Chapter Six: Monster
Has anyone figured out how Edo-Terasu is a nod towards, yet? It should be REALLY obvious, soon.
The Fairy Blade, as Erza Scarlet had named the blade the Doc had made, and the Ten Commandments clashed hard and fast. The Fairy Queen snarled as the Fairy Hunter stabbed for her heart with vicious intent. Erza parried the blow, and her counterpart only chuckled upon feeling the impact that resulted from the clash of sword and spear.
"You're strong," Edo-Erza noted, grinning.
"You're sickening."
Knightwalker batted aside the Fairy Blade with the back of her well-armoured hand, still receiving a minor zap of magic for her troubles. Still, she had given herself an opening, which she used and abused. Edo-Erza's Ten Commandments slashed through Titania's armour and created a nice gash across her stomach. Erza powered right through this, and the Fairy Blade quickly bit into Edo-Erza's shoulder. The only thing that kept the spear in the monster's hand was years of training to handle any sort of pain that could be a problem. Even this could be handled, if only just. Knightwalker reared back and full-on kicked Titania in the chest, forcing her opponent to take a couple of steps back to avoid completely falling over. Knightwalker twirled her spear, which began glowing for a moment, its form shifting.
"Eisenmeteor is good for an opening move," Knightwalker said, analyzing Erza as a lioness analyzes a gazelle, "But you seem a little too fast for it. Silfarion!"
The spear's head shifted from the four jagged, curving edges into a single arrowhead. Knightwalker dashed forward, and Scarlet was unable to dodge the first strike, which slashed open her side.
"I can cut bullets with this spear," the Fairy Hunter gloated, "And have, on so many occasions..."
Scarlet tapped the front of the Doc's strange armour, which began to shift in places, revealing boosters. Having had experience in fast combat, she prepared to face off with her twisted counterpart. Knightwalker slashed viciously for Titania, who zipped out of the way, bursts of energy leaving a trail in her wake. The Fairy Queen rocketed back towards The Fairy Hunter, but the twisted knight narrowly dodged the strike, attempting to return the favor but failing. A small voice buzzed in Erza's ear about the jet's fuel being limited and dwindling.
'I'll have to end this battle of speed, then...'
Titania stopped, the jets in her suit reducing to a sliver of their power for a moment. Knightwalker flew for her opponent, a deadly gleam in her eyes. She raised the Silfarion and made for Scarlet's throat.
"Letting down your guard!"
Titania let go of all of her other jet functions and poured as much power as she could into her right arm's jets. One-tenth of a second later, the Fairy Blade swung with such might as to break the sound barrier along with the Silfarion's spearhead. Knightwalker tumbled back with a shriek of fright, and that little robotic voice intoned that there was too little fuel left to provide another burst of speed like that.
The Ten Commandments assumed a different form after moment, with a wide spearhead and a glowing orb protruding from the bottom of the shaft. Knightwalker snarled and held up the large spear, pointing it at Scarlet as she tried to back up.
"Mel Force!" Knightwalker growled.
Erza Scarlet dug in her heels as the vacuum wave tried to pull her against the not-so-loving embrace of Erza Knightwalker's spear. She didn't have enough jet-power for a speedy blow like before...! But... what about a forcefield?
'Currently, shield is capable of going full-power... Focusing shield will provide offensive abilities, yes.'
'Do that,' Erza replied.
She felt the forcefield project from her left forearm, and she immediately raised it to meet with the spearhead. It flared out, providing a small wall to protect Erza, before shrinking down to the size of a dinner plate just as she jumped forward to aid the momentum given to her by the Mel Force. The spear head met with the forcefield, and energy crackled and raged about for half a minute, until finally Erza's left gauntlet and the Mel Force's spearhead shattered.
"You're persistent, just like me," Erza Knightwalker said, grinning.
"Don't you dare compare yourself to me. It disgusts me enough that we look alike!"
Scarlet slammed Knightwalker in the throat, then kicked her into a wall. Before Knightwalker could get back up, Scarlet used the lest vestige of jets to propel herself forward and punch Knightwalker through the wall. The Fairy Queen stepped back, gasping for her breath. She regained just as a large blast of energy erupted from the hole in the wall, catching the Fairy Queen in the chest and slamming her into the wall.
