Oh my god, I mean OH MY GOD. Fairy Tail Chapter 442 introduced a hot yet, insanely powerful woman. That's what we need people, a very powerful female characters aside of Mavis Vermilion. Brandish is easily my favorite female characters and I hope her power would be so cool and let's just hope that she or any other female Spriggan Twelve won't be beaten by freaking ERZA in the future via BS way.

One of many reason why I wrote this story is I, honestly don't like canon Erza much because she is the most overatted character in Fairy Tail. Erza has lost my respect during her 'win' against Kyouka. I mean, with all her five sense were taken away, how in Earthland she beat Kyouka with a mere punch and a pair of sword when her Armadura Fairy Armor was destroyed in the matter of second as soon as Kyouka entered her Etherious Form?

Kyouka wasn't the only one who got beaten by Erza via BS way. Tenrou Arc: We have Azuma who nuke her with Terra Clamare TWICE and still lose when Erza got 'pushed' by all of her guildmates. GMG Arc: We have Minerva, this wasn't actually as BS as Kyouka or Azuma since Erza had Second Origin back then. But that Nakagami Asspull is ruined the fight, I mean how can you break the law of Magic with Magic? It doesn't even make any sense.

Sorry for my rants, but that was in my head all time and I need to let it out. I hope it doesn't offend all Erza's fan who reading my story. And I need to say this, I don't hate the characters, I still like Erza because she is pretty. It's just I don't like it when Erza win the fight she should have lost, not to mentioning I don't and never like her bossy attitude.

Also, I appreciate for anyone who like about Juvia being a Devil Slayer. Similar to what I said earlier, we do NEED a very powerful female character. I chose Juvia as the Devil Slayer in my story because she turned out to be a joke in canon. Also, there won't be any OC as Devil Slayer, just canon characters that I choose to become one.

(Sigh) Okay, I think you're tired listen my rant and want read this chapter. If you have any question, feel free to ask. I'll answer them as best as I can without spoiling the future chapter.

"I'm all fired up" - People Speech

"I'm all fire up" – Communication Lacrima Speech

'I'm all fired up' - People Thoughts

"I'm all fired up" - Creature Speech/Speaker Speech/Attack/Spells/Translation

'I'm all fired up' - Creature Thoughts

(I'm all fired up) - Sounds Effect

I'm all fired up - Day, Date, Time, Place

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Episode 5: The War Waged On

Saturday, July 7th, Year X784, 11:19 A.M, Earthland, Fiore Kingdom, Oak Town, Phantom Lord's main Representative Base, Jose's Office.

On the top level of Phantom guild hall's tower, Makarov blasted the door that led to Jose's 'office' which started to crumble from master's immense forces, his face was filled by righteous fury as he entered the office. Jose on the other hand was imperturbably sitting on his throne.

"Jose… What the hell do you think you're doing attacking Fairy Tail?! Answer me!" Makarov demanded an answer.

"You know, that wasn't a cheap door." The Phantom Master replied while sitting in his seat casually with his legs and arms crossed, he casually dismissing the rubble and cracks spreading throughout the room. "Your wizards really do take after you, despite all those complaints you did at the meetings. It's been a long time since I went to one of those, nearly six years now… I was really out of it at that time… I clearly overdid with the drinks."

Not even a second passed before entire interior of the office was reduced to rubble by Makarov's magic and the man had punched Jose with a now gigantic arm, destroying the chair that Jose had been sitting in as well as the wall behind it. "I'm not here for chit chat, Jose!"

"Ho, ho, ho... oh my..."

Makarov's eyes widened in shock as the dust cleared and saw that Jose's form shift and warp before returning to normal.

"A Shinentai [Thoguht Projection]!? You already left this guild headquarters?"

"A battle between two of the Seiten Dai Madoshi [Ten Wizard Saints] would cause extraordinary natural occurrences. I prefer a rational victory." Jose replied with a chuckle before tipping his hat up.

"Where are you? Come and fight me fair and square!" Makarov shouted at his fellow Guild Master. He didn't get a response however as another image appeared in front Jose and Makarov's eyes widened once more. On the ground with her hands tied behind her back, was a familiar unconscious blonde. "Lucy! W-Why is she?"

"Come now Makarov, as if I need to explain." Jose reached a hand out and created a purple magical circle pointed at Lucy's form.

