The Sage of Fairy Tail

by Arch-Daishou

With his defeat of Pein and paying his last respects to his late Sensei and Godfather. Naruto Uzumaki finds himself in Earthland by a mysterious golden light. In this new world does the young sage find what he truly looking for while protecting those he has come to love from the darkness to come? -postponed-

5. The knight and the sage

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or Naruto

Betas & Co-authors: Etheral-23 & Godospartan the kitsune –Combat scenes-

Chapter 5: The Knight and the Sage

XxX ~ last time ~ XxX

In the deep area of the forest of Clover, the trees rustle gently in the wind. Sunlight shines through the leaves as a white fox sleeps soundly in the middle of a natural groove, untouched by man. Nestled comfortably, the white fox is a still as the grass around him.

Neither the sunlight nor wind undisturbed his long rest. In the dream-like sleep he has remained for what felt like an eternity. In his dreams, the fox felt a presence in the distance. Old, powerful, so very filled with elemental power. Power from a piece of nature itself, a power he had once been very familiar with.

In his dreams, the fox stirred. Outside his dreams, his tail flickered for a single moment before returning to where it was.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

As the afternoon sun warms the country village of Clover, inside a modest two story build the guild masters of the magic league of Fiore finally have a break for lunch for today. Sitting a table due to his height -or lack of- Makarov shows into some food with a fresh beer in hand.

"I do have to say Makarov! Your wizards are sweethearts and so full of life and cutie as pies," Says a large belly odd bald man by the table wearing a pink dress with blue striped shorts, a ringed necklace, and mage guild symbol on his right bicep.

The Guildmaster of Blue Pegasus, Bob, and yes he really is a man…

"I heard you got this girl who gave some rich fellow quite the spanking for being naughty."

Makarov grunts; "That would be would Lucy you referring to, our newest member. And she has a body literally forged by the gods themselves!"

Bob blushes covering his cheeks; "Mackie you are so naughty." A female Guild Master who was quietly listening nearby sweatdrops.

"I'd lay back on the jokes Makarov," Says a man wearing a simple dark blue shirt and black jeans with a spiked dog collar around his neck. Wearing a black pointy hat also with dog collar at the base, his hair dark blond combed back with rimless rectangle shades over his eyes. The Guildmaster of Quatro Cerberus, Goldmine.

"While your wizards are a spirited bunch, they did get a touch overboard." Goldmine waves a chiding hand. "The council is worried if they are not careful they could blow up an entire city, can't really blame them honestly."

Makarov only scoffs; "let those blowhards worry their panties off, they are only jealous of how many hotties are in my guild."

At this the Cerberus Guildmaster's eye twitches while Bob only giggles at his old time friend's antics. "Oh Mackie you shouldn't talk about your cutie pie wizards that way scoundrel!"

"Master Makarov! Letter for master Makarov," The three turn seeing a small blue bird with a wizard's cap flying over with a letter in its claws. Putting down his beer, the small man lifts his open hand; "You have a letter from Miss Mirajane!"

"Thanks a lot." Dropping the letter the bird flies away as Makarov turns the letter over showing a magic seal. Waving his hand over it a small image of a smiling Mirajane comes into view gathering the attention of quite a few people.

"Hi master, I am glad you made it to the conference save and sound." Makarov stands up on the table.

"This is Mirajane, our sweet honey that is our poster girl and barkeep. Grab some eye candy boys!"

A few wolf-whistles are heard while Goldmine looks quite surprised; "That's Mira? She certainly matured since last seeing her."

Mirajane claps her hands together in front of her; "Oh, you are not going to believe what happened master! This might be the greatest thing to ever happen in Fairy Tail!"

A goofy grin comes on the old wizard's face; "Really?"

"Erza, Natsu, and Gray have teamed together. Not only that, Naruto is also with them!" the former 'S' class wizard said brightly. "I know you're busy but I wanted to tell you the exciting news! See ya soon!"

Color literally flees from Makarov's face as his jaw nearly unhinges while his body shakes. "N… N-not those three PLUS Naruto~!" the old man says weakly as Mira's smiling image fades. As it does, Makarov literally falls forward while Goldmine crosses his arms.

"Well my point's been proven…"

"Hahahaha" A male voice chuckled. The three older Masters see a tall man encased in armor sitting at the next table. "Yours is sure a lively bunch. Eh Makarov-dono?" The tall figure donned a gleaming armor of intricately designed silver and orange plates, looking every part the figure of a heroic knight. Complete with a white cape and a helm with a Y shaped visor which only allowed two red irises to be seen.

Makarov lifts his head to gaze at the knight. "Not everyone can have a guild of well-behaved professionals like you Solaris."

The armored man just laughs once more. "While many of my people are former soldiers, I can assure you 'professionals' is not the word I'd use to describe my Sunreavers... neither 'well behaved' for that matter" He pours more beer into his mug, which he proceeds to drink through a straw that fits into the slot of his helmet.

Goldmine sweatdrops. "Does he ever take off that helmet?"

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

Naruto raised a brow and titled his head as he listened in to the people. "They took over a train" He mused. "It doesn't seem very convenient"

Up on a hill the group sees Fiore troops keeping guard while military investigators looking around. Next to the soldiers standing by the guard, civilians speak loud enough for Naruto and the others to hear.

An elderly man looks to an investigator; "They were led by man with large scythe! They threatened everyone off and left!"

"Why take over a train?" Lucy asks to herself. "It's not really practical if they plan to take over this place"

"A man with a big scythe," Naruto looks to Erza. "Is that Erigor?"

The redhead nods; "Indeed. Looks like we just missed them."

"Well the troops are already here" Lucy tries to add some hope to their situation. "Maybe they'll manage to arrest them before they get away with whatever they're planning"

"Let's hope so" The blonde ninja responded. But inside he knew the truth, things were never that easy.

Gray who sits on the roof of the crosses his arms; "We should check it out to be safe."

"I agree," Erza nods. "Let's follow them."

Natsu punches his fist into his palm; "Bout time! Let's go hunting!"

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

Kageyama explains to his superior the events that had transpired on the train before they arrived. "A mere fly you say huh?" The scythe wielding repeats.

The pony-tailed man nods. "Yeah, he was here a minute ago" He scoffs. "Just a weakling, he was a joke"

A man beside Kageyama could not stop himself; "For a weakling he whooped your ass by the looks of it." a few members chuckle.

"Oh shut up. Uzumaki's not that tough," the shadow mage growls.

Erigor looks at his man in the eye; "Did he see Lullaby?"

Kageyama twitches nervously, he begins sweating, he tries to hide it but his companions see right through him. "Eh, well he..."

Wind rushes around both sides of his head, thing, fast and sharp. They become two blades of pure air which cut and split his ears open. The shadow mage falls to the ground, holding his ears while wailing in pain.

Erigor grunts. "Don't tell me he found out about the flute"

Holding his ears the shadow mage hisses; "He does not have a clue to what we're really doing! It won't stop the plan."

"True, but we won't take any chances. And I won't have any flies buzzing where they are not wanted."

He chuckles while spinning the unholy flute on his hand. "Flies huh..." He muses. "There are some places they shouldn't really be flying about"

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

People at a café shop scream and scatter as a magic car makes a wild turn smashing into several tables and chairs. Erza guns the vehicle forward at its tops speed, while Gray holds on for dear life on the roof. Inside, Naruto and the others hang on to something while trying not to become scrambled eggs.

"Damn it Erza slow down! Your overloading the SE plug by forcing your magic into it," Gray literally yells through the wind as he gnashes his teeth.

Her crimson hair whips wildly in the wind as her determined almond eyes stare ahead. "If anyone plays that flute countless lives will be lost. I can't stop no matter what!"

"And if you run out magic before you can even do anything!"

A small smirk graces her lips; "Then as Naruto so aptly puts it, I will just have to 'knuckle up and start swinging'. Besides, I have you, Natsu, and Naruto to back me up."

Inside the car Lucy watches her fellow blond with his arms crossed and his eyes closed being deep in thought. "What's wrong Naruto? You've been quiet for a while now."

The Uzumaki grunts opening his eyes; "Just something my former sensei taught me. 'Look underneath the underneath', never take anything at face value, and with Eisenwald I can't see them just stealing some death flute to kill a townspeople. What would that do other than make them a priority for the Council's forces?"

"If we kick their asses then who cares," Natsu shrugs "We smash that flute, smash some heads and go home."

A dry look comes from the buxom blond beside the dragon slayer. Lucy just shakes her head till noticing Happy tapping his chin in thought on Naruto's shoulder.

"I feel like I had something important I was supposed to tell you Lucy," the blue cat mumbles.

"Oh, what is it?"

"I… don't remember…" Naruto, Natsu, and Lucy sweatdrop, "I just know it was something I was supposed to tell you… What was it…? Um… You're weird?"

"I'M WEIRD!" the buxom blond huffs crossing her arms under her ample bust which only makes Natsu and Naruto snickers. "Pot coal, kettle black you stupid furball!"

XxX ~ Oshibana Station ~ XxX

Parking the magic car at the train station, the Fairy Tail group sees a dozen or so people outside complaining as a man with a bullhorn speaker tries to calm the people.

"What's going on inside?!" The knightess demands from one of the workers.

He only looks at her in confusion. "Huh, who are you-UGH!" He receives a strong headbutt from the redhead.

Naruto sweatdrops. "And I thought I was brash..." They see as the Scarlet beauty continuing headbutting anyone who doesn't give her an immediate answer. "But Erza has no room for waiting"

The buxom blond sweatdrops; "Kinda counterproductive" She gets an 'aye' from Happy.

"Erza's always done things her way," Gray pales seeing another man down.

Before Erza could knock out the last remaining working, they managed to spare him from becoming another casualty brought by the Titania's forehead. He informed them that a platoon of soldiers had gone inside the station but had yet to come out, neither the Dark Guild Eisenwald had been seen coming out from the building either.

The Fairies run inside the station, only to find the beaten bodies of the soldiers in a hallway. None of were dead thankfully, but every soldier was badly beaten to unconsciousness. Flying above everyone Happy looks in shock; "they got whipped really good."

Erza and Naruto look at the scene like solemnly; "they fought an entire magic guild."

"No normal platoon can endure that," Naruto finishes.

Gray grimaces. "We have to hurry!"

They follow the path into the center of the station, they tense upon arriving as they dozens of dark mages standing before a train, with a scythe wielding man sitting on its roof.

"I knew you'd come" The man on the train grins. "Fairy Tail" His companions chuckle darkly, looking at them as they were prey waiting to be slaughtered.