"Wh-what...?" Erza gasped.
"It's a fuckin' cannon," Edo-Erza snapped, getting out of the hole in the wall, "For when shitty little upstarts like you give me the perfect opportunity to blast you."
The strange shoulder cannon she held shifted into what looked rather like a basic spear. Edo-Erza grinned and launched it at Erza, who instinctively side-stepped it. Smugly, she grinned at the idea of stealing away the Ten Commandments and turning it on her monstrous counterpart, or at least keeping it away from her. However, this idea was turned on its head when the explosion tore apart the wall and launched Erza through the air. Years of Fairy Tail brawls had gotten her used to explosions mid-fight and so she managed to get back to her feet in two seconds, just as the Fairy Hunter rushed for her, the Explosion in hand.
"You just make sneak attacks too easy!"
Erza tapped into the strength boosters just as Knightwalker was within a reasonable distance and struck the head of the spear, knocking it back a foot or two in the process. The explosion knocked her back, but it also did enough damage to Knightwalker to be worth it. The spearhead was damaged, and as a result the explosion was less powerful. Knightwalker grimaced at the force and fire, but merely snarled and shifted it after the blast.
"It's true, though," Knightwalker said, "We are quite alike. Twin lionesses. Much like the Double Dragon Spear!"
The Ten Commandments split down the middle, shining and shifting for a moment, becoming two nearly identical spears. The main difference between the two was that one was a crystal-blue, and the other was a dark red. Edo-Erza grinned at Erza, who felt like recoiling. She slid her hand along the broad side of the blade, and it began to glow, just as Edo-Erza rushed towards her. She thrusted the dark red spear forward and conjured a swirl of fire from the tip, which caught Erza in the chest. The Earthlander was used to Natsu, however, and withstood it. She slashed upwards, swiftly, and batted the burning spear out of Edo-Erza's hand. Before she could strike again, the icy spear caught her in the lower stomach, creating a light aura of frost over her torso, and cracking that armour a moment later, leaving her torso bare aside from a black bra.
"You bother wearing under-clothing in a fight? Fascinating."
Erza didn't muster any words, just groaned in pain, feeling the spear digging into her flesh. She seized the shaft just below the blade of the spear and exhuded as much strength as she could muster, breaking it immediately. Edo-Erza smacked her across the face with the butt of her spear, before grabbing up the other half of the Double Dragon Spear and letting it change.
"This is the Saint Spear, Ravelt. This is my strongest spear, which can shake the very earth!" Knightwalker declared, "This is the one I would've used on that blonde bitch, if you hadn't shown up. Mostly for fun, you see. It ruptures organs in a slow, painful manner. You'll die in less than four strikes."
"...You know," Erza said, lowly, "Perhaps you're right, Knightwalker. Perhaps we aren't so different."
"Oh? Finally getting it? Come around to my side of things, and maybe this kingdom can handle the both of us," Knightwalker chuckled.
She had no intentions of letting Scarlet live much longer, if the little Fairy brat would actually help her, of course. She just knew that her counterpart had proven to be tough enough to be her equal. A quick assassination wouldn't be difficult, though. Knightwalker's quick internal envisioning of the future was cut short when she felt the impact of metal on metal to see the Fairy Blade knocking the Ravelt out of her hands, before being sheathed in her chest.
"No. I just came to terms with one thing," Scarlet whispered, "When it comes down to it, when I must... I can be every bit the monster you can."
Knightwalker gurgled for a moment, dropping to her knees. She looked over to see the Fairy Queen picking up the Ravelt, and panic began to well up in her chest. Erza Scarlet approached her opponent, her eyes dead.
"You're fortunate, Knightwalker. Fortunate that I have been cemented to humanity by Lucy. I can be a monster, monstrous enough to kill you. But I am not so wholly contemptible as you, nor as Venny. I won't make your suffering last. But I will pass my judgement, and find you guilty for crimes against Fairy Tail, both Earthland's and Edoras'."
"Get on with it, you bitch."
