I Don't Own Naruto or Fairy Tail!

Prophecy Rebirth - Chapter 14

Erza felt Naruto's body change as his arms continued to hold her in place, and it was off for her to feel her face rest from the crook of his neck to the top of his chest. Naruto's arms were holding her around the top of her back instead of her waist, and his chin rested comfortably on the top of her head. But despite all the change, Naruto's warmth was the same, and it provided her with the same comfort and security it always had. In their position, Erza could hear the soft and steady heartbeat of Naruto, and it oddly gave her a sense of relaxation and serenity.

The Titania had never expected Naruto to fully revert back to his true form under such calm conditions; it was as if he could control it. Based on the past, Erza thought Naruto would only grow under intense and desperate situations, but apparently desperation was needed. A few minutes ago Erza felt the intense and nearly palpable anger of Naruto because of Jellal, and it was safe to assume that the anger in the man had triggered an increase of his energy, which activated his sudden growth spurt.

Erza pulled back a little from the hug and looked up at Naruto. "N-Naruto?" whispered the young woman as she stared into the handsome face of grown up Naruto. All the baby fat in Naruto's face was gone, and his angular facial features were quite exquisite in her absentminded opinion.

Simon, Sho, and Juvia all looked at the in shock; they have never seen or knew about Naruto's sealed form, so they were shell-shocked of seeing a teenager growing into a man within a few seconds. Despite the obvious physical changes, Simon felt the already impressive power of Naruto grow to new heights after his transformation, and under his shock, Simon felt optimistic that Naruto would definitely be a match for Jellal.

Gray smirked and crossed his arms together. "Well, this certainly helps the situation." said the young man as he leaned back against the table. "With Naruto full grown I doubt that Jellal guy would even be a match for him."

Simon got over his shock and shook his head. "No matter, we must not underestimate Jellal, he was never revealed his true power to anyone, and he could be very powerful."

Naruto gave Erza a small smile and caressed her soft cheek. "You don't have to carry this by yourself this time, Erza-chan," whispered the blond man with an affectionate and sincere voice. "I will do everything I can to support you, we will all get through this and go home together."

Erza smiled and nodded with her eyes closed. "I know..." replied the beautiful woman as she opened her eyes to look into Naruto's own. "Thank you..."

Naruto nodded and pulled away from the hug with a smile on his face, but as soon as his eyes left Erza they turned emotionless. The anger that filled his being returned to him when he once again looked around the innards of the tower that his Erza once was made a slave in. Erza should have been a happy and free girl without any baggage if it wasn't for Jellal meddling with her and her friends. Simon, Sho, Wally, and Millianna would have likely joined Fairy Tail along with Erza, but they were forced to be slaves to a power hungry man for another eight years, and Erza had to suffer eight years of internal turmoil.

'But it all ends tonight...'

The blond man turned to face the back wall as he moved his arms around trying to feel his new body. The power he felt in the veins was much greater than what he had while he was in his teenage form, and it felt great. Naruto's eyes scanned over his body, and found that he was still built for speed with his lean and toned muscles, but he felt that his physical strength had also been amplified as well. Naruto felt as if he was finally complete after a while of being trapped, but he knew that he had additional powers that he had yet to awaken...or remember.

Naruto looked down at the tattoos that were on his arms, and actually remembered what they were. The large black word on his left arm was a seal, more precisely it was a clothing seal. He absentmindedly remembered that he created the seal so he could get ready faster. Naruto channeled some power into the seal, and a puff of smoke suddenly covered Naruto's body. As the smoke cleared, Naruto was suddenly dressed in some sort of uniform.

"How did you do that?!" asked Gray in astonishment, he could use something like that occasionally.

Naruto smirked as he looked down at his new clothes, which fitted his body perfectly. It included a black combat vest with a rather tall collar under a whole body black combat suit. Steel toed boots protected his feet and steel shin guards supported his legs. A pair of fingerless gloves covered his hands with metal plating on the back of each hand. Naruto frowned a little when he reached up to his forehead, something was missing. He knew that there should be something protecting his forehead, but it was not there.

The blond turned back to the group, which was filled with astonished faces. "Okay, let's do this!"

