Well, I got some minor threats for what I did to Wendy...lucky I live in an alternate dimension! :P
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"FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!"
Natsu slammed into the back of Shadowlogia's bowlegged knees.
"Someone hit the other side!" He ordered, voice raised as loud as it could go.
Someone obeyed the command, leaping upwards and bombarding the opposite knee with powerful explosions of a magic Natsu didn't bother to try and recognize. All he cared about was that it was strong, and that it was working. The pink haired teen continued his own assault on the dragon, trying frantically to knock it down, to injure it in some way.
The dragon let out a pained screech, one of it's wings was swiftly crumpling under the bombardment from more of the wizards below as it fell to one knee, clawing at the ground.
"Now we're getting somewhere!" Natsu exclaimed happily as he dove, landing on the dragons back.
Shadowlogia than bucked backwards hard, sending Natsu stumbling. He lost his balance and hit the scaled surface of the dragon's back hard with one shoulder. He rolled chaotically, arms flailing for a handhold, falling out into the open air for a terrifying instant.
He seized thankfully managed to grab ahold of one of the spikes blooming from the nightmare dragons back.
"Whoa!" He yelped as he swung, dangling fifty feet above the ground, halfway up the she-dragons back.
He struggled to seize the spike with his opposite hand, but it was to slippery from the drenching downpour that still came cascading down upon everyone.
"Natsu!" Onyx shouted from the ground, pointing upwards at the dragonslayer, who was losing his grip, heading for a deadly fall.
"No way my vines could reach him in time!" Orchid wailed as she decked another spawn with a stabbing thorn.
"Neither could my water blasts or your rock pillars!" Misty exclaimed.
"Water Dragon Tsunami Slash!" She shrieked, all of the rain pouring down upon them twisting around her arms and forming a destructive whirlpool that she slammed into several more spawn coming her way.
"Wait...someones up there with him!"
Onyx cried in relief, pointing.
Sure enough, a lithe figure was sliding down the scales of the dragons back, heading toward the spike Natsu clung too.
But before the rain blurred figure could reach the him, the fire dragonslayer fell.
In the clearing with Wendy and Jack.
"Wendy...please..." Jack sobbed, shoulders shaking.
"GUYS!" Romeo and Cole came bursting from the trees, Kylie and Asuka running along behind them. Kylie was holding Asuka's hand and using her magic to help them both keep pace with the taller, older boys.
"Oh my god, Wendy!" Cole gasped in horror, staring at the increasingly large pool of blood forming beneath the blue haired girl, soaking into her sleeve and sticking to her dirty blue locks.
"Wendy..." Romeo fell to his knees next to her.
Jack still hadn't released the girls cold hand.
The red head sniffed as water dripped from her sopping wet bangs.
"T-The dragon...a-a-and the the the...I killed it but it...it got up and...it shot at...at me...and...and Wendy...Wendy pushed me...pushed me out of the way..." Jack coughed out, she was shivering violently.
"Cole, Kylie and Asuka." Romeo ordered in a dead voice.
"Right." Cole choked out, his throat was closing up on him.
He quickly moved to the two little girls and turned them around, blocking their view.
"What happened? Why's Wendy lying on the floor?"
"She's...she's just...asleep..." Cole murmured, still keeping a hand to both of the girls shoulders, steering them in the opposite direction of the unresponsive figure prone on the forest floor.
Romeo fell to his knees beside Wendy, reaching out and placing a hand on her chest for a moment.
He felt it give, but not rise again.
"No...no she can't..." He whispered.
Jack was no help, she just remained, holding tightly to Wendy's hand, not wanting to allow it to fall limp to the ground and confirm the terror that was already reality.
Wendy Marvell was dead.
On Shadowlogia's back.
Natsu screamed as his grip slipped, he felt himself falling out into the expanse of open air beneath him.
He closed his eyes and waited to be dashed to death against the trees below.
He felt a hand close around his wrist, and he was jerked to a halt.
"I got you, dragon breath!"
Natsu looked up to be face to face with Gray Fullbuster, who was gripping tightly to the spike on the monsters back, using his ice to strengthen his hold.
"You idiot! Drop me or we're both screwed!" Natsu yelled back.
Wait, had he just told Gray to drop him and save himself?
Gray forced a smile through gritted teeth.
"I got something to say to you, and you ain't clocking out until I say it!"