Lucy trembles at the sight. "T-There's so many of them..."

"Welcome to our parlor Fairy Tail flies," the man on the train sneers. "We have been expecting you."

A feral grin rises from Natsu's lip; "And now we're here to kick your asses!"

Naruto and Erza keep their gaze on the man sitting on the train. The redhead speaks up; "You're Erigor I presume?"

One of the members of Eisenwald tilts perks up at taking a closer look at the armored woman. "Hey isn't that...?"

"Yeah, that girl from the other day" Another member answers. "Must have been her who leaked out our plans"

Kageyama, now sporting bandages over his ears seethes at the sight of them. "You damn flies, it's all because of you..."

A man in a stripped hoodie chuckles teasingly at him. "Calm down Kage-chan"

Naruto pops his knuckles; "So how bout handing over that flute thing and we can all call it a day?"

"Tell me your intentions," Erza glares hard; "depending on your answer, you will possibly regret it."

Erigor simply smirks with a dismissive wave. "Ohh don't mind us, we're just killing time. No jobs lately so we're really bored" His guild laugh at his witty reply. "You fools" His smile becomes more savage, to the Fairies surprise, he levitates from the ground, a trail of wind marking his ascension. "Haven't you realized yet? Here's a tip; what do they have on a train station?"

Lucy and Happy both look in shock; "That's pure wind magic!"

Erigor keeps his eyes on the Sennin and Titania. "Times up." he floats over to a pillar with four speakers which makes the Fairy Tail group widen their eyes in horror.

"You're going to broadcast that damn thing," Naruto shouts snarling.

"Shit!" Natsu swears along with Gray.

"There are currently thousands of people gathered here" The ace of Eisenwald smiles maniacally. "If we broadcast it loud enough even the entire town will hear Lullaby's deadly melody"

Erza's teeth are grind in rage. "You'd indiscriminately commit mass-murder?!"

"Ohh don't look at it that way" He chuckles. "We're simply... cleaning up. These people so blissfully ignorant, enjoying their lives filled with rights and freedom, not knowing there are others to whom such things are denied" His disturbing smile grew larger. "Living a life oblivious to the unfairness of the world is a sin. Thus, the Shinigami has come to punish them"

Lucy looks up in her own rage; "You'll never get back anything just by killing everyone in the area! You won't return to the wizard league, you will have only make things worse for you!"

"Naive girl... If we have the authority we can burn away the past and dominate the future! And with Lullaby we will do just that," Erigor sinisterly chuckles. "We stopped caring upon ever returning to the league, now all we want is our own path."

"You're a damn fool," the buxom blond fires back.

Slamming his hand on the ground, Kageyama smiles murderously at Lucy; "Such a pity!" a mass shadow shoots forward from the cement to his target. "We're rolling in a new age of darkness. Of course by the time it gets here you flies will be DEAD!"

The shadow shoots out like a whip but is burned away by Natsu's flaming fist. "I ain't gonna let you lay a hand on my friends"

Kageyama sneers seeing the feral grins from Naruto and Natsu. With a flaming fist the dragon slayer punches his palm. "Looks like we can finally have a party." The dragon slayer remarks darkly.

Erigor only looks down at them in amusement; 'the Fairy Tail flies fell right into my trap. Everything is going to according to plan.' His smile only grows more savage; 'but there can be no rest till they hear the final melody of lullaby's song and finally have revenge against those who wronged us!'

Popping his knuckles in a very Tsunade-like fashion Naruto smiles predatory, showing his naturally long canines; "well boys are we going to stand here or we gonna start killing each other like civilized human beings?"

Lucy sweatdrops; "kinda morbid there Naru." She gets an 'aye' from Happy who flies around.

Rising into the air Erigor smirks; "I leave these flies to you men. KILL THEM ALL! SHOW THEM THE TERROR OF THE DARK GUILD EISENWALD!" he vanishes in a blink of an eye.

Erza narrows her almond colored eyes; "Natsu, Gray, you two go after Erigor and stop him." The two said mages look at her as she continues. "If the two of you work as one not even the ace of Eisenwald can stop you. I leave him in your hands."

Naruto and Lucy sweatdrop seeing both Natsu and Gray butting heads till a loud verbal roar from the gorgeous redhead sends them running with Kageyama and the man with a pharaoh hoodie named Rayule chasing after them.

Both the young Sennin and Knight of Fairy Tail keep their eyes focused on the rest of the members of Eisenwald. Behind them Lucy bites the inside of her lip while Happy flies around her. "We will meet up with those two later after we deal with these men."

The buxom blond lightly pales; "The three of us against all of these guys?"

A few of the dark mages leer at both Erza and Lucy; "Man, those two ladies are gorgeous. Damn shame we have to kill them."

"Who says we can't have fun with them after we kill Uzumaki. Tame these beauties just right before we sell them off," another dark utters darkly.

However their musing is silenced by a massive intense wave of killer intent coming from a deeply frowning Naruto. None seeing his cerulean blues turned crimson momentarily. "You even think of trying that and I will personally send you idiots to the 'real' Shinigami himself," Naruto says in a low growling tone.

One of the men in Eisenwald just activates his magic shaking off the sudden fear, and fires off a beam of light. "Just die you blonde bastard!"

Without any hesitation, Ezra uses her re-equip magic and summons a long sword from the other realm, slicing at the beam, of light and deflecting it. Naruto himself jumps high into the air and forms a large blue spinning ball of Chakra, his Odama Rasengan as well as throwing a Tri-forged Kunai into the fray of men before him. "You first!" And in a flash, he was in their ranks, slamming the large Rasengan into the ground, and blasting the men around him away in a wave of pressure and wind, many falling to the ground, others hitting into walls nearby.

Lucy's jaw nearly drops; "Naruto can make that thing bigger!?"

Happy nods; "Aye, when he and Erza fought that one time he used it. It tore up the entire street!"

The buxom blond sweatdrops; "Destroying property is not something to be excited about you know."

Re-equipping her sword for a large polearm lance, Ezra jumps into the fray and slams into a dozen men in one swing, knocking half out with the force alone before needing to switch and swing for the incoming enemies to her other side. Seeing more coming up to take her out, some using their magic, she vaults herself up into the air, the polearm straight up with her on top of it.

In a second, she switches her spear out for twin swords, spinning into the fray with close range grace, as she dances among them, slashing into some and uppercutting others out of the way for much bigger targets, spinning with beautiful swings that makes her unknowingly distracting to others around her.

With his own fists, Naruto himself fights a couple dozen men at once, not even using his Chakra to take them down anymore. With a swing coming for him from behind, Naruto shifted to the side and let it pass, only to grab the man and slam his head into his knee, disorientating himself enough for the blonde Sage to throw him into the next attacker, slamming them to the ground in a pile with a third Attacker who was unfortunate enough to have Naruto kick his arm down and then spring kick his chin with enough force for the attacker to flip three times backwards before joining the pile with the two first K.O's from Naruto's swift hand to hand skills.

A dark mage growls; "he's not even mage and he's kicking our asses!" That same dark mage is sent to dreamland from a roundhouse kick to the face courtesy of the blond Uzumaki.

"Because I'm awesome dattebayo!"

When that mage was sent to la-la land, his friends tried to blast Naruto with their magic, only to find the blonde was gone. One Mage looked in shock to see Naruto jump from the middle of the crater he made near the buxom redhead. "Erza!"

Re-Equipping her polearm, Ezra swung at Naruto, who landed both feet on the swinging surface. "Go, Naruto!" Swinging with full force, Ezra blasted Naruto into the fray of enemies starting to blast at him, and corrected her swing to slam into the seven men behind her, attempting to strike her down with their weapons.

Moving to the side, the blonde Sage dodged another blast, only to land a drop kick into the nearest enemy, picking him up by his feet when the mage almost flipped completely, and swung him to the far mage who was going to blast him, "Keep on comin boys I got a can whoop ass for everybody!"

"Those two," Lucy watches on in almost a trance as Erza and Naruto decimate Eisenwald. "They're so strong… and fight so well together…"

Happy nods beside her; "aye because those two are best friends. They always train together when not busy on a job or something in town."

Taking a golden key from off her belt, Lucy gives a smirk; "Well I want in on it to! Open: Gate of the golden bull! Taurus!"

The ground erupts as a near seven foot; very muscular humanoid bull man stands tall in front of the smiling buxom blond. Covered mainly with short white fur with black fur splotched on random places, bull horns on the top of his head, a cow bell around his neck, wearing swimming briefs, a red belt with a golden buckle, and black boots. On his back is massive long handle double bladed axe.

Drool comes from the side of Happy's mouth; "Giant cow…"

"I swear you and Natsu think with your stomachs," The buxom blond just rubs her eyes.

"Wow Lucy-chan that smoking body looks amazing as always, those boobs look moo~re awesome each time I see them," the giant bull gives a big lecherous smile only making Lucy sigh.

"Oh yeah Taurus is also the world's biggest pervert," the celestial mage mutters.

'You should have met Ero-Sennin Lu-Chan,' Naruto sweatdrops while drop kicking two dark mages.

Lucy points to the dark mages; "Those scumbags that Naru and Erza are fighting, smash them!"

With a vicious grin the bull-man grabs his axe as he charges; "Yoo~u got it!" Leaping into the air the celestial spirit slams down his massive axe at the members of Eisenwald who smartly get the hell out of dodge. The ground erupts by the sheer force sending quite a few dark mages flying.

A whistle comes from the blond Uzumaki; "That was awesome bull-man!" He grins getting a thumbs up from Taurus as both continue fighting.

The Fairy Queen was beginning to tire from these fools constant meddling, there were more pressing matters at hand and the grunts were delaying them. They weren't even good grunts, the last one came charging at her with conjured lightning swords, but left himself so open the Titania couldn't help but pity him as she delivered a swift kick to his crotch and a punch to his jaw, knocking him out cold.

They need to end this quickly and stop Erigor from unleashing Lullaby. With that in mind, she decided it was time to switch her tactics. With a wave of her hand she gathered magic all around her body as she opened of her personal storage dimension.

Naruto and Lucy noticed her armor vanishing, leaving her skin completely bare and shimmering with magic. Erza waved her arms as she summoned another armor. The male blond knew for a fact that the redhead had a flair for... dramatics. Even in the midst of combat.

Once she got like this there was no stopping her, but honestly, one would think she'd notice the obvious state she was in. "Does she realize she's naked?" He wasn't complaining, but if Erza knew everyone was shamelessly ogling she'd go on a rampage, and gods help them if that happened. Lucy could only blush brightly, thinking how cool Erza looked at everything she did.