Erza drove the Ravelt through Edo-Erza's chest, and a powerful wave shot through the Fairy Hunter's body, rupturing several organs. She pulled the Fairy Blade from Edo-Erza's chest, and watched her cough up blood for a moment, her body wracked with pain.
"You will die in pain and all alone, uncared for by your comrades. This is your hell, which you have wrought on so many others," Erza snarled.
The Fairy Blade flashed out, and Erza Knightwalker's head fell to the floor.
-FAIRY TAIL-
Gajeel leaped to the top of the tower a second before Happy dropped Natsu to the roof. The Iron Dragon Slayer grinned at Natsu, certain of victory.
"Yeah, well, your singing is still terrible," Natsu grumbled, approaching the lachryma, Happy still resting on his shoulders.
"You just got bad taste, fire-face."
The Dragon Slayers put their hands against the titan of a Lachryma crystal, channelling their natural magicks through the Doc's well-crafted magical machinery to blast directly through the Lachryma. A few Exceed dropped down around them, holding hordes of weapons.
"Standard swords and shields for the units are here!"
A minute later, the Lachryma crystal broke apart, fracturing in a million places. For a second, it seemed to be a flurry of shards, before glowing. The immense shine shrunk down, taking on dozens of different shapes, until the whole of the Fairy Tail guild stood before Natsu and Gajeel.
"What's the meaning of all this?" Makarov asked.
"Where are we...?"
"NO TIME FOR THAT!" Natsu shouted.
"I'll sum it up," Gajeel said, "Bad guys down there are wearing armour. Good guys are the guys who look like us. It's confusing. But just trust us. Take your weapon from a cat and follow us to the ground!"
And with another influx of reinforcements to aid their enemies, the Edoras Soldiers slowly, ever slowly, began to realize that defeat was inevitable. One specific Fairy Tailer stayed up on the platform, however.
"My water magic doesn't work herrrrrre!" Juvia wailed, bemoaning that her water-clothes were currently a puddle, huddled up to reduce how much of her body was exposed.
-FAIRY TAIRU-
The war machine, fueled by Edo-Gajeel, struck for the two girls with surprising speed for its size. Wendy shoved Edo-Wendy to the side and thrust forward her gloved hand, unleashing a tremendous burst of air that tore open the right arm of the machine. Faust's eyes widened at the girl's power, before deciding it was time to activate another defense.
Meanwhile, the war machine activated its two side-cannons, which blasted Wendy through the air. The Dragon Slayer slammed into the ground, but she got right back up as if nothing had happened. Edo-Wendy raised up her pistol and cracked off three shots at the machine's legs. Edo-Gajeel seemed to stir, his eyes just barely beginning to open.
"Gajeel...! Uncle Gajeel! P-please snap out of this!" Edo-Wendy pleaded.
The war machine blasted her, and she collided with the wall with a sickening crack and a shriek of pain. Charle jolted up, fright in her eyes.
"W-Wendy!"
Edo-Gajeel groaned and looked around, blearily, as the machine's left arm swung for Charle, reacting to the loud sound, producing a blade as it went. Charle screamed, paralyzed by the sight of the monstrous thing advancing on her, when there was suddenly a silhouette imposed between her and the machine. The sword slashed down and there was a gout of blood from the figure, which Charle identified a moment later, when the figure had collapsed again. The war machine was slammed into the ground by Wendy blasting it with the Air Shatter Cannon.
"You... you stupid succubus! Why would you do that for me!" Charle demanded, fiercely.
Zuri looked over at her and grinned, "You're important to Wendy, twit. That makes you important to me..."
"ZURI!" Wendy shrieked.
The war machine whirled towards Wendy, getting upright and preparing a horde of weaponry at once. It never got the chance, as the Air Dragon Slayer clenched her right hand and a wave of power erupted from the little girl's frame. A second later, Wendy was in front of the war machine, her Air Shatter Cannon discarded. She slashed out both legs and destroyed the war machine's left arm with the added force provided by Edo-Terasu's boots. She tapped down, dived to the side, then picked up the Air Shatter Cannon and blasted through the back half of the machine.
"Oh, dear mother of god," Edo-Gajeel grumbled, as the war machine collapsed to the side, the majority of its functions totally ceased.