Natsu was running towards Lucy's scent as fast as he could, and he could tell that he was getting very close. Based on what he remembered, Natsu had gone up quite a bit of the tower, and Lucy's scent was getting stronger and stronger. As he ran, Natsu prayed inside his head that Lucy would be okay. The Dragon Slayer kept replaying the scene in the casino, and he was starting to blame himself for not being with Lucy when she was captured, if he was there then he could have stopped the whole thing.

Happy was flying next to his best friend while trying to think of some ways to get Natsu to focus better, the cat could tell that Natsu was extremely troubled and he needed to focus in order to fight at full strength.

Sounds of fighting suddenly filled Natsu's ears, and that made him run faster towards a room that was just over the flight of stairs...

"Open the Gate of the Giant Crab! Cancer!" Lucy's voice sounded throughout the area, and a rush of relief overwhelmed Natsu. The Dragon Slayer jumped past the last few steps of the flight of stairs and quickly dashed forward to the room. The sight Natsu was greeted with made him want to laugh and cry at the same time. Lucy was perfectly fine, and she was fighting against one of the kidnappers who looked like a cat-girl.

Happy had a grin on his face as he punched the air. "Yeah, go Lucy!"

Millianna grunted as her ropes were a cut open by the strange Crab Spirit. "How did you even get free!"

Lucy smirked and stuck her tongue out at the girl. "Let's just say that Girl Scouts really help when you need to untie knots!" said the blonde as Cancer returned to his own world. "And I am going to pay you back for almost breaking my back!" Lucy pulled out another key with a smirk on his face. "Open the Gate of the Golden Bull! Taurus!" A large cow-like figure emerged out of nowhere and slammed a heavy battle axe into the ground, almost chopping the girl in half.

Taurus turned back to Lucy with hearts in his eyes. "Lucy-san's nice body is still the best!" exclaimed the Celestial Spirit as he eyes Lucy up and down.

Natsu grunted from where he watched and resisted the urge to beat the cow to the ground...

Lucy shivered at the weird glances of the cow and quickly sent him back to the Spirit Realm. "Man, that cow is one creepy spirit." said the girl as she reached for her whip and used it to catch Millianna's hand and lock them together.

Millianna had a cute look on her face as she pouted up at Lucy. "Let me go!"

Lucy smirked and puffed her chest out. "You wish, you are staying like that until I find a way out of this place." The blonde was very happy that she was about to escape and defeat her opponent by herself without any help from her guild mates.

"Lucy..." said Natsu as he finally walked into the room with a relieved smile on his face.

Lucy's lips broke into a huge smile as she ran towards her boyfriend. "Natsu!" cried the girl as she jumped into his arms and wrapped her own arms around him as hard as she could. "You're here!"

"Lucy!" cried Happy as he nuzzled himself on Lucy's head, happy that the blonde was fine.

Natsu tucked his head inside the crook of Lucy's neck and breathed in her scent. "I was so worried about you..." whispered the young man as he held his precious Lucy as close to himself as possible. Natsu pulled back a little and looked into Lucy's eyes. "Lucy..." whispered Natsu as he leaned in and kissed Lucy on her lips. Lucy wrapped her arms around Natsu's neck to deepen the kiss, she missed kissing her dear Natsu and wanted to as close to him as possible.

"So you have a girl, Salamander, "spoke a familiar and annoying voice.

Natsu and Lucy broke the kiss and looked over to see Wally looking at them, while Millianna stared at a wall with a blush on her face. "You, block head!"

Wally smirked and tilted his hat for Natsu and Lucy. "Hello again, I didn't expect to find you here so soon."

Natsu growled as his fists were engulfed in flames. "Bring it on if you want to fight, but I already have Lucy back, so there is reason for me to fight you..." muttered the young man as he started to walk out of the room while holding Lucy's hand. Seeing how Erza was already free and the others were with her, Natsu just wanted to leave the tower as soon as possible along with his girlfriend.

"Welcome my esteemed guests, I am the ruler of this tower." Natsu and Lucy stopped in their tracks at the sudden voice, and soon they noticed that it was a projected voice from speakers built into many areas of the tower. "I am Jellal."

Lucy pulled on Natsu's sleeves. "We have to get out of here..."

