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ACT V: Ragnarok – The Fateful Encounter

Approximately X793

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Chapter 27: Dragon Slayers, part 2

Gray was working together with Jellal and Lucy against the demons, when he saw a blue spot rocketing through the air with a tremendous speed. As he watched it, it didn't take more than a few seconds, before he realised it was Happy that was rocketing trough the air at a tremendous speed.

"Happy is in trouble, we need to catch him somehow" Gray said in a rushed voice before exchanging a quick look with the other two.

"I've got this, can you cover me for a second?" Lucy shouted as she found a golden key and summoned Aries.

"Of course, go!" Jellal answered as he took on the demons she had been fighting.

The celestial mage encouraged her spirit to come along, as they sprinted in the direction Happy's body was falling before she asked the spirit for her assistance, which resulted in a huge amount of pink and fluffy stuff spawned on the ground, which caught the cat's body.

"Happy!" Lucy yelled before she started rummaging inside the cloud.

"How is he doing?" Gray asked when he saw the blonde emerging from the pink fluff, holding Happy close to her chest.

"He's unconscious, but fortunately I can't see any other damage on him" Lucy answered clearly distraught that something had happened to the cat.

"We should get him to a healer or something, just to make sure" Gray answered, doing his best to keep his emotions in check, because he couldn't afford to lose his temper.

"But the only healer we have is Wendy and I'm sure she'll be heading towards Acnologia soon" Lucy said and bit down her lips while pressing Happy closer against her chest.

"Let's see..." Jellal bounced over a demon and placed an illuminated hand nonchalantly on Happy's forehead "... he's fine, he'll probably wake up soon"

"Thank god" Lucy let out a deep breath and carefully patted the cat's head.

"If... if it's okay... then I-I... wouldn't mind looking after him" Aries stuttered in a nervous tone.

"That would be great" the blonde nodded with a smile.

"S-sure" the spirit blushed as Lucy gave Happy to the spirit before she shortly thereafter joined the battle again.

Which was good, because it was a hard battle even when all three of them combined their efforts.

Because sure they had found a method to kill the demons, but it was still difficult getting them to explode. Especially Lucy was struggling, not only because the violence didn't appeal to her, but she didn't have any celestial magic that could deal the finishing blow. When Gray noticed that he had offered her that he wouldn't mind doing the finishing blow to the creatures, but the celestial mage had become stubborn and said she could do it on her own, if only she had something that could explode them from the inside.

When she said that Jellal had offered the girl a bag of purple balls, that essentially functioned as magic infused grenades. With those items Lucy had a way to slay the demons, by showing the balls into the creature's stomach.

As they kept fighting it soon turned into a bloody massacre that soaked the ground with sticky blood but also chunks of flesh and splinters of bones. It was slippery and incredibly disgusting, but Gray ignored it as best as he could while continuing to fight.

The ice mage spotted a fast blur from the corners of his eyes, before he recognised Jet suddenly standing beside him.

"How's it going here?" the fast mage asked, while he took in the scene "It looks like you found a way to slay the demons?"

"Yes, the secret is killing them from the inside by making them explode" Gray answered with a sneer as he managed to step sideways and dodge a demon. But before it got too far away, the ice mage spun around and grabbed the snarling demons jaw and forced his hand into it's mouth, where ice instantaneously shot out so the creature's mouth was frozen solid, which prevented it from biting his hand as more ice was forced into the demon, that eventually caused it to explode as spikes of ice exploded through the demon from the inside, thereby sending the remains of the dead demon everywhere.

"Eeew, thanks for the visual image" Jet said with a blank expression on his face "I'll go relay the message to Warren so he can transfer it to the others. Man, this is good news, people are really struggling against these ugly things"

"Yeah..." Gray wiped some sweat of his forehead and ignored the man who was running on the spot for a few seconds before he took off, leaving the group to face their opponents.

