A/N: Sorry this was released late, i got lost on the path of life XD, of course by that I mean they did a blood test and I was already out of it from morphine, my GF got Great enjoyment from it though.
Natsu rested his head back against the cool concrete pillar, it didn't take long for the sound of footsteps to reach his ears.
"Natsu? Hey you all right?" Raken shook his brother slightly.
"I am a little tired," Natsu said with a smirk "Glad you two are all right."
Wendy crouched down beside him and placed her hand on either side of his head, a soft blue glow enveloped her hands and she closed her eyes.
Natsu pulled his head away slightly and she glared at him "Don't waste your power like that, I just need to sleep."
"You and Raken are the stronger combat mages here! My abilities in fights are second rate at best so shut up and stay still!" Wendy snapped in retort, cutting off any further argument she grabbed his head more firmly.
"Once she decides it is better for the guild she is more stubborn the Erza." Raken said flatly, he stood a little to Natsu's right leaning against the other pillar.
Natsu felt his magic power increase steadily, after a few minutes Wendy pulled away and stood up "Speaking of Erza where did she get off to?"
"She went to say hi to one mister Gajeel." Natsu replied as he stood up.
"I'd hate to be that guy right about now." Raken said flatly.
Wendy and Natsu nodded in agreement "Wendy Lucy might be a little dinged up, can you go on ahead and see what you can do?"
Wendy nodded "You two be careful, Jose still hasn't shown up anywhere and I doubt he is going to just let us win."
Natsu nodded as she turned around and ran off where Erza had gone.
"And here I was hoping I would have a challenge." The pair recognized the voice from the intercom, Jose floated above the ground a small distance from them.
Natsu gritted his teeth and glared at the man "Raken get out of here."
"No." Raken responded defiantly stepping up beside him, Raken gave Natsu a sidelong glance "We take him together."
"It's too dangerous for that, I will hold him off for as long as possible go get Lucy out of here." Natsu argued.
"No it's us three against the world remember!" Raken shouted, the pair froze for a moment, when all three of the brothers were together they used to say just that, it brought back a few painful memories.
Natsu straightened, before nodding his head "Okay, get him close to me…I'll do the rest."
Raken's slightly depressed visage was replaced by a cocky smile "I got that part, you think you can actually take him…big brother?"
Natsu shook his head "Just do it."
Raken nodded again, before he started glowing gold, he flew toward Jose at high speed, slamming into the man and sending him into the air, he rotated slightly before embedding both his feet into the man's back sending him hurtling at Natsu, Natsu shifted slightly and extended his arm catching Jose around the neck and slamming him into the ground before lifting him into the air and throwing him across the room, he slammed into the wall with a loud crash and the walls shook.
Raken landed silently beside Natsu and the pair watched their opponent carefully. A loud manic laughter echoed around the room, it set Natsu's teeth on edge and caused the hair on the back of Raken's neck to stand up on edge.
"I hope that was not the best you can do!" Jose continued to laugh as he moved towards them, an dark and crackling purple ball of energy beginning to form in his hands.
Lucy groaned in pain as she struggled to lift herself from the ground, Gajeel chuckled "I'm surprised you can even still move after that."
Lucy opened her mouth to retort, before any words had formed in her mouth the door exploded, capturing the attention of everyone in the room, in the smoke the only thing they could make out were glowing red dot's, Gajeel smirked.
Erza stomped out of the smoke, flame enveloping her entire body as she walked it singed the hair on a few of the spectator's from Phantom, she kept her gaze locked on Gajeel.
"You never should have messed with Fairy Tail." She growled
"Hah, and I suppose you are going to make me regret it?" Gajeel taunted.
Erza shifted slightly and shot forward, slamming into Gajeel with her shoulder, he stumbled back and she embedded her fist into his stomach, the air left his lung and he bent forward she jumped to the side to avoid a wild haymaker and rotated on her heel slamming her foot into his nose, he flew backwards and slid along the ground. He up a small smile on his face as he wiped a small amount of blood from his lip.
"Finally taking this seriously are you?" He shouted as he got to his feet.
Erza squared her shoulders and continued to glare at him, she didn't speak as she waited for his next move. Gajeel wasted little time as he bolted forward, extending his arm in front of him, it morphed and the iron bar flew towards Erza, she ran forward and dropped low sliding underneath it bring her fist up as she rose, he caught the blow in his free hand and slammed his knee into her stomach, Erza groaned and lurched forward crossing her arm's in front of her as he threw a punch, she spun slightly as the blow stuck her guard and brought her elbow down on he ducked the blow and she jumped away from the sweep aimed at her legs, the second her feet hit the ground she dived forward slamming her fist into the raised forearm of Gajeel, he pushed her back and she stumbled slightly losing her balance Gajeel threw another punch and she ducked leaving his ribs open because he hyper extended, she hit him three times quickly, as he stumbled she jumped into the air and brought her heal down Gajeel got his hand in the way and caught her leg he spun and tossed her across the room, she rotated in the air and landed heavily on the wall, the wall cracked and a large crater formed underneath her feet.