Natsu nodded and quickly followed suit with Happy on his shoulder. "Let's go, the others are just at the bottom of the tower."

Naruto and the others were making their way through the tower with the lead of Simon, and they too, stopped when Jellal's voice traveled through the walls throughout the building. Jellal's voice held a hint of condescension, which made some people in the group even more livid than before, particularly Sho. The group was trying to reach Natsu and Wally to stop them from fighting each other, then all of them would go to challenge Jellal, but it seemed that the ruler of the tower already knew of their plan.

"All the pieces have been set." continued the irritating voice in Naruto's opinion. "Isn't time to finally get things started?"

Gray sighed in annoyance and crossed his arms together. "What is this guy going on about?..."

"The Game of Paradise!"

Naruto held his fists in anger as he looked up at one of the speakers of the tower. "Game?..." muttered the blond man. "This is all a game to him?!"

"The goal of the game is this...I wish to use Erza Scarlet as the human sacrifice for the ritual to revive Zeref" Naruto felt his blood boil at the man's words. "In other words, if I can revive Zeref, it is my win, and if you can stop me, it is your win." The others could almost see the smirk that was on Jellal's face. "However, that alone will not be enough for a good game, so aside from that I have planted three warriors in various places in the tower to stop you, and if you can break through them, you can never stop me."

Simon gritted his teeth in frustration. "Three warriors...who are they?!"

Jellal actually chuckled a little through the speakers. "There is also one last thing..." started the man with a sense of foreboding. "It is also highly probably that the Magic Council will launch an attack at this tower through the Satellite Square, using the magic that reduces everything to nothing: Aetherion!" Erza gripped her gauntlets in anger as she suppressed her urge to slash the speaker in half. "It is unknown how long we have until the council fires, but the moment the Aetherion fires it will be game over, every player will be dead!"

Juvia held her hands to her chest. "Aetherion..."

"Just what the hell is this guy thinking?!" cried Gray angrily as he punched the wall.

Sho had enough of this situation and placed his palm in front of Erza's face. "Nee-san..." Erza's eyes widened when she was suddenly sucked into Sho's card, which was in a separate dimension. "I will protect you!" muttered the tanned teenager as he ran down the hall and into the darkness.

Simon stepped forward in shock. "Sho, what are you doing!"

Naruto patted the large man's shoulder. "I'll go after them, you three should go and try to take out Jellal." said the blond as seriously. "We don't know where she is, so it would be better if we spread out throughout the tower."

Simon nodded. "Okay, I'll go by myself for now since I know the tower pretty well, and Gray and Juvia should go as a team."

Gray nodded and looked at Juvia. "Okay, let's go!" said the Ice Mage as he pulled on Juvia's hand and ran down a separate hallway, not noticing the atomic blush and bright smile that was on Juvia's face.

Naruto nodded at Simon before he turned away. "Good luck!" With that, the blond sped down the same hallway Sho ran down, intending to find the boy before he would run into one of the warriors...

Simon stared at Naruto's back for a few seconds before he too made his way down another hallway. 'Good luck to you too Naruto...'

Naruto ran down the dark hallway with his Sharingan activated just in case. The situation was dire, but despite that Naruto's mind was thinking over his own situation. Based on what Porlyusica had said before his real age before he was somehow sealed, was about twenty years. After his transformation, Naruto knew that he was back to his original age, it just felt right. His power felt much greater than before, and he felt as though he was released from some sort of mental prison. "Chakra...that's what my energy is called."

The man was broken out of his thoughts when a sudden flash of pain struck his mind. "N-Not this again!" muttered Naruto as he fell to his knees. Just like the time in the Phantom Lord Guild after he aged, flashes of memories popped into his mind like a slideshow, and the pain was the same as last time as well.

A man with red hair and pale skin appeared in Naruto's vision, and his eyes were purple with an odd ripple pattern. "Dying like trash… never ending hatred… pain that never heals… that is war… Naruto… this… is what you must face… The book… and you… It's like… someone… set this all up… Or… maybe… this… is… the hand of the real God… My role is over now… Naruto… you… can really—" The scene kept flashing and the same man appeared again. "Naruto… I'll be returning to where our master is, so I can see your story… If you ask me… You're the third part that concludes the series… The first part was Jiraiya… He was flawless… But… The second part was me, an almost complete failure… I couldn't even get our master to acknowledge me… Ending the series is the third part… The final work will settle it all! Become such a masterpiece that that failure will be like it was cancelled altogether… Naruto!"

