Dragons, fucking dragons.
And his day had started so well.
"Heads up!" Someone shouted and he fell to the ground as a blast of fire shot over him. Next to him Levy and many others of fairy tail had done the same thing. What the hell is up with this dragon! All of fairy tail was attacking it yet it continued to whip their asses.
"You alright?" He asked the girl next.
"Yeah," she said out of breath. "just, this guys a lot tougher then I thought he would be."
"It's that damn flaming body, he's more annoying then salamander." He muttered.
"Everyone fall back and regroup!" Shouted Erza. "How's every one doing!"
"What the hell is that! Reminds me of Acnologia!"
Acnologia, Gajeel didn't like the reminder of that little incident. This dragon definitely wasn't on that level but damn was he not in the mood for this. He glanced over at Levy who was watching the fight nervously as she caught her breath. He had been an idiot for a chance to fight dragons, any other day he would be pumped but today...
"Masters attacks are even useless." She mumbled to herself. Gajeel looked up and saw the huge form of Makarov looking at his burnt hand.
The dragon laughed, "No matter what power you posses... It cannot hold a candle to the might of a dragon! Such if the fate of humans."
"Levy look out!" He jumped in front of her as the dragon let loose a powerful blast of flames. He heard others shout around them as he and Levy fell to the ground. He felt the heat of the blast over him. The blast was so bright and he had to close his eyes. The heat dispersed and the light on the other side of his eyelids darkened so he opened them to see a shocked Levy under him. He was finding himself on the ground far more then he'd like to today. He stood up and pulled Levy up quickly as the dust and ash cleared.
"We need-" she started to say but was interrupted by a loud roar. They turned to see a dragon plummeting down in the sky.
"How did that-"
"That damn salamander." He smirked knowingly.
"Listen up!" Came the damn dragon slayers voice. "It's called dragon slaying magic for a reason!"
"Is that Natsu?" Levy asked but ah was cut off.
"Seven dragon slayers! Seven Dragons!"
"Seven?" Gajeel said, a grin coming on his face, he knew where that bastard was getting at.
"This is what our Magic was meant to be used for! This is why dragon slayers exist!"
He looked over at Wendy and Laxus, then Levy next to them, all looking up at the falling dragon intensely.
"Let's do this! Time for dragon BBQ!" That fucking salamander. He looked over at Levy who was still staring up at the dragon.
"Let's go find our dragons?"
"He wasn't talking about me." She said.
"Huh?"
"I'm not the seventh dragon slayer."
"Like hell, who else could he be talking about?"
"... Cobra."
Shit him? "How do you know?"
"I just do. I feel his presence."
Now he was pissed of at Natsu. "That lizard forgot you and remember that bastard?"
Forget dragons, he wanted to kill Natsu at the moment.
"Eh, it's fine!" She said sensing his intentions. "It's not like I want to face a dragon alone."
He looked down at her. She was a damn powerful Mage, but when he looked down at her he realized that she would never want to face a dragon alone. He glanced over at Wendy as well, even though she was more experienced with her power then Levy he could tell she was joust about as excited as Levy was. He saw Mirajane move close to Wendy and they locked eyes nodding. He turned back to the blue haired mage and nearly lost his trail of thought. She was looking at the dragons, that smile on her face was the same as the one he thought he saw earlier, it gave him a chill. But like the last time he blinked and it was gone.
He clicked his tongue, he was getting annoyed at this feeling. "I want you near me anyways shrimp." She looked up at him, eyes slightly wide. He grinned. "With you helping me whip that dragons ass the faster I can cream Natsu's."
"Solid Script Fire!"
...Nothing.
Levy had managed to get into a position away from the wall where she sat on her folded bound legs. She leaned forward and pulled her arms as far as possible away from her back. But the way her arms were twisted wasn't very far.
Letting out a breath to calm her nerves she adjusted to try again. She was trying to preform letter magic to break her bonds but it was proving difficult. She'd never done word magic with her hands bound and pinned behind her back. Well, she had never tried letter magic with out her hands in the first place. And it was proving very difficult.
She choose fire because she could barley move her fingers at the moment so a knife or blade would be useless and lightning would be too dangerous to shoot at her back. Fire was also her strongest word, and if she were going to conjure a word with out hands it would be that one.
Solid Script fire! There was no reaction.
Come on Levy! She yelled at herself before calming down again. Who'd have thought my one weakness were bound hands.
She breathed in and focused on every detail she could think of; Her body's position, the tunnel she was in, the loops and twists of the rope that bound her hands. Finally she imagined the roped burning away to ash.
Dragon script: fire
For a moment nothing happened and she though she had failed again but suddenly she felt heat grow around her wrists and a light appear behind her. It worked! She wiggled her wrists working the rope as the fire burned at the ropes. The heat grew and she felt it flick at her wrists she let out a gasp of pain as her skin heated up. Hurry up! The heat grew more intense and she could feel the burns forming in her wrists, and as she twisted her wrists the ropes dug into the now sensitive skin she gritted her teeth and pulled on the weakening bands.