Edo-Wendy stumbled over to the heap of machinery and her half-dead uncle and fell to her knees beside it, unable to speak. Edo-Gajeel looked up at her and grinned, weakly.
"Ah... hey, little bit...," Edo-Gajeel whispered, "What's up?"
"You're alive..."
"Well, yeah. I'm too cool to die. It's like being too awesome to live, only different," Edo-Gajeel said, grinning a little wider, now.
"Zuri, are you okay...?" Wendy asked.
"I'm patching her up, now," Charle said, quickly, as she put bandages over Zuri's most recent wound.
Wendy blinked, before turning towards the throne. She looked over at Edo-Wendy and Edo-Gajeel, then back to Charle and Zuri. She approached the collapsed war machine.
"Everyone, get out," Wendy said, sharply.
"What?" Edo-Wendy asked.
"You have to get out, now. Get your uncle and get out of here, quickly," she said, breaking a few of the restraints holding Edo-Gajeel to it.
"I... what?" Edo-Wendy asked.
"...Now!" Wendy shouted, fiercely, "I have to take care of Faust, but you four can't be here for that! Now, go!"
"I will not do any such thing," Charle said, sharply.
Wendy looked up to Zuri, her eyes pleading. A moment later, the succubus sighed and picked up the Exceed, restraining her tightly. Charle gasped and began struggling, but Zuri had size and strenght on her side.
"You better know what you're doing, kid."
Wendy only nodded for a moment, before helping Edo-Gajeel to his feet long enough for Edo-Wendy to get to be able to support his weight. The reunited family hurried out, with Zuri's help. Wendy watched them leave, then turned towards the throne. She raised up her Air Shatter Cannon just as a mighty machine emerged from the opening wall behind the throne.
"Prepare yourself, you stupid girl!" Faust cried from within the machine, "Prepare for the Dormu Anim and tremble!"
Wendy affixed her glove and looked up at the machine, feeling fear running through her veins, but not caring. This was Faust, the man who had caused so much of this world to suffer. She had only been around Edoras' Fairy Tail for a few days, but she already felt love for them. That this man would make their very congregation illegal, would hunt them down, for the supposed sake of his people... was unforgivable.
The Dormu Anim gave the appearance of a mechanical, bipedal dragon with a white and silver design. Wendy gulped as it aimed one of its cannons right at her, and the girl activated her boots, jetting to the side. A large portion of the wall was taken out, immediately. Wendy let out a high-pitched squeal, partially out of fright and partially to gain Faust's attention once more.
"Tricky little brat!"
Another shot, another miss. Three more shots, and Wendy ducked, weaved around, and generally outmaneuvered each one. Faust glared daggers at the girl as she taunted him, sticking out her tongue, before zipping to the side just as he let loose another basic magic blast. There was a sudden rumbling sound and Faust blinked.
"...what?"
He looked off to see the brat rushing through the exiting hallways, just as he realized that he had successfully blown about five enormous holes in the walls of his throne room. The Dormu Anim started to rush out of the castle, but the collapse and subsequent avalanche of castle beat him to the punch.
-FAIRY TAIL-
Edo-Terasu leaped over one last horde of soldiers, who started to rush after him, before Gildartz tapped down in front of them. The S-Class Mage grinned widely and smashed the first soldier's face in with his fist. The others attempted to swarm him, but one powerful swing of his still-whole leg sent them falling over one another.
Meanwhile, the Doc rushed over to the group of Exceed who attended to a few "soldiers" wounded in the battle. Edo-Elfman groaned from three stab wounds in his right leg, which was busy being bandaged up. Edo-Terasu set Lucy down and turned towards one of the Exceed.
"I'm calling down the Kohryu. Tell Moron to get it down here in less than two minutes or I will cut open his stomach and show him what he had for breakfast."
"Y-yes, sir!"
-FAIRY TAIL-
Every Imperial Soldier, Fairy Tailer, Edo-Fairy Tailer, and Exceed stopped for a moment when they heard the first rumble. Everyone stared in utter shock when half of the castle collapsed, becoming nothing but a small mountain of rock and rubble.
"Oh god... good Erza and the other Lucy were still in there!" Edo-Natsu whimpered, "And... and..."