"Stop it!" Makarov reached his arm out in an attempt to halt the man in front of him. But before he could do anything else, a huge man appeared behind him with his hands held out and the air picking up. 'I didn't even feel his presence until he was directly behind me! Where did he come from?'

"So sorrowful!" Aria of the Sky shouted tearfully as he used his magic to start draining Makarov of his powers. Sending him crashing into the wall next to the destroyed door, the large man continued to cry as Jose's image dismissed his magic and Lucy's image was gone.

"Ho, ho, ho...there is no way we'd kill Lady Lucy, right? At least, not yet.'" Jose told his fellow Guild Master as he chuckled at the sight of him in extreme pain. The magic that Aria had used was a spell that drains the target of all their magic in an instant called Metsu [Perish], and the more magic they had the more pain they experienced.

"Aaaaahhhh!" Makarov howled in pain. 'What's this?! Why I can't use my powers?!' He thought before widened his eyes in realization. 'Don't tell me… this wizard is draining my magic away…"

"Please don't tell me you didn't know who the girl was. Especially since she is Lucy Heartfilia, and a member of your guild this entire time. Her father, Jude Heartfilia had personally come to me to retrieve her." Jose laughed when he saw Makarov's surprised face. "That right…all that efforts were mean to lure you out while I'm sending two of my mage to kidnap her." He explained with glee before his smile changed into a frown. "Unfortunately…one of your mage can see through my plan and saved our target. She's truly lives up with her reputation as Meio [The Underworld King]."

Makarov widened her eyes in realization, knowing who Jose referring to. 'Erza…'

"Oh well… I guess it's none of your business anymore." Jose said and motioned his hand at Aria who nodded.

"It's too sorrowful!" Aria cried as he sent Makarov through the wall and the flooring, sending him down to the lower levels. The small man could do nothing as his body collided with several pillars and injured his body even more.

Saturday, July 7th, Year X784, 11:23 A.M, Earthland, Fiore Kingdom, Oak Town, Phantom Lord's main Representative Base, Guild Hall.

'Something is not right here...' Cana thought to herself as she dodged a sloppy punch from a Phantom member and with a swipe of three cards, sent him and several others flying with a lightning bolt. '…Despite Gajeel Redfox being here, there is still no sign of the Elemental 4.'

"Don't get distracted Cana!" Kagura scolded the drinker as she slashed another Phantom member who emerged from the ground behind the card user.

"Ah, thanks Kagura." Cana nodded her head in thanks before turning her back against Kagura's as they faced the large crowd surrounding them, "Hold on…Kagura?"

"What?"

"Is it just me, or did the earthquakes caused by the Master-"

The brunette was cut off as a crashing sound was heard a few feet away from the two female wizards, making them turn to that Mirajane and Gajeel had returned to fighting on the ground. The white haired mage was standing with her hands covered in dark power with a serious expression on her face while Gajeel had turned his hands into spiked hammers and had a grin on his face, which had a few bruises on it.

"Not bad demon, you might actually make me try." Gajeel commented. The iron Dragon Slayer grinned before turning his hands back to normal, "In fact I've got something pretty interesting to show you… Tetsuryu no- [Iron Dragon's-]"

Yet another crashing sound was heard, but this one was louder than before and echoed throughout the building. Many turned their heads to see what was the cause and every member of Fairy Tail froze in complete shock and horror once they saw what it was… or rather, who it was.

"M- Master!" Kagura cried out and ran over to him with Cana a step behind her.

"Ah… my… magic..." Makarov gasped out as Kagura and Cana knelt down next to his body before Kagura reached down and held the man up.

Quickly ignoring his adversary, Mirajane ran towards the large group that was forming around the fallen Guild Master. Once it was obvious the battle wouldn't continue, Gajeel dismissed the magic he was building up and clicked his teeth in annoyance. "Tch… Looks like the fun's over. And things were getting good too."

"Why can't I feel any magic from Master? It's like he's a plain geezer now." Lyon muttered.

"I don't get it… How could he lose?" Gray questioned as he looked up at where the old man had fallen, "Just what exactly happened up there?"

"No way...how can the Master be defeated?"

"I-Impossible!"