Just a little bit- The rope snapped and she fell forward at the sudden release landing on the ground hard. She rolled around and sat up brining her wrists to her chest. That hurts! They still feel like they are burning. Snatching her nerves for a moment she moved her hands.
Dark ecriture: light
A small glowing orb of purple light in front of her appeared. She inspected her wrists. At the sight her stomach tightened and the pain shot even higher. There were definitely second degree burns with some third spots, the skin looked black in some spots and the marks of the rope showed vividly in the purple light. She scripted water on it but other then that there was nothing she could. Solid script: knife She heard it fall in front of her on her lap and she grabbed it cutting at the bounds of her ankles. Once free she stood up carefully.
I have to warn them- The walls suddenly thundered around her and the ground shook. Rubble fell from the roof and she moved to the edge invade of larger rocks falling. Or whatever it was already happening.
He, Levy, and a group of other mages ran down a street. A black dragon flew over head. It was the one he was looking for.
The dragon minions appeared and he smashed one in the head before moving to another, trying to break through in his attempt to catch up to the dragon. What the hell are these things anyways?
He heard Levy next to him shout and a bolt of lightening hit one near him.
"Leave the others to the other mages. The dragon's our priority!" Levy shouted sprinting ahead of him. He glanced back; More mages had joined their group and barely seemed to be holding. He looked back at Levy who rounded a corner.
Shit! He took off after the girl. She had been racing practically towards the dragons. And now she was leaving her damn Nakama behind to fend for themselves. He knew that the dragon was top priority but even he didn't want to leave them like that.
He rounded the corner after her to see her attack a minion creature, a tornado forming in front of her flinging the creature off into a half crumbled building. He stopped still and watched as the dust from the tornado settled.
He watched her breathing hard looking down at her damage. Her back turned away from him so he couldn't see her face but he recognized her actions, the stance in her body. She was enjoying he fight. He knew all to well that feeling.
Gajeel was about to say something when there was a roar and a dragon smashed into the building next to where he was standing. Nearly causing it to fall in on him.
"Gajeel!" He heard her scream in a panic as he ran towards her to avoid the exploding rubble. He stopped next to her and looked back to where a black dragon that had just landed, the action which had caused the building to fall on him. It stretched his black wings before heading off in the opposite direction of them.
Gajeel turned to her. "I think this one is ours."
"Yeah." She said looking after it in a fearful awe. "It's really big. So powerful."
He scoffed, "Nothing two dragon slayers can't handle." S
he looked up at him and nodded settling her determined look on her face. "We need to get his attention."
"Leave that to me." He reached for a large piece of debris and chucked it at the unsuspecting dragon, nailing him on the back the head. It wasn't very hard but it was enough to get his attention. "Oi! Over here!"
"Gajeel I don't think that's the best way-"
"WHAT"SSSSSS THISSSSS" It roared, it had a weird hissing sound to its speech much like that of a snake. "You two look good enough to eatsss. So I just mightsss."
Gajeel cracked his knuckles. "Gihi just try you over sized flying snake!"
"What did you call me?" He said and the earth started to shake around them as he stepped towards them.
"You really know how to piss someone off, don't you?"
He glanced down at her then looked back at the advancing dragon, still grinning. "Game on you fire breathing reptile."
"When the hell does this tunnel end!" Shouted Levy in frustration only to have her echo slap her comment back in her face. She had been walking in random directions for what felt like hours but she knew had only, if anything, had been but ten minutes.
It turned out this place wasn't just tunnels, but practically an underground maze of twisting an turning routes, and no sign of a door, ladder, or grain of sun light what-so-ever. She was going to murder whoever designed this place if she ever got out. And it didn't help her situation that her aching wrists pulsed horrible with the burns, her mind was busy being distracted of what could be happening because she was stuck down here not able to warn them and also the fact that Zarin was impersonating her, probably leading them right into the trap.
There was a sudden tremor in the ground and the cave shook, she ran to the edge to avoid the crumbling ceiling. What the hell is that? Whatever it was she knew deep down that it was Rogue and Zarin making their appearance.
Please let them have had warning. She thought as the shaking only grew more intense around her. The walls started to crumble near her causing Levy to run blindly in a direction in hopes of not getting crush, in the progress causing her light to go out. She stumbled in the now darkness hoping the ceiling won't crumble down on her at that moment.
So of course at that moment it decided to do just that.
Gajeel climbed back over the ruble of the building he had been flung into coughing in the dust the bricks had kicked up.
"Gajeel!" He heard shouted and looked to his left to see Levy running towards him. "Are you alright?"
He wiped a trickle of blood off his face from his cut lip "Never fucking better."
Standing up he brushed some of the dust off him. "Now, where'd the bastard go?"
"South east, I think he believes he finally got rid of you."
"That dragons an idiot if it thinks it will finish me of that easily." He took off in the direction she had said and Levy followed after him.