"Hush up and keep fighting!" Edo-Lucy snapped, tripping up three guards at once with her whip, and then wrapping the whip around a fourth one's neck, pulling him to her and punching him in the face, knocking him unconscious, "We've almost secured it! We've almost secured victory!"
"Faust's will is indomitable!" a guard snapped, decking Edo-Natsu, sending him sprawling to the ground.
The guard put up his fists, and Lucy Ashley prepared to fight him.
"You ruined my life! You ruined so many lives, just like mine!" Edo-Lucy screamed, lashing out with her words and whip in sync.
The whip seized the guard's arm, but he wound up pulling her forward before she could attempt to attack him. The guard smacked her across the face.
"This was all for the dream of Faust's paradise! With enough magic, we can have eternal paradise! But you stupid mage guilds had to try and wreck it with your wanton magic use!"
Edo-Lucy quickly unsheathed a dagger and stabbed him through a chink in his armour, the blade going inbetween his ribs. The guard let go of her in pain, cringing and groaning.
"Then why bother killing so many villagers? Why treat everyone outside the capital like trash?" Lucy Ashely snarled, "You've never been outside the capital, have you? It's a WASTELAND!"
"Obviously... it wasn't enough, if you wretches got through," the guard snapped, trying to push forward towards her.
The Edo-Fairy Tailer tossed a second knife, which caught the guard in the throat, and he fell back, dead. Lucy Ashley gazed down at him for a moment, angrily.
"No. You certainly didn't do enough," Edo-Lucy hissed.
-FAIRY TAIL-
The rubble shook for a few moments, before a blast of energy blew an enormous amount of it away. The Dormu Anim half-crawled out of the hole, using rockets at the last moment, which gave it just enough upward momentum to propel it out of the mountain.
"That... that brat...!" Faust raged.
The Dormu Anima turned to view the vast majority of the Imperial Army slaughtered or surrendering. Rockets mounted on either side of it, when there was an explosion just before it. Smoke billowed about for a moment, before a claw shot out from the smoke, mirroring the Dormu Anim's own, and slashing across the Dormu Anim's torso. There was a whirl of wind, and the smoke cleared to reveal a second mechanical dragon with a golden design. There was a visible cockpit in the head of the dragon, from which Edo-Terasu gave the finger to the King.
"Y-you!" Faust snarled, "You should be dead!"
"But I'm not," Edo-Terasu said, simply, "I don't do a lot of things I should. I will, however, rip your face off with the Kohryu. It's better than last time, when your three flunkies were able to beat it."
"FLUNKIES! They're my elite!"
"Were."
The Kohryu and the Dormu Anim slashed at one another, their claws meeting with a grinding of metal on metal and sparks. The Dormu Anim's missiles shot out, only to meet with two lasers the size of pinpricks which detonated the missiles immediately. The explosion rocked both mechas, but only for a moment.
"WERE!"
"Pantherlily? He betrayed you. Sugarboy? He's bleeding out at Pantherlily's feet. Knightwalker? Well, that bitch got a fate worse than death. Then she got death. You've lost, Faust, don't you see? Your army is failing. Your greatest forces have been kicked out from under you. All you've got is this tin can you call a mecha. Do you know how many design flaws are in it?"
"Your weapon looks similar!"
The Kohryu's claws slashed out in a blur, tearing off the Dormu Anim's right arm. Edo-Terasu grinned. The Dormu Anim blasted the Kohryu, and the golden dragon-mech stumbled back, before retaliating with a beam from its maw. Faust cried out as the controls became too hot from the lasers bearing down on his mecha for him to keep gripping. The beam stopped after a minute of this, and Edo-Terasu just cackled. Faust re-affirmed his hold of the controls, and only hissed when his flesh began to burn. The Dormu Anim let loose two more missiles which homed in on the Kohryu and exploded against its torso, tearing open some of the machinery
"That's the fun part. I made the Kohryu just a little better than the Dormu Anim," Edo-Terasu said, "You seem to have hope, right now, after all. I want to crush it!"
"Just a little better... HAH!" Faust crowed, "You don't know about the secrets of the Dormu Anim, then!"
"Beg pardon?"