'This is bad, if Gramps is out of the picture then…' Kagura's body tensed as she looked back at the Phantom wizards they were just thrashing, all of them were getting back on their feet with cocky grins.

"This our chance! They've got no chance now that their Master is down. Attack those Fairy scums!" The members of Phantom Lord roared and went on the offensive as Fairy Tail tried their best to defend themselves against the revitalized enemy.

'No...This is bad...our morale took a blow as well...if only we have Erza here.' Kagura and Mirajane shared a glance before nodding to each other, the former reaching up and wiping a lone tear that grew in her left eye. 'There is no other choice…'

A giant black magic suddenly erupted from Mirajane and stretched out until it blocked the two guilds from each other, causing many to take steps back in order to avoid getting obliterated. The demon tightened the fists she was clenching before shouting loud enough for everyone to hear, and what she said shocked many.

"Everyone else start retreating back to the Guild Hall. I will hold them off until everyone is outside!"

"No way! Are you out of your mind Mira?!" Gray shouted.

"Men don't retreat nee-chan!" Elfman added as he fended off several members of Phantom.

"No, she's right." Kagura shouted as she summoned a sword in her right hand. "We might be able to handle these guys and the Elemental 4, but without the Master we don't stand a chance against Jose! Not while things are in such chaos!"

"I can still fight!" Macao tried to tell her, but the injury had just received from protecting Cana was taking its toll.

"Me too!" Bisca shouted, but seconds later her legs started to wobble and she fell against Alzack's extended arm.

Kagura slammed the blade of her sword into the ground before shouting back at her stubborn guildmates. "This isn't up for discussion! Retreat and that's an order!" This time the others listened to the armored girl and started making their way to giant exit they had created, using Mirajane's magic to cover their backs.

"Leaving already, huh?" Gajeel sighed in disappointment as he watched Fairy Tail begin to retreat. He jumped up to the rafters and landed next to Aria, who arrived in time to watch their enemy Guild retreat.

"It's so sad!" Aria cried with tears running down his face.

"Aria...you're creepy as always." Gajeel commented as he continued to stare at Kagura and Mirajane guide everyone to the exit. "I'm surprised that you managed to put down that old geezer."

"It was all part of Master Jose's plan, all I had to do was follow it to the letter. But still…" The blindfolded man replied, and seconds later he started crying again. "Thank you for your kind words!"

"Jeez! Would you stop crying already?" Gajeel looked up at the man in annoyance. Seriously, all the man every seemed to do was cry and talk about how sad things were, it was a real pain in the ass to deal with. "So…did we capture the target?"

"Unfortunately no… Juvia and Sol failed to retrieve Lucy because the unexpected intervention from Erza Dragneel." Aria answered in a serious tone.

The Iron Dragon Slayer only clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Tch…so that's why she ain't coming here. That woman probably suspicious at how we started to annoy them now." Gajeel deduced as he stared down at the retreating Fairy Tail guild, while next to him Aria was using his magic to move the two. "We'll finish this someday, fairies butt. You can count on it!"

Saturday, July 7th, Year X784, 14:24 P.M, Earthland, Fiore Kingdom, Magnolia, Fairy Tail, Guild's Basement.

"So…how is your 'raid' on Phantom Lord?" Erza asked with sarcastic tone to Kagura and Mirajane as she saw them walked down the stairs. After Fairy Tail had returned to Magnolia after retreating from the battle with Phantom Lord, they immediately started to treat the injured and plan their counterattack.

Both S-Class mages didn't like at the tone the Devil Slayer was using but Mirajane answered anyway. "It was a failure, Master was ambushed hit with a very potent spell that drained him of his magical powers and nearly took his life. Alzack and Bisca were tasked with taking him to Porlyusica-san." The goth girl replied, causing the red head laughed a little.

"Heh…figures. This is why I call him an old fool and want him to retire, he's always making bad decisions lately and I already warned him it will bit him back in the ass." Erza ranted as she sent a table crashing the wall by kicking it.

Kagura stood up and faced the red head, her face was filled with rage. "How dare you talk about him like that when you're too afraid to even come with us." She replied with cold tone but flinched a bit when Erza slammed her fist to the wall, creating a huge hole on the said wall.