"Gajeel," He glanced down at her as she caught up with him. "I, I might have an idea how to beat him"
"Unlighted me."
"Well, I just need to get near him, it's something I learned with dragon script. It might help."
He raised an eyebrow, "how close do you need to get?"
"...Touching him." She said a bit sheepishly. "And it needs to be the head..."
He gave her a look like she was crazy.
"You see." She said hastily before he dejected her plan, "I'm going to try and break Rogues possession on it, maybe it will confuse the dragon, or it may not even want to fight then! But since his magic is there I need to physically touch him to get past it."
"And will it work?"
"Possibly."
He looked at her and rubbed his stiff neck looking ahead, a new pillar of dust appearing were he suspected his dragon to be. "Fuck, you really seem to have a knack for making my life difficult. Why the hell did I fall in love with you again?"
"I'm still trying to figure that out as well." She said beaming and jumping up to peck his chin before laughing nervously as she ran up ahead of him. "Come on, we better catch up to it before it goes any fatter."
"Right behind ya."
Levy shook the rumble out of her hair squinting up at the circle of blue sky above her.
She was standing about twenty feet below the ground, in amongst the ruins of the collapsed tunnel and what seemed to be a structure that had caved in with it. She had almost been squished but she was able to conjure a Dark Ecriture Shield protecting herself.
I have got to thank Freed for that one, she thought as she looked for the best route up the crumbled stone. What could have caused this?
Levy picked her way up the mountain, watching carefully for loose stones and sharp metal rods; one wrong move and she might as well have been squished in the first place.
When she finally did make it to the top she nearly fell back down the hole, not because she had lost balance, but a blast of flame spouted over her.
What the hell? She scrambled out and looked at the direction it had come from. her jaw dropping to the ground. Above her two dragons grappled at each other, one that seemed to be on fire.
Dragons!
There was an explosion behind her and she turned to see another lifting into the air.
How many are there? Was this what Rogue meant when he said dragons?
A roar sounded above her and she looked up to see a flash of fire and -
She squinted her eyes, she could have sworn she saw a pink on the dragons back? "Natsu?-"
"Levy!" She looked back to earth and saw Lucy running up to her. "What are you doing here? I thought you went with Gajeel and the rest of fairy tail?"
"I did?" For a moment she was confused then it hit her, Zarin. The urgency of her mission came back to her. "Lucy, what is going on? Why are there dragons!"
The blonde Mage gave her a look like she was crazy, "What? have you been living under a rock!"
The irony, "just tell me-"
"Weren't you with the rest of fairy tail when the dragon attacked?"
"That wasn't me!" She yelled in frustration.
"What?" She was just confusing the stellar mage even more. They were wasting valuable time.
"Just tell me, what did Rogue do?"
"Levy we don't have time-"
"Lucy," she grabbed her arms. "I wouldn't be asking if this wasn't important. I'll explain later but now you really need to tell me what happened."
The girl gave her a confused look then groaned. "Okay, so a future Rogue came back from a future full of dragons."
"I got that part."
"Well, when he was there he created a power that would control dragons-" So that's what must have been in the scrolls!
"He said he created it?"
"Yeah-" what a liar. "-So now there are seven dragons, well six cause one is on our side now thanks to Natsu," she continued, pointing to the fire dragon that was flying up to meet a different on. "That Rogue ordered to kill all the mages, and so now the mages and the dragon slayers are fighting them along with their minion creatures while we are standing around talking about something we already know. Now lets go!"
Lucy took off running.
"Wait! Which way did Gajeel go?"
"North west," she pointed to her right not looking back. "giant black dragon, can't miss it!"
Levy looked in that direction and saw a pair of black wings suddenly appear over the roof tops, and a familiar iron dragon roar shoot up into the air.
If I had gone with Gajeel that means Zarin is still impersonating me, what is he up to? And why is he helping to kill the dragons? Didn't he want mages dead as well? What would killing a dragon do to help him?- A thought came into her head and her blood ran cold. If she was right Gajeel was in serious danger. Dark encounter: Wings She shot up into the air towards where she had seen the black wings.
Please be alive you stupid man!
"Watch his tail!" He heard a shout and ducked as a large scaly object swung over him. As it passed he took the opportunity and jumped onto the black dragons back. The dragon was preoccupied with Levy on the ground and hadn't noticed him yet. He raced up its back aiming for its head, If I can just get one clean shot-
A blue flame shot near him as he ran out from between its wings. "Dammit!" He lost his footing and changed his arm to metal, extending it to grab on to the edge of its wing righting him. "Watch where you fire that!" He looked down at the other dragon slayer who was skirting around the dragon, dodging his attacks and shooting words up at it.
"Sorry, it's a little hard to aim!"
Don't need to preach to me. This dragon was harder to fight then they had thought. It had learned pretty quickly they where trying to get to his head. And was doing a very good job of keeping them at bay.