The Kohryu charged, jets propelling it across the landscape. The Dormu Anim swirled with power, and it met the Kohryu's claws with a single missile that exploded twenty feet before the golden dragon, letting loose an immense explosion that totally engulfed the area. The Kohryu paused in its charge, just as the silver and white pattern of the Dormu Anim was seemingly wiped away by a sudden change to black.
"The Dormu Anim! BLACK SKY!" Faust roared.
"...okay, an alternate form to your mecha? That's moronic."
"This form drains magic from the planet, faster, but it's necessary in the face of what you wield!"
"Drains magic... YOU DAMN IDIOT!"
The Dormu Anim opened its maw and the Dragon Rider's Spreading Cannon erupted immediately, engulfing the whole of the Kohryu and part of the castle. Explosions erupted within the cannon's blast-radius, and when the Spreading Cannon cut off, the Kohryu had been blown to pieces. Faust observed the shattered remains of the Kohryu, eager to see no further reaction from it. He was disappointed and horrified to see some of the metal stir, then be displaced by Edo-Terasu stand up amidst the destroyed remains. He looked up at Faust, then down at his chest, which had an piece of shrapnel through it.
"...right through the heart. This'll be painful," the Doc groaned, seizing the shrapnel with both hands and slowly pulling it out.
So horrified the King was that he could only stare in complete and utter shock, without any thoughts of attacking the insane doctor as he extricated the offending piece of metal. Edo-Terasu stumbled for a moment, panting as he dropped the metal, before reaching up to the bolt.
"God Complex, click two," Edo-Terasu muttered, twisting the bolt until it clicked once.
Instantly, the changes were made apparent. His chest healed over, leaving only a massive scar where the metal had been. He tossed aside his labcoat, then tore off the shirt to reveal that he was no average scientist-wimp, but also that his body was covered in scars. Faust regained his senses as the sight of Edo-Terasu rushing towards him, and bid the Dormu Anim go back into action.
Edo-Terasu leaped over the claw-swipe, tapped down on the Dormu Anim's arm, then dashed over it to smash the head with his right leg, before bringing up both hands.
"SOUL PURGE!"
He smacked both of his glowing hands into the head, and the dragon-mecha twitched for a moment, its systems freezing up for a moment, before recovering. Edo-Terasu leaped through the air and pulled a communications-medallion from his pants pocket.
"Moron!"
"I AM EDO-ICHIYA!"
"RIGHT! MORON! GET THOSE THREE SUITED UP, TWO HOURS AGO!"
Edo-Terasu dashed to the side as four missiles launched out towards him, exploding one after another. They sought him out, specifically, but his acrobatic skills were too great. Unfortunately, he realized he just didn't have the damage output to keep up with and destroy the Dormu Anim: Black Sky. Bastard had to pull some trump card out of nowhere. Oh well, he had one, too...
-FAIRY TAIL-
Pantherlily looked up to see a familiar face amidst the crowd. He weaved amidst the enemy soldiers like a shadow, striking quickly and moving on even quicker. The Prince... was already here? Yes, everything was almost over.
"You set this into motion well, Your Majesty," Pantherlily said, as Mystogan approached him.
"There is but one more thing to take care of," Mystogan said, his face still covered by the veil.
Pantherlily nodded, "Take care of him, swiftly. I will stay here to observe and maintain the last dregs of battle."
Mystogan nodded and darted off.
-FAIRY TAIL-
Edo-Terasu leaped just out of range of the Dormu Anim's initial blast. A second blast, however, caught him in the chest and might've incinerated him if not for the Lachryma he had infused into his body to diffuse most offensive Magic. He pointed at Faust, accusingly.
"You're lowly, you're vile, and you're dead," Edo-Terasu said, harshly.
"Who is in the big dragon-mecha! WHO! I AM! I CAN CRUSH YOU!"
"There's something tragic and hilarious about that."
The Dormu Anim moved for Edo-Terasu, who shot upwards through the air and axe-kicked the dragon-mecha in the head, before kicking back off of it.
"Wizard Cancelling? Fascinating," Edo-Terasu said, "But it functions along the lines of Lachryma. Which means you'll not be liking what comes next."