Wendy stumbled as the room shook upon Erza's landing, she ran over to Lucy who had managed to lift herself from the ground and was leaning against the wall. Wendy ran over and knelt beside her.
"Are you okay?" Wendy asked urgently.
Lucy smiled as best she could "A few bruises that ache, don't worry you should help Erza."
"I came here to help you, Erza can deal with Gajeel…I have faith." Wendy glanced across the room at the other two dragon slayers.
Lucy frowned "No, I am actually all right…Help Erza the faster she wins the fight the faster we can get out of here…I am fine I promise."
Wendy didn't have the magic power to heal Lucy and help Erza fight, it was one or the other "Fine, but I am going to help both of you."
"How?" Lucy asked, she could tell Wendy was low on power.
Her hand glowed slightly as she raised it with a reassuring smile "Don't worry." She placed her hand on Lucy's shoulder, Lucy stiffened for a moment before falling unconscious. Wendy sighed and stood up, she looked over the top of Gajeel's head at Erza who smirked as she jumped back towards the iron dragon slayer. Wendy ran towards him a few more steps then stopped. Erza slammed into the guard of her opponent, she rotated and dropped low before placing her hands on the ground and flipping backward her foot caught his chin and he stumbled, she righted herself on her feet and flew into him driving him further into the air, she lost her momentum and fell back to the ground. Gajeel looked up to see Wendy bearing down on him, he crossed his arm's to block her first kick, his arm went slack the second it touched her and fell useless to his side, his eyes widened as she turned in the air, slamming her palms into four points of his chest sending him crashing into the ground. She landed in a crouched position and panted slightly as they waited for the dust to clear.
"Requip!" Natsu shouted as he ran to his left, Jose lifted his hand and the small purple ball arced out in front of him, tendrils followed Natsu closely the power arcing like lightning as it followed him, Natsu finished reequipping out of his armor into his light weight coat and gloves, he dived forward and slipped behind a pillar, the spell impacted behind him showering him in dust and small bits of concrete. The pillar was completely decimated so he moved again, Jose sent another blast toward him, Natsu passed behind another pillar and used the split second of obscured vision to removed a sword from the air, As the pillar exploded he threw it as hard as he could towards where he had last seen Jose, the man spotted it and sidestepped, he smirked for a moment before his eyes caught a gold flash from behind him, Raken picked the sword out of the air and redirected it, Jose was forced to stop trying to obliterate Natsu and dodge, he jumped away as the sword embedded deep into the ground where he was standing, Raken continued past him and slammed into his back, Jose winced as the blow connected he flew forwards Natsu ran out from behind another pillar and jumped into the air he rotated and kicked Jose back towards Raken, as Raken moved in for another blow he found his leg caught up in something, he turned his head and cured a deep purple light coiled around his leg and hoisted him into the air before binding his hands and feet close together, he tried to move but it resulted in nothing but searing pain so he stopped immediately. Natsu stopped as Jose turned to him.
"Well well, you two actually have managed to give me a bit of trouble, I am mildly impressed." Jose taunted, crossing his arms and staring at Natsu.
"Let him go." Natsu growled darkly.
"You think you are in a position to make demands!" Jose shouted "This is how this will happen, you will surrender yourselves and join Phantom Lord you will serve me loyally we shall take the girl back to her father and your pathetic guild will survive."
Natsu didn't move, he lowered his head slightly "I will not tell you again….Let Him Go." He looked up and glared, his voice was etched with more malice than Raken had ever heard, it was terrifying.
Jose scoffed "If you do not do what I have told you, I will kill him right now."
Natsu looked at Raken and smiled, Raken frowned he had swapped from almost murderous to seemingly completely peaceful in a second, Natsu proceeded to make a few very simple hand signals, Raken watched them closely and looked up. Unable to contain the smile on his face, Natsu turned back to Jose his glare returned in full force "This is your last chance, release him."
"Remember you were the one that sealed his fate." Jose snarled, he didn't know what the signals mean but he wasn't going to wait around to find out, he released a surge of magic into the spell that bound Raken and was utterly surprised when he heard nothing 'No one's pain threshold is that high!' Jose thought as he turned around, Raken was gone completely.
"If you are going to bind someone at least stop them from using magic!" Raken called out from the other side of the room, drawing Jose attention. His eyes widened he had just put a large amount of his magic power into something that had no effect because he target wasn't there.
"H-How?" Jose stuttered out.