He continued his charge at the dragon's head but it was useless now that the dragon knew he was there. It turned its head back eyeing him almost amused like before releasing a dark blue flame at him.
Shit. He swerved to dodge it and was just nicked by the icy fire. He landed on the ground and rolled to avoid a second shot at him before jumping up and changing his hands into metal poles, punching them up at the dragons' head. The dragon turned and used his wing to knock them to the side and Gajeel let out a curse. The black dragon turned back to attack him but Levy shot the word heat at his face causing him to look away.
Seeing his chance, he charged at the dragons stomach and gave it stab in the stomach then moved back before its icy claws swatted at him. He jumped back and landed on the ground barely avoiding a sharp jag of black ice.
"You two are starting to get on my nervesssss." The dragon noted as he turned on Levy who was having a go at his head with the use of her dark Écriture wings. "And I'm getting hungryssss!"
He blew a icy cold mist at Levy who shot the word heat back at him canceling the attack. She dived through and landed on his head but just as she did he formed ice on it and she slipped her momentum shooting herself at Gajeel. He tried to catch her but instead her impact sent both mages sprawling on the ground. They stood up breathing hard looking at the dragon who was turning back to them chuckling amused.
"Why the fuck did we pick the black ice dragon?" Gajeel said.
"You liked it because it was black." She shot back and he smirked she stood up evaluating the dragon. "But it's a strong one. A good choice."
"We can't even reach its head. Must less get a decent hit at him."
"But when we do, he's mine." She ran at the dragons left and he went around to the other side not getting a chance to think about her comment.
"Iron dragons roar!" He yelled blasting it at the dragon. It was a direct hit, catching that dragon in the head that was focused on Levy. The dragon stumbled bringing his head close to the ground. Levy charged at him but he righted and shot a blast at him.
"Dark Écriture: Reflect!" He heard her shout and the icy gust bounced towards him. He tried to dodge it but slipped on an ice patch loosing his momentum.
Shit-
"Gajeel!" A solid object rammed into him just before the black ice reached him, sending him sideways into a pile of rubble. The blast shot by and when it hit the building exploded into shards causing a mix of icy mist and dust into the air.
"Gajeel!" Came the shout again and he opened his eyes and saw Levy kneeling over him shaking his shoulder, a frantic look on her face. "Please don't let me be to late! Gajeel speak to me! Are you alright!"
"Course I am-" he sat up rubbing his head looking away from her. "Watch where you reflect your damn stuff! and what the hell rammed into me?"
"That was me, sorry, haven't quite gotten good at landing." He looked up and saw the Dark Écriture wings resolve behind her
"Landing? You're the one that pointed that damn blast at me, how the hell could you move so fast?" Before she could reply a different shout came from behind him. "Gajeel!" he turned around and saw Levy running up to him, the dragon momentarilly occupied by a ring of fire surrounding it.
"Get up I-" When that Levy noticed the other one it stopped in its tracks.
What the?-
He turned back and looked at the Levy sitting in front of him, then back at the Levy behind him. He flicked back and forth three times, trying to get it through his head that their where two of them, and they where both staring at each other with deadly looks. "What the hell-!"
"You!" He was cut off by each shouting simultaneously.
The sitting Levy jumped up. "Solid script: iron!"
The word shot at the other Levy who dodged it, the iron flying by and hitting the dragon square on the nose. "Stay away from Gajeel!"
The other Levy recovered and shot fire at her who put up a shield.
Gajeel stood up and looked between the two, "what the hell is going on!"
"She's Zarin!" They yelled at the same time, pointing at each other, which made the whole thing more confusing. "He's using copying on me to Trick you!"
"Gajeel!" The one who had been crouching next to him looked over at him. "He knows the magic that can control Dragons! If he gets close to that dragon we'll be at both their mercy-"
"Liar!" Shouted the one who had been with him. "She's Zarin, he's trying to trick you so he can get close to the dragon! "What the hell is going on?-"
He never got an answer because the dragon had grown bored of them ignoring him and had shot black ice at them causing them all to duck for cover. When they got up again he looked to find they had landed next to each other. When they noticed this they both moved back and hot script at each other. Their moves were identical, there reactions exactly the same-
"She's Zarin!-" "Using copy-"
Fuck ain't he suppose to be dead?
The dragon roared and he turned in time to miss its claws scratching at him.
"Can't ya wait one bloody minute!" He roared back charging at the dragon. How the hell was he suppose to know which was which?
He attacked the dragon, shooting metal spikes at it which merely bounced off its scales, only one sticking in its nose. He reared back and gave him a moment.
So Zarin is alive, and he knows the dragon manipulation spell so he must be working with Rogue, and he also for some god damn reason has magic now that can copy people damn well.
And he thought the dragon was giving him a migraine. I mean what the hell?
"Gajeel stop him!" He turned around and saw one Levy getting up out of some type of pit that appeared and the other charging the dragon. Which one?! He looked at the running and saw an ice spike tail swing at the running one.
