Hello and welcome back for chapter 2 of The Life of Atlas Storm.

Very slight revisions made to chapter 1 of the story. They were just some details I cleared up.

Atlas, Erza, Grey, Natsu and Lucy are all 16 at the start of this fanfic. Basically its 2 years before ... Phantom "Menace" XD ... Phantom Lord Arc.

Atlas may seem a little OP and also UNOP at the same time in this chapter. Just wait, he will get nerfed in the next update... get it? Gaming reference ... Anyone ... anyone... No, just me. Ok that's cool too.

But seriously, He will be less op soon. Just wait.

As always, feel free to leave a review or PM me. I'm always available for a friendly chat.

Chapter 2: To the Victors Go the Spoils.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or High school DxD. The former is owned by Hiro Mashima and the latter is owned by Ichiei Ishibumi.

"ATTACKS"

"Thoughts"

~Previously on TLOAS~

"Mira, will you count us down?" Erza asked while she shook her head clearing her thoughts and prepared for her battle.

"3..."

"2..."

"1..."

~Chapter 2~

Erza immediately requiped her sword, and sprinted toward Atlas with a war cry.

"Why hasn't he drawn his sword yet?" she wondered as she swung brutally at him from the hip to the shoulder.

He simple leaded backwards just far enough to dodge the swing. She began to hack at him rapidly with the sword whistling through the air. Atlas was just moving enough to dodge and waited for an opening. As Atlas was dodging, he is also analyzing her attack patterns.

"Strong attacks with speed behind them, a deadly combo, would definitely hurt to get hit by one of those. Should I use the gauntlet in this fight? It would be a fun test, just hope it doesn't fail." Atlas analyzed and debated.

Erza went in for a thrust at his stomach, but he dodged. He found his opening and sent a swift fist to her armored chest. This dented in the metal enough for it to be seen by all the spectators and to knock Erza about 10 feet sideways, where she flipped over and landed on her feet.

The guild looked impressed at his display of strength. She requiped a second sword and sprinted towards him while flipping the blades backwards so they were pointed away from the white haired swordsmen. Atlas then jumped out of the way of the first slash and had to redirect the second sword with is palm. They disengaged and jumped back leaving about 20 feet between them and started circling each other.

"That was a close one. She almost had me with that second strike, I need to get more serious and stop holding back." Atlas thought. "It's time to use the gauntlet."

Atlas reached into his pocket and took out a sheet of paper with a magic seal drawn on it. He slammed it onto the ground with quite a bit of force, enough to crack the ground a little. He then shot is right hand up into the air.

A massive surge of magic energy came forth from Atlas as golden light shimmered around his right forearm. A gauntlet encased his arm up to just below his elbow. Everyone was shocked at the huge amount of energy that he had just used to summon the gauntlet and he just stood there like it was nothing.

Erza looked shocked. "What kind of magic is that, it's not requip. I'll have to ask him later." she thought.

Atlas then decided to take the offensive, he pushed off with his back foot and punched at Erza. She ducked under the attack and slashed at his chest. He flipped over and blocked one of the swords with the sword and sheath on his back and punched the other the other sword. This shattered the sword blade causing Erza to miss with it. She then requiped into her flight armor (A/N. This armor grants her immense speed, not FLIGHT!)She now looks like something similar to a cheetah. She also has requiped a sword with an x wrapped cross-guard. With a burst of sudden speed she is zooming at him again. She swings her sword over her head and downwards but he blocks the sword with his gauntlet. He goes for a leg sweep which she jumps over. She then imbeds both of her booted feet into his chest causing him to stumble backwards coughing up some saliva. He stands up with a smile. Erza doesn't give him a second to recover. She dives at him slashing down with her sword again. He catches the blade in his right hand and crushes the blade into shards of metal, then proceeds to punch his left hand into her stomach. As she flies backwards, she stabs the broken blade into the ground slowing her down. She had flown back twice as far as Atlas had when she had kicked him. She requiped into her Giants armor and lunges at him with a ferocious punch. He calmly stands there and stops the punch with one hand. He then grabs her arm, spinning around with her still behind her, and slams her onto the ground in front of him. Her body created a huge crater as the armor shattered.

"Time to take this to the next level." Erza thought grimly.

She requiped into her black wing armor with the red sword. She then shot toward Atlas and slashed down at him. He tried to block the sword with the gauntlet but the sword shattered the gauntlet. The sword continued and imbedded into his left shoulder. The hit caused him to go flying back and destroyed his shirt. He landed with a crash on his side, he had twisted to avoid landing on his left shoulder. He unsheathed his sword and stuck it into the ground to help him stand up. Blood began to pour out of the rather large wound. He removed the sheath attached to his back and tossed it aside.