Naruto groaned in pain as he held his head. "N-Nagato!"

Suddenly, another scene appeared in Naruto's eyes, and this time he appeared to be surrounded by dozens of ice mirrors. A figure was bouncing from mirror to mirror, and was sending rapid senbons at his direction. His memory showed him that he was having a very hard time dodging the attacks, and his body was struck several times as he evaded the needles. A sense of desperation filled Naruto's mind as he was forced to relive the memory...

"Naruto..." The scene shifted again, and now he was in a forest talking to a pretty lady holding a basket of herbs. "Do you have someone precious to you?" The image of Erza immediately came into his mind, and she was smiling at him lovingly. "When a person… has something important they want to protect… that's when they can become truly strong."

"H-Haku!"

The next scene that came into Naruto's mind was actually quite familiar to him. "T-The Valley of the End!" Naruto remembered what the place was called, but he couldn't recall what happened when he was there. A huge explosion occurred in the vision, and when the scene cleared Naruto saw a young teenager that looked very familiar. The one thing that stood out the most was the boy's eyes. "T-The Sharingan..." Naruto saw in the vision that he was shoved off the edge of a cliff by the boy, and his back was slammed into a large rock.

"Just shut up for once! What the hell do you know about it?! It's not like you ever had a family in the first place! You were on your own right from the beginning, what makes you think you know anything about it?! Huh?! I'm suffering now because I had those ties, how on earth could you possibly understand, what it feels like to lose all that!"

"Sasuke!"

"That's because I love you, Naruto-kun..." said a dark haired girl as she stood defensively in front of Naruto.

"I love you, Naruto!" muttered a pink haired girl shyly as she looked into his eyes.

The pain in Naruto's head suddenly got extremely painful as another scene popped into his mind, and it shot a heavy dose of fear into his heart...

In front of Naruto was a gargantuan monster towering in front of him. Its unique red eye, which took up most of its head, had four concentric circles with nine tomoes in the three circles closest to the pupil. It was larger than anything Naruto had ever seen, with spiky protrusions growing out of its back, and a wide, cavernous mouth with multiple rows of sharp, pointed teeth, as well as a spiked chin. It had long arms and clawed hands, but no visible hind-legs. It also had dark veins similar to those of a plant all over its body. The thing that stood out the most, was the ten swaying tails that were attached to the beast's back.

Naruto saw thousands of dead bodies around him, which several bodies lying close to him, all in rather gory conditions. Naruto knew that he knew them, and one of them was named Sasuke. The other ones were the dark haired and pink haired girls that he saw before, and for some reason he felt extremely sad at the sight of their dead bodies. The beast gave off a deafening roar in the vision, and thousands of the dead bodies were sent flying because of the shockwave created by the roar, including the few lying close to him.

The area around Naruto resembled hell on Earthland. Thousands of craters and cracks decorated the ground, and the sky was a murky brownish red that shrouded the world in a thin layer of darkness. Rivers of blood filled the area, and the only thing Naruto could smell was burning flesh. The mountains appeared to be blown to pieces, and large pieces of debris fell from the sky as if it was raining. There were only sounds of chaos and nothing that suggested other living beings around him.

In the vision, Naruto stood strong attached to the ground and he appeared to be the only remaining human being in the whole area. The beast started to make its way closer to Naruto, and it became larger and larger the closer it was to Naruto. The beast roared again and it was so loud that Naruto was temporary deafened by it...and suddenly, it was gone.

The vision stopped, and Naruto was back inside the Tower of Heaven...

Naruto was out of breath as he laid on the ground sweating profusely; the nightmare still dangerously close to his mind. The faces of the people in his memories filled his mind like a virus, and whenever he closed his eyes we would see them staring at him with soft smiles. They all felt very familiar and precious to Naruto, but he couldn't remember who they were to him. The one person that was the least cloudy was the man named Sasuke...