Fuck. If he didn't have the time to decide, he'd have to protect both at the moment, he couldn't risk picking the wrong one.
He ran over and turned his body to iron bracing himself as the tail impacted with him leaving Levy safe. He dug his feet into the ground and managed to stop it. The tail pulled away suddenly making him stumble and he looked up in time to see the Levy that had made the run at him get hit by the word stone and tossed to the side, her chance at the dragon gone. She recovered and charged at the other Levy, both seeming to have forgotten the giant black ice wielding dragon again.
He couldn't forget of course and charged the dragon, trying to get a shot at it, he couldn't handle both situations at once, but at least he could keep them from being eaten by a dragon.
Iron Dragon: Lance
He shot the spears up at its face while he ran towards it, causing it to look away.
Iron Dragon: Club
He charged the beast quickly, shoving the club into his chest knocking the dragon to the side. He changed his other hand and repeated the move, not letting the dragon get a chance to retaliate. You fucking dragon! He landed hit after hit on him, once and a while getting one back from the dragon but he quickly over back. He was pissed, for multiple reasons, all over again, and that dragon was going to feel it.
"Gajeel!" Came a scream and he turned in time to see the dragons tail having another go at him.
"You damn lizard!" He jumped over the tail and barely avoiding it. He took his eyes off the dragon in his ascent to the direction of the scream, one of the Levy's seemed unconscious wrapped in vines and the other was frantically running towards him. He landed watching her trying to determine if she was his Levy. He then noticed the bracelets of blood on her wrists and he felt his stomach churn and his blood boil slightly. At the sudden feeling inside him occurred he realized that the one running towards him was the real Levy.
He knew that because whenever the Levy he had been with got hurt he never had that reaction. But just at the sight of her wrists and he was furious-
Suddenly a strong hit to his abdomen shooting him out of his thoughts. He heard a scream as he flew throughout the air, landed hard on his back, a blast of blood shooting from his mouth. his body tingled and he looked down and saw a large whole in his stomach, or what was left of it.
He had realized those thoughts in only a matter of milliseconds but in those small moments of losing focus the dragon had a seized its opportunity to take a shot at him, and had succeeded; a blast of ice straight through his stomach.
Shit. Was all he could think, he couldn't feel his body anymore, his breath already a difficult task. He barely noticed the blue flame shooting over him at the dragon because of a bundle of blue locks that blurred his darkening vision.
"Gajeel!" came a shout that seemed far away. He was slipping, he knew he didn't have long. He tried to speak but only choked on blood. "Don't try to speak, I'll- you'll be okay!"
Levy, you damn idiot. He knew he was dead, and she needed to get out of here soon or else she would be following his footsteps. He wanted to reach up and touch her but of course he couldn't. He didn't want to die. His eye said differently starting to close.
"Gajeel! Stay with me-" She shook his shoulder and his eyes came opened to see her being yanked by her hair from behind. He turned his head to see the other Levy was back on her feet and dragging her back, a crazed look on her face. He saw her caring something sharp in her hands.
Levy! He wanted to do something. God dammit you're supposed to die protecting her! She trusted you to do that! Not fucking die watching like a useless bastard.
He tried to move but only more blood left his lips, causing him to choke, his eyes loosing their sight. He could do nothing, his body failing him finally.
Gajeel! She saw the ice being reflected towards Gajeel and didn't think, dive bombing at him in order to reach him first. The collision was hard, the impact almost knocking her breath out. When they finally stopped she sat up and looked next to her at the disheveled looking man next to her, his eyes closed. Fear swept throughout her body at the sight and she bent him over and shook his shoulders urgently.
"Gajeel! Please don't let me be to late! Gajeel speak to me!"
"Course I am-" he said sitting up and relief washed over her. "Watch where you reflect your damn stuff! and what the hell rammed into me?"
"That was me, sorry, haven't quite gotten good at landing." She glanced back her wings and released the magic letting them disappear.
"Landing? You're the one that pointed that damn blast at me, how the hell could you move so fast?"
"Well-"
"Gajeel!"The shout of his name interrupted her reply and as she looked up and her blood ran cold, Zarin as herself was running up to them, not having noticed her yet. "Get up I-"
When he did he stopped in his tracks. She looked over at Gajeel's beaten up body and confused expression, then at the dragon, then back at Zarin her blood starting to boil.
"You!" She yelled furious and jumped up not giving her copy a second. "Solid script: iron!"
The word shot out of her hands and she to a step forward moving into a fighting position. "Stay away from Gajeel!" Zarin gave her a nasty look and shot fire at her.
Dark Écriture: Shield!
The blast whipped around her, He learns fast.
"what the hell is going on!" Gajeel shouted standing up.
"She's Zarin!" Levy pointed then her eyes widen when she realized he said the same thing. Oh know you don't. "He's using copying on me to Trick you!"
