"She's got the Tenrou Jade!" Acnologia exclaimed, pointing up at the woman.

"No shit Sherlock," Natsu sniggered.

"What did you say?!"

Acnologia and Natsu started growling at each other, another fight brewing in the air, until Erza bashed their heads together, stopping the fight before it even started.

The woman smirked and bought the orb to be eye level with her, turning it around as if she was getting a better look at it and as if she thought it was interesting.

"This is the Tenrou Jade huh?" the woman asks mockingly. "I thought it was my Arc of Time Orb."

"Who the hell are you?" Natsu demanded.

"You may call me Ultear Milkavich," the woman answers.

Natsu sweat drops, his face twisting in confusion. "Ul...ti...mate Milk...sand...wich?" Natsu tried.

"Not even close," Happy sighed from his perch on Natsu's head.

"DO YOU ONLY EVER THINK ABOUT FOOD?!" Acnologia roared, turning to Natsu, sweat dropping like crazy and his face turning red.

"Why do you have the Tenrou Jade?" Erza demanded, unsheathing her spear and pointing it up at Ultear in its default form.

"Hello Princess Erza Scarlet," Ultear says, smirking. "And Princess Lucy Heartfilia, Prince Gray Fullbuster and Princess Juvia Lockster."

"MY NAME IS NOT LUCY HEARTFILIA ANYMORE!" Lucy yelled, her face turning red with anger. "I'VE LEFT THAT ALL BEHIND! MY NAME IS LUCY ASHLEY NOW!"

Lucy grabbed another golden key and held it up toward Ultear with a wild look in her brown eyes. Natsu retreated behind Erza, not wanting to be the one that look was directed at. Lucy could be scary — not as scary as Erza — but scary.

"And..." Ultear looks over at Natsu, raising an eyebrow as she studied him. Natsu shifted from foot to foot, wanting to jump into a volcano and stay there. Lava couldn't kill him — a volcano was like a nice hot bath for Natsu — and it would make a great hiding place for him because he knew no one could follow him into one. "Who are you?"

"Natsu Dragion," Natsu squeaked. Gray hid a laugh with a cough. Natsu glared at him, itching to punch him in the face, burn his clothes off and push him off a cliff.

Well, if Natsu did burn Gray's clothes off the Ice Wizard surely wouldn't mind it. He'll just be annoyed that he'll have to buy more clothes for himself.

"So, why exactly do you want the Tenrou Jade?" Ultear asked, spinning it on her finger.

"Ain't telling you that!"

"The Tenrou Jade is a very powerful object," Ultear explained. "It can break any curse—even the ones created by a god—and it can kill any demon, or even make someone whose heart is shrouded in darkness see the light."

Natsu's eyes widened at what Ultear had said. It can break any curse, even ones made by a god? Natsu thought. Can it break Zeref-Nii's curse too?

Ultear lifted the Tenrou Jade over her head and threw it as she disappeared, making it seem she was never there in the first place. Gray caught it, looking proud of himself.

"I got it!" Gray exclaimed.

"Well done Gray-Sama!" Juvia praised.

"Put some clothes on!" Lucy snapped.

Gray looked down and started panicking when he noticed that he had stripped when catching the Tenrou Jade.

While the Ice Wizard was distracted Acnologia ran over to him and took the Tenrou Jade out of Gray's hand while saying, "yoink," and runs off like a child running off with someone's treasure.

"Bring that back!" Gray yelled. "Ice Make: Floor!"

A floor of ice forms underneath their feet. Acnologia slips over the ice and starts rolling around (A/N: like Natsu did on the second episode) before crashing into a boulder, dropping the Tenrou Jade. Natsu and Gray run over to it, both going to grab it at the same time, but end up getting into a fight.

"This is mine Flame-Head Bastard, I caught it first!" Gray snapped.

"Well, I'm the one who told you where to get it!" Natsu snapped, smashing his forehead against Gray's as they forehead wrestled.