A smirk formed on his lips as he jumped over a demon and delivered such a forceful kick to one of the foes, that send teeth flying from the impact.

They could do this. Slowly but steady, they would win this goddamn war.

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Gajeel exchanged a quick look with Natsu, who briefly nodded towards him before they ran in opposite direction, each targeting their own wing. After that he looked at the huge version of Pantherlily who grabbed the hilt of his sword.

"I'll catch his attention and give you some time" the black cat said before flying in front of Acnologia, where he started dodging the dragon snapping in his direction. It was clear that Pantherlily couldn't keep that up for long, but Gajeel had faith it would be enough for them to do something about the wings.

"Let's do this" the Iron Dragon Slayer said "Iron Shadow Dragon Mode"

As he said that black shadows engulfed his body, making his skin seem more glistening and potentially hard as the iron that covered him was such a glistening contrast to the darkness.

" ron Shadow Dragon's Sword" Gajeel roared making his arm turn into a massive sword that looked more like a chainsaw than an actual sword, before he started smashing it against the wing.

The attack did almost nothing, which made him snort in anger because Natsu had managed to punctuate Acnologia's skin by simply biting it. Speaking of the idiotic brat, Gajeel innerly hoped that he could keep his cool and stop acting like a overly protective grandma. Seriously they needed him at his best and worrying about his comrades did nothing good, on the contrary.

"Take this!" Gajeel said as a ferocious growl formed in throat before becoming audible, as he focused all of his strength into his arm, before he forcefully slashed against Acnologia's wing.

At first it didn't seem like anything happened, until he noticed that there was a tiny cut on the dragon's skin that was starting to bleed ever so slightly.

"What are taking you so long?" a rather stoic voice said from beside him making him turn his head to stare at Rogue who was being carried by Frosch. Gajeel briefly wondered how the heck the cat managed to summon it's wings through the frog suit, but he let it be because he knew that it wasn't always a good idea to question logic.

"Yeah what gives, are you guys just being lazy?" Sting said teasingly as he hovered in the air beside Natsu.

"Shut it!" the fire Dragon Slayer snarled back, clearly not in the mood for being teased.

"Whatever, dude" Sting shrugged "Lector can you drop me next to Natsu, be prepared if anything happens, kay?"

"Sure thing!" the cat said in an enthusiastic tone as he did what he was told. A second later Frosch and Rogue followed the same procedure, making the shadow Dragon Slayer stand beside Gajeel.

"Uhm... I'll make sure to support you guys..." Wendy said in a slightly nervous but also determined voice as she and Carla flew above Acnologia and the dragon slayer's on it "Arms! Ile Arms!"

As she finished her chanting, the Dragon Slayers was engulfed in an illuminating light enforcing their offensive attacks momentarily.

"Lily can't keep dodging so let's kick his huge scaly butt!" Gajeel chuckled and with that said the four boys teamed up in two duo's.

Nodding towards Rogue the iron Dragon Slayer sucked in his breath before shouting "Iron Shadow Dragon's Roar". As he did Rogue copied his attack and yelled "Shadow Dragon's roar".

Gajeel heard Natsu and Sting roaring a similar chant, while watching as his own black iron attack combined with Rogue's, turning his own attack even more black as it spiralled ahead of them. It was only for a second but as their attack spawned Gajeel saw through the corner of his eyes, how the hot and violent flames from Natsu rocketed and connected with Stings light, making the attack even brighter and seem both beautiful but also frightfully lethal.

Just before the attack connected with the Dragon's wings, he hear Wendy shout "Sky Dragon's roar!" so when the combined effort finally hit, her attack intertwined with the attacks making it go even faster and grow in strength.

This seemed to do the job as an ear piercing roar escaped Acnologia, making him squirm and twist as he tried removing the annoying maggots on his back. When he started doing that, the people on the dragon's back quickly wrapped their arms around the wings, holding on for their life.

"It's working" Natsu yelled as they all fought to stay on the dragon "We need to do it again!"