Raken let a cocky smirk play on his face, before melting away and reappearing beside Natsu "I Believe I told you before we started, When me and my brother fight together we are unstoppable. We knew every move you made before you made it, all we had to do was make you waste your magic power and use as little of ours as we could."
Natsu nodded and raised his hand's slightly, his fingers were bent and he held the parallel to each other "Lock." He said flatly, Jose felt all his limb's go stiff and no matter how hard he tried he could not summon a spell or move in anyway.
"You honestly thought you could attack us and win," Natsu stared the man in front of him down unblinkingly "You threatened the lives of my guild…My family and the girl I love. You thought you would get away with it?"
Jose's eyes widened in terror as he stared at the pair in front of him. Natsu rolled his neck and focused again.
"Pure force, Coffin." He stated flatly, pressing his hands together, Jose felt like everything around was crushing him and Natsu stood still, a sheen of sweat appeared on his brow as he focused the energy around the man inward, he gritted his teeth no matter how many times he reiterated in his mind how much the man in front of him had done he couldn't just end him. He straightened and moved his hands away from each other, the force bearing down on Jose disappeared and the man fell forward on his hands and knees he sucked in air greedily.
Raken smiled and slapped Natsu on the shoulder "You made the right choice, even he doesn't deserve to just get executed besides I am sure the council will be pissed."
Natsu nodded his smile waned slightly "Raken, we will save him...The three of us will be a family again…like we used to be."
Raken nodded in understanding "Course we will, we are unstoppable after all."
"I am proud of you boys," The voice caused the pairs smiles to brighten as they turned around, Makarov stood in the doorway to the large hall "Although you could have at least tried to keep the guild hall standing."
"Wait it ended up getting destroyed anyway?" Natsu asked.
"Don't worry, I think we were due for some renovations anyway." Makarov smiled.
The two boys shook their heads and sighed, both falling down heavily and tiredly.
Erza and Wendy continued to watch the dust cloud until it cleared, Gajeel got up slowly and shakily, his body had changed coating him from head to toe was a thick set of iron scales. Wendy's eyes narrowed that meant her hits meant nothing.
"Hah, that would have ended poorly if I had of been two seconds slower." Gajeel announced loudly.
"I'll break his armor, you shut him down." Erza whispered so only Wendy could hear her before turning back to Gajeel.
She nodded and watched their opponent closely "How are you going to break it though?" Wendy asked.
"I thought you had faith?" Erza replied in mock hurt.
Wendy shot her a small glare "I do, just be quickly about it…I only have around three good hit's left."
Erza nodded "Well I better get serious."
Wendy rolled her eyes but remained silent.
Erza shifted slightly before springing forward, she threw a punch and Gajeel merely smirked as the blow his the armor on his face, Erza winced and felt her knuckles crack painfully she gritted her teeth and fought through it, Gajeel reared his hand back and Erza crossed her arms in front of her, Erza flew backwards and slid along the ground stopping beside Wendy.
"Erza?!" Wendy exclaimed worriedly.
Erza pulled herself back to her feet slowly and waved Wendy away from her 'Look's like I am going with plan B, this is going to hurt.' She thought she winced slightly at her idea, but she didn't see any other options.
"Please tell me this isn't the best you can do!" Gajeel taunted.
Erza shook herself and flew forward again, as expected Gajeel didn't move to counter any of her attack's, so she heated her hands to the highest she could, she flew forward and wrapped her arms around him tightly, placing her palms against two spots on his back on either side of his spine, Gajeel looked down in surprise before he felt his armor melting down his back, he started slamming his fist down on Erza's head trying to get her off him, she held on tightly and gritted her teeth against this blows, her vision darkened and she swayed slightly losing her grip and stumbling back, she smiled two large opened spots of skin sat on his back, completely unprotected, Wendy noticed and bolted forward slammed her fist into one of the spots, Gajeel groaned in pan and fell to his knees, Wendy followed up with another stroke into the other unarmored sections, the scales that protected his body seemed to evaporate as the blow landed, Wendy placed her hand against the back of his neck and focused, his eyes grew heavy and he fell forward.
Wendy let out a relieved sigh and fell back on her heels "Let's not do this again."
Erza groaned and lifted her head "I agree."
Lucy shot up after the ordeal and looked around the room, it was dotted with small craters and the two dragon slayers looked at her for a moment.
"Hey Lucy?" Erza called out.
"Y-Yeah?"
"Get one of your spirits to carry us home, I don't think I can stand up."
A tick mark appeared on Lucy's forehead as she began screaming about how her spirits aren't for that, Erza groaned and shut her out 'I hope Natsu's okay.'
A/N: Idea's weren't really flowing for this chapter, regardless I hope it was still all right and that the fight's didn't seem uneven or easy. My idea's is that with two half strength dragon slayers and the two half strength S-class that they would use a little intelligence and outsmart the opponent's I hope I did okay! Peace