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Chapter Thirty Four

The Arrival

Wendy was working upon Lucy`s still form as her magic glowed around the young girl`s form. The Sky Dragon Slayer was huffing now at how much magical power she was using for the girl`s healing process.

"Don`t overdo it Wendy," Carla told her, the worry loud in her voice.

Rave was kneeled beside her as she watched the color return to Lucy`s face. Just earlier she had arrived with Lucy`s bleeding form and hurried Wendy to take care of her in fear of the blonde dying.

Then the blue haired girl removed her hand.

"Well, how is she?" Rave asked her.

"She`ll be fine," Wendy answered, "The wound was not as bad as it looked. She should be fine as long as she get some rest."

Rave let out a soft sigh.

"Well that`s one weight that`s off my shoulders," she said in relief.

She glanced around herself.

"Say, where is the Master anyway?"

"He was here a few minutes ago," Wendy answered her, "I think he is worried that we aren`t getting help from the Magic Council yet."

Rave looked down.

"Even if the Magic Council come, I don't think they will be able to do much against Acnologia," she said.

Wendy looked down.

"So…he is really coming," she said softly.

Rave nodded.

"Yeah, well I best dispel," she said, "I am only a clone…thought I am sure that the real one will be there soon since I don`t sense GrayHood`s magic anymore."

Wendy nodded at her and Rave glanced at Carla who looked away from her before turning into crystal and then dissipating in little lights. She knew the Exceed hadn`t told anyone about the vision she had seen of her.

It`s best to keep it that way.

Erza was staring at the man across her as she lowered herself on the ground. Sanath was too fast upon that bird he was riding on and she couldn`t even get a clean hit upon him. The man was analyzing all of her moves and counters some of them almost instantly.

Attacking him head on seems to have no effect at all, she thought, If he see it coming, he will be able to dodge it…so I am going to attack, with one he can`t see…

Her armor changed again until she was wearing The Knight Armor which had many swords floating around her form.

"You have quite a collection of armors," Sanath said looking at her, "I can say that I am surprised by it. You are an amazing wizard. You don`t see those quite a lot these days."

Erza raised both of her hands and more swords appeared around her, all of them aimed straight toward the man upon the bird.

"You will not escape my attacks again," she said.

Then all of the blades flew straight toward him and Sanath caused the creature to avoid the oncoming volley of weapons but to his surprise, they switched direction in midair before charging straight after him again.

"Disperse," Erza said.

All of the blades flew into different directions and some of them even went straight for Sanath who continued to dodge them. Then as he was doing so, Erza summoned even more swords and weapons out, and make them fly toward the other number of blades she had out in the air right now.

Sanath himself glanced around him, noticing that everywhere he was looking there were weapons flying all around him and he continued to dodge and avoid them coming at him, and even had DarkClaw send some blast of magic to knock them out of the sky.

It`s seems that they are more blades than before, he thought to himself, If I am not careful…

Then suddenly all of the blades started to encircle him causing the man to look around him. In every direction he looks, there were a lot of swords and other weapons waiting to fly straight toward him.

An attack from all sides, he thought.

He glanced down, noticing even more blades were there.

Boxed in, he thought.

Erza slammed both of her palms together.

You can`t escape now, she thought.

All of the swords followed her commands as all of them, from every direction, aimed straight toward the floating man in the air before all of them slammed upon him. Erza let out a smirk knowing that she had won the fight…when a large burst of fire exploded in the sky.

"What?" she said.

The large bird that guy was riding on had grown even larger than before and had some kind of roundish shaped thing upon it`s back. The large creature`s body was now filled with scales upon it and it let out a large roar.

"W…What the hell?" Erza whispered.

The roundish thing upon the creature`s back retreated and lo, there was Sanath with a smirk upon his face.

"Well, look likes your attack failed," he said.

He let out a dark chuckle.

"DarkClaw here is my third strongest Spirit," he said, "He has a special ability that is quite troublesome for my enemies. Every time he takes damage, he transforms into the next evolved strong form…and not only the spirit grew stronger, but his magical ability grows as well."