Again!? she turned to Gajeel, "Gajeel! He knows the magic that can control Dragons! If he gets close to that dragon we'll be at both their mercy-" "Liar!" Shouted Zarin "She's Zarin, he's trying to trick you so he can get close to the dragon!"
"What the hell is going on?-"
If only there was a way to let him know- The dragon attacked, stopping her trail of thought, it shot a dark flame out of his mouth at the three. Levy was lifted off her feet by the blast and was hurtled backwards. He body felt like she had jumped in a frozen lake. That fire is freezing!
She stood up and heard another doing the same next to her, she looked hoping it was Gajeel but seeing herself standing there she jumped back. She didn't hesitate to attack "Solid Script: ICE!"
she shot at Zarin who had shot fire at the same time, the words collided and Levy moved around it. "I know what your planning Zarin! I'm not going to let you!"
She/he laughed. "Cheating is frowned upon in games Levy, now I'm going to have to penalize you. Plus-" Levy shot the words stone at him cutting him off. He rolled to the side.
"Solid Script: PIT!" Levy didn't have time to react and fell into a giant dark hole. The pseudo-Levy looked down into it. "You left your time out to fast, and that's a very big no."
He knelt down and tilted her head. "By the way how did you get out of the Maze Jistu? Rogue said it's impossible, unless you know the password."
Maze Jistu? So that explains the endless tunnels! She was an idiot. "I took a short cut, let me demonstrate."
Dragon script: Fire the blast blew out of the pit.
"Solid script: Jump!" She flew out of the pit and landed and saw him running at the dragon.
"Gajeel! Stop him!" She shouted and watched as the dragons tail swung at Zarin, then Gajeel Stop the tail. No!
He must not know which one is which yet, so he's protecting us both. Levy couldn't blame him for the confusion.
She ran after Zarin, "Solid Script Stone!" She'd have to deal with him herself, Gajeel needed to take care of the dragon. The word hit its target and he flew to the side, Levy followed. She found him climbing out of some ruble wiping blood off his lips.
He looked up at her, his eyes wild. "You little bitch. Dark Écriture Pain!"
Her body exploded with a sharp pain, she fell to her knees as it wrapped around her.
"You know, I like your power, it's very interesting, it's amazing what one word can do. Shame I'll have to kill you." It was becoming hard to breath. The pain felt like the air was trying to squeeze her like an orange. "But you don't have to worry Levy, I'm still going to let you die last, I still need your power."
He walked forward grabbing her hair and making her look up at him. "I'm just ring to kill all your friends first."
Focus Levy! Dragon Script: Reverse
The pain suddenly left her and she heard Zarin gasp and release her. She fell on the ground, trying to catch her breath. "You learn fast Zarin, you'd have made a good mage. But there are two things you should know."
She stood up and walked over to her other form, the one now covered in the purple ruins, then lifting the from of her outfit, punched him in the face as hard as she could, like Gajeel had taught her all that time ago. He fell to the ground blacked out. The ruins the only thing moving now.
She had to admit it was really weird punching her own face. "First, don't talk, just do it. Solid Script Vine." Vines wrapped around his body like bindings. "And two; don't rely on just your magic, a common mistake for novice mages."
Seeing he was taken care of she ran to help Gajeel. He was in full swing against the dragon, focusing all his power at its body. So he didn't see the tail raising and growing sharp icicles on it.
"Gajeel!" She yelled and he saw it in time to dodge it. Thank god!
She continued to run forward her eyes locked on Gajeel, he looked at her as he landed, their eyes locking, please let him think I'm the real one!
Then all of a sudden he left her sight, flying off to the side, along with a flash of purple ice. She watched as he landed on the ground, blood exploding from his mouth, and a pool forming around his Abdomen. "GAJEEL!"
The dragon roared.
Solid script: Dragons Trap
Blue flames surrounded the dragon, twirling around it and disorienting it. That should keep him busy for a while. She rushed over and fell next to Gajeel, gaging at the sight of his stomach. You shouldn't be able to see the ground where your stomach should be.
"Gajeel." their eyes met and he seemed to try to speak but blood only spluttered from his mouth. "Don't try to speak, I'll- you'll be okay!"
No! No! This wasn't what was supposed to happen! You can't die, you need to protect me you damn iron head. You said we'd make it through this, I trusted you too! Tears fell from her eyes. And I couldn't protect you.
She saw his eyes drifting and she grew panicked. Not yet! "Gajeel! Stay with me-"
A hand grasped her hair and tugged back violently. She grabbed at the hand and tried to stand up but couldn't catch her balance. "You fucking Bastard I'm going to kill you!"
"Just try." She was tossed to the ground, and her hands yanked above her. She let out a blood-curdling scream as she felt two things were driven through her palms. She couldn't move them, she dared to glance up and found two words driven through them. She was going to pass out. "Now stay here you damn girl."
This wasn't how things where suppose to happen.
...
"Gajeel!" Came a scream and he turned in time to see the dragons tail having another go at him.