"I'm afraid? As if those insects could even make me sweat. I'm not someone who charging into enemy's base without thinking. While all of you were rampaging in not even Phantom real HQ, Jose sent two of Element 4 to kidnap Lucy." Erza yelled at the two S-Class mages, causing most of guild members gasped and widened their eyes in shock as they stared at the blond who was crying on the corner while Lisanna tried to comfort her. "Have you wondered why Phantom decided to make a move now, because they didn't have an excuse back then, but now they have one."

"Why would Phantom want to kidnap Lucy anyway?" Gray asked the scarlet-haired girl.

Lucy apologized to him and every her guildmates while revealed the truth of her origins to everyone in the Guild. Seeing how badly injured some of her friends were from the fight they had with Phantom only made Lucy guilty because of the fact that they got all these injuries because of her.

"Are you worried? Don't worry, we'll get them back for this." Lucy perked up at Lyon's voice and turned her head to look at him.

"No… It's just that...I'm sorry..." Lucy bowed her head as apologized again.

"It's a normal thing for daughters from rich families to be targeted and one of the down sides of it!" Elfman added before he placed his fist on his chest with a smirk. "But a real man's duty to protect them!"

"Don't say that!" Gray snapped back at the tall man, who gave Gray a look at being interrupted

"But I'm surprised too. Lucy, why were you hiding it?" Kagura asked the blond girl

"I wasn't so much hiding it...but I ran away from home a year ago and not once did he want me back. Now he suddenly wants me back, I just don't get it." Everyone watched as Lucy's hands tightened into fist, "Doing all these horrible things just to get me back… He's the worst! Although...all of this happened because I ran away from home in the first place, right...?"

"N-No! That's ridiculous! Your dad is the bad one!" Elfman told her with a wave of his hand.

"Idiot!" Gray shouted at him.

"Ah! I mean it's all Phantom's fault!" Elfman let out an awkward laugh as he corrected himself.

"Because of my selfish actions...I can't believe I caused so much trouble for everyone...maybe everything will get better if I just go back home..." Lucy admitted.

(Plak)

Mouths dropped as everyone watched the red haired women walked straight over to the blond Seirei Madoshi [Celestial Spirit Wizard] and slapped her really hard on her cheek. Erza stood there in front of Lucy with emotionless expression with the blond now looking up at the red head with stunned expression while her hand reached the spot where Erza just slapped her.

"Oh my…" Lisanna whispered to herself put her hand on her mouth as she watched Erza just slap Lucy hard across her cheek.

"That's it?" Erza began, not changing her expression a bit. "You're just gonna give up just like that. I thought you're better than this Lucy." Erza told the blond in disappointment.

"I-I-…"

"QUIET!" Erza commanded the blond and she did as she told while everyone even Kagura and Mirajane could only watching this scene and no one wouldn't dare to say a word when Erza like this. "I brought you here not because I pitied you or anything. I brought you here because I saw you're potential to become one of us. You even ranted on the train at how much you dreamed to become Fairy Tail mage. "Erza continued and kneeled down to Lucy who looked down in apparently shame. "You just joined Fairy Tail for two days and you already want to leave because your father hired some underling to get you back by force."

Erza then stood to her feet and continued. "If you really want to throw away your dream because your father said so, THEN GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE AND DON'T EVER COME BACK!" Erza literally yelled the last part at Lucy's face while pointing at the stairs.

Lucy just looked down and crying. Erza's words may sound harsh but Lucy knew she was right. She was always dreamed off to become a Fairy Tail's member and she had finally achieved it but how could she just threw it away because of her father who was never showed any interest in his daughter during her childhood since her mother passed away. And now he suddenly wanted her back and went to such terrible lengths to take her back.

Lucy then mumbled something between her cry. "I-I don't want to leave."

"What?" Erza asked

"I don't want to leave."

"What did you say?" Erza asked again.

"I SAID I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE!" This time, Lucy screamed as loud as she could to convinced Erza that she want to stay in Fairy Tail.

Erza then smiled a little at this and rubbed the blond's head. "Good…because as long as we live, we won't let Phantom have a hand on you, even if they bring the entire guild to capture you." Erza told the blond woman with a gentle tone this time, causing everyone even Kagura and Mirajane smiled at the red head.

"Erza…" Lucy's eyes started to tear up as she stared at Erza's smiling face, before leaning forward and bringing the red head into a tight hug "…Thank you so much."