"But you weren't the one who found it, Ultear was!" Gray snapped. "I caught it when she threw it, so it's mine!"

As Gray and Natsu started arguing over who got to hold the Tenrou Jade Erza walked over to them and banged their heads together, causing both of them to cry out in pain as Erza bent down and grabbed the Tenrou.

"If you two do not get along I'll push you into the sea!" Erza snapped.

"We're sorry!" Natsu and Gray exclaimed simultaneously, throwing their arms around each other in a friendly way. "Look, we're getting along!"

"That's good to see," Erza smirked, knowing that they were only doing that so that she wouldn't bash their heads in. "Natsu, here."

Erza handed the Tenrou Jade to Natsu, who took it. Gray stared at Natsu with wide eyes before looking over to Erza and back to Natsu.

"Why did you give him the Tenrou?" Gray demanded, pointing his finger at Natsu as he stared at Erza.

"Because she knew that you'll put it in your pant pocket and then you'll take your pants off and loose it," Natsu teased. Although it wasn't teasing, Gray would actually do that.

"I'll keep my pants on!" Gray argued, contradicting himself by taking his pants off and throwing them somewhere behind him.

"Ice-Brain, next time you say that you won't do something, make sure you don't do it," Natsu chuckled, putting the Tenrou Jade in his scarf.

Gray glared at Natsu before he actually realised what Natsu said. He looked down in confusion which later turned into panic as he realised he had stripped out of his pants.

"Argh! Where did my pants go? When did I do this?"

Acnologia stared at Gray with wide eyes as Gray started frantically searching for his missing clothing, taking more off as he did, before turning to Erza and asked, "is he a professional stripper or something?"

"No Acknowledger, he's just a stupid Ice Pervert," Natsu answered. A vein throbbed in Acnologia's temple.

"My name is Acn—"

"How do you get Acknowledger from Acny?" Lucy asked, tapping her boot against the ground.

Acnologia growled and stalked away, muttering things angrily to himself. Natsu whistled as he stared after him.

"Why does he always walk away when he's in a bad situation?" Natsu asked rhetorically.

"Hmm..." Lucy hummed, looking over at Natsu.

Natsu flinched when he noticed the look in her eyes. He had seen that look in her eyes once before, and it wasn't a good thing to see. So before Lucy could attach herself to him to do a Torture Technique Natsu ran away, Lucy running behind him shouting, "come back here Natsu! Too chicken to face me, huh? Too scared to be beaten up by a girl again?"

Gray returned after finding his clothes and whistled, smirking as he watched Natsu run away from the former princess.

"That Dragion guy is such a whimp," he chuckled, looking over at Erza with a grin. "No wonder Alv banished him! Huh, I just realised that there's a flying cat over us."

Happy, who was flying above them and watching Lucy and Natsu while sniggering, "she looooooves him," looked down at Gray and started crying.

"No one ever notices me!"

"Uh...sorry cat—"

"My name's Happy!"

"—wait, the cat can talk?"

Erza faced palmed and looked up as Natsu ran towards her, Lucy hot on his heels. Natsu ran behind Erza and took refuge behind her.

"Erza, protect me please!" Natsu cried, hugging her from behind. Gray's mouth dropped open in shock.

"He's the first person who has hugged her who Erza hadn't attempted to kill," Gray mused.

"What did you just say?" Erza growled, moving her glare to Gray, who flinched and stepped away.

"S-s-sorry, Erza," Gray stuttered.

Juvia looked up at the air, a surprisingly serious look on her face that was far away from her yandere looks towards Gray. She looked kind of...scary.

"What is it Juvia?" Gray asked, looking up at the sky too. He froze, his eyes widening.

"What the heck is that?" Lucy demanded, looking up at the sky too.

Erza and Natsu looked up and spotted the black dot in the distance, which was getting bigger and bigger as whatever it was got closer. A thunderous roar echoed through the air, sending shivers down the wizards' spines. A black dragon came into view, letting out another thunderous roar.