"I'm so sorry! We need to get you treated for that!" Erza shouted worriedly.

"NO! There is no way I'm giving up my chance of a date with a beautiful woman over this. I've had worse wounds before. This is what I get for not giving my all from the beginning." Atlas stated while getting into a fighting position.

"Damn, she severed the muscles in my left shoulder with that last strike. I can't seem to move my arm." Atlas thought while grimacing.

Before Erza could argue, He rushed at her slashing diagonally causing her to block and return his attack. This went on for several minutes before he created an opening by blocking her sword. He kicked at her stomach causing her to back flip. At the apex of her arc she shouted "Moon Flash!" while shooting forward and slashing in an x pattern. Atlas dodged the attack by jumping over the attack. He then dropped down onto Erza while she was flying past with a devastating slash he completely obliterated her armor and only her armor.

Master Makarov had arrived back at Fairy Tail and had gotten to the training fields to see what was going on just before Atlas had added the battle incentive. He had formed several observations of the unknown "boy".

1} He likely had an abnormally large amount of magic energy. (A little less than what Gildarts possesses.)

2} Couldn't use any real regular magic.

3} Incredibly strong and good with the sword and hand to hand combat.

4} One Lucky Son of a BITCH!

Erza hit the ground after the blow Atlas had dealt her. As she got up, and requiped into her Heaven's Wheel armor. She decided she needed to end this quickly because she had received several sever injuries that included several cracked ribs, bruises, minor cuts. She was also running low on magic energy due to all of the magic enhancing she had to do to keep up with his strength and speed. She summoned about 50 swords around Atlas and had them shoot down at him. Atlas saw that he couldn't dodge, so he had only one option left, and it was going to hurt, and hurt a lot. He had unleashed most of his magical power as an aura pulse. (A/N. Similar to what Makarov did as he walked into Jose's office in the Phantom Lord Guild hall and used his aura to destroy the door and crack the floor. Just imagine a more rapid and condensed version. It's the opposite of Gildarts's color. Its pitch black.) This pulse was so powerful it sent the sword flying in the opposite direction, knocked everyone but Makarov off their feet, and left a crater 30 feet across, and 3 feet deep. Just after Atlas initiated the pulse, Makarov noticed several magic seals flash on his chest and one on his forehead.

"Why can he use such advanced aura manipulation magic? What were those magic seals all about?" Makarov wondered to himself.

Everyone was stunned as they all got back up. They never had encountered an Aura Pulse before.

~On the guild hall's roof~

There was an observer on the roof of the guild who muttered to himself "Hmmm, He could be the one. I think my sister might still need a piece in her peerage, but I sense that there is still more surprises to come from this young man. I shall need to inspect this man further before I make the decision."

The red haired man then stepped into a red magic circle and disappeared.

~Back on the training field~

Erza climbed back to her feet, and requiped into her Lighting Empress armor. She had decided to use what remaining amount of magic was left in her system to send out 2 attacks. While Atlas was struggling to his feet, Erza shot a huge arc of lighting at him. He barely blocked it but was too weak from blood loss and magic exhaustion to be able to hold the sword, it was blown out of his hands. Then, she requiped into her Ice Empress armor and stabbed her spear into the ground and cause a huge geyser of ice to smash into Atlas. This blown sent the already weakened Atlas to go flying up into the air. He crashed back down to the ground and was knocked unconscious. There was a flash and the magic seal on his forehead cracked. Erza requiped into a simple white blouse and blue skirt due to the fact that her armor was damaged. She was barely able to remain standing. She then remembered that she had won and thrust her hand into the air and everyone cheered. A second later, they all remembered that Atlas had taken a rather sever beating and saw Makarov inspecting the fallen and unconscious form of the young Atlas. Makarov titan formed his hand and picked him up and carried him to the guild infirmary. Wendy was right on his heels looking very worried.

The guild members all congratulated Erza, who was leaning on Gray for support, on her victory.

During the fight Gray came to realize that, this was in fact the same Atlas, that left when he was 8 years old.

"You just had to use FUCKING ice magic on my long lost foster brother! Who was beat all the time with ICE MAGIC. And was made fun of because he couldn't use magic." Gray spat angrily at Erza.

This statement caused Erza to deflate and droop depressingly until Gray said "Knowing him, he won't hold a grudge because you aren't Lyon. And he also seems to have some feelings for you."

"I wonder if he will join the guild, I really did want him to win so I could go on a date with him" Erza admitted while blushing.

"Just ask him on one, to make up for absolutely destroying his shoulder. That must have hurt like a bitch."