"You damn lizard!" He jumped over the tail and barely avoiding it. as he did his minds eye flashed; He heard a scream, a flash of dark ice and blood coming from his mouth. What the hell?
He landed and looked at the Levy who had suddenly stopped in her tracks staring at him, then she looked panicked.
She yelled out and his eyes widen, my right! He turned to his left and shot a pole from his arm, "Over there!"
It hit the dragon square in the face, he looked like he was about to attack. He knew that he was going to attack him from that direction. "What the- I was able to actually see his movements just now!"
His mind flashed again; the scars on her wrists, the dragon was about to shoot a piece of ice at him, him flying through the air, the hole in his stomach, Levy crying over him, her being pulled away by the other, and him not to being able to do anything.
Wait, was I suppose to fucking die there?
"Gajeel!" He turned away from the recovering dragon, to see Levy running up to him. He watched as she trapped the dragon in some sort of fire cage, impressive. "Did you just- The dragon he-"
"Have a vision thing? yeah- you too?"
She nodded slightly out of breath. "I saw you die."
"Me too." He looked at the girl, glancing down at her wrists then back at her eyes.
Then he suddenly stepped forward and reached down grasping her jaw and pulling her in for a chaste kiss, she gave a gasp of surprise but he couldn't help the grin when he felt her give in. He wrapped his other arm around her and lifted her up to his chest, ignoring the pain it brought and instead focused on the dusty lips of the girl in his arms. He knew there was a dragon not twenty yards away roaring in a blue fire cage and a crazy man knock out to the other way but he couldn't resist it.
Hell, seeing yourself die will cause you to do weird things.
She finally pulled away. "How did you know I'm the real one!"
He thought of the sight of her crying over his dying body as he sat her down. "Just do."
She smiled up at him then he saw her eyes grow wide and she looked down at her palms, turning her hands around. Then back at him. "Zarin-"
A blast of word fire shot at them and he pulled Levy around and covered his back in scales to protect them. When it cleared they looked and saw the other Levy running towards the dragon, almost out of the flames. They didn't have time to do anything, they started to but it was to late, He watched as the Levy/Zarin ran throughout the flames and touched it's head.
"No." He heard Levy whisper and he remembered what she had said earlier He knows the magic that can control Dragons
The dragon suddenly stopped struggling and looked at the Zarin/Levy. Who started to laugh.
"So that's really Zarin?"
"Mmhmm.'
"And he just got control of that dragon."
"Looks like it."
"Things just got a lot worse didn't it."
"Yep."
He watched as Zarin jumped onto the dragons head, the flames suddenly dying around the two. It is still fucking weird to see levy doing these things, but it actually being Zarin."Don't suppose you could do that cage thing again?"
She shook her head. "A one time deal per dragon, once they break out once it's pretty much useless."
Just fucking great.
"Now the game has begun!" Shouted Zarin from atop the dragons' head.
"I never was one to play games." Gajeel muttered next to her.
She smiled remembering the time he was dragged into a game of cards by Natsu, Gray and Elfman. He ended up destroying the table and it causing a brawl in the guild. "You never play by the rules."
He smirked at the remark. "Then how about we make our own rules."
"So pretty much do anything nessacary to not let the other guy win?"
"You know me so well." He smirked and charged at the Dragon and Zarin, Levy following behind.
"And team Dragon Slayer makes the first move!" Shouted Zarin laughing. "Attack them Black Ice!"
"Ssssertainly." Gajeel moved to the left and Levy the right.
"Dark Ecriture: Wings" she shouted and took to the air.
"Black Ice! Take care of that dragon slayer." He pointed to Gajeel on the ground as turned and grinned at levy,
"This one is mine." she shivered at the look he had. She didn't realize she could look so, so crazy.
The dragon nodded and shot at Gajeel on the ground that dodged it and retaliated. Levy dive bombed Zarin, "solid script: Heat!" She missed but it hit the dragons' wing, making it falter and Gajeel get a shot at it with his dragon slayer roar. The quake knocked Zarin off his head and down his back.
"Dark Ecriture: Bind!" He yelled and Levy's arms clamp tight to her front as the purple ruins twisted around her. As the ruins took their hold her wings disappeared and she fell.
"Solid script: Cushion!" She yelled, thankful her hands where free enough for her to conjure with them. The word cushion formed on the dragons back and she fell on it safely.
"Dark Ecriture: Release!" The bounds disappeared in time for her to move before the word spear got stuck in the cushion where her head had been mere seconds before.
She tumbled down the dragons back until the arm of his wing stopped her suddenly, knocking the wind out of her. She pulled herself up and saw Zarin running at her. "Solid script: Lighting!"
She pointed it at Zarin, who had been advancing at her with the spear, and got a clean shot at him knocking him off the dragon. The dragon roared, getting hit by the lighting too, and bucked her off as well.