"Don't cry. It's not like you..." Lyon told her as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Yeah! Men are weak to womanly tears!" Elfman added while trying his best not to cry himself.

After that touchy moment, Cana and Mirajane were making attempts to contact Ur and Mystogan for assistance, though it didn't seem to help as Cana wasn't having much luck with finding the elusive Mystogan's location. Ur had answered them and told Mira that she was currently on her way back to Magnolia.

"Damn…we still have too many injured to put up a decent fight. Even with even with Alzack and Bisca returning from taking the master to Porlyusica-san, Erza is being here and Ur is on the way, I doubt our ability to make an adequate defense." Kagura thought aloud.

"I think that there's one person that we still haven't tried calling." Erza said while looking at Mirajane who was standing beside her.

"Are you sure 'he' would help us?!" Mira asked Erza, knowing who the red head referring to.

Erza scowled at her, didn't like her negative thinking. "You haven't even tried yet." Erza commented.

The white-haired woman then walked over to a nearby Communication Lacrima crystal and began to operate it. For some time, nothing happened, but soon enough the image of a blond-haired man with a lighting-like scar on his right eye appeared within the crystal sphere.

"Well now this is a surprise. What do you want?" Laxus scoffed, obviously not taking a friendly view on the gothic girl's call.

"Laxus, our guild is under attack and the master is seriously injured. Most of our other members have also suffered injuries and we are unable to locate Mystogan. We could really use your help." Mira stated, although she did her best not to puke when she 'requested' help from Laxus.

"Nah…" Laxus grunted out in a dissatisfy manner. "…I'm nowhere near Magnolia right now."

"Please, Fairy Tail is in serious danger." Mira pleaded, though the words she said made her inwardly scowl as she mentally gritted her teeth.

Asking the egotistical mage for assistance was something she'd never do in a thousand years unless she really needed to, but with many were injured, the master was incapacitated, Ur wasn't even here yet and Erza said she needed to face a certain Element 4 that said was even greater threat than Jose himself, she didn't really have much of a choice.

"God…The geezer is freaking pathetic, hahahaha! I don't see how this is remotely my problem. Beside, you've Erza being there, so why do you even need me when she is more than enough to handle those Phantom weaklings?" Laxus sneered.

"So you're not gonna help us?!" Cana asked in an agitated manner.

"Of course not, why would I? That fool old coat started it anyway, so why do I have to be the one to clean up his mess?" Laxus countered, not really caring about his grandfather.

"Laxus, they are trying to kidnap Lucy and we really could use your help." Mira said, continuing with the practical begging despite the fact that she loathed doing so with all of her being.

"Lucy? Do I even know her? Oh yeah…I think I remember her, she is the blond that Erza brought to guild. Hey, if you can talk blondie into being my woman then I'll do anything she wants." Laxus stated with a demented grin on his face.

"You are such a pig!" Cana exclaimed.

"Are you sure you wanna talk that way to a guy your begging for the help of?" Laxus countered with a cocky smirk.

Both Mira and Cana looked at the Communication Lacrima and scowled, mostly due to the fact that there last hope was currently toying with them and simultaneously refusing to grant them assistance.

Mira couldn't take it anymore and brought her fist up to crush the Communication Lacrima into pieces and wiped out that cocky smirk on Laxus face. But a hand stopped her as Mira turned around to see Erza scowled at her.

"Let me talk to him." Erza told the white haired girl before turned her attention to Communication Lacrima where Laxus image was grinning at her. She scowled at him before spoke to him. "Laxus, where are you really now?"

Laxus merely grinned at her even more. "Couldn't trick you as always… I'm currently in my house." He answered the red head, causing both Cana and Mira widened their eyes in surprise before turned into scowl, knowing that Laxus was lying at them all this time.

"Can you come here? The guild really needed your assistance!" Erza requested.

"Even if it's you who asking, I still need a valid reason why I should help them?" Laxus replied.

"Because I need someone to handle Jose…" Erza replied, causing both Cana and Mirajane gasped while Laxus merely chocked an eyebrow in interest.