Erza gritted her teeth.

Goddamn it, she thought.

"Now how about we give her a preview DarkClaw," he said, "Let it out, the Hail Mary."

DarkClaw let out a large roar as it opened the large jaws it now had. Then a large ball of concentrated magic was started to appear there.

T…This is taking it a little too far, she thought, If that thing hit the city, it will cause a large crater in the middle of Magnolia…I must block it…for all it`s worth.

Then the large blast of magical energy went flying down toward her and Erza transformed into her Adamantine Armor just as the large blast reached her. The weight of the magical attack pushed her back causing cracks to appear underneath her. She noticed cracks have starting to appear upon the Adamantine Armor causing her to grit her teeth not moving an inch from where she stood.

"I won`t let you destroy my city," Erza yelled.

The world shook around them at the magical power that was unleashed until it disappeared and Erza shield`s disappeared completely causing the girl to fall down on her knees.

Shit, I am running out of magical power, she thought, Summoning those swords and changing armor at such quick reprises…it`s starting to take its toll upon me.

"Look like you`re just about finished," Sanath said staring down at her, "Never before had a wizard was able to take down so many of my spirits…you should feel honored that you even caused DarkClaw to evolve."

Erza glared at him.

"And you even managed to block the Hail Mary attack," Sanath said, "You are quite a powerful wizard indeed. But even so, the strongest wizards always fall, Now DarkClaw, it`s time to end this fight."

The large creature aimed straight down toward Erza who had switched into her red pants and dual blades. Her hair pulled into a ponytail as she stood firm, watching the large creature come down toward her.

"This is the end," Sanath said, "Black Saban."

A large beam of magic energy aimed straight toward Erza as the light overpowered her form and then a large explosion took place as dust appeared all around. Sanath smirked to himself before he noticed that he couldn`t find the girl`s body in the wreckage.

If she isn`t there, then where…?

Then DarkClaw`s head was suddenly chopped off causing Sanath`s eyes to widen in shock.

What the…?

The creature`s body shook throwing him off and into the ground in a hip. DarkClaw`s body disappeared into little lights causing him to glance around himself, not understanding what was happening.

Then the redhead was charging at him, holding both of her swords in her hands. As he stood up she was already right on top of him.

"You can`t dodge me now," she yelled, "It`s over for you."

But how did she survive that last attack? He thought wildly.

But the woman ran straight through him with her sword and slashed at him as wounds appeared upon his body, and as much as he didn`t believe it, Sanath was defeated as he was thrown on the ground.

Erza was out of breath as she fell upon her knees, her swords clattering around her. Sweat was running down her body as she stared at her defeated enemy.

Finally, she thought.

"ERZA," a voice yelled.

She glanced up toward it noticing Natsu who was carrying Happy in his arms but the Dragon Slayer wasn`t alone. Rave was also running toward her until the duo reached her.

"Hey you`re okay?" Natsu asked her.

"I…I`m fine," she said, "But exhausted.

Rave looked at the fallen Sanath.

"You defeated him?"

"Not without me,"

Gajeel approached them and his body was covered in bruises as he was holding a side of his stomach. The Iron Dragon slayer, however, had a smirk upon his face.

"Took you long enough to finish this, Titania," he said.

"Sanath is stronger than he looks," Rave said kneeling beside the fallen man as a light appeared in front of her hands, "He was probably the strongest of the group."

She then stood up, glancing toward the sky.

"What is it?" Erza asked, noticing the look upon her features.

"Acnologia," she said, "It approaches. We best get to the Guild and have them evacuate the city at once."

"But the barrier is still up?" Gajeel said.

"Not anymore," Rave told him, "With Sanath defeated, the spell he had casted should be broken and we can finally let people out of here."

"I…I can`t actually run now," Erza said, "I`m so exhausted."

Rave approached her and threw Erza`s arm around her shoulder, causing the redhead to glance at her.