"I am seriously falling for Erza," Lucy says almost breathlessly. Taurus absently nods with his tongue hanging out.

Naruto only snorts and sweatdrops upon seeing everyone stopped and gawking with hearts in their eyes. Seriously if his best friend ever figured out that tiny detail of her Re-quip all hell would break loose.

Magic condensed and took shape on her frame, turning into a glorious silver armor. Her chest and midriff were left bare, but her arms and legs were covered in silver plates of metal, her waist was circled by a skirt decorated with plates. The most distinctive trait was the four wings on her back, formed by feather-like plates. She looked like a warrior angel of steel.

"Heaven's Wheel!" She shouted the name of her armor.

"That is Erza's power," Happy deciding to go into lecture mode beside an awestruck Lucy. "Her Re-Quip is called the 'knight'. The strongest woman in all of Fairy Tail!"

A large chubby dark mage soon looks absently in thought; "crimson red hair... A master of weapons…" A chill went down his spine as Erza began rising into the air. "Holy Shit..! It's Titania!"

"This ends now!" Dozens of swords appear around her. "Dance, my blades! CIRCLE OF SWORDS!" They shimmer with power and beginning to spin so fast around her they become a blurry disk of energy. With a wave of her arms, the disk is sent hurling towards her opponents. The dark mages are blown away by rag dolls by the sheer force of the attack.

Shunshining back to Lucy Naruto only smirks seeing all the members of Eisenwald laid out into unconsciousness. Lowering back to the ground beside her best friend in a flash Erza's armors turns back to her Heart's Kruez.

Lucy much to her fellow blond silent amusement can't stop blushing at the redhead as she had already dispelled Taurus.

"Lucy, could go find Natsu and Gray," Erza's voice stirring the buxom blond from her daydream of thoughts. "Those two are likely fighting each other before they even find Erigor. It is imperative he must be stopped."

Lucy was about to disagree till feeling a wave of angry energy coming off of Erza, "PLEASE!"

Only smoke is left as Lucy high tails it out of there with Happy in tow. Taking a deep sigh Erza almost falls to the one knee till Naruto catching her by the waist. "You spent too much energy..."

"Doesn't matter" The Titania grunts, a drop of sweat running down her temple "We need to stop Erigor quickly, before he unleashes Lullaby"

A part of Naruto wanted to yell at her but honestly he was just as equally stubborn she was. "What do you need from me?" The blond helps her stand straight as she catches her breath.

"Will you go help Lucy find Natsu and Gray?"

The blond Uzumaki nods; "Are you going to be okay for now?"

"Yes" She replies. "Just give me a minute to rest" Erza gives him a stern look. "Go, now"

Naruto nods firmly before breaking into a run to the hallway Lucy had gone through.

Regaining her bearings, the redhead runs up the stairs; "I have to warn the people." Upon leaving the room as a down dark mage with actual whiskers groans.

"Karacka stop hiding I know you're there," he groans painfully.

With a weak chuckle, the large chubby dark mage of Eisenwald phases through the wall near the downed man; "Sorry Byard."

The whiskered man just waves it off; "Never mind and just listen..."

XxX ~ Natsu & Gray ~ XxX

The fire and ice users ran as fast as they could through the hallway, searching for Erigor. Their task would go more smoothly were it not because they were constantly butting heads every few seconds.

"What the hell was Erza thinking pairing the two of us?" Gray grunts while in his sprint.

"I know right! When have we EVER gotten along?"

"She must be out of her meds if she believes we can work together without you messing everything up"

"Yeah, she... What do you mean by that?!" The pink haired boy roared with flames escaping from his lips.

Both butt heads; "I can handle Erigor on my own!" They say at the same time. "Are you coping me?!"

Stopping their impromptu face off both see an intersection going left and right. "Guess we split up from here," Gray mutters.

"Alright" Natsu nods before giving his characteristic grin. "If you find that bastard, save a bit for me, I wanna punch his face in myself"

"Tch" The ice mage grins back. "Hey if I find Erigor I ain't gonna pull my punches. If I beat him before you then you'll have to live with it" They both turn, each about to take their separate paths. Gray stopped momentarily, unseen by Natsu; he wore a somber look on his face. "Don't you go dying you hear me..." He muttered so softly his words had gone nearly unheard, even by Natsu's superior hearing.

"What?" The pink haired boy said in confusion.

Gray grunted. "Nothing" He broke into a sprint down the hall. "Get going you flame-head"

Hearing a scoff both men run in their chosen direction. Running through his path Gray notices a door with the sign studio. Without hesitating he kicks down the door hard shattering it. Walking in the ice mage only finds an empty room.

"The bastard's not around. Did I beat him here? This is the only communication room in the place," Gray mutter quietly not seeing several loose straps coming from the ceiling behind him.

His instincts allow him to react in time as the straps suddenly lash out at him, he quickly dodges and the binds strike the floor, cracking it."Not bad, your senses are sharp will give that." slowly sliding down from the ceiling the dark mage Rayule smirks arrogantly. "You flies really are nuisance to our plans."

"So there is more going on, Naruto had a feeling there was."

"Ohh, don't worry too much about it" Rayule says hauntingly. "It's not like you can do anything anyway"

Slamming his fist into his hand, Gray's magical aura starts to chill the studio quickly. "Maybe not, but you never know until you try. Besides, it's not like I'm going to fail in front of Ezra, so you better believe I'm going to be an even bigger pain in the butt than we have been until you're through."

Rayule himself notices the quickly icing surfaces and jumps down onto the floor just before firing several ribbons and straps from his hands. "Fat chance!"

Just as the straps touched Gray, they froze and bundle into a large sculpture of ice that breaks in a flurry of snow. "Ready to talk? Or do I need to chill you out of your shoelaces?"

Seeing as the snow was causing slight visibility problems, the dark mage figured he had an advantage, one which he felt ready to pull. Letting nothing be held back, Rayule launches almost a hundred straps through the air, flying in nearly all directions. In what he felt was a confusing display of an attack; he slips through the floor of the room.

Seeing a large dark wall of moving straps coming for him and slamming into the walls, the Ice Mage generates a large wall of ice, "Ice Make: Shield!" The swarming snow around him collapses in front of him to generate pieces of the shield, becoming solid ice in front, and around, the straps, stopping them in their tracks. However, they were suddenly pulling his shield away from him, and slamming it into the ground.

Jumping from the ceiling, Rayule pulls a large hail of straps enclose all around Gray in a matter of seconds, surrounding him entirely. When the dark mage eventually tied Gray into a mummy, he could only laugh and grin in dark amusement. "Take that, Fairy Tail wizard! Eisenwald's no pushover!"

As he laughed, he didn't notice until the ice reached his hands, that all his straps were one solid chunk of ice in the shape of Gray himself. Hearing someone behind him, he only feels the hair on his neck straighten, the strongest chill reaching his spine. "If that's all you guys got, then you're ace in the hole might be nothing but a low ranked wussy. Some rep he has, I figured those he commanded would put up more of a fight."

The ice broke into a million dust particles, revealing a blurry, but well made, sculpture of Gray, solid but see through. The real Gray was behind Rayule, who had turned to defend himself, only to see a shirtless gray activating his magic again. "Ice make: Knuckle!" And without a second to spare, Rayule gets hit by several fisted arms coming from the floor, slamming him into the equipment behind him.

XxX ~ Lucy ~ XxX

"Where the hell are those two? How big is this station anyway," The buxom celestial mage huffs as she runs down a hall with Happy flying beside her.

"You'd think it'd be easy to find them really" The blue cat says. "Usually there are lots of explosions when those two are together"

"Maybe we should head back to Erza and Naru and regroup," Lucy mutters quietly before stopping and seeing Happy literally frozen in place in pure fear looking right at her. "What's wrong?"

"We mustn't disobey Erza. We mustn't disobey Erza" The winged feline repeated the words like a mantra while rocking back and force in the air. "Bad things happen to you when you disobey Erza"

Lucy shivers at Happy's tone ask keeps going; "You have to be beyond brave to disobey an order from Erza. Even I don't know what she would do to you..."

"Wh-What would she do to me!?" Lucy almost shrieks. "Alright I'll go looking for them!"

"Lu-Chan!" Both turn seeing Naruto running up to them. "Caught you two in time." then she notices both of them slightly petrified. "Did I miss something?"

"Erza's going to punish Lucy" Happy replies.

"I said we'll go looking for them!"

The blond Sennin scratches his head; "Okay...". Soon enough, the trio runs off down the hall.

XxX ~ Erza ~ XxX

The Fairy Queen hurried towards the stations balcony. If they couldn't get to Erigor in time, at least they needed to evacuate the town so no innocent would hear Lullaby's deadly song.

As she reached the balcony, she looked at crowd. It was almost like everyone in town had gathered to see what was going on in the station, while the ideal circumstance was for they to be as far away as possible, she could use this to her advantage and make sure everyone would leave.

"People of Oshibana!" She shouted as loud as her voice would allow. "If you value your lives you will leave immediately!"

The crowd below murmurs and the redhead continues; "Dark mages have laid siege to the station and plan to broadcast a death spell! I urge all of you to evacuate now!"

Not being told twice the crowd around the station soon take off in a near panic, but thankfully will keep their lives now. I will not let you use that dark magic to commit mass murder to innocent people. Watching the people run away further she sighs; how will you react now to not having anyone to kill Erigor?

Turning around her eyes widen. "It-It can't be!"

The station, the entirety of the great building was shrouded in a barrier of violent winds reminiscing of a tornado. Her hair and skirt wipe around strongly from the violent tempest as she hears a deep chuckle behind her. "So you made it outside eh Titania?"

Swiftly turning Erza snarls looking up; "ERIGOR!"

The assassin mage waves at her sitting in the sky. "So it was you who made the sheep run away from the wolf's fang I see."

"As we speak the people are fleeing town" She says fiercely, glaring daggers at the dark mage. "No one will hear Lullaby's song now"

To her surprise, Erigor only smiled, and a growing sense of dread began to seep down her spine. "Who ever said our target was Oshibana?"

Look underneath the underneath, Naruto's words echo in Erza's head as her eyes widen in horror. "The guild masters in Clover!"

Erigor soon laughs at her terror; "Oh you are clever as they say! And how I longed to finally face someone of your caliber Titania. But pleasure will come after business." Before Erza can react she hit by a powerful wind spell; "Now be a good girl and wait in your cage!"