"I'm listening…"

"I'll have some other business when Phantom decides to attack us again and I doubt that Ur will be here on time. Since you're the closer among us, can you face him while I'm taking care of my business?" Erza said while the blond man has a thoughtful look on his face before she grinned at him. "Think about it, Laxus Dreyar…the mighty mage that could topple even one of Seiten Dai Madoshi [Ten Wizard Saints], does that sounds nice to you?"

Laxus rubbed his chin with his finger before smirked cockily. "I'll consider it." He told the scarlet haired woman.

Erza nodded. "Make it quick…Because Phantom is already here." As soon as Erza said that, a loud booming noise came out of nowhere and caused the ground and wall to shake.

"What was that?" Gray questioned as he and the many wizards in the room cautiously looked up at the ceiling.

"Everybody!" Alzack shouted from the stairway, making everyone turn their heads to look at the panicking man. "You need to come outside and take a look at this!" Not even a second later the others followed after him to the surface and were shocked at what they saw once they made it.

"W-What the hell is that?"

"Is that a walking Guild Hall?" Max shouted while he and the others watched the Phantom Lord's Headquarters walk towards them with several legs sticking out from under it.

"Is it Phantom?" Macao took a step back with a nervous look.

Wakaba shifted the pipe to the other side of his mouth, "You got to be kidding me! How're we supposed to fight something like that?"

"No way, I never imagined them to attack us with such extremes!" Kagura stated in shock as she stared at the walking building that belonged to Phantom.

Erza only shrugged, not really care about Phantom bring entire guild literally. "Me neither, when I said they will bring an entire guild I don't mean it literally."

"Maho Shukoku Ho: Yupiteru! [Magical Convergent Cannon: Jupiter]!" Inside the main control room, Jose was sitting in his chair with several men surrounding him in order to properly control the moving Headquarters. The Guild Master gave the men a silent nod to signal them to prepare the weapon and wait for his orders.

Outside on the mainland, Fairy Tail watched in shock as the gate in front of the building slide down, a large and long cannon emerged from inside the building, extending its barrel which was currently pointed at them and their Guild Hall. "Engage and wait for my mark… Eradicate them all."

"Jupiter!" Mirajane warned as the cannon started to power up.

"Everybody, stay back!" Erza commanded as she pulled out her Kuroisakura [Black Sakura] from her sheath as she walked in front of every her guildmates. "I'll handle this."

"Erza... don't tell us-"

"You're going to try and stop that attack!"

A moment later, the large sphere of Maryoku [Magic Power] shot towards Fairy Tail's guildhall without delay. The blast was so powerful that the water scattered in its path and the wind whipped outwards at high speeds.

Erza however, stood her ground and prepared to mount her counterattack. She never took her eyes off of the cannon's projectile for even a moment, because if she were to let this thing past her then everyone behind her would be hurt, and there was no chance of her allowing such a thing to happen.

But when Erza sensed the presences of two familiar individuals, she smirked and decided to change her plan taking the Jupiter Cannon head on since it was too troublesome, even for her. Erza swung her Kuroisakura forwards with her left hand and easily cutting the incoming blast into two while she knew two familiar individuals from behind would take the blast.

"Aisu Meiku: Rozu Shirudo! [Ice Make: Rose Shield]!" Ur Milkovich's voice called out as she created several giant roses made from green ice that merged into a giant wall of ice roses that effectively stopped 50% of Jupiter blast.

"Rejingu Boruto! [Raging Bolt]!" Laxus Dreyar's voice called out as he created a large bolt of lightning and threw it towards another 50% of Jupiter Blast, effectively stopped it on its track.

Soon Jupiter's beam dried out with a blinding flash. As their spells disappeared, all three mages just stood there as if nothing happened. When the smoke cleared, the guild building and all Fairy Tail mages appeared to be unharmed.

"Whoa, they stopped it…and they managed to stand there as if nothing happened."

"They saved us…"

"Amazing…so this is what happen when our ace and two S-Class mages working together."

"Very Impressive Fairy Tail…" Jose's voice echoed from the magical speaker system of his Headquarters, drawing the attention of many as they turned to look at him. Erza turned herself around to face the building as the Devil Slayer put Kuroisakura back to her sheath. "…But even if you managed to block the first blast, I doubt that you want to stop another. Hand over Lucy Heartfilia Immediately."

"You're out of your mind!" Alzack shouted back with a clenched fist in front of his chest. "That's not gonna happen!"