"Yea, He still was able to destroy my armor and block the lightning with just one arm. I also think he was holding back during the fight. He could have easily defeated me if he had any real offensive magic."

"I wonder if he knows about Ur..."

"What happened to her?"

"I really don't want to talk about that. I'll tell Atlas because he deserves to know. Ask him later if you want to know."

Erza had recovered enough to walk gingerly over to Atlas's sword that was stuck point first in the ground due to it being blasted out of his hands. As she touched it, she felt a strange feeling. Why was everything about Atlas so mysterious?

"He really gave me a run for my money. What kind of armor should I ask for Gray?" Erza asked while she pulled the sword out of the ground.

"Well, you literally have the world's best smith, so go with some incredibly powerful armor. I'm sure he already had an armor in mind for you before he even fought you. He was always prepared when we were kids. We should probably go see how he is doing." Gray said, walking up with the sheath.

Erza sheathed Requiem and they slowly walked towards the guild infirmary.

~Guild infirmary~

Atlas was laying in the bed unconscious. Wendy had healed just finished healing his injuries when Gray and Erza walked in. Master Makarov was perched in a chair looking at Atlas's prone form.

"How is he doing?" Erza asked with a worried expression on her face.

"I have finished healing all of his wounds, but he won't wake up for some reason." Wendy said while almost crying.

"He is in quite a bit of pain due to the fact that he is internally trying to shatter a very strong magic seal. Look at his forehead." Makarov informed the group.

They all looked at the young man's forehead. There was a magic seal with a crack running half way through. Suddenly, the crack lengthened to about 3/4 the length of the diameter of the seal.

"That young man is truly incredible, that is a magic seal that was placed by the top wizard saint. It would take me at least 3 days to crack it. It has only taken him 2 hours to do that." Makarov voiced.

Time passed and the group got more and more worried. Wendy healed Erza's injures as the group waited. About 2 hours later, the seal shattered. He shot into an upright position with an exclamation of pain. His eyes flew open and he collapsed back on the bed.

"Damn, that seal was a pain in the ass to break." Atlas groaned.

He slowly pulled himself into an upright position. His eyes focused on the people in the room. His eyes widened at the sight of Gray sitting next to him with a worried expression on his face.

"Reminds me of old times with that bastard Lyon, how are you doing you old icicle." Atlas chuckled.

He reached over and pulled Gray into a bear hug. Gray looked startled for a second, before tears started to flow down his face as he embraced his long lost foster brother.

"I'm not that ugly, am I?" He asked Gray as he felt his tears on his shoulder.

"I thought you had died all those years ago! Why did you leave?" Gray asked.

"That is a story for a time very soon. We have much to discuss. But I don't want to really talk about it right now." Atlas said while releasing Gray and clapped him on the shoulder. "You look exactly like I thought you would, brother."

"And you look completely different." Gray admitted. "I didn't recognize you until you fought Erza and didn't use magic."

"I'll explain everything and tell you, Erza and Makarov everything you want to know later." Atlas said while he stood up and stretched rubbing his injured shoulder and winced. He walked up to Erza, who had her eyes downcast at seeing him in pain.

"Erza, why are you looking at my boots, there is nothing interesting about my boots."

"..."

"Erza."

He still didn't get a response from her. So, he put a hand under her chin and gently pushed upwards so she was looking him in the eye. "What's wrong?"

"I could have severed your arm if your gauntlet hadn't slowed the blade down. I am sorry, please hit me." Erza responded.

She bowed down and prepared for impact. But all she felt was a light flick on the forehead. She straightened up as he said softly.

"But you didn't, so no need to beat yourself up about it."

Atlas then embraced her. She immediately turned a shade of red that rivaled her scarlet hair. After a moment she returned the hug. Makarov and Gray were struggling to keep from laughing out loud from the look on Erza's face. A few moments later they broke apart. He flashed his amazing smile at her, then went and sat back down on the bed.

"That seal took a lot out of me, but more importantly where is Wendy." As he finished there was a streak of blue hair and he was hug/tackled by the little sky maiden.

He hugged her back as he fell backwards onto the bed with a laugh. The rest of the group was amazed. They had never seen Wendy act that way around anyone before. She was always shy around others, even Erza and Gray. She still had is jacket on and the scarf was wrapped around her neck. He picked her up in his arms and sat back up against headboard of the bed. He began stroking her hair as she clung to him. She slowly dozed off due to the fact she had to heal 2 people without any breaks in between. Needless to say she was exhausted. He then focused on Makarov.

~End of chapter 2~

WOW! Over 3000 words in this last chapter.

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Atlas Storm