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C5. Not always a Charm
Eventually pushed to physical exhaustion, the two figures passed out on the ground. Natsu feeling guilty, quickly covered their naked bodies with their suits before hiding them in the corner as he put on his own clothes while blushing
'I-I hope they don't kill me when they regain consciousness…Although I won't mind doing them both again in the future though' He thought with a blush and slight fear for a while until he saw a hundred runes appeared all over the ruins before Ahrius announced that the second trial has begun
Natsu quickly performed a Fire Dragon's Roar, only to find a barrier protecting the newly spawned soldiers and see that his opponents are all wearing full orange battlemage robes with a few wearing masks and a few of them being empty handed while the rest are wielding staffs, swords, rods or duel wielding the weapons led by a smirking orange haired man with an afro with purple eyes wearing full archmage garments which are elegant looking robes that improve the wearer's magical might while wielding a sword full of runes and a staff with a yellow lacrima attached to the edge of the staff standing at the remains of the ruined roof
"Behold the 26th company of the Cyan Magi led by the high and mighty Veel Osoge!" the smirking man proclaimed with pride and arrogance dripping from his words making Natsu glare at him
"As if a man wearing an orange as a hat can be high and mighty!" Natsu mocked with a smile earning him the rage of the person that he meant
"SUCH INSOLENCE! MEN, SHOW THIS INSOLENT DRAGON SLAYER THE POWER OF THE 26th COMPANY" Veel exclaimed with all of his followers cheering before hurling spells at Natsu with everything they got
Several seconds earlier at with the audience…
"That idiot!" Sturma yelled as she witnessed Natsu insult their leader with a cheeky smile
"Well, that's going to rile them up for sure!" Frevuss answered with a smirk as he already know that Veel's pride will get the best of him
"Hey, Drammonsu! I order you to send 3 of your Celestial Beasts to help my slave win this trial!" Abil shouted as a young man with fair skin, blue eyes, dark yellow hair with light yellow tints with the front of his hair look like the upper jaw of a dragon who is wearing a simple yellow shirt and yellow pants shakes his head
"You will send your Celestial Beasts!" Abil repeated as wings of wind, a long and sharp tail made out of water while both her finger tips turned into fiery and earthen claws when a hellish aura started to radiate from her body making him cower and grovel at her feet a few seconds later and the majority of the audience cower at their seats as they saw her cruel gaze
"Y-yes milady, p-please don't hurt me!" Drammonsu squeaked meekly as he threw a yellow key with blue edges with a wolf symbol, a black key with red edges with a panther symbol, and an oyellow key with blue stripes with a tiger symbol at the structure with him chanting three sentences immediately
"Lock of the oppressor, I unleash thee! Celestial Beast, Jinouga! Lock of the swift wyvern, I unleash thee! Celestial Beast, Nargacuga! Lock of the roaring wyvern, I unleash thee! Tigrex!" Making three beams of light strike the ground in unison near Natsu, making him take a step back in confusion revealing three celestial creatures
The first one is a quadrupedal creature with superficially lupine features and blue eyes. It has highly developed yellow and blue limbs, sharp fangs, claws and a powerful tail. Its forelegs are extremely powerful and can kill foes in one brutal blow.
The second one has black scales, bladed wings, black fur and nightmarish red eyes, giving it the look and style of a predatory black panther. Also, its tail erects large spikes which can be flung and linked up with its attacks for devastating hits. It's vertebrae and tail muscles are extremely flexible, making it's tail also prehensile.
While the third one has a large, quadrupedal wyvern characterized by its massive head and jaws, powerful limbs and striking yellow/blue striped colouration. The top of its head is tipped with a pair of horn-like ears, and its segmented tail ends with a spiny protrusion.