"We`re going to have to run," she said.

"Right,"

The four of them ran back the direction of the guild Hall in full sprint with Rave half carrying Erza along with them.

That`s Sanath, GrayHood and Reaper defeated, Rave thought, If Siren lost…then the Tower of Five will be no more…and all that will be left is my brother and I.

As they get closer to the guild, they found two other people that were heading in the same direction they were.

"Gray, Juvia," Erza called.

The duo turned toward them in surprise.

"You guys," Gray said in greetings…

Only for him to be punched in the head by Natsu slamming him down on the ground.

"Hey, What the hell?" Gray yelled, massing his throbbing head.

"That`s for going off alone," Natsu yelled at him.

"Hey I had a score to settle with that Water chick that flooded the Guild Hall," Gray yelled back.

"Wait…you mean Siren?" Rave asked.

Gray turned toward her with a smirk.

"Yeah, we managed to defeat her…or actually, Juvia managed to defeat her."

The group glanced at their Water Mage who blushed at the sudden attention she was getting. Rave was surprised.

She managed to defeat Siren? She thought, that`s not something I expected her to do.

"But something strange happened," Juvia said, "Siren…killed herself after she lost and they were a strange light before she turned to dust."

"S…She killed herself?" Erza repeated shocked.

"T…That`s messed up," Gajeel said.

"She did huh," Rave said slowly, narrowing her eyes.

I always thought that Siren was devoted to Zeref, she thought, but to actually kill herself over that…she must have been worse than I previously thought.

Then from above, a large familiar roar echoed around them like thunder.

The group all looked up toward the sky all of them shocked. The group, except Rave, who had been on Tenrou Island back on that fateful day, feels a shiver of fear, run through their bodies.

Rave turned her attention toward the sky and then saw the dark shape that was slowly approaching from above them.

"He is here," she said, "Acnologia."

The entire group looked up at the sky.

"I never thought I`ll see that Dragon so soon after Tenrou," Erza whispered.

Rave narrowed her eyes before removing Erza`s arm from around her shoulder, drawing the latter`s attention.

"Rave," she said.

The girl didn't turn around.

"The rest of you go back to the Guild," she said, "I`ve got to play my part now."

"I won`t leave you alone against him," Natsu yelled.

Rave glared back at him and the group flinched at the cold look she gave them.

"This is not up for a debate Natsu," she told him, "None of you can handle Acnologia. I will draw his attention by using my full power. That might give you guys enough time to evacuate without him noticing."

She then returned her attention forward noticing the black shape grow closer.

"Now go."

Natsu tightened his hands not moving an inch until he feel Juvia`s hand upon his shoulder.

"Leave it to her Natsu-san," she said, "Rave know what she is doing."

The Dragon Slayer glared at Rave`s turned back.

"You best keep your promise Rave," he said before turning around.

Then they started to run back toward the guild, leaving Rave standing alone in the middle of the road.

The dark haired young woman stood there looking toward the sky as the black shape of the black Dragon of the Apocalypse grew closer to the city. She can see the great large black wings of darkness that spread themselves with the sun behind the creature. It looked majestic yet terrifying as it continued to lower itself, forming a large winds blowing Rave`s clothes and hair backward as she stared at the creature.

"So we meet again, Acnologia," she said softly, "and this time, you will take me to him."

The ground beneath Rave started to shake, as cracks started to appear on the ground below her. Both of her eyes were a glowing red as her magical power started to grow as high as she could make it go, and it become a pinkish red color around her form as she stared at Acnologia noticing the Dragon was now focused upon her.

Working exactly like I planned, she thought to herself.

Then with a large boom, Acnologia landed in the middle of the city, the battling wings causing winds to pick up as if in a violent storm but Rave stayed still as she stared at the Dragon in front of her, both of her eyes showing no fear.

Now I just hope Fairy Tail can evacuate the people of the city as quickly as possible, she thought as she gets ready.

Acnologia is here...What is Rave planning?

Next time: Family

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