"Where would find a guild who would hand over a comrade to the enemy?" Bisca called out in agreement to her partner's words.

Macao was the next one to speak. "Lucy's not going anywhere! She's one of us and that is how it's going to stay!" One by one other members of the guild shouted their own opinions on how they would never do such a thing, bringing tears to Lucy's eyes as she heard their words.

'E-Everyone…T-Thank you!' Lucy had tears falling down her face with one hand covering her mouth. A few second later she felt a small hand grab onto her left shoulder, making her look to her side to see Lisanna looking down at her.

"See Lucy, everyone would be sad if you left. Erza was right, we won't hand over you to him, no matter what." Mirajane's little sister said with a large smile. "You have to stay with us now, because we won't let you go!"

"Y-Yeah… I want to stay!"

"I see…" Jose growled silently, infuriated by Fairy Tail's reply. "Then we'll fire an even bigger and stronger Jupiter! Now struggle in this 15 minute terror until it's reloaded!" He yelled through the speaker. A moment later, multiple soldiers more than fifty jumped out from Phantom guild's windows into the gulf and swam toward the coastline.

"Wha…?! Their soldiers are coming out?!"

"No way! Aren't they just going to fire Jupiter?"

"No mercy…"

"Feel the pain, Fairy Tail! You have two choices: get killed by my soldiers or die by Jupiter!" Jose's voice announced via the broadcasting system.

"Impossible… Is he going to kill his men with Jupiter as well?!"

"He's just threatening us… he won't fire…"

"Yes, he will…" Cana said, gaining attention from everyone. "That's Jose's magic, Sheido [Shade]. They're not humans, they're just ghost soldiers that Jose created," Cana turned toward the senior mages.

"Okay, now what?"

"Laxus, you can hunt your prey now. I'll handle the Jupiter!" Erza spoke to Laxus who replied 'you didn't need to tell me that' before disappeared in lightning.

Erza stood in front of everyone while gathering a quite amount of black flame that took shape of a tiny black pheasant on her left hand. "Enma no Fezanto Beku! [Flame Devil's Pheasant Beak]!" With a great effort, Erza threw the flame pheasant towards the Phantom guild.

The black pheasant continued to fly forwards with the speed that only Erza could follow, heading directly towards the barrel of the large weapon that had just recently fired off. With each passing second, the flame pheasant neared its target, and when contact was made, a giant explosion of fire and smoke erupted.

Phantom's Jupiter cannon were currently invisible to the view of everyone from their current prospective. Shortly thereafter, however, the smoke and fire did clear, revealing the appearance of the massive weapon to everyone at its front.

As the smoke dissipated, all Fairy Tail's mages cheered at what they saw

"The Jupiter Cannon…she destroyed it." Kagura cheered and sighed in relief, knowing they wouldn't have to deal with another shoot from Jupiter.

Before their very eyes, the previously menacing barrel of the magical weapon was completely destroyed. The central hall of Phantom's guild was also completely in shambles, fire clearly raging within the control room of the cannon itself.

Saturday, July 7th, Year X784, 14:54 P.M, Earthland, Fiore Kingdom, Magnolia, Fairy Tail's Backyard, Phantom's Headquarters, Control Room

"Status report! Tell me what's going on dammit!" Jose roared angrily as he rose from his throne.

"The Jupiter cannon aren't responding sir. It-it's too damaged to fire again." One of the men replied.

"Sir, I have more bad news. It appears that Totomaru of the Element 4 was also caught in the blast. He's highly injured and is currently being escorted to the medical ward." Another stated.

"Great… just great…" Jose sighed out, slumping back into his chair as he did so.

Saturday, July 7th, Year X784, 14:54 P.M, Earthland, Fiore Kingdom, Magnolia, Fairy Tail's Backyard.

"Good work Erza!" Ur complimented the red head who merely staring at her left hand before flicked it three times and tch'd.

"Not just that attack was lack of power but it was also hard to control." Erza thought out loud before staring at the wide eyed Ur, probably heard what Erza just said. "Anyway, just because we've destroyed that damn cannon, we can't allow ourselves to believe we have won the day while that woman still around." Erza stated as she walked towards the Phantom Headquarter.