The mage army stared at the three celestial beings in awe while Natsu just
"There, Jin, Narga and Rex are on the field now l-leave me alone!" Drammonsu cried out before running to a seat which is far away from Abil who just smiled and regained her calm complexion making the audience stop cowering "Abil-chan can seriously be scary sometimes" The hooded figure said while shaking slightly. "Yeah, I know" Nefrita answered, giggling at the cowering excuses of her guildmates
Back to the ruins…
Taking advantage of the awe, Jin quickly summoned dozens of Thunderbugs from the Celestial World while Narga charged right into the mages, ripping them apart with her bladed wings and tail spikes as Rex rushed into their ranks as well before producing an extremely loud concussive roar which sent several mages flying while killing a few others before joining the ensuing blood bath
The mages, realizing that they are getting decimated quickly retaliated with fireballs, lightning bolts, and energy bolts which either missed or have little effect on the three
Jin roared as lightning crackled around his body before launching several balls of pure electricity at the mages, frying a large number before following up on it with deadly claw strikes and tail strikes
Natsu just stared at the three in awe as Rex snapped his jaws at a mage and Narga piercing another mage's throat with her tail spikes while the empty handed mages summoned a dozen earth golems with three among them that are massive which forced the three to stop slaughtering mages and started to deal with the golems before Natsu entered the fray the wielding his red ethereal blades, slashing at the surprised mages who completely forgot about him for a short while, scoring several kills
Veel smirked as he and four other cohorts made a circle while the golems acted as effective distractions before yelling out "Five Prong Unison Raid: Celestialbane Revolution!" creating white ethereal explosions which grievously injured the celestial beasts and forced them into their human forms
The golems and mages managed to banish the critically weakened Jin and Rex before regrouping in a large square formation as Natsu heard a scream of pain
Natsu quickly looked at it's direction and saw a young woman with very long and silky black hair with red streaks, well-endowed assets and bright red eyes wearing a revealing black garb for kunoichi and fishnet clothing with an exposed midriff gritting her teeth in pain as a massive golem tries to crush her body with it's bare hands before Natsu managed to melt it's torso in lava before cutting it's hands off making her fall to the ground
Narga stared at her savior who destroyed the golem and quickly took a barrage of spells that was aimed at her while using Fire Dragon's Crossed Elbow Guard which weakened the spells although muliple ice shards managed to pierce his flesh before he melted them afterwards
'Why am I feeling like this?!" Narga thought as she felt her body heat up as Natsu continued to use himself as her shield while using his Fire Dragon's Roar to retaliate as his magic container is already down to half before he saw the remaining fifty mages and eight golems marched onwards in a square formation as he was panting '[Huff]…[Huff]…[Huff]…I guess I have to do it…Lisovae you better save my sorry ass if everything goes to shit when this trial is over…Secret Dragon Art: Signal of the Future Draconic Massacre!'
Natsu suddenly spread his legs apart before punching the ground creating an ancient rune as his other hand opens up with another rune already on his palm while his finger launched a red flare into the sky which is unnoticed by everyone except Ahrius, Judicael and Griuo whose jaws dropped as they all stared at his pose in utter confusion and shock
With the audience…
"What the hell is he doing?!" Tsuisa shouted as almost everyone's thought was perfectly summed up with that one sentence.
"H-HOW?! The library doesn't contain the instructions to perform that ancient move!" Griuo thought in utter shock. 'The last time I heard a move just like that was used, it was during the Dragon Civil War which was hundreds of years ago and was performed by those that served the dragons that wanted to rule over humans! Ahrius thought as his numerous eyes started to gaze at Natsu's direction while his remaining eyes stare at the direction that the flare was heading while Judicael imagined that Natsu was wearing dragon priest clothes instead, making his eyes widen before he rubbed his eyes in disbelief as his line of sight soon matched the destination of Ahrius's eyes.
Soon, a loud roar was suddenly heard from the distance as everyone's eyes spotted a yellow draconic figure quickly approaching the arena before everyone's eyes widened in horror as Lisovae smashed into the arena creating a large crater in the mage formation while also sending the entire audience crashing into the arena's upper stands with the impact while managing to keep the structure from collapsing from feeling the worst of the impact, then Lisovae roared and proceeded to attack the surviving mages with his explosive might,
As soon as Lisovae reached the arena, Natsu's perception of the world was immediately distorted as he immediately collapsed onto Narga's worried arms as Lisovae ate Veel and blew up the remaining mages,
Natsu's POV
Unknown location…
'Where am I?' I thought as I found myself standing in an ethereal plane that feels like I'm in a dream and the location looks like a white dimension with the ground feeling like water that reacts to my movements like ripples in a pond.
As I continued to wander around, I felt an odd power radiating somewhere in the dimension. Curious, I eventually located the source of the power with enough wandering until I found a dragon who soon caught sight of me as I walked closer to it
The dragon is black in color and has spikes all over it's body and two draconic horns pointing backwards on top of it's head with red eyes. With it's black wings unfurled and powerful talons making it look like an extremely intimidating dragon with a long tail littered with sharp scales as well as it's underbelly which is reinforced with the scales as well.
