Chapter 6 Prelude

Lucy, Crime Sorcere, and Laxus have died at the hands of Mage King August, Warrod has died from injuries at the guild hall, and Mage King August just replenished his body so that he may fight in close combat with an ancient warrior magic. Grey and Guildarts are currently in a fight with August while Juvia provides support.

Juvia's PoV

All was quiet for a second, but only a second. Guildarts was still suspended in the air from the rising air currents created from his fire roar. In an instant August turned towards Grey and fired a magic bolt, an ordinary bolt that Grey attempted to deflect, but the bolt stuck through his hand.

"Ah! Damn It! That should have been easy to deflect. How come my magic didn't work?

"Because my magic is so much more powerful than yours that it is almost unaffected by it. Now let me take care of my horrible excuse for a son in peace." As August says this he turns around to get a face full of Guildarts fist! Demolishing anything within a 5 meter radius as Guildarts is directing all of his power as centered as possible on the face of his father for whom he has been trying to forget since he was exiled from Alvarez nearly 40 years ago.

"You gave up on me father, so I gave up on you. I became extremely powerful and yet you still call me weak?" Guildarts says as he thinks he has taken August down. 'Damn. All of my magic gone in 5 hits. Nearly 3 quarters of my magic was used on that punch alone. Natsu's drained punch technique works great as long as you have time to charge it.'

"Sorry Guildarts, But I'm still alive."

"I am not surprised. I didn't think I was capable of killing you with that punch. Even though it is the most powerful attack I am capable of. But what I did do was I broke your staff. And without that you cannot cast Fairy Sphere I know that. "

"True, but."

"Eck!"

"I will run you through with its shards!"

"Natsu! Plan 'B'."

Grey's PoV

"Juvia! Go and tell Natsu Plan B!" 'We lost, I am not winning against August and Guildarts isn't going to last much longer. The head of the Celestial Spirit King is right next to me, I can't see the body and Lucy's body is horribly burned with her King armor in pieces around her. I thought she was safe with Jellal, ah, I can't think about that now I have to stall him as long as possible. I hope Natsu can take down Acnologia and Zeref before Juvia gets to him, I don't want to send Juvia into a battle like that.'

Natsu's PoV

'Damn. I got separated from everyone and had to use my first Lacrima. So far it has been only a few seconds since Acnologia came down on me but it has felt like much longer. The power of Acnologia and Zeref are like nothing I have ever felt.' Acnologia speaks up, "Quit stalling half breed, you know you won't win this fight so why are you even here." I remembered what happened when Igneel fought Acnologia during the Tartarus battle. 'Hehe I got him.'

"Well if you really didn't think I was a challenge then you wouldn't have even noticed me right Acnodork? That's what you said to Igneel, that 'I acknowledge you as an enemy so I speak with you'."

"Grahhhh!" Acnologia charges with speed that I have never seen, but is blocked by Zeref.

"No! I want to fight you! I will have the pleasure of killing END myself!" Zeref roars at Acnologia. "You may be the King of the Dragons, but in your human form you don't stand a chance against Me.!

"I will kill you Zeref! "Acnologia then over powers Zeref and drills him into the ground, Zeref however can take a hit due to his immortality. When he rises from the rubble of what is left of the ground he is returned there promptly. As Zeref is continuously smashed into the ground I make my first attack.

Firing hammer of the flame dragon king

I fired my attack inches from Acnologia's head, I ran up and timed Acnologia's attack just right so that Zeref had been slammed into the ground a second before I attacked blocking me from his view until Zeref hit the ground and I was already in close range of him. When I Made contact with Acnologia's face he looked completely surprised and was blown back nearly 100 feet, however he stayed on his feet leaving 2 trails away from Zeref and I.

Concentrated roar of the fire dragon king

I turn around right away and blast Zeref where he stands, unexpectedly he doesn't react other than the look of shock as a beam of concentrated fire erupts from my mouth. Similar to Sting's laser breath, my roar was a piercing attack, drilling through Zeref's armor almost instantly. Zeref looked battered and beaten, but he still stood up, no wounds visible.

"You two are going to have to do much better than that if you want to defeat me."

"Shut up Zeref. I came here to fight, not to talk." Acnologia growls. "Die!"

This time Zeref blocks the attack with his left and delivers a terrible blow straight to Acnologia's forehead.

Death blast- life extractor

I can feel Acnologia's live being drained from his body, but in an instant he switches positions and now has Zeref's hands pinned to the floor with his foot, as he stomps on Zeref's head, after violently throwing him to the ground. Acnologia's Rage has increased, so his power follows his rage since he is a dragon slayer.

"You are an Emperor of humans Zeref. Weak, pathetic, vulnerable humans. I am the King of the Dragons! I am Acnologia! You do not compare to me! I have trained for 400 years! Alone! Waiting for the moment when you and you 5 dragon slayers came to defeat me! But you only managed to bring one!"