Her feet skid backwards as Erza finds herself inside the station and behind the wind barrier. She quickly stands on her feet and bashes against the barrier, only for this one to easily repel, she puts more strength into her legs to keep herself pushing. She grunts in pain as she feels her arm being slashed by the violent winds.

Moving back from the dangerous winds Erza hissing as holds her slashed up arm. "I have wasted enough time! Judgement awaits!" Erigor's silhouette soon fades outside the barrier.

Rage trembles through her body as blood drips from the redhead's arm; "ERIGOR!"

XxX ~ Gray ~ XxX

Walking up to the dark wizard, Gray had enough fun. "Alright, so give me the run down here, because I feel I'm missing something. Aren't you Eisenwald goons trying to project the Lullaby melody over the PA system?"

Groaning and coughing from the sudden shift in air pressure in his lungs, Rayule stands up, smirking and chuckling to himself. "Man you Fairy Tail are idiots. Yeah, we're going to use the damn song, but not here where a small population of unimportant people would die just to be martyrs... Nah, we're going after those who spat in our faces. In fact, I think our trap just closed on you a few minutes ago, with Erigor's barrier up and running..."

That got Gray's attention. Grabbing the dark wizard, the ice mage threw him into the wall with enough force to make him bounce, before grabbing his neck and forcing him against the wall, legs hanging. "Let's get this clear, cause I don't have too much time or patience to deal with you. Tell me what the plan is, where are you going to unleash that death magic?"

Spitting out some blood Rayule only gives dark bloody smile; "Thought that Salamander was a thick headed idiot. Don't you get by now Fullbuster?" His smile soon turns murderous. "WE'RE AFTER THE GUILD MASTERS!"

Quickly realizing the plan, and why they were even heading this way, it made sense. The tracks lead all the way to the conference in Cover. "But why stop here, why comes all this way just to stop when your target is Clover?"

Rayule swiftly slips more straps down to use. "Moron, we lead you in here because we knew you were after us. In order to pin you flies down, we trapped you all in here with Erigor's barrier, which is impenetrable! And unless you can fly like Erigor, you're not going to be catching him any time soon! HAH!" A Snap of his wrists and his magic straps roll into heavy rolls just to smack into Gray with enough force he skids back, giving the dark mage the space he needs to roll his sleeves up and whip his straps at Gray.

With a swift swing, Rayule's straps swung in a cyclone of black fury, snapping against Gray with enough force to bruise his arm and twist him around before catching his leg and tripping him, the ice mage falling face first. Releasing more straps, Rayule struck with the full force of a truck down upon Gray's back, cracking the ground as Gray screamed in pain.

Using his magic, the straps of Rayule's accessories slipped around Gray's feet and started to drag him close. "Now don't try and fight it, this will be over soon, just like it will be for those guild masters that soiled our good name..."

The seemingly won battle was quickly turned, however, as Gray roars and generates a floor made of spikes around him and Rayule, who suddenly becomes punctured in several places, his arms stuck and unmoving. The straps freezing to breaking point, snapping into chunks as Gray stands up from the dangerously sharp landscape. "So that's it. I get it now... You've been after your revenge all this time."

Just as the dark mage was about to speak, the cold winds of impending death silence him, his eyes widening to see Gray turn with a look of a devil seeking blood. "I'm going to explain this once to you, so it sticks. Those old fogies, the Guild masters, however old and strict and out of the times around here, they mean more to us than your revenge means to you. They took us in when others gawked, screamed, and ran us out of towns for our gifts, and helped us to control it, to seize the day and be ourselves. They are the closest thing we have to parents... and we will not allow you to get off a single note of that flute to play so long as I still breathe... And when I'm through with you, I'm aiming for Erigor, and every single member of your guild. You think you're bad? I'll prove that if you mess with those we care about, that Fairy Tail is worse than any Dark Guild. Time to meet the REAL reaper..." Slamming his hand into the dark mages skull, ice mist starts to pour through the room in a blizzard. "Tell him your leader's title will be removed from him today."

Falling to the ground with his head covered in ice Gray only stares impassively at his downed opponent. "No one messes with my friends or gramps on my watch." Without another word the ice mage runs out the room; "Damn they played us good."

XxX ~ Natsu ~ XxX

"COME ON OUT YOU COWARD!" The Dragon Slayer roared as he blasted through yet another wall, completely missing the door that was not but a couple of feet from the now scorching hole. "I'LL BRING THE WHOLE PLACE DOWN IF IT MEANS FINDING YOU!" Once more, he brought down another wall, but the door close to it was left intact.

Emerging from the shadows, Kageyama observes the senseless rampage with a sweatdrop. "It's like this guy doesn't know how to use a door..."

Dumb ass does not even know Erigor is already long gone. Slowly the shadow mage phases out of the ceiling watching Natsu blow a hole through another wall. The idiot is so clueless, all he doing is wasting his time. Finally with only his hands still black mass above him he rocks back and slams his feet into the back of Natsu head sending him flying into a storage room. "Until I kill you and the rest I can have some mental peace."

The pink haired boy groans as he recovers from the attack. He looks at his attacker with a surprised gaze. "It's you...! Uh... That guy!" He points dramatically.

Kageyama nearly falls to the ground out of the sheer idiocy of that statement. But more importantly, the bastard didn't know his name!

"It's Kageyama you idiot! Didn't Uzumaki tell ya!?" The shadow mage lands on the ground.

Natsu just waves a hand dryly; "Nah he just said you were some fake ass clone reject of his old buddy Shika whatever his name is."

"Damn it I'm not unimportant!" Kageyama shouted in anger, a twitch making itself present on his eye. "I'm a very strong member of Eisenwald!"

Natsu snorted. "Which was why your boss just left you and the others here as cannon fodder right?"

Taking a slow deep breath the dark mage calms himself; "Anyway you can't win. I figured out your magic Salamander. This will be easy."

Natsu only gives feral smirk; "You really think I am some push off? I am going to love beating your head in."

With his own smirk, Kageyama activates his shadow magic. "Says the flame I'll be smothering! Knuckle Shadow..!" His own shadow snakes up to Natsu before suddenly throwing several fists and arms up at Natsu, who only had enough time to block the attack to his vital areas before slamming up against the wall.

The pink haired salamander slaps his feet and hands against the wall in order to reduce any pain from actually crashing into it, but also as a means of attack. Jumping off the wall, Natsu starts spinning in a fiery twister, flames surrounding his legs as he collides with Kageyama, who notices the sudden counterattack in surprise. Instinct raising several shadows to block, but the fire and Natsu's strength pierced through the shield, Natsu's flame covered foot slamming into Kageyama with the force of a train and blasting the shadow mage through the wall and into the hallways once more. "Ready to talk, or do I need to rough you up a bit more?"

Shaking off the mental cobwebs and spitting out some blood, Kageyama soon raises to his feet as he jumps back through the massive hole. "Is that really all you got? We're just getting started..." The shadow mage gleams murderously.

XxX ~ Erza ~ XxX

"How do we break this barrier?!" The Titania questioned one of the members of Eisenwald. The guy only scoffed and ignored her.

He was promptly headbutted and knocked out.

Erza proceeded with the next one. "How do we break this barrier?!"

The man began sweating nervously. "I-I don't know..." THUCK! Headbutt.

Naruto only cringes while a frightened Lucy hugged an equally frightened Happy. The young Sage noticed all but a few were tied up as Erza was sending the rest guy to the dream land.

"C-Can't she interrogate someone like a normal person?" Lucy asks fearfully. Getting a weak 'aye' from Happy.

Her fellow blond looks back at her dryly; "Define any normal person within Fairy Tail?" He waits for her reply, when she doesn't answer he adds; "Don't worry I'll wait."

Walking over to a now fearful Byard, Erza grabs him by collar. "Well, you saw what I did to your friends. How do I break the wind barrier?"

No matter how much frightening the redhead is; her fury was nothing compared to what Erigor would do to him if he said anything. "Fuck you, bitch" With that, he spits on her face.

Erza does not move, her expression doesn't change, and she doesn't even try to wipe the saliva running down her cheek. Her eyes slowly narrow even further.

Naruto suddenly pales considerably. "Uh oh..."

Upon running into the second floor of the area, Gray literally turns ghostly white as an inhuman shriek echoes through the entire building courtesy of Erza beating the holy hell out of an Eisenwald mage within an inch of his life.

Damn even I am not that stupid, Naruto cringes badly watching the one-sided massacre delivered by his best friend. He soon sweatdrops noticing Lucy, Happy, and even Gray – of all people- hiding behind him.

"How does this not scare you," Gray says fearfully.

"You never met my mother..." Naruto speaks like he was talking about the weather.

Imagining someone out there actually far worse than Erza only made the ice mage shake fearfully "Now I don't think I want to..."

Erza let's go of the shapeless pile of meat formerly known as Byard. She grunts in annoyance. "Now how are we going to break through the barrier?"

At that moment Naruto realized something. "Say, where is Natsu? And... I think we're missing one or two of those Eisenwald guys"

Out of their fearful moment, the three behind Naruto also notice a few of them missing; "Yeah, that Kageyama, and Mr. tubby are gone," Gray mutters still with a twinge of fear in his voice.

"Kage..." Byard speaks weakly in a pained. "Yama... Break barrier..."

Erza's eyes widen. "What was that?!" She holds the dark mage by the collar once more. "Tell me or this time I'll really get violent" She growls.

"Kageyama..." He wheezes. "Can dispel... magic..."

Dropping Byard unceremoniously, Erza looks to Naruto, "We have to find Natsu and that guy, now!"

XxX ~ Natsu vs. Kageyama ~ XxX

Activating his shadow magic, the Shikamaru clone fires several more shadowy fists forward. His opponent was ready this time, as he ducks under them, slipping out and racing up against the wall to the side, curving around as to not get hit directly by what looked to be a brick wall of shadow.

Said wall of shadow collapse against the wall where the fire wizard was before moving, Kageyama looking up to see Natsu had jumped up against the ceiling before jumping straight down with a barreling axe kick. The pineapple headed man uses another wall of shadow in an attempt to get away from the attack, thankfully in time as the same fire amplified attack as before breaks his shadows to nothing.

Not one to hesitate in a battle or to shred his opponents, Kageyama slams his palms to the ground. "Snake Shadow!" Several large slithering reptiles of shadow jump from his magic circle, and race towards the pink haired salamander. However, as he activated his own magic, so did Natsu.