"Zu'u Alduin. Zok sahrot do naan ko Lein! /I am Alduin. Most mighty of any in the World!" The dragon proclaimed in Dovahzul which I quickly understood as I translated it quickly in my mind
"So, your name is Alduin?" I asked with as much courage I can muster as I looked straight at it's eyes
"To be able to understand our tongue so easily…Who are you mortal?" He then looked at me as if I was a hated enemy
"I'm Natsu Dragneel, a Fire Dragon Slayer trained by Igneel and I'm not Dovahkiin" I answered with a calm voice with all fear hidden by my façade before I continued "I'm not here to slay you, Alduin. I somehow got transported here by some other force"
"Then tell me why I sense other powers within you, mortal" Alduin said as he raised his wings and take a step forward
"I-"I quickly stopped myself before I spilled the beans and a thought quickly popped into my head 'I can't tell him about my powers or he will treat me as Dovahkiin and try to kill me'
"-I won't tell you anything!" I answered with conviction only for him to say ""Pahlok joorre! Hin kah fen kos bonaar!/Arrogant mortals! Your pride will be humbled!"
Before flying up into the blank white sky before diving at me with the intent to consume me ""Hin sil fen nahkip bahloki!/ Your soul will feed my hunger!"
'Mortals? Did he encounter humans like me in his lifetime?' I thought with confusion, just as his mouth was inches away from my head, my perception of the world became distorted once more
Back at the arena…
I soon opened my eyes and immediately saw Narga looking at me with worry before I quickly got up and saw Judicael slowly approaching the arena and that Lisovae has flown away from the arena while leaving behind scorched remains of those that he had slain
"Can you look after those two?" I said as I pointed at the two unconscious girls that were still relatively unharmed by Lisovae's impact, "Yes, I can. It's the least I can do for the one who helped me out" Narga said before getting up and started to walk in their direction before I saw Judicael wave at me with a smirk from the distance, making me feel uneasy
No One's POV
With the audience after they recovered from getting blasted into the upper stands by the force of Lisovae's impact which strangely enough hardly affected the structure itself…
"WHERE THE FUCK DID THAT THING COME FROM?!" Alaginis alongside with Ivus, Jattus and Hustred while Lisovae quickly flew away
"Ugh…It hurts all over…" Ifrisia muttered as she crawled out of the rubble with Sturma and the rest of her team helping the rest of the audience to crawl out of the rubble
"FUCKING DRAGON!" Frevuss shouted as he continued to insult the dragon that has left the area, having no idea that Natsu summoned him
"I hate hostile encounters like this!" Fasluica exclaimed knowing that getting attacked by a dragon like Losivae is worse than being attacked by common thugs and her guildmates because they can easily catch her off guard without doing much
Griuo groaned as he saw Judicael already walking towards Natsu because he wanted to interrogate him before anything else happened. Barbarricia and Scarmiglione soon emerged from the rubble barely injured who proceeded to clean themselves before continuing to observe the battle
"Princess…are you alright?' Abil said as she pulled the hooded figure out of the rubble who just groaned in pain before she said that she was fine while Nefrita looked at the structure in wonder as Natsu started talking with Judicael about something before shrugging
Back at structure…
Natsu then saw Judicael closely for the first time, seeing that he has silver hair which is smooth with the front being slightly spiky, grey eyes, fair skin wearing a simple silver vest and white trousers without any weapons equipped which hardly shows one's skill in the art of the sword
"I know that you're the one behind this little massacre, Dragneel" Judicael said with a smirk as Natsu blanched and took a step back
"H-h-how d-did you find out?!" Natsu said, somewhat nervous that someone else knew about what he had done
"Ahrius and Griuo noticed this as well, you're lucky that they don't like walking around telling secrets to other people so you better make an excuse to cover your guilty ass to avoid getting blamed for Lisovae's sudden reappearance!" Judicael said with a grin as Natsu started to sweat and panic
'Oh shit! I forgot that Lisovae's supposed to be dead to the outside world!' Natsu thought out in horror before pointing at Judicael with shaking fingers at the same time Ahrius declared that the last trial has begun
"T-then I'll have to keep you quiet by kicking your ass!" Natsu shouted as he engulfed his entire body in flames and then propelled himself against the Judicael at high speed, hitting him with a powerful headbutt only to smash into dozens of swords which scattered and soon reformed into an unharmed Judicael on top of the ruined roof
