Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters; they belong to the one and only Hiro Mashima.
I do own the Original Characters –OCs- that appear through the story and the idea for the story.
Knowing it from the beginning.
(A I.-.-.I Kuroyagi I.-.-.I original fan-fiction story.)
Chapter 13: 'Twilight Empress Armor' – Nova's armor.
(Brammingmont; north side, crash site.)
"Tch! don't tell me what to do!" Gray moved his arms in front of him, his right hand opening with his left closing to a fist before both joined with a light hit; mist coming from the joining before several lances formed and launched themselves towards the frail looking guy. "Ice make! Lances!"
"Good luck." Natsu said before ducking to avoid a fire engulfed punch from his 'step-brother' and kicking him away against a building, following him with his fire-leg thrusters to continue with the fight.
"Thanks." Hyde whispered out of politeness before raising one hand with its palm open facing the ground, an invisible force field surrounding him and making the ice lances shatter on contact. "Light magic, forcefield."
"Tch…!" Gray was running out of patience and magic power, he couldn't use his second reserve now; the battle was barely starting, enemies were coming out of nowhere and his friends were in peril. His mind demanded him to hold his ground whatever it takes to buy them some time.
"Light magic, hyperion!" A large concentration of energy focused on Hyde palm before being launched at the ice mage, his ice shield unable to hold off the powerful blast and thus sending him away against Lucy; who unbeknownst to his situation and concentrated in Loke's fight didn't notice him until it was too late. Hyde narrowed his eyes as he walked closer to them. "You're no match for me; tell me, why're you fighting?"
Gray spat some blood to the left as he straightened himself, not hearing Lucy's complain about him almost hitting her leg. "Get out of my way!"
"I see," Was all that the light blue haired man said before raising his hand again, light covering his hand again as he prepared for another strike. "Light magic, hyperion!"
Another large light-blast hit Gray, even if he tried to avoid it, the ball of light-energy was too fast for him to do something to counter it, thus he was sent flying against a building's wall. Dropping on the ground, he felt his energies leaving him, his body already surrendering to the exhaustion cause because of the continued fighting. First, the lightning dragon-slayer, later Natsu and now this light magic user; his body wanted some rest. Though, stubborn as he was, Gray stood up shakily after hitting the ground and casted another ice spell.
"Hyperion was the largest moon of Saturn, now gone and replaced by Titan, which is also one of the strongest spells of Light Magic; how do you plan to counter them?" Hyde explained as he walked closer to the ice mage. Gray glared at him before letting his hands drop to the ground, a trail of ice erupting from it and making its way to his enemy; who sidestepped and avoided the pillar of ice that rose from the position in which he was previously at. "Words are wasted on you."
"Girl! Do it now!" Gray screamed as he saw the chance to take the man by surprise. Hyde raised an eyebrow at his words but then he felt a presence behind him, looking back over his shoulder, he saw the girl resembling the Titania lunging at him with a spear held high and wearing a different armor. He barely had any time to dodge her strike so he tried to use his defensive spell.
"Light magic, forcefield!" But the invisible shield shattered upon contact, the spear's blade slashing him across his chest. His hand went to touch his injured chest, his eyes narrowing at the sight of blood and his mouth opening slightly to show him gritting his teeth, he gazed at the girl standing at the ready in front of him and her armor; wonder in his mind if that was part of the Titania's infamous counter-armors. "T-that armor… that spear… you crossed past my forcefield like if it wasn't there in the first place…"
"Twilight Empress Armor…" She answered his unspoken question without listening to it, spinning her spear in front of her and showing her first requiped armor. It was black with white trimmings that had white suns is several places. It had a revealing white-edged breastplate and plates flanking her hips that reach down to her waistguard. The armor looked like the Black Wing armor that Erza was now using but the differences were its colors and the piece of armor that covered her revealing-exposed areas with metal armor close to her figure like a second skin. She had large plates guarding her legs. The armor also had two mismatched wings that have black and white metal, one looking like an angel's wing and the other like a demon's. Nova's hair was untied but held back with a large metal part covering her forehead. "The last armor my mother used before… passing away with my father, this armor counters light and dark magic; if that's all you have in store, you don't stand a chance against it."
He quirked an eyebrow at what she said, also noticing that it could be true; if the small cracks, severed areas and blood stains on the armor and the weapon meant anything, the left shoulder, where it was the arm that held the spear, was the most damaged area and had bigger stain of blood over it, making him take note that the Titania was going to receive a fatal blow there in the future. The wings held holes and slashes on them too, probably leaving her unable to use the ability to fly with that armor. He dropped his hand gripping his injured chest and nodded, raising both arms to his sides and closing his eyes. "It seems like I'll be of no help on this fight, please finish me and go, girl."