Hitting the ground, Natsu corrected himself before making a stand, slamming his fists together. "Now I'm fired up! Yeah! Time to show you what a real wizard can do!" Breathing inward, Natsu sees the snaking shadows of his attacker's next spell. "Dragon Flame ROAR!" cupping his hands in front of his mouth to make a funnel, the fire wizard spits the flame in his belly in a firestorm at the shadows, which were overtaken with ease as the stream of fire destroys them in seconds, still racing towards the shadow user.

Seeing his own ace in the hole fail, Kageyama quickly raises as much power to protect himself, barriers piling up in front of him only to break with the force of a waterfall, and the heat of the sun, blasting him through the broken wall, and then through the next wall, into another storage room on the other side of the hall.

Groaning in pain, Kageyama stood up, his jacket smoking and almost torn to a crisp from the flame, he stares up in shock and fear as Natsu, the fire mage and dragon slayer of Fairy Tail, walks up to him with a raging fire all around his arms, a menacing look in his eyes. "Gotta say, I've not been this fired up for a long time, gonna be a shame to waste this much fun. But I'd rather just beat down your boss, so just tell me where he is and we'll call it even."

XxX ~ xxx ~ XxX

Running through the halls of the station Erza, Naruto, Gray, and Lucy all stop as the build shook. Happy floats around them looking around."Natsu?" The winged cat reasons that to be the cause of whatever might have caused the whole structure to rumble.

"Natsu" The others reply without missing a beat.

Popping his knuckles the fire dragon slayer is ready to keep on ass kicking till he sees Erza and the others running towards him outside the hole; "Hey guys, got shadow dude on the ropes here."

Erza says nothing as she passes her pink haired friend and walks through the hole. Naruto also follows as he smirks at glaring shadow mage."So, guess these flies ain't so worthless anymore huh?" He quips much to Kageyama's ire.

"We came to make you an offer" The knightess says, stepping forward. "I know you can dispel magic, so here's the deal; you dispel the wind barrier Erigor erected, and... well, we'll try to get you a fair trial"

"Oh" Kageyama shows false cheer, "a fair trial for an open dark mage. Yeah that will go far Titania." The shadow mage sneers. "Tell you what..." His words die in his throat as blood pours out.

"What the-?!" Gray shouts as he and everyone else steps back in shock. Lucy covers her mouth in horror as Kageyama's body slumps to the ground and they see a knife buried on a bloody spot on his back.

Over the wall, the quivering form of Karacka phases through the stone with an arm semi-outstretched, his own face shocked and horrified at what he had just the large man's head he keeps hearing Byard's words over and over. 'Kill Kageyama...' Erza rushes to the man along with Naruto as Natsu is frozen on the spot.

"Aren't you... His friend," the rosette haired man says in a low shocked voice. He gnashes his teeth as he dashes forward with a flaming fist."AREN'T YOU FRIENDS IN THE SAME GUILD!? YOU BASTARD!"

Karacka barely hast time to react as the fiery comet that was a human hand collides against his jaw, sending him with enough force it shatters the wall and knocks him unconscious at the same time.

"People who do that to their own comrades" The fire Dragon Slayer seethes with utmost rage. "Are the worst"

"We'll see to this guy's wounds" Naruto said as he unsealed a first aid kit from a scroll. "Gray, Lucy" He said with as much authority as he could master, bringing them out of their stupor. "Make sure that other guy doesn't escape..." He soon notices the fat man wouldn't be leaving any time soon in his current state. "Or... try to make sure Natsu doesn't kill him"

Both Lucy and Gray hold back an irate Natsu while Happy flies onto Naruto's shoulder. The buxom blond looks to her fellow blond; "You know first aid?"

"When your mother is the village's best doctor you pick up a lot." Naruto mentally shivers at all the lessons he took from Tsunade, Shizune, and even Sakura. In the back of his mind he wished he could have learned 'Mystic palm'.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

Having bandaged him properly after taking care of the wound, the group tries, unsuccessfully, to wake up the shadow mage.

"Kageyama, come one!" Erza shakes him. "You need to wake up and dispel the barrier!" Her temper rises by the second. "I said wake up!" She proceeds to shake him even more violently.

Naruto and the others sweatdrop "I don't think that's gonna work..."

As they had all moved to one of open halls outside they see the violent tempest that halts their chase for Erigor. Gray explained the true plans of Eisenwald.

"They want to kill all the masters at the meeting," Lucy gasps till screaming as an angry Natsu slams himself into the dangerous wind barrier. Only to be sent flying back hard into the wall.

They need more power to break through this, Naruto thought. He could do something about it... but any technique in his repertoire strong enough to shatter the barrier would most likely bring the entire place on their heads out of the backlash.

With an almighty roar Natsu slams himself again into the powerful winds. Literally shoving him face and being cut multiple numerous times before being dragged back by Lucy. "Stop it! You are going keep hurting yourself!"

Erza growled under her breath as she paced impatiently before the violent winds. "We're wasting time; Erigor may already be halfway to Clover and the Masters. There has to be another way to get through"

Naruto searched high and low but couldn't find a single hole through the barrier; it stretched all around the large building from the ground to... hmm.

"Hey" He called out to the others. "Do you think this thing also goes underground?"

The rest of the Fairies' eyes widened in realization. "It shouldn't..." Gray says. "The wind barrier would only cover whatever it is surrounding"

"But the underground..." Lucy whispers.

Erza nods with a victorious smile. "It should be unprotected" In her hands she Re-Equipped a shovel (making the others sweatdrop and wonder just what kind of stuff did she have stored) and begins digging. "Come on, we have no time to lose"

Naruto groans as he helps her. "This is gonna take us too long" Meanwhile Erigor's still on route to Clover.

As Happy saw his friends work, he felt like a light bulb literally came into existence right over his head as he suddenly remembered something. "I finally remembered what I wanted to talk you about Lucy!"

An annoyed expression crosses the buxom blond's pretty face; "Can't you see we're..." She trails off as Happy pulls a golden key from his bag.

"This. It's Virgo's key. She said she wanted you to have it." The little blue cat drops the key into a crouching Lucy's hands.

Erza and Gray look over as the ice mage speaks up; "What are you talking about?"

"That chubby rich teme Lu-Chan and Natsu beat up," Naruto summarizes.

"Ah" Said rosette boy exclaims as he remembers. "Yeah the hentai guy with the large gorilla-woman"

Gray only stares at him. "...I'm not even gonna ask"

The young Sennin squints his eyes towards Gray; "You really don't want to."

Looking at the golden key her hand Lucy looks visible uneasy. 'That gorilla woman wants me to be her master? Well maybe she can do something.' Stand up full she extends the key in her hand. "Open: Gate of the maiden! Virgo!"

What she expected was to see was the same large ugly looking spirit they had first met on that pervert's mansion... what they got was a rather lovely looking young girl in maid's clothing with chains on her arms.

The pink haired spirits does a small courtesy. "Did you call, mistress?"

Okay, that is different. She is pretty though, Naruto thinks absently. "Hey Virgo!"

The spirit maid looks over to the blond shinobi. "Hello again. I wish to apologize for last time."

Natsu waves it off; "Nah it's fine, but man you lost weight."

Tilting her head the rosette female looks to the dragon slayer; "That form I took was at the request of my former master."

"That guy had weeeeird tastes" Naruto drawled. "I'd say 'to each their own' but, damn"

"I think you looked cooler in your other form" Natsu argued. "All big and tough"

"If you prefer" Her body immediately shifted to gigantic proportions and taking on a more 'brutish' look. "I can stay like this" She said in a very deep and baritone voice.

In seconds Naruto, Lucy, and Gray wave their hands; "The first form please!"

Within a blink the small pretty rosette maid reappears; "As you request mistress." She replied, her voice back to its soft monotone.

"Um, how about a different title, mistress makes me sound old," Lucy weakly smiles.

"Makes you sound like you're her... you know" The ice mage mumbled under his breath, to which Naruto couldn't help but snicker. Lucy glared at them but said nothing.

"How about madam?" Virgo asked.

"Hmm, too formal"

"Princess?"

Instantly the buxom blond beams; "Now that is a super cute title!"

Virgo nods; "Very well Hime."

Naruto just looks to Gray as they both deadpan shaking their heads. Soon Lucy turn serious; "I know we haven't made a formal contract but can you help us get out of this station and passed the barrier?"

"Of course hime" Virgo nods firmly. "Earth is my specialty, it'll take no time" As soon as she finished, she began digging with strength and speed that should have been impossible for someone of her build. The earth wasn't really being digging as much as Virgo was 'moving it away' with her magic.

"Quickly!" Naruto said as he jumped down into the hole, he was soon followed by the others.

Soon a hole as the blond Sennin and Red haired knight leap out first along with the others, and Natsu carrying a unconscious Kageyama. "We made it out!" The dragon slayer yells almost barely heard from the massive torrent of wind covering the station.

"The wind is crazy," Lucy says, shielding her face with her arms.

"Hime! Your panties are revealing themselves," Virgo kneeling down holding Lucy skirt, all the while giving a heavily blushing Naruto and Gray a prime view on her own backside courtesy of the high winds lifting her skirt.

Erza frowns as she stares at the tornado-like barrier around the station. "We can't do anything about it right now, but it doesn't matter. Our target is Erigor"

Naruto, forcing his gaze from Virgo's perfectly shaped apple bottom posterior, turns to the redhead and nods. "Right. Which is the way to Clover?"

About to open his mouth Gray soon notices two people missing and a semi-conscious Kageyama on the ground. "Where the hell is Natsu and Happy?"

Weakly chuckling the shadow mage looks to the sky; "Erigor has near Clover by now. We won."

Walking over, Naruto only glares down at the injured man. "You seem to be very loyal for a guy who left you behind and a Guild that was more than willing to sacrifice you"

Kageyama scoffs; "Loyalty is not much of a commodity in dark guilds Uzumaki. Even I understand the score. Necessary sacrifice to finish the goal."

"Code of the assassins huh," the young sage shakes his head."Even assassins can have honor and camaraderie among themselves" He says softly, speaking from experience. Though he had never really delved too much into the darker works of a shinobi, he knew enough and knew a lot of people who had, even them some of had been dear friends to him. "Plus, seems to me you're not really cut for the assassin's life"

Shifting his gaze the shadow mage snorts; "What do you even know about me?"