"And how the fuck do you suggest we do that, you idiot?!" Gajeel snapped in anger at the pink haired brat.

"I don't know man! And I'm NOT an idiot!" Natsu growled, his eyebrow twitching in anger.

"Uh-huh, a salamander like you has a brain the size of a peanut, making it impossible to think" the iron Dragon Slayer chuckled, hoping the provocation might ignite the mechanics going through the idiotic kid's head.

"Shut it, you stupid metal head! If I could I would... oh..."

There it was, his instincts was kicking in... excellent!

"So what is it, kid?" Gajeel said, a small smirk playing on his lips.

"We need to attack him at the same time" Natsu answered "You guys need to do it from a long distance"

"What about you?" Sting said his eyes looking rather panicked for a second because he's hands was starting to slip on the surface of the dragon.

"I'll figure something out, just go!" the fire mage answered.

"Fine!" Gajeel grumbled in an annoyed tone "Lily! Where are you?"

"Right here..." the small black cat answered from beneath them before he flew up beside him, clearly beaten and battered from trying to keep Acnologia's attention for a few minutes.

"You good enough to fly me up to Wendy?"

"Yeah, I'm good" Pantherlily winked, trying to confirm he wasn't too badly wounded.

"Let's do this then!" Gajeel shouted before he jumped off the dragon simultaneously with the others, except for Natsu who was still holding onto the wing.

None of them said anything as the Exceeds caught their partners and flew up to the tiny healer.

"Roar?" Rogue asked making the four others nod in return.

Silence followed once more as all of them roared their attack that combined wind, light, iron and black shadows in one singular attack that spun towards Acnologia. Once it was close enough Natsu jumped backwards and joined the attack by delivering his own roar to the mix.

When the forceful attack hit the dragon it sent out a painful scream before it started flying downwards towards the ground, clearly trying to avoid the pesky brats that dared attack him.

Fuck yeah it's working! Gajeel thought as they kept attacking until they eventually had to stop to take a deep breath, none of them having sufficient oxygen to keep on going.

When they did, Acnologia roared in pain and anger as he swiftly flew downwards in an even line before turning around on the spot, clearly because he wanted to use the distance to his advantage to gain more momentum before eliminating the things that had attacked him.

"Ohh no you don't!" Laxus screamed from underneath the dragon before lightning combined with something poisonous raced towards the opponent at rocket speed before it wrapped around Acnologia's neck. As it did the attack somehow seemed to function as a magical rope, which Cobra and Laxus used to forcefully shove the dragon downwards, where it crashed against the ground. The impact was so filled with energy that it sent ripples through the ground, causing a minor earthquake on the battlefield.

"Time to get down to business!" Gajeel shouted to the others who quickly followed him in Acnologia's direction.

Now he was on the ground it was time to use that as an advantage and finally slay that mother fucker, the iron Dragon Slayer thought before his eyes searched the scenario around him, but for some reason he couldn't spot Natsu anywhere. After they had used the combined attack, he had lost track of him and now he was nowhere to be seen.

"... stupid Salamander..." Gajeel snorted impatiently, inwardly hoping that the idiot would be fine wherever the fuck he was.

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Zeref chuckled wickedly when he watched Acnologia smash against the ground, his lips curling back and forming a knowing smile.

This was all go according to his plan and soon it was his time to move.

Yes... soon they would all meet their fate and get what they deserved...


A/N: This is a short chapter, I'm sorry about that :( However sometimes it makes sense making the chapters shorter compared to where the story is going. So yeah hope that's okay :D

Anyway, things are really starting to escalate in this war thing, so hang on tight and hug something you hold dear, because things are getting better, but also far worse. Bwahahah!

Also... Natsu you idiot, where the heck did you go?! Moooh, he can be so reckless sometimes...

For those wondering about Zeref: I have a sneaky plan with him. Awww yeah! xD

Have a good day y'all!

/Hejmdal