"SHUT UP!" I yell as I knock Acnologia into the earth beneath him. After drilling through the earth a few feet Acnologia looks up at me.

"Dragon Force, finally. I now have a worthy opponent! I cannot use my dragon force on you because mine turns me into a dragon. Which is good in a fight against humans, but not against dragon slayers."

We begin to fight, the damage is devastating, this is only the second time I have used Dragon Force since Tartarus. I never trained with it active because I was scared of hurting everyone when my power became too much for me to control, like Guildarts. The ground beneath us quickly gave way, I realized that my Dragon force power was nearly half of my Blaze Dragon King Mode power. Far more than I expected, but not enough, if Igneel couldn't kill Acnologia while at half power, then how am I going to win with half of that power? I am at a quarter of Igneel's power level, luckily he can't use dragon force or I would be toast. As we fight the army attempts to regroup as Fairy Tail continues to kick their asses and one of my roars ends up being deflected by Acnologia, taking them out at it hit them by surprise. I am quickly running out of magic while trying to keep up with Acnologia. I think he is just trying to out endurance me, that would work since he seems to be using less magic than I am. Since I am in Dragon force a larger percentage of my magic is being taken out from each attack than it regularly would. Ooh! I have an Idea!

"We end this Acnologia!"

As Acnologia charges in a blind rage at me I activate my Secret art. Dragon slayer king secret art-draining spear I open my arms out wide accumulating nearly all of my remaining magic into my arms. I then take a lunge step forward and slam my hands together in a clap (think of a Hulk clap) and direct a concentrated beam of golden flames at Acnologia, I realized that I barely mad it in time as he was mere feet from hitting me. Acnologia gets blasted back a long was as Zeref capitalizes on his opportunity and begins hitting him with everything he has. I pull out my remaining 9 lacrima.

I need to do this. I consume all 9 lacrima at the same time. I haven't been doing any lasting damage to Zeref and Acnologia is so tough even his clothes are still spotless as he used his aura to protect them. I need much more power. "BLAZE DRAGON KING MODE! DRAGON FORCE!"

Zeref turns around and smiles. "I have been waiting for this." He brings out the book of END. "Release!"

Suddenly I feel a power surge through me, but it doesn't feel like magic. My eyes turn from slits to complete blackness, my senses are even further enhanced and I can now feel the wind and the gusts each individual is making thorough the battle field and what attack each person is doing and who that person is. I feel Lucy. She is in a fight with August!? What!? How?! She's, summoned the Celestial spirit King?! I thought you had to break a Key to do that!? Oh there it is, it was Cancer. She will be OK with the King there. I feel the King fall, in on attack, the Celestial Spirit King was defeated. If they die in this world they are remade in theirs with all of their memories so he isn't truly dead. But I feel Crime Sorciere there as well, also dead. Guildarts and Grey are fighting him now, Laxus just died and the others aren't far behind.

"Yes!" Acnologia bellows! "Hello END, since you no longer have the ability to use the slayer magic I will transform! Dragon Force! Dragon of the Apocalypse!" Well shit. I had expected Zeref to release my demon power, but I thought that I would still be a Dragon Slayer. Acnologia and I charged at each other. His power in his Dragon form was so much greater. Even with the power of END I can feel that he is stronger. I nearly multiplied my dragon force power by 10! What the hell! I probably could have beaten him if Zeref didn't step in.

"Natsu! Plan 'B'" I hear Guildarts say as he dies. I don't feel any emotion this time, like when Lucy and Laxus died, it must be the form of END keeping me from feeling human Emotions. I got it Guildarts.

Dragon slayer king secret art-Curse version-Draining blast! All of my magic, all of it, along with all of my curse power, at once, in the first ever Unison raid with magic power and curse power. The blast strikes Acnologia, burning him. I guess Acnologia was wrong I still could use slayer magic. It makes sense, END is me, and so whatever I learn in human form I will retain in demon form as well. Acnologia and I both fall into the hole below us that the blast created, Zeref catches me by one hand. I try to punch him but it comes out weak as I cannot back it up with magic or curse power. I see Wendy flying overhead with Charlie, she is crying and bears a message from Juvia.

"Natsu!" she says choking on her words. "Juvia says plan 'B' everyone is dead, everyone. I am the last one left! Even Erza Died!"

At this I become enraged, like I was when I fought Jellal in the tower of heaven. My magic returned and I kicked the crap out of Zeref. He was driven into the ground, that's when I realized that that last bit of power was all I could muster, I collapsed again as I whispered to Wendy, "GO tell Mavis!"

"Goodbye Natsu," Zeref said, without a scratch again, he was healed. "Thank you for taking out Acnologia, you really did kill him, but you don't have enough power to kill me now. So I will kill you instead, like I came here to do."

With that he manifested a knife, and slit my throat, as everything went black I whispered, Erza, I will save you.