Soon feeling the desired mental tug he waited for Naruto smirks; "Nothing. But I know when someone is not a true stone cold killer. Now excuse me, Natsu and I got to beat up your boss" In a flash of yellow lightning the blond vanishes surprising everyone.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

Flying through the skies, Natsu and Happy follow the railroad over the canyon, hoping to catch up to Erigor. "You see him Natsu?" The blue cat asks

The fire Dragon Slayer narrows his eyes and stares into the distance, where he sees a fast moving object flying over the canyon "I think I do. We gotta hurry!" The flying cat nodded, picking up speed.

A small flash of yellow behind them suddenly draws their attention. "Hey Natsu hope you're not planning-YIKES!" Naruto exclaims as he nearly falls to the ground far below, he instinctively reached for the closest object as not to fall, which happened to be Happy's tail, drawing a pained 'Youch!' from the cat. "Ohhhh I should have planned this better" Note to self; don't teleport when the mark is most likely flying very fast.

Soaring through the skies of the canyon, Erigor smirks seeing his destination in sight. However he soon slows and turns hearing a sound behind him. His eyes nearly bug out from their sockets as he is doubled drop kicked in the chest by Natsu and Naruto hanging off of Happy.

The ace of Eisenwald slams hard into the railroad below.

Landing side by side, the Sage and Dragon Slayer of Fairy Tail both look up and try to catch Happy, Natsu managing to save his cat friend. "There buddy, you did a good job. Sorry if we were pretty heavy."

Naruto pets the blue cat. "Thank you Happy, You must be really tired, sorry if we pushed you too much"

Behind them, the duo noticed Erigor climbing up to his feet from his crash zone. Slinging his scythe on his shoulders, the assassin mage growls at the two in confusion and irritation. "You are a couple of those Fairy Tail flies. The fire magic user and the blonde sage I keep hearing about. How the hell did you two catch up to me? That's impossible!"

"Nothing is impossible jackass," Naruto glares over as the Raijin no Ken falls from his sleeve and into his hand. Instantly the lightning blade surges to life.

Putting down his feline friend Natsu pops his knuckles now staring down the wind mage assassin; "You really think we're just gonna let you try to kill gramps. I'll take that flute and shove it up your ass before I let that happen!"

Seeing the duo in front of him, the blonde with a sword made of pure lightning, and the fire mage with his fists suddenly turning into large balls of fire wielding rage, Erigor knew this was not going to be an easy battle. However, he wasn't called the Ace of Eisenwald, the most feared dark guild in the land, for nothing. Grinning ear to ear, the wind mage launched up into the air a few feet, swirling his scythe behind him. "Well, sounds like this fight can get interesting; it's been so long since I found a proper match... It's Time to see how you Fairy Tail flies do against a true wizard!"

Launching himself forward, Eisenwald's Ace fighter swings for the duo in front of him, aiming straight for the killing blow at high speed. This straightforward attack was met with the Salamander, Natsu, jumping over him, cartwheeling to safely land on his feet. However, Naruto stood completely still in the same spot and took the blow with his own blade, sparks flying and blinding Erigor from the striking metal on lightning counter. Erigor uses all his might to push Naruto away from any sudden moves whilst he was blinded by the sparks, and flies back to get some distance.

Naruto skids along the ground a foot or two before stopping, still standing strong with his blade up and ready with his fire pal landing behind him in a crouch. "That all you got, Erigor?"

The said assassin mage only smirks; "Oh I far from done Uzumaki..."

"Good to hear," Naruto with a feral grin.

Activating his magic, Erigor throws a spell at his foes, a large whirling gust of wind blowing into Naruto and Natsu immediately. Though Erigor isn't the only one with knowledge on wind control, as the blonde sage started a Jutsu that turned the horizontal storm of wind into two that diverged either side of him and Natsu. Erigor could only look in surprise that his attack was being controlled by Naruto, and being diverted and blocked by its own power "impossible!"

Slamming his fists together, Natsu's limbs lit up with flame, and with a roar he rockets into the air, arching towards Erigor in a furious flaming cartwheel. "Say's the guy who's gonna burn! HAH!" Throwing several flaming kicks against the dark wizard of wind, he was blocked by Erigor's blade, the metal collecting and distributing the flame's heat evenly to not snap or burn to a crisp like the flute might under such heat, being wood.

Running out of momentum from the Scythe's blocks, Natsu only seen Erigor activate one more spell before he was sent into the sky, a darkened swirling wind sending him around in circles. "What the hell! AHHHH!"

Racing to his friend's aid, Naruto blinked and was sent into the large Tornado Erigor erected in an attempt to throw them to the abyss. Sadly, Naruto was thrown right out of the tornado by Erigor's second spell from within, and slammed into the ground. "NATSU!"

The pink haired fire wizard could only scream as the Tornado, upon the wind mages command, throws him into the Abyss, slamming into several rocks before free-falling through the foggy mess.

"One fly swatted," Erigor turns to Naruto. "I am impress you know how to manipulate wind. So you truly are a Sage after all. But you won't stop me!"

Happy weakly gets to his feet; "Have to help Natsu..." In seconds he falls back down.

Cerulean eyes just glare hard and both he and Erigor roar as they charge.

The roar of two weapon wielders clash, Naruto's lightning blade sparking against the metal blade that is pushing into it thanks to Erigor's own swing. Overpowering the wind mage, Naruto used his momentum and skill to duck under the blade, twirling from the swinging momentum provided by the curved weapon of Erigor, and grabbed onto the cloth around his waist, pulling the wind mage back and into his fist.

Without warning, Erigor had been jerked back from Naruto's grab, only to find a fist connecting to the back of his skull and plummeting him to the ground from the force alone. Looking up, the wind mage sees Naruto landing on him. Acting quickly, Erigor blocked the forceful kick to his chest that Naruto had aimed for, and activated his magic once more, a swirling gust starting to form and blast Naruto, in an attempt to make him soar into the Abyss. "Join your friend, fly!" Pushing all his magical energies into the blast, Erigor's wind attack lifts Naruto enough to finally kick in and send him flying up into the air.

Though his wind attack was strong enough to send Naruto into the air, the Ace of Eisenwald found he was only fueling the tornado's strength to be turned back against him. His wind attack once again split, and was being controlled without his consent as it starts turning into a raging hurricane above him. "This is just unreal! Who the hell are you!?"

The blonde ninja was forming a large variation of his Rasenshuriken with sharp bursts of wind buzzing around it, a ball of chakra infused with wind magic from the wizard below and large wind blades spiraling around it. "The name is Naruto Uzumaki, dattebayo!" As soon as the large wind blades in his hand were as powerful as he could control, Naruto throws it with gusto, the ball slamming into the ground where Erigor lay.

The wind attack forcing Naruto into the air stopped, and the blonde lands on his feet, seeing the crater of his work nearly splitting the entire track in half. Slumping at this, Naruto groans in worry. "I wonder what Mira-chan is going to say about this..."

Though his thoughts were pushed aside as he heard laughing. Through the smoke, Erigor stood with a few scuffs, but no damage. "Well, that's one hell of a trick. Taking my own magic, and using it against me. You are a challenge, and truly worthy of your title it seems, Naruto Uzumaki... Though I'm far from finished. I didn't become top wizard in Eisenwald without having a few aces up my sleeves..."

Naruto chuckles; "Actually fighting someone who like me has a control of wind as if it's second nature to them is awesome. Honestly I wanted to see how far that kinda fight would go."

A massive shadow gains both men's attention as giant hand of flames raises up grabbing onto the tracks. Instantly the young sage smirks as Natsu leaps up into the sky; "FIRE DRAGON ROAR!" exhaling a giant stream of flames towards his target.

Erigor moves out of the way of the giant fireball heading for him out of instinct, managing to get up into the sky in time to see the Salamander he thought he killed in the abyss land next to the blonde he was fighting still. "These Fairy Tail flies sure are persistent... They are doing more than I thought their magic could do. A trail of fire being used as a limb to climb back up? That's unheard of!"

Patting his partners back, Naruto smirked at Natsu. "I thought you'd never learn that trick, damn good job Natsu. Now let's finish this guy off and save the old man."

Giving thumbs up, Natsu grinned. "Oh yeah, I'm fired up now, time to put it to good use!" Slamming his fists together, Natsu's limbs erupted into an even bigger and hotter flame. "Here I go!" Jumping up at the dark wizard with trails of flame, Natsu roars into action. "FIRE DRAGON WING ATTACK!"

Just as Natsu gets close with his strike, Erigor forms his most powerful magic, spinning his Scythe around in front of him. "Storm Mail!" Suddenly, a tornado with hurricane force winds and stronger forms around the battlefield, throwing Natsu back, and his flames into nothing but smoke, a wind barrier forming around Erigor completed the spell. "Like I'm going to just stand by anymore. You Fairy Tail flies have been stalling me for far too long! It's time to finish this!"

The blonde sage catches Natsu from falling behind him and gets his partner to stand on his own. "Couldn't agree more, we need to end this before he blows us off into the mountains!"

Though the wind mage only laughs loudly over the winds. "Sorry, but you're both going to find this to be your grave! My Soaring Phoenix magic will tear you apart! Emera Baram!" And without hesitation, the strongest gale force winds stormed in a tunneling funnel of death that shreds the track to pieces and hitting everything on them for a couple dozen yards.

Naruto, in the heat of the moment, pulled in front of Natsu and put as much pressure against the spiraling storm that was hitting them, only to barely stop the winds from blasting them back with excessive force. Landing on his knees, the blonde could only look back at Natsu, who fell and tumbled in a heap behind him. "Natsu!"

The laughing Erigor could only land in front of them in pride. "I'm surprised you both are even in one piece, let alone capable of conscious thought or speech. But don't worry, I'll end you in the next few minutes, and then I'll use the flute to kill off those old hags and geezers at the conference, so you won't be so lonely! HAHAHAHAHA!"

Looking at each other, Naruto and Natsu both nodded. Grinning, the blonde started to fly through a few seals. "Natsu, Let's show him how fire reacts when you use wind right!"

Powering up with his limbs glowing with fire, Natsu grins in excitement. "On it! Time to burn this guy to a crisp!" Roaring in power, Natsu's body erupts into flame, and in an instant he rockets off towards Erigor, "FIRE DRAGON CLAW!"

Seeing his partner jump up at Erigor, Naruto puts both hands in front of him before a large gust of wind blasts through the gale force winds around them, and pushes against Natsu's inflamed body and limbs, suddenly igniting them to epic proportions as he sails at the Eisenwald Ace even faster than Erigor himself could even hope to counter.