"What's that! Some last, desperate gambit of yours?"
"I get to beat you down vicariously through these three."
"Wha-? GAH!"
Faust screamed as the Dormu Anim was rocked by a long-range, high-pressure blast of air. A moment later, two figures smashed into the dragon-mecha. One seemed to be a small tank in human form, with a dark gray color scheme. The other figure was covered in armour as well, but the armour was clearly not as thick as the other's suit. It was a mix of black and red, with wing-like blades on the arms and serrated claws on the hands.
"Forge and Breaker. Where's the other?" Edo-Terasu asked, looking around for a moment.
The Dormu Anim roared, letting loose a barrage of missiles, just as the red armour, identified as Breaker, zoomed back out of the way. The Forge, however, just held out its immense arms as the explosions erupted across its form. Faust grinned until the smoke cleared, to reveal the Forge still there, seemingly unscathed.
"Yeah. Your big, bad missiles might as well just be fireworks," Gajeel said, behind the mask of the Forge armour.
"WHAT KIND OF MONSTER ARE YOU!" Faust raged.
The Dormu Anim rushed forward, its shoulders emitted huge bursts of energy to gives it claws a titanic force. Gajeel merely grinned, watching as the claw zoomed forward, only to be shot down by a missile from the sky. A moment later, a third armoured entity dropped down. Wendy wore the Grenadier armour, which totally covered her body as well. Her armour was the thinnest-looking, being overall small. However, it had a large set of wings emerging from the back, along with two enormous weapon-pieces. One was a missile-launcher, and the other appeared to be some sort of strange machine gun. The machine gun was strapped to her side, while she held the missile launcher.
"You three little squirts don't have what it takes to beat the Dormu Anim! You DON'T!"
A magic blast cut across the battle field, but the three Dragon Slayers were already out of the way. Wendy flew high into the sky, before reducing her jets to a minimum, so that she merely hovered. The Dormu Anim looked up, charging its maw-laser, readying another magic blast. A hail of bullets hammered it in the face, knocking it down and to the side. Half of its face was torn to shreds, and its beam went off-course.
'...what came after 'walking on'...?'
Gajeel pondered this, tapping his foot and looking up to the sky, when the beam collided with him. The wave of energy crashed against him like a tidal wave against a mountain. For a moment, he seemed off-balance, forcing him to look directly up at the sun.
"OH, RIGHT!" Gajeel shouted, before suddenly taking off in Faust's direction.
"What are you doing! HEY, GET AWAY FROM ME!"
A series of laser shots erupted from the Dormu Anim's claws, but each and every shot didn't even seem to faze the Forge-wearer. Faust babbled incoherently for a moment, trying to activate the missiles, when Gajeel was right in front the Dormu Anim.
"WALKING ON SUNSHINE PUNCH!"
CRUNCH went the Dormu Anim's left shoulder.
"AND DON'T I FEEL GOOD KICK!"
CRUNCH groaned the Dormu Anim's lower torso.
"WOAH WOAH WOAHHHH DOUBLE PUNCH!"
CRUNCH announced the Dormu Anim's chest plate.
"SHOOBY DOO BOP!"
The Dormu Anim's face loudly re-affirmed its comrades' statement, before it shot out its right arm, in a fist, to send Gajeel flying through the air. He let loose a battery of missiles. There was a loud whirring sound for a moment, then several blast sounds, and the battery of missiles exploded in-between Gajeel and the Dormu, sending the Forge-wearer even farther through the sky and rocking the Dormu Anim's structure.
"I am the Goddess of the Sky!" Wendy shouted down to Faust, "I rule the air!"
"Wretched little girl!" Faust screeched.
The Sky Dragon Slayer flew down, releasing a missile at the apex of her descent, before shooting back up into the sky. The missile crashed into the Dormu Anim's head, releasing a massive burst of fire and force, weakening it even further. She looked over to the side, her hair whipping about, giving her a wilder look.
"NATSU!"
