I felt for her sooner. I would have had more time with her if I had. She was everything to me. I knew that I wanted to be there for her, but fate was cruel. Any time, no, every time I've ever had that was a good thing it's been taken away from me. Whatever brought me to this planet was playing a cruel joke with me. I apparently wasn't allowed to be happy. She would have made me happy though. She would have given me someone to protect, to cherish. I would have always been there for her. I would have asked her to be my wife, my mate. I would have given her a family. We would have given her a daughter. I would have spoiled her. Fuck, I would have killed every man that looked her way. If they looked anything like Bunny I would have to hide her from the world.

I laughed out loud. I could see the group of people around me, but it was only one pair of eyes I stared into. Those brown doe like eyes were large and blood shot. I hated that I was the one making her sad. "I'm sorry." It was a gargled mess, but I had to apologize to her for fate. Blood started to pool out of my mouth.

"Don't talk! Wendy!" I heard the fear in her voice. I must have looked as bad as I felt. Wendy wasn't with us, why was she calling her?

"Relax Blondie! I brought her! Fuck, what the hell happened to him? He looks like hell!" I heard Laxus' voice followed by Wendy's shriek. She ran over to me I immediately felt warm pressure all over my chest. I started to lose concentration. I closed my eyes and just listened to what was going on around me. It was the only thing I could do for now.

"He's lost a lot of blood. I can heal the wounds, but without giving him blood I don't know if it will make any difference." Wendy spoke softly. Even with my heightened senses I was having trouble hearing her. It could have also been that I felt my heart pumping harder than it should have which was very distracting. "We need to get him back to the guild so I can help him!"

"Laxus, can you take them back?" Bunny's voice was broken and it tore my heart to shreds. She was the light in this dark world. She couldn't sound like that.

"I'm sorry Luce. I can take Wendy back, but if I were to take him back he would not make the journey. My magic would easily do him in. We need to find another way."

"Leo!" The lion spirit came out with his head hung. "Can you take him? I know it's against the rules, but I can't lose him! Please! I am begging you!"

"I'm sorry princess, I can't. That is beyond breaking the rules. Virgo almost lost her key when she unknowingly did it with Natsu over there. I can't. I wish I could." I watched her. She was devastated, crying out and holding herself almost as if she was trying to hold herself together. "Princess, I know that your magic is low, but could you hold open Pegasus?

"There's no way, I don't have the magic to do it." She looked completely lost.

"Perhaps I can help, Loke, it there a way I can power Pegasus?" I heard Natsu ask the pervert spirit.

"Yes! Princess, call out Pegasus and pull Gajeel on with you. Natsu sit behind her and put your hands on her back here and here." I did not like the fact that Flame Brain was going to be touching my woman, but damn, what could I do about it right now? I wish I could just tune them out. "Princess this is going to hurt, a lot, but you need to stay focused on Pegasus. Do not let your focus falter. Do you think you can handle this?" I didn't hear her say anything and my eyes were too heavy now to look at her so I had no idea what was going to happen now. I felt strong arms grab me and put me on the horse. I didn't even know she summoned the winged horse already. "Natsu, you need to pump your magic into her. I know it's going to burn her but she can take it. She has to if she wants him to live."

"Laxus, take Wendy back. Be ready when we get there, okay? It's going to take at least two hours to get there for us! Erza, wrap up the stones and make sure no one else touches them. We will have to look at them at the guild! Okay, let's go. Ready Natsu?"

"I'm sorry Luce, this is going to really hurt." The next thing I knew she was screaming in pain. "Do you want me to stop?"

"No Natsu, you can't! I'll be okay. I just didn't expect what it would feel like. I just need to ignore it and focus on Pegasus. Let's go!" I felt the horse kick off of the ground and us take off.

AN: At least the stone is out of him, right? I had a little fun with this chapter. Next chapter will be more lovey, I promise Hope you liked it! I'm sorry for mistakes….I really don't want to reread it again. Perhaps I should get a beta? ^_^ Maybe I wouldn't get so distracted. I go to type more story and get distracted by Facebook, Reddit, music, and my damn cat. One of these days I will just shut out the world and write, but it hasn't happened yet. I'll start working on the next chapter tomorrow or later tonight. Depends on when I get home.