The salamander of Fairy Tail, with the help of the wind from his partner Naruto, roars into a cartwheel before striking with the heaviest uppercut kick he has ever thrown at his enemies, scorching the wind armor to shreds, and blasting Erigor with a blast of fire so hot and large it nearly burns away half the cloth around his waist as it sends him flying into the air, burn marks and a large bruise from the kick slamming into his stomach and chest several times before the force ejected him.

Landing on his back, unconscious, Erigor was beaten, a large fiery column of fire dissipating from the heavy handed blast of fire, combined by the large oxygen heavy gust of wind from the Sage himself.

"Hahahaha!" The Dragon Slayer roared with victorious laughter. "Not so bad for some flies huh?!" He shouted to the unconscious form of Erigor.

Naruto approaches his comrade, carrying Happy on his arm. "You did it guys..." The small blue cat smiles.

Natsu in turn gives his furry friend a wide grin. "You too helped Happy. We wouldn't have reached this guy in time if it weren't for you"

The blonde sage smiles as well before looking at the flute in the dark mage's person. He carefully picks it up and stores it among his clothes. "Well, now this thing won't hurt anyone"

XxX ~ In the forest near Clover ~ XxX

He could feel the enormous mass of nature power closer than before, so bright and strong, even trapped if trapped. He could feel it was just a piece, a fragment of a much greater source of power, pure raw and untamed nature power.

Power much like the one that had made him what he was now.

How long had he been slumbering? Why was he asleep? He remembered... darkness. A war. An ancient evil and a curse, not just on him, but on the entire planet, a curse against nature itself.

The world, he could feel the great earth mother's calling, begging him to return. After thousands of years he could hear her voice again. It was beckoning him and his kin to return, to safeguard the world like they had done before, they were needed once more.

He... he had to wake up. He would wake up.

A beastly eye slowly opens.

XxX ~ Erza, Gray, & Lucy ~ XxX

As the magic car races on the track with Gray at the helm, despite her protest both Lucy and Gray knew Erza needed to recover so the redhead sat with the blond inside. Sitting uncomfortably Kageyama stares defiantly back at the Queen of Fairies.

"You should have just killed me and be done with it," the shadow mage mutters.

Lucy nearly screams at the man, "Do we look like murders you jerk!?"

"Meh" Gray shrugs hearing everything. "What good would that do?"

Kageyama gives them an incredulous glare. "I'm your enemy" He said as if was the most obvious thing in the world. And it kind of was. "Either you kill your enemy or he kills you" That was just how things worked.

"Man, spending so much time in a Guild like Eisenwald really gave you a gloomy perspective" The ice mage said, sounding a bit bored. "You really so eager to die? There's more than just who lives or dies in conflicts, maybe you should try looking for something better for your life"

Erza crosses her arm; "We do not kill people in cold blood. That is not the way of Fairy Tail."

Kageyama snorts and glares at her. "Well it's our way. We're an assassin's guild after all"

The knightess stares at him unimpressed. "Have you ever killed anyone?"

The shadow mage freezes as the redhead leans in, looking him dead in the eyes. "Tell me honestly, have you ever taken the life of another human being?"

Silence was her answer; "I have no idea of your reasons for leaving the guild league when Eisenwald defected, but I agree with Naruto, you're no stone cold killer."

His gaze shifts, turning uncertain and confused. "What would either of you know?" He asks emptily.

Memories assault her mind, images of when she was a child, weapons flying at the command of her rage, and blood. "...More than you think"

Narrowing his eyes Gray spots two figures up ahead standing over another; "I see Naruto and Natsu!"

Opening her window Lucy looks out smiling brightly as well as pure relief seeing her friends are alright. Naruto looks over in surprise as Gray 'driving' the car; "How the hell did you convince Erza not to drive?"

The ice mage groans as he stops the cars and steps down. "It wasn't easy. I had to promise her some strawberry cake"

The sage chuckles; "Good thinking... though she'll probably empty your pockets"

Slumping his shoulders, Gray knew full well Erza's love for sweets rivals Naruto's ramen addiction. His wallet was going to be thin for a while. Opening the car doors the ladies step out as well as a surprised Kageyama; "Th... They beat Erigor?"

"Good work guys!" Lucy cheers.

Naruto scratches the back of his head and smirks. "Hehe, it was no biggie really. We-WOAH!" Naruto takes Lucy's hand, pulling her away from the suddenly speeding magic car. The others also jump away as to step out of its course.

Taking advantage of his sudden fault in his guard, a claw of shadows extends from the ground, reaching into his clothes and pulling out the cursed flute. This one is caught by Kageyama who they realized was driving the vehicle.

He laughs in maniacal glee as he speeds off into the distance. "I have Lullaby! The Masters are as good as dead!"

Both Naruto and Erza growl as they take off running along with Natsu holding a still exhausted Happy and the others follow suite. "I should have bound his hands," the redhead curses out loud.

"There is no time to chide yourself, we have to catch that guy," Naruto fires back.

Running down the tracks none see a small figure sitting on a cliff close to them, his fox tail swaying slightly before vanishing.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

As days turns to nightfall, a legion of Fiore soldiers march for Clover. New finally spread enough to mobilize the army into action against Eisenwald. Sitting on a tree near the building of guild masters' council, Kageyama looks on with a smile. He was almost done; their grand mission was nearly complete.

He grips the death flute in his right hand as he leans his left forearm on a tree. By the gods was he tired. "At this distance, those old geezers will hear the flute."

It was at that moment he heard the soft laughter of wizened voice. "Hihihi, these are some mighty fine dames indeed" The dark mage turns his head to find a diminutive old man dressed in colorful clothes, he was holding a naughty magazine close to his face.

The shadow mage sweatdrops hearing the old man muttering to himself as he stands putting the magazine behind his back. Makarov nearly jumps out of his clothes seeing someone was actually behind him.

"This is not what it looks like! I was just conducting important research!"

'Research'... That's what old geezers called it these days?

"- I've done nothing to be ashamed us!"

Kageyama waves it off chuckling; "No need to preach old man."

"Oh" The short old timer sighed in relief. "That's good" He then gives the dark mage a look, more specifically, his bandages. "Say, you're looking rather worse for wear young man. Maybe you should go to a hospital"

This is Makarov Dreyar. The guild master of Fairy Tail, Kageyama thought, remembering all the faces of the masters from his mission's briefing. "Oh don't worry, I feel fine… Say, would you care for a song?"

Makarov lifts his brow looking back at the young man.

Running through the forest path Erza, Naruto, and the others had found the now broken magic car abandoned and now were charging ahead to stop the dark mage. They are suddenly stopped by armored hand that had somehow grabbed all of them and pulled them behind some trees.

"Now, now" A male voice chides. They see a knight in orange and silver armor, his face hidden except for two red eyes behind a helm with a Y-shaped visor with intricate markings around it. "You should put a bit more trust in him"

"You are..." Erza starts with surprise and recognition in her voice. "Solaris, Master of the Sunreavers"

"And you must be Makarov's brood" The knight replies with amusement.

"Look, we don't have time for this" Naruto argues. "That guy has-"

"Shhh" A new voice intones. The newcomer was a large bellied... man wearing a dress and makeup. "The best part is about to start" He palms his cheek and coos at the male of the group. "Oh my, such handsome young lads you are"

The three males of Fairy plus a shocked Lucy physically recoil while Naruto literally jumps into a tree looking down; "You're still weird Bob-Jiji."

Waving it off, the cross-dressing mage only smiles looking up as Goldmine sighs rubbing his eyes; "At any rate just watch." He then sweatdrops at the sight of Gray and Natsu hiding behind Lucy from the Bob.

The armored guild master chuckles; "This shall be interesting"

And watch they did, and found Kageyama still hadn't played the deadly flute. In fact, he seemed to be struggling to do it, trembling and sweating.

Kageyama lifts the flute his lips. Not far away Solaris has the three male members of Fairy Tail in a headlock stopping them from interfering. Goldmine only smirks leaning his back on a tree; "Just be patient kids and watch."

Come one, just do it...! The shadow mage thought desperately. Play the damn song and kill them all. Make Eisenwald proud, show them you're strong and everything will be alright! The flute was at his lips, but he just couldn't blow the air from them. Why are you hesitating?! This is exactly why the others looked down on you! Kill them and you'll be strong! Kill them and everything will change!

"Are you going to play a tune? You should hurry and do it," Makarov says in a slight impatient tone.

"I..." Kageyama let out a ragged breath. "I..."

"You may think yourself weak" Makarov suddenly said, stunning the shadow mage. "But weakness is nothing to be ashamed of" Kageyama could only at the old mage in shock. "Humanity itself is a weak race by nature. People's insecurities are why guilds were first created. It's a reason comrades exist," Makarov speaks looking up at the young man. "They all come together and move forward, live life to the fullest."

Kageyama listens along with the others; "If you slip or fall along the way, your comrades will be there to help pick you up. And if you have faith and you keep moving forward for the future. Thus you will find your own strength."

"I consider myself weak on my own" The Third Master confessed before smirking proudly. "But when I'm with my Guild, with my family, there is absolutely no force of nature that can stop us when we are together"

The dark mage looked at the Master in awe. He had no reason to believe his words, to him they sounded so cheesy and worthless. And yet... there was something in the old man's eyes, and the sheer power in his voice simply compelled Kageyama to listen. It was more than the fear Erigor could inspire in him.

This old man though... he had no way to describe what he was feeling. He stared at the diminutive man and saw not a weak fly, but a mighty giant.

He falls to his knees, dropping the flute. "I... I surrender..."

Letting go of the boys Solaris chuckles watching the Fairy Tail youngsters run to Makarov; "Good kids." Bob and Goldmine nod in agreement.

"Master/Gramps/Jiji!" Hearing the voices of Erza, Lucy, Naruto, Natsu, and Gray. Makarov turns to see them running up to him with Happy flying around.

"OH! What you guys doing here?! GAK!" His head slammed into Erza's breastplate as she hugs him.

"That was well said master," the redhead beauty smiles. "You really moved me" She squishes even harder; to the point Makarov's eyes looked like they were going to pop out.

HARD~!

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

Not far away from there, a fox observed from atop the hills. His fur was white like the snow, and had golden colored fur markings around his face and other parts of his body, forming tribalistic patterns.

He narrows his vulpine eyes. "It's not over yet"

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

Lying on the ground where Kageyama dropped it. The three eyes of the demon flute began to glow a sick purple; "Such weakness!" A deep demonic voice echoes throughout the area. "I grow tired of these foolish mortals!"