Faust looked over, realizing he hadn't seen the Breaker-Natsu Natsu dashed over to the Dormu Anim, the armour on his elbows shifting about to form rocket boosters. The Breaker Armour revved louder and louder as Natsu shot across the field, almost too fast for the Dormu Anim (even in Black Sky mode) to keep up with. It levelled a cannon at Natsu, but before it could crack off the shot, three explosions consumed the cannon. The cannon itself received a fair amount of damage, but the real issue was the smoke that obscured Faust's vision.
"CRIMSON LOTUS BREAKER!"
The raging Fire Dragon Slayer's fist collided with the Dormu Anim's chest and a wave of force rocked the entire mechanical beast, blasting down a horde of trees fifty yards beyond their battle. Shrapnel from the Dormu flew out from it, and it began to crack. Then the fire connected, and the front half of the beast was just simply gone. The structure collapsed, then, finally.
Natsu stumbled back, his armour steaming and falling off of him, slamming to the ground. Wendy hovered to the ground, her armour dropping off as well. Gajeel sat up, his upper body completely de-armoured. The Dragon Slayer Armours' magic was totally spent, partially due to Dormu Anim's Magic Draining nature. Each of the Dragon Slayers wearily got to their feet, no magic to speak of, their bodies wracked with the pain and exhaustion of having used the armours.
"Suck it, Faust," Edo-Terasu snarled.
A roar of utter rage and insanity erupted from the charred and broken remains of the Dormu Anim. Faust broke through the shrapnel, wielding a large trident that crackled with electricity.
"You will all fall to the will of the King! MY DREAM WILL BE MADE REALITY!" King Faust roared.
Edo-Terasu shot forward, but the King was just quick enough to blast Edo-Terasu. He capitalized on his lucky shot and struck once more, piercing Edo-Terasu's chest with the trident. The Doc struck the King, and a crackle of energy flashed at the point of impact.
"Your soul is tainted with the blood of my wife. I'll KILL YOU TO PURGE IT!"
King Faust flew through the air, coughing up blood and crying out in pain as he hit the floor. Edo-Terasu pulled out the trident and groaned as he reached up to his bolt.
"Final Click... Urgh," Edo-Terasu murmured, twisting it.
The wounds in his chest healed over, but a moment later a flash of explosions erupted across his form and he crumpled to the ground, unconscious. The Dragon Slayers watched Faust stumble to his feet, barely able to move, themselves. A moment later, however, they realized the situation was well in hand. Faust stammered as he saw the figure appear in a whirl of smoke.
"Y-you... you're dead!"
"Perhaps I am. It will depend on your answer..."
"You damn fool!" Faust snarled, "Get out of my way! I have to bring eternal magic to all of Edoras! I HAVE TO!"
"Stop this... The war is over. Fairy Tail has won. You have lost, but Edoras will not fade. Edoras will not die without your so-called eternal magic."
"No! It will! You wretched failure of a son! I should have killed you when I had to kill your mother for you! Damn wretch!" Faust shouted, rushing forward.
"I won't fail with you."
The blue-haired mage pulled a staff from his back and drove it into the ground. A sigil came into being beneath Faust's feet and he found himself stuck there. Mystogan placed seven more staves into the ground around him, and the sigil intensified. Illusions of monsters, hordes of the great beasts, bore down on him. Faust fell to his knees, screaming and weeping, clawing at his face and closing his eyes tight to ignore the abominations. Their breath heated his face and the smells filled his nose, so that he couldn't get away from them even then. The illusion suddenly broke, and Faust fell to his hands and knees, still crying. He opened his eyes weakly to see a new sigil appearing in the ground below him.
"You're right. Gérard is dead. I am Mystogan, the new King of Edoras."
FWOOSH.
The light faded, and Faust was no more. Mystogan looked to his fellows, smiling in appreciation for that which they had done. He then turned towards the remnants of the battlefield, where soldiers still tried to fight off Edo-Fairy Tail and Fairy Tail. He seized one of the staves, employing its magic to amplify his voice.
"I AM THE PRINCE, COME BACK TO RECLAIM THE THRONE! FAUST IS DEAD! YOUR NEW KING IS MYSTOGAN!"
He sighed, grinning.
"THE WAR IS OVER!"
End of Chapter Six
For the second fucking time is this damn chapter over. I had to re-write this shit. DAMN.
H'okay. One more chapter for you guys. Then onto other random shit.