Twenty swords soon appeared from Judicael's body which Natsu dodged with ease as he thought that he will attack like Erza in her Heaven's Wheel Armor
"Aerial Sword Art: Bladed Sky!" The sky was soon darkened by hundreds of swords which materialized quickly before Judicael used Aerial Sword Art: Falling Blades to make the swords launch itself at Natsu, forcing him to run around the ruins like an idiot in order to avoid the falling swords before running up a ruined staircase in order to find Judicael
As soon as Natsu saw Judicael, he used Lava Make: Lava Blast to make the walls turn red which sent blasts of lava at him while also using Lava Make: Wall to create lava walls that surrounded Judicael's sides as the blasts closed in on Judicael
"Aerial Sword Art: Rising Pathway to Heaven!" Swords soon appeared beneath Judicael's feet as he ascended a makeshift stairway to the skies and avoided the lava blasts which melted the ground beneath him before smirking as the swords that he had stepped on soon joined the swords that are already in the sky
"Witness the power of the fourth strongest member of the Darkening Blades!" Abil proclaimed as everyone stared at the sky and the makeshift stairs in awe before they saw the skies darken as rain soon started to fall 'Natsu, prepare to lose against Judicael!' Griuo thought with a smile
Natsu stared at Judicael and the sky, dumbfounded before creating five Lava Hawks to intercept Judicael's ascension while jumping on the fifth hawk to reach him above the clouds
"Fool! No matter how high you soar, you will never reach the heavens! Darkening Gleam: Blade God of the Heavens!" Judicael's body gained a tainted silver glow before the glow disappeared revealing four wings made out of swords sticking out of his back and his new look
His new look consists of full regal looking silver heavy armor with his helm looking like the helmet of a crusader, his armor which has rune inscriptions written on it while looking like crusader armor but more divine looking with silver feather like plates and a silver crown attached to his helmet with six silver swords radiating different auras in a circle position surrounding him
"Heaven's Authority: Downpour!" The blade with a blue aura suddenly glow making the rain fuse with several swords in the sky before it impaled the four lava hawks in the head, turning them into stone before they fall and shatter upon impact
"Don't you dare insult me!" Natsu shouted as his anger levels started rising as he faied to harm Judicael in the battle and made demonic energy start to leak out of his flesh
"Explosive Lightning Fire Dragon Mode!" Natsu's body starts to ignite itself in flames and the cover itself with crackling electricity with an explosive aura radiated off of Natsu's skin as the explosive lacrima within him starts to shine
"Lava Make: Shocking Lava Demon Raid!" Natsu then created a magic circle in front of him as hordes of demons made out of Lava which is also conducting electricity started to pour out of the circle and into the filling sky with demonic roars
"Heaven's Authority: Heaven's Downward Blade Rain!" Judicael then made his twelve blades glow and spin rapidly as the blades started to force the bladed sky to collapse, making hundreds of blades fall and pierce all of Natsu's demons until turned into stone and shattered on impact with the ground below and pierce Natsu's flesh with divine energy making him scream as it attacked his etherious soul
"It's all or nothing! Hellish Crimson Lotus: Exploding Lightning Dragon Bomb!" Natsu's left hand started to generate crackling lightning while his other hand generates a volatile firestorm in his right hand, before bringing both hands together. Their contact generates a massive sphere of magic which proceeds to blow up the entire sky as Natsu's feature started to darken as demonic markings started to appear and his flesh started to transform into what he was in the past as the sky started to clear with all of the blades destroyed in the explosion
"GAKHRRRK…" Feeling that something isn't right, Natsu then looked down to see six swords impaling his arms, legs, head, and heart with Judicael behind him, his armor shattered and his wounds severe with only two damaged wings left attached to his back
"So you are E.N.D. Natsu Dragneel…" Judicael muttered in surprise as the lava hawk disappeared, making him flap his blade wings to remain flying as he watched Natsu's body returned to it's human state and started to plummet down the clouds and into the ruins below making a crater as his corpse met the cold embrace of the earth.