She stood up and leaned forward resting her hands on her knees trying to catch her breath for a moment, she could feel her magic waning, the dragon script taking a lot of energy out of her with each go. She saw Gajeel fighting still fighting the dragon.
How was he still doing it? His bandages, which she guessed where from the last games, are torn and filthy: blood and dirt crusting all over him. And yet he was still fighting as hard as ever. He was using his slayer magic! Not just iron magic.
He's using dragon script!
A wild light blue flame shot over her breaking her thoughts. She tumbled to the side and saw the fire dispersing from Zarins' hands. But she smirked, it was unstable. Even if he was my and had my memories it was still a hard power to control, he could only do so much with it.
Dragon Script: Fire
The blue flames shot out in front of her, controlled powerful, and aimed directly at him. "That' how it's done!"
He blocked it but the force knocked him over landing on the ground sliding a great distance before being stopped by a large piece of stone. He looked up at her with her own brown eyes. "You know Levy, you haven't really changed."
Her form stood up and walked towards her. "You still need to learn your place in the world."
"And what would that be? Solid script Stone!"
"Solid Script Wall!" her stone collided with eh wall and Zarin walked from behind it. "Like the rest of the mages. Dead!"
His hands moved, something silver glinted in the air, the she fell back as immense pain shot through her shoulder. She screamed out in pain.
She turned her head slightly, and saw the last part of the word knife sticking out of her shoulder.
He walked over and stood above her chuckling. Her mind flashed back to their last meeting as children. In the alley near the library. It was the exact same spot, him standing over her in the exact same way. Even though he looked like her his smile was present. "Like my new toy?"
Not again.
She looked over at the dragon and Gajeel; it looked like neither was gaining the upper hand. Each moving and attacking, both learning how to fight one another. The dragon would use some sort of ice spell and Gajeel would retaliate and attack back until the dragons' size overpowered him and they went back to square one. She also saw Gajeel panting, the slight slouch in his stance, the blood on his body.
He won't be able to hold out much longer.
Sharp pain came from her already painful shoulder as Zarin bent down and pushed the knife farther into her. "He'll die soon enough. Of course I need you alive until my task is finished, so how should I make it so you don't move."
She remembered spiked being driven into her hands. Not again.
"Zarin," she said trying to calm herself despite the agonizing pain in her shoulder.
"Yes?"
"Go to hell."
Dragon script: "Roar!"
A blue light shot out of her mouth, a tumble of ancient ruins swirling around in huge blast, and bringing Zarin with it. She felt the knife pull out of her as he flew back.
It was a direct hit, him having no time to block or act. She watched his clothes tare and his skin slashed horribly at the flying ruins. His body flew into a building with the spiral of dragons roar and the building exploded, collapsing into a pile of rubble, metal, and dust.
As the roar died down she gasped sitting up painfully. She looked at the crumbled building. He couldn't have serviced that.
She stood up clutching her bleeding shoulder. He's gone. He's finally gone.
A roar made her head turn and she saw the body of the dragons' body start to glow.
She ran to Gajeel as she watched and heard him mumbling, "The dragons are disappearing..."
Disappearing, that means, they are somehow returning to their own time. Natsu and Lucy must have figured out how to do it! "We did it Gajeel!"
He continued to stare up at the dragon his eyes intense. "Yeah... But..."
She knew what he meant. "We didn't slay it."
He nodded and the two watched as the dragon final disappeared and the town grew suddenly quite. The dust settled and a few loose stones fell from a half fallen wall but it was otherwise quiet.
Levy fell to her knees, in a mixture of exhaustion and relief.
"Levy!" She heard him say in concern and knelt down stabling her.
She looked at him his beaten half binder face, tears in her eyes. "It's over, it's finally done with. All of it."
He nodded, knowing what she meant, it wasn't just the dragon attack that had ended, and he had seen what she had done to Zarin with her power. He looked over at the crumbled building where he laid, Gajeel wondered if he would have been able to survive that, probably not. Then he looked down at the girl in his arms, the bloody shoulder under her palm, the bleeding black wrists, and the cuts along her body. He knew he was just as bad but it pained him to see her like that. Yet he was also washed over with relief, she had gotten the hell beaten out of but she was still alive. And in the end that was all he could ask for. They had both survived.
He smiled and stood up bringing the small girl to a standing position as well, "Come on, Lets get you cleaned up."
So longest. fricken. fight scene ever! It was a real pain to write at some points but I couldn't not do it. Also if you noticed I changed how I wrote my fight scenes, it was easier this way to write when two script mages are at it.
Sorry if the back and forth stuff confused anyone, but I like how it worked out.
Sort of really anti climatic at the end there too but it works out don't you think? I just could;t think of anything else to fight about and Zarin was pissing me off. And the minute rewind thing was really small part of it but it's all I could do.
Again SOOOORRRRRRRRRYYY for taking forever to write this...
R&R please! Hope it was worth the wait
Almost finished with this story! I pinky swear the next chapter along with the next chapter in Imprisoned Love will be released on a much faster date.