"Why's there a dragon here?!" Lucy screamed, summoning Hologium to hide in.

"Acknowledger!" Natsu screamed out in shock.

"It's Acnologia!"

Acnologia roared in rage, flapping his massive wings, creating a shockwave that sent the wizards flying off their feet.

Natsu crashed against a tree, the breath knocked out of him as he coughed out blood. He slid down to the ground. Acnologia roared again, causing trees to be uprooted and flying down on the wizards. Natsu rolled out of the way in time, but a tree branch impaled his leg. Natsu roared out in pain, grabbing his leg as if simply touching it would lessen the pain.

"Stupid Acknowledger," Natsu hissed, wrapping his hand around the branch and pulling it out. He clenched his teeth in pain as blood painted the ground, dying it red. Natsu frowned. "Why aren't I healing?"

As a demon—especially E.N.D—Natsu's skin was different from regular humans'. Natsu's skin was hard to pierce, and if he did end up getting wounded, he healed almost instantly, leaving not even a trace of a scar. Except for Erza, nothing has ended up wounding or scaring Natsu. The scar on Natsu's neck throbbed in memory.

"Natsu!" Erza yelled, running over to Natsu. "You're injured."

Erza dropped to her knees and expected Natsu's leg. Her cool, feather-like touches ran around Natsu's wound, sending shivers down Natsu's spine at her touch.

"It's not that bad," Erza muttered to herself. She pulled off her purple scarf and wrapped it around Natsu's leg, staunching the bleeding.

"Erza, Natsu!" Lucy's voice yells.

Lucy and Gray ran to where Erza and Natsu are, Juvia behind them. Juvia is tending to a cut on her arm.

"What is that thing?" Gray asked, looking up at Acnologia as he let out another roar.

"It's a dragon, what does it look like?" Natsu scoffed.

"You want a go at me, Match-Stick?!" Gray demanded.

"I would be delighted to!" Natsu shot back.

"Don't even think about it," Erza snapped, putting her 'scary-as-hell' face on, glaring at Natsu.

"A-aye!" Natsu stuttered. Who knew his lover could be so scary?

Gray chuckled from behind them and Erza turned her death glare on to him, causing the Ice Wizard to flinch in fear.

"What is the dragon doing?" Lucy asked, her tough, badass girl façade gone, instead in its place a young woman who was afraid of dying.

Acnologia had opened his gigantic mouth, charging his dragon roar. Natsu felt himself cold sweating in fear, a fear that he has never felt before.

"He's charging his Dragon Roar," Natsu whispered. "This is the end."

"What?!" Lucy demanded.

Juvia clutched Gray's arm, causing the Ice Wizard to clench his teeth in annoyance. He did not want to deal with Juvia's annoying clinginess at the moment.

"Do not fear children," a ghostly feminine voice says, sounding like it was coming through the wind.

A girl wearing an old fashioned pink dress materialised above the water, her long, wavy blonde hair swaying in an invisible wind. Her jade green eyes, which looked like they had no pupils, looked serene as she smiled at the wizards.

"First Queen Mavis?" Erza gasped.

Natsu's mouth dropped open in shock. This is the woman Zeref-Nii fell in love with? Natsu thought. She looks the same age as Wendy!

"As you already know I'm the first queen of Fairy Tail," Mavis says. "I was cursed with the same curse as Zeref, so I stopped aging at thirteen." She smiled at Natsu.

Holy crap, can she read my thoughts? Natsu thought in a panic.

Mavis looked up as Acnologia fire his roar, the attack rocketing down on them. He flew away, not accessing the damage.

"I have no time to explain," Mavis says. "Now, sleep. Fairy: Sphere!"

As Mavis cast the spell, Natsu felt his eyelids getting heavier. The others felt it too, the feeling of having to fall asleep. Natsu slumped to the ground, Erza slumping on top of him.

The world went black.