"Well you might want to spit it out! Shadowlogia's noticed two pests on her back!" Natsu shouted as the dragon began to twist and buck wildly.
"Ok, I want to say..."
"Hurry up before she hits us!" Natsu ordered as Shadowlogia swatted one of her mammoth clawed arms over their heads.
"Right, look, I just want to..."
"Will you hurry up! We're about to be squashed!" Natsu exclaimed as he was swung dangerously to one side, forced to hold onto Gray's arm so that he wouldn't fall.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP SO I CAN TALK!?"
Natsu fell silent, despite an irritated look on his face.
Gray took a rattling breath as they swayed in the relative calm in between Shadowlogia's violent jerks.
"I was wrong. I was so wrong. You charged a freaking demon for me. You did so much for our guild. It was wrong for us to turn on you for something like this, something we had no proof was your fault. Even then you invite us into your new home. I know..."
Gray grunted in between his words as the dragon let out a beastly roar and staggered to one side.
"What I'm trying to say is I'm sorry, my god, I said it at the games but I was never sure if you even heard me! I'm sorry, you fire breathing, stupid, idiotic, retarded excuse for a dragonslayer! I'm sorry!"
Natsu stared at him, rain pounded down on both of them as Gray took a rattling breath and barked.
"Look out!"
Shadowlogia's claws flew over their heads yet again, and Gray released the spike.
"NOW I'M GETTING US OUT OF THIS MESS!"
He yelled as he and Natsu fell.
"Ice make slide!" He blasted out a thick arc of ice, Natsu landed on it with a thump and instantly went spinning out of control on his back, twirling like a top. Gray molded the ice to his will, sliding down with ease as if on a snowboard, guiding them out of harms way as the wounded dragon crushed the slide they had ridden behind them.
"Gray saved him!" Cobra yelled in surprise.
Orchid, Onyx, Misty, and Cobra himself all glanced at each other.
"Gray?" Onyx asked, skeptic.
"Well, that was unexpected...WATER DRAGON WING SLASH!"
"GARDEN DRAGON FANG!"
"POISON DRAGON SCALES!"
"ROCK DRAGON PILLARS!"
Within the forest of the West Woodsy.
"This can't happen...I can't..."
Romeo felt tears spill down is face, he felt himself shaking, shivering as the rain pounded down, as lighting lanced through the sky.
An instant later thunder boomed, and Romeo snapped.
"NO!"
He screamed, causing Jack's head to snap up in surprise and Cole to look over his shoulder.
Romeo leaned over the corpse, trembling, feeling fire licking at the inside of the shell he called his body.
He wasn't going to let this happen.
Romeo hugged her, he pulled the form close to his chest, her head lolled back like a broken dolls.
Jack had been forced to release Wendy's hand at last when Romeo had grabbed her, as he clutched tightly to the body, he felt the fire roaring.
He had to let it out.
The boy was a pillar of green flame, the power hurling Jack the length of the field.
The rain hissed as it evaporated upon the fires touch.
Romeo screamed. He screamed until his throat felt raw, an even then he did not stop. This power was to much, it was hurting him, it was ripping out of him and into the freedom above. This flame was the color of the sky he and Wendy had looked up at, lying on their backs in the grassy field behind the hall when they'd still been in the same guild. The color, to Romeo, represented life, it represented a love as vast and unending as the sky that shared it's hue.
But the fire was for Wendy, and that was why Romeo made it blue.
The pulses of power thrummed from Romeo, who was still screaming his anguish into the sky. Still holding the bloody, broken frame to him.
Still aflame.
"Romeo!" Jack screeched, watching through the distorted visions the pillar of flame allowed of her friends.
Cole had forgotten completely about keeping Asuka and Kylie preoccupied, all of them were staring in awe at the power Romeo had released.
His scream was dying down, and with it went the flame, it fell lower and got thinner, it wavered until it was extinguished by the driving downpour.
Romeo's eyes looked weakened and he was cradling the form of the girl he so dearly loved.
Looking down at her, the group was frozen in place, the two young girls knowing better than to say something now.
"Wendy...please don't go..." Romeo begged.
Her head hung limply, her hands were ice cold.
Romeo lowered his head in grief, holding her closer one last time, tucking her head onto his shoulder, and feeling her soft breath tickling his neck.
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