Gray and Nova looked at him in shock.
"Do it, please, fighting you will be useless if you have such armor with you…" Gray looked troubled at this, preferring to let the reequip user to decide. Nova shook her head, reluctant to do something like striking an enemy that surrendered.
"If you don't want to fight then go away and don't interfere, I'll not finish you off." She said to him with her most impassive face though a frown at the statement betraying her feelings, making the man in front of her shook his head in disapproval before turning to the ice mage.
"Then freeze me, Fullbuster." Gray felt a vein popping out on his head at the order before nodding and preparing his ice make, using what remained of his energies to cast a last spell on his enemy and incase him inside a pillar of ice. Hyde only muttered a small 'thank you, taking a final look at the fights around him before the ice froze his head too. Natsu was fighting that other fire dragon-slayer, the Titania was fighting Pierre in an incredible display of swordsmanship, Literio was fist fighting the stellar spirit that the blonde summoned, Asis was lying unconscious on the ground surrounded by broken earth pillars and Fran… was nowhere to be seen, yet; he was surely delaying the Rune Knights. He casted a final look at his opponents, Nova watching him freeze with narrowed eyes while Gray panted on his now sitting position before dropping to the ground in exhaustion. And then, all he saw was darkness, the ice completely covering him now.
"Are you okay?" Nova said as she ran and kneeled next to the gasping ice mage, concern in her eyes as the man smiled painfully at his state.
"One down, three to go… hurry and help… your mother…" Nova's eyes widened at the last words, staring at Gray for a moment before hearing him chuckling at her reaction. "I'll be fine; I just need some rest…"
"B-but…!" Gray growled at her in impatience, making her flinch before nodding and going steadfast to help on the other fights. The man softened his factions for a fraction of a second.
"She really is your daughter… Erza…" And he closed his eyes. Letting unconsciousness take him to where he could recover his energies.
With Kaki and Natsu
"Stop avoiding me!" Kaki's anger-filled yell was heard as he lunged another fire fist to his senior, the dragon-slayer just side-stepping to avoid the fist and moving fast to give a hard punch to the other's gut; making him spat some saliva and tremble at the force of the hit.
"Too slow." Withdrawing his fist, Natsu moved his other hand and grabbed the boy by the face tightly; now delivering a series of punches to his whole body that disarmed Kaki and left him unable to move. Releasing his face, he gave a final punch to the boy's face, making him fall to the ground with pain overwhelming his body. The pink-haired stared at him with remorse for having to do that but hided it well as he now opened his mouth to speak again. "Why did you come?"
"U-uh?" Kaki tried to stand up again, failing miserably to even call out his flames. Natsu asked the same question and came to kneel to his side, staring intently at his blue eyes. The dark haired boy smiled cheekily to him, shaking his head in answer. "I won't… tell you…"
Natsu's stare changed to a harsh glare, his hand moving to grab the boy by his scarf and raise him to be close to his face. "Why did you come?"
"Why do you care?" Natsu clenched his teeth and growled angrily; the boy's resolve already melting at the sight of the Salamander's wrath.
"Nova said she was glad I was alive, why's that?" Kaki shrugged nonchalantly, giving him a sympathetic look to him before opening his mouth to answer.
"What it is! From where we came, you and everyone else are dead." To say that Natsu was surprised was an understatement, he was now trying to understand why would he be dead in the future and couldn't get a clear answer… but one… he failed; somehow, during the course of his plan, he failed and was killed. Tightening his hold on the boy's scarf, he shook him violently and demanded a better and more clear answer, to what the boy grinned amusedly and shook his head. "Won't tell you…"
The pink-haired's response to that was giving the boy a hard kneed on the chest, making him cough and gasp for air before demanding an answer again; threatening to do worse if he didn't receive an answer now. Kaki smiled weakly to him, shaking his head in answer again.
"Stubborn brat!" Natsu bellowed enraged, using his tight hold on the boy's scarf to throw him to the air, him following close with his thrusters and flaming his fists to finish him with a more than overkill move. "Dragon Slayer's Secret Art! Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade!"