"It would seem that Meio [The Underworld King] is indeed as wise as I was told, although I haven't the slightest idea who she talking about. If you believe that you've defeated us simply because the Jupiter cannon has been destroyed then you are highly mistaken, little fairies." Jose said matter-of-factly.

In the next instant a large magic circle appeared over the front of the mobile castle, its aim directly set to the remnants of Fairy Tail's guildhall. Erza widened her eyes a bit before it returned back to normal as she recognized the Mahoujin [Magic Circle] the mobile castle just made.

"No way!" Gray shouted worriedly as he too recognized the Mahoujin.

"That's the magic circle of the Abissu Bureiku [Abyss Break], one of the forbidden spells…" Kagura trailed of fearfully.

"Is he nuts?! A black wave that big would wipe out the entire city!" Mirajane exclaimed.

"If by chance you were thinking of stopping this powerful spell from firing, you won't even have the slightest chance. My soldiers will stomp you out long before that could ever hope to happen." Jose stated smugly.

As soon as Jose finished that sentence, three figures jumped out from the windows of Phantom mobile guild.

The first one was a tall and muscular young man with long, spiky black hair whose face and limbs were decorated by sets of simple, round studs, was having a late dinner. He wore shabby, black, sleeveless tunic with studded edges, a studded belt around his waist, loose, beige pants tucked inside studded black boots, and a pair of studded brown gloves paired with similarly studded wristbands. He also sports a distinctive wing-like ornament, seemingly made of feathers.

The second was a slim man if average height with green hair that pointed upwards, black eyes, and a pointed moustache. Although it should be note that he was severely beaten, he wore a brown suit with six prominent protrusions jutting out of the collar, beneath which was a white collared undershirt which sported an accompanying red tie. His eccentric attire was complete with a monocle that covered his right eye, and a small cape that was attached to both of his elbows rather than his back.

The last one was a large man clad in great robes with an orange undershirt and a piece of cloth covering his eyes appeared out of nowhere. He was wearing a green hat and his eyes were covered by a white cloth.

Erza knew well these people. That black haired guy was Gajeel Redfox, the one who trashed the guild building and hurt Team Shadow Gear. While the other two were two of Element 4, Sol of the Earth and Aria of the Air.

But she narrowed her eyes in suspicious when she found out one member was missing (Actually there are two missing if Erza count Totomaru). A certain blue haired woman that was the major headache from Phantom Lord. 'Wait a minute, where the hell is that woman?' She thought to herself as she stepped forwards to the three guys before her.

She decided to ask these three. "Oi…where the hell is Juvia Lockser?" She questioned the three Phantom's mages.

Gajeel being as cocky as he was, merely titled his head and snorted. "Why are you looking for the bitch anyway, I thought I heard you're only looking for strong opponent which I'm being one of them." He smirked cockily at the red head.

"Not answering I see." The red head mumbled under her breath and was about to wipe that cocky smirk of his if Ur didn't stopped her by putting a hand on her shoulder.

"Leave the three to us Erza, don't waste your energy on these people while you need it to use against her." The older woman advised the red head who merely sighed.

Ur was right, her opponent was after all, a Devil Slayer just like her. Juvia was one of few people that could match her in term of strength and the one Erza could be called as her rival. With a nod, Erza's body relaxed a bit and backed away while Mirajane and Kagura walked towards the dark purple haired woman.

The scarlet haired beauty turned around to look at a worried Lucy and walked towards her. "You're staying with me, it's easier to protect you when you're around."

Lucy nodded but she was thinking something else and reached for her keys. "Can I fight too? I want to protect my guild too." She asked the red head with determine in her eyes.

Erza looked at her seriously for the moment and couldn't help but amazed how determine Lucy currently is. Lucy reminded her of herself when Erza's first meeting with her mentor, E.N.D. 'So…this is what sensei saw in me that time?' She thought to herself.

Erza then let out a small smile before replied. "Alright, you can fight too…" Lucy beamed at the answer until Erza held out her finger. "…But, as long its only Jose's Sheido, then that's fine with me. Just stick close to me."

Lucy nodded and pulled out a golden key and readied to fight Jose's Sheido alongside her guildmates. Erza then turned again to look at Ur, Kagura and Mirajane who were facing Gajeel, Sol and Aria.

The battle between Fairies and Phantoms has just begun.

To Be Continued