Naruto looks over sharply with even Kyuubi narrowing his eyes awake for once. The Bijuu king growls; "prepare yourself brat, you might want to use that seal on your arm unless you feel like dying."

"The flute!" Lucy screams, and everyone watches in terror as a magical miasma emanates from the cursed instrument, it raises high into the air, becoming a cloud made of some sickly substance. It begins to take shape and turns into a large monstrosity. It was over fifty meters tall, and wooden-like in its demonic appearance, with many cutouts around its body, the creature possessed three eyes like the flute's head.

The demon chuckles maliciously. "I think I'll just devour your souls myself"

Kageyama only looks on; "They never said the flute did that!"

"Distasteful, a demon from the book of Zeref," Solaris growls before noticing the spiky blond boy was gone.

The Fiore legion that just arrived stops in terror as the giant wood demon looks down at them all. "Don't hesitate men! Attac-." His voice died in his throat as he and everyone else sees the massive demon sent flying backwards. The ground quakes as the massive demon hits hard onto the earth.

"If I never fought those demons around that one village, I would have never known just how strong I was using this."

Everyone looks up wide eye seeing Naruto literally floating in the air with his arm extended in a punch. But the masters took notice of a difference in the boy's eyes, now with a red tint around them and pupils golden color with a horizontal bar for irises. And his power also felt different as well.

"Huh" Goldmine muses with a hand to his chin, seemingly not at all disturbed by the sudden events. "You feel that?"

"Indeed" Bob nods. "It's like he quickly took in a good amount of ambient energy to empower himself"

Makarov flashes a haunting smirk; "Heh, told you my boys are the best"

The orange and silver knight nods in approval. "Impressive yes. But we shouldn't stand by" His hand goes to his hip, where there is a sheathed sword attached to his belt. "We must kill the monster quickly"

"Bah" Makarov waves him off. "No need. My brats are already on it"

It was then the Sunreavers Master noticed the rest of the young Fairies, with the exception of the young blonde woman, were no longer next to them, instead they had charged directly at the beast.

Natsu grins excitedly, fire escaping from his lips. "I ain't letting Naruto take all the fun!"

Standing back up from the sudden shocking strength of one person in the air, the wooden demon of sound throws it's claw at Naruto with vicious strength, only to miss as Naruto slaps the arm and spins in the air from the force, but unharmed thanks to his quick thinking.

In a brilliant white light, Ezra jumps into the sky, re-equipping her normal chest plate armor with her Knight form, large blades summoning around her as she flies at the demon. "You shall feel the sting of my sword!" Seeing Naruto falling in front of her, the redhead grabs onto his outstretched arm and throws him at the giant demon, following up by flying up at the arm swinging down at him. "Trinity Sword!" Slashing with both blades at once, a large delta formation spear point slashed into the arm, cutting into it and part of the demon's shoulder.

The Salamander of Fairy Tail himself roared as he jumped high into the air, large bellows of fire swinging like whips into the creature's stomach. "FIRE DRAGON'S WING ATTACK!" The searing heat sizzles against the demon's stomach, weakening the bark for Naruto, who rushed in with a powerful Rasengan, grinding the weakened charred bark into bits, blowing a huge hole in the chest.

Seeing the large holes created by his team, the Ice mage who was lagging behind created a bow, with arrows fully at the ready he shoots them forth into the creature's legs and shoulders. The combined attacks make the demonic flute scream and fall back on its rear.

The Fiore legion watches in awe as their commander eyes are fixed at the four attacking the demon of Zeref; "Damn they're actually beating that thing back."

With the Guild master Lucy watches in sheer awe. "There so good." She gets an 'aye' from Happy in her arms.

Makarov only watches on with pride.

Launching in the air, Naruto flies through hand seals in preparation. "Alright, Time to show this thing the power we wield! Gray, Natsu, Ezra, in that order, GO!" Utilizing both palms, the blonde's sage jutsu combines with his attack to generate a supreme gust attack that would make anything Erigor use pale in comparison, forcing the demon to hit the ground from the sudden hurricane of an attack.

Naruto's order launches with Gray, as he slams his fist into his hand, grounding himself as best he can behind the wind attack for maximum effect. "Ice Make Lance!" Several spear tipped tendrils of ice fly into the monster at high speed, puncturing it several times over and snap freezing thanks to the winds force.

Seeing Ezra fly up and light up with her armor re-equip magic, Natsu slams his fists into each other. "Alright, time to roast this thing!" Breathing in, the fire wizard takes in a large amount of his inner fire to spout it into the stream of wind, the normally boulder-sized stream of fire growing into a mountainous firestorm, hitting the ice frozen demon and once again scorching the bark to a crisp. "FIRE DRAGON ROAR!"

Everyone watches as the combo pays off, however they soon notice Ezra changing into a slimmer and darker uniform of armor, cloth-like wings stretch as she launches into the wind carrying two narrow swords. "Black Wing Moon Flash!" With little hesitation, the wings pick up the wind coming from Naruto's Jutsu and thrust her glimmering magical attack into the demon, breaking a hole within the wooden body larger than the former Rasengan that Naruto used before gave.

This, however, only made the demon angrier, as it grabs Ezra, having flown through it, and tossed her at Naruto, who ended his Jutsu to catch her, falling to the ground from the extra weight. "You vermin! HOW DARE YOU! This will be your undoing! I will end you, NOW!"

Deep inside Naruto the ancient fox only snorts; "This walking toothpick parades itself as a true demon, pathetic... Destroy this farce!"

Glaring at the demon, Naruto turned to his team. "I need you to get him off balance, I want a full shot to his entire being, just give me that! GO!" Launching into the sky, the blonde sage begins to prepare his strongest attack.

Gripping her sword tight, Ezra launched into the air and flew straight for the creature. "Give him your all!" using all her might, the redhead slams her blade into the Demon as hard as she could muster, making it lean back in pain.

Seeing the demon flute creature try and re-balance itself, Gray forms an blade of ice in front of him, a spinning wheel of blades that he soon launches into its legs. "Ice Make Saucer!" The saucer of ice blades slams into the knees of the creature, and trips it with the force of its own need to correct its balance normally.

Falling face first to the ground, the demon quickly tries to stand up, its body shaking in rage. "You… MONGRELS!" He roars as dangerous amounts of magical energy gather on his maw, he turns to direct the attack at the larger group of people.

As soon as he was about to unleash his attack, the Demon sees a pink haired Fairy Tail wizard with flames building to an amazingly large amount. Natsu roars in power as he slams two large fireballs in his hands together. "Now I'm fired up! Take this! Fire Dragon Brilliant Flame!" With the force of a volcano, Natsu's attack grows into a bonfire that makes the demon turns his head as the blast it fired. It traveled through the sky until it collided upon a nearby mountain; it detonated into a monstrous blast, obliterating the giant earthen formation.

The soldiers stare stupefied at the sheer destruction. "N-No way…"

The Masters meanwhile can only grin, the orange and silver knight chuckles. "Now this is fun"

The Dragon Slayer's strike was strong enough to lift the demon into the air, turning its body from the force of the fire attack; its eyes widen to see a glowing light and a shadowed figure of a blonde sage under it. "IMPOSSIBLE! THIS CAN'T BE REAL!"

Above Naruto was a large swirling hurricane of wind and fire, bellowing around with enough heat that tree's around the entire town were shriveling and blowing away, the ball of fire in Naruto's hand roars with wind and wildfire. "Sorry, but you're not going to be living long enough to understand how powerful we are! Kaze Ryu Kasai Rasenshuriken!"

Upon the attacks name, the entire area, Gray and Ezra, along with Natsu, all witness as the Demon screams in horror to Naruto's attack. Throwing the sphere of fire and wind into the Demon, the fire deafens the witnesses with a roar, the fire and wind of the sphere turning into a dragon as it chomps down on the creature and implodes around it, shredding the once powerful death flute demon to barely splinters around the area.

For a moment there was silence. Everyone was too shocked to make even a sound.

Like glass shattering, it was broken by the loud cheer of victory coming from the rosette Dragon Slayer. "HEEEELL YEEEAAAH!"

Grey and Erza can only chuckle while Naruto openly laughs at his friend's exuberance.

Not too far away the Fiore legion also cheers as loud as they could as their commander just nods his head in approval. With Lucy and the guild masters, the buxom blond can't stop smiling as she cheers alongside Happy for their friends.

Makarov only smiles as Solaris stands beside him; "Good kids Makarov-dono." The elderly man only chuckles.

Goldmine shakes his head with a smile. "Brings back memories"

Bob giggles as he palms his face. "Your children are truly something special my old friend"

The small master can't help but smile proudly at his brats. "That they are... that they are" Seeing them like this, triumphant in the face of such odds... he couldn't ask for better children, no parent could be as proud as he felt at that moment.

"Uh... Makarov-dono" He feels the armored master, he sees the Sunreaver Master pointing at someplace. Following his finger, the Fairy Tail Master pales and gawks at the rubble that used to be the meeting place.

Apparently, it had been destroyed during with the fight...

And they weren't the only ones to notice it, a paling Naruto who landed back on the ground could only chuckles nervously; "Mira-Chan is going to kill me..."

Their master wept, already seeing the bills.

XxX ~ xx ~ XxX

Not far from there, on the hills, the white fox had observed the entire valor. He had witnessed the spirit of these young warriors... as well as the evil of the demon.

"No matter the era, the world is always in danger" He turns his gaze to the stars. "I woke up for a reason, and no doubt my brethren will as well" He stands from his spot and turns, leaving only a trail of growing flowers with each step. "Awaken soon my kin, something is coming and we have slumbered for far too long... the world needs us again, and we must once more aid its people"

His return sent an echo throughout nature, so fast it nearly went unnoticed by some, but those who felt it knew that a strong change had come to Earthland, the awakening of ancient forces that would once more play a part in shaping the world like they had.

On an island with a giant tree. A dark haired mage smiled softly as he felt the shift in the wind, the call that resonated throughout nature. "At last..."

On fields of snow, a blue robed old man turned his attention to the sky. "Can it be?" He asked the heavens with hope in his voice. He felt joy, true joy... but also dread, for their awakening was also sure to bring very troubling times in the future.

Still, the smile could not be removed from his lips; "Now the real work begins."

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And here it is. We would like to thank Godospartan the Kitsune for helping us with the fight scenes.

We would also like to inform you, if you haven't seen in the disclaimer of previous chapters, that we'd be expanding the Fairy Tail setting greatly, which will involve things on very large scales, such as lore, new people and cultures, and the nature of different worlds and what lies in between