A torrent of blade-shaped flames lashed out from Natsu's arms and hit the young dragon-slayer with incredible force in a spiral formation. Every time Kaki was hit with one of the blades, it exploded and burned his skin, much to his surprise; he thought that fire-based attacks couldn't harm him. Seems like he was wrong. Falling to the ground with no energies or force to move his body, the dark-haired boy clashed against the fight-wasted floor of the city, unconscious; his body tired and battered after receiving such attacks and wasting his magic for nothing… noticing that he did more attacks than Natsu, but the other had landed stronger blows on him, getting him tired faster and out of magic before his normal.
That was the cause of his defeat.
The senior fire dragon looked at his opponent with a slight narrow of his eyes, lamenting but two things about the fight; his opponent was supposedly his "brother" and the battle didn't last long enough to prevent him from going against his friends. Raising his eyes to look around, Natsu saw that only two battles were left, Erza and the girl against Pierre, and Lucy and Loke against Literio.
He scowled at the image of Gray lying unconscious on the floor, Hyde incased in ice and Asis lying unconscious surrounded by her earth spells. He clenched his fists in frustration before hearing footsteps behind him, a familiar scent coming to his nose at the same time a voice called out to him.
"Oi, flame-brain!" It was Fran and he looked annoyed. "I did my part! Those morons from the council will be licking their wounds for a while!" Looking around his leader, the mismatched-haired man growled angrily. "You… you didn't save an opponent?"
"No, though, you still have that other girl next to the one from my guild." Fran looked around, finding three women and one guy still fighting his companions; a blonde using a whip to lash at Literio when he was distracted with a suit-dressed man and two armored red-heads fighting incredibly well together against Pierre; who if he had any troubles fending them off, didn't show it. The man snorted amusedly, walking next to Natsu and whispering something to his ear.
"I take it as the young red-head wasn't supposed to be here," He raised one arm and this one was surrounded by a dense and dangerous whirlwind, that didn't bulge Natsu at all. "Special treatment?"
"Not this time, she's my daughter." Fran looked back and forth between Natsu and the young red-head, a curious look settling on his features.
"Seriously?" The dragon-slayer nodded, the mismatched-haired man whistled. "You're a rapist?"
"Hell no!" Was Natsu's answer as his fist tried to hit Fran on the head, but it went by past him when it was supposed to connect. The pink-haired grumbled some curses at the time his companion let out an amused cackle. "Just go and distract her!"
"Going…" The man said in between cackles as he walked calmly to where the three were fighting, Natsu glaring at his back all the way. Fran couldn't help but smirk at the feeling. 'So, you're still with us, uh? Let's see if that's true…'
To be continued
I know, another chapter and the fighting is still going; but! it is like this for a purpose!
Likely in the next or the 15th chapter this story will end and it'll give room for the Epilogue, and the sequel.
There's so much to explain. Natsu's involvement with this organization, why the mages accompanying him hate the magic council, why's Jellal a dragon-slayer too, Garreth's condition during his stay in Fairy Tail, what's going through the mind of the Chairman and why's he pushing hard to get Natsu lock down with Jellal, what Asa and Natsu told Gajeel for him to join them, why's the magic council of Fiore banning so many kinds of magic when on the rest of the world isn't like that, what happened with Tartaros, what's that about the council doing things with the dragon-slayers, who's the main enemy of this story called the 'dark one', why did Kaki and Nova traveled to the past, why's Romeo the master in the future, what happened during the last battle that left Nova's armor from Erza so broken, and so on. xDDD
So much to answer and so little time. =/ Though, that's up to you also! I've been feeling down because I already have fifteen chapters publish and the reviews don't pass from 50... I'm not greedy, I'm trying to make a point. XD Good stories have a good percentage of 5 reviews per chapter, so make you're maths. XD My story isn't that great for what it looks like... though, I blame the prologue for that, it was made when I was still improving. u_u
Well guys, don't be surprised! But I'm about to publish 7! Yes! S-E-V-E-N! new ideas I got during the time I was struggling to write this chapter, so be my guest to a night full of NaZa stories! ^^
Saludos.
PS: I hate you Hiro Mashima, chapter 264 is a blasphemy to Shonen and a spit to the faces of all the people that took their precious times to write about their favourite couples. I salute you NaZa, GraZa, ErCy, LaxusErza, GajeelErza, WendyErza - O.o -, MirajaneErza - x.x -, OCErza, LucyJellal, UltearJellal, OCJellal... and pretty much that's it... seems like no one tried to defiled the azure-haired man, though felt perfectly alright in doing that to Erza. xD I'll do something about that... in revenge. B(