Knowing that the visions were gone, Naruto shook his head and forced himself to ignore his memories for now and continue to go after Jellal. His worry for Erza was still his most important source of motivation, and he wanted to focus on the present instead of the past...

Naruto ran as fast as he could through the wide and long hallways, but he could see that he was coming to an opening. As Naruto ran out into the clearing, he was greeted with a large bridge decorated with sakura trees and Shinto Gates. Sho was holding a couple of his cards in a battle position in front of a pink haired woman holding a Nodaichi. Naruto's eyes widened when the woman sliced through all of Sho's cards and managed to force Sho to the ground in pain.

"W-What the hell are you?" muttered Sho on the ground.

"Sho!" cried Erza inside the card as it hovered to the ground. "Let me out of this card!"

Sho grunted in pain and looked up. "Don't worry Nee-san, that card will protect you from everything in this dimension...even Ikaruga 's slashes can't get to it."

Ikaruga smirked and shook her head lightly. "Ignorant boy..." she whispered as she started to unsheathe her blade.

Erza's eyes widened. "Sho!" cried the Titania. "That is not a normal blade!"

Ikaruga slashed her Nodaichi out and sent a swarm of invisible sharp forces at Erza...but before the attacks could reach the card, one large blade of wind cancelled out Ikaruga 's attack. Erza's eyes widened when Naruto landed in front of her and caught her card. Naruto winked and smiled at Erza as he held the card with his left hand. "Hey Erza-chan, sorry I took so long." said the blond as he turned to face Ikaruga . "But now I'm here and I'll take care of this."

Sho laid still on the ground as he looked at Naruto. "Y-You're here..."

Ikaruga smirked and touched her lips. "Oh my, I didn't know Jellal sent us to kill such a handsome man~"

Naruto chuckled and shook his head. "Why don't we cut the small talk?..."

The pink haired woman pouted a little while batting her eyes dangerously. "You should be more reserved and polite when talking to a lady..." Ikaruga placed her hand on her blade and smiled at Naruto. "But no matter, there is no point in teaching a dead man how to behave."

"Naruto!" spoke Erza in her card. "Put me down, you need two hands to fight this woman!"

Naruto winked at Erza again and shook his head. "It's okay, I'll be fine like this." said the man as he extended his right hand. "I just remembered that I have some weapons that I would like to use with only one hand..." Naruto activated one of the seals in his arms and a puff of smoke appeared around his right hand. When the smoke cleared a massive broadsword appeared in Naruto's hands. The blade itself had two cut outs, a circle close to the top and a semi-circular one nearer the handle, which was quite long and was clearly meant for two-handed use. "The six tattoos on my right arm have sealed weapons in them, my Hiraishin Kunai was one of them, and this Kubikiribōchō is another." said Naruto to Erza with a smile. "It's kind of like your Requip Magic."

Erza stared at the giant blade with curiosity. 'Those circles on the blade...they are meant for decapitation.'

Ikaruga shook her head at the Kubikiribōchō. "Such a brute weapon..."

Naruto sighed. "Are you going to keep talking, or can we get this over with."

Ikaruga smirked and bent her knees in response. "Fine..." muttered the woman as she narrowed her eyes at Naruto. "Yasha Senkū (Yasha's Empty Slash)!" Ikaruga's blade slashed five times at extremely high speeds, and sent several invisible blades towards Naruto.

Normally people wouldn't be able to see the incoming blades, but Naruto's Sharingan exposed them very clearly. The blond channeled his wind chakra into the Kubikiribōchō and used its broad body to block the incoming attacks with ease. Ikaruga continued her assault with continues strikes of her Yasha Senkū, and Naruto continued to block her blades with his own. Erza was impressed with Naruto easy maneuver with the heavy blade with only one hand, it seemed that after his final growth spurt Naruto gained a significant amount of physical strength.

Ikaruga was becoming rather annoyed and pulled her blade back. "Karura-en (Garuda Flame)!" An inferno erupted from Ikaruga's blade and blasted towards Naruto at great speeds. The flames reached fifty feet into the air and it burnt the bridge as it towered over Naruto.

Naruto smirked and raised his blade into the air. "Futon: Dai Kazekiri no Jutsu (Giant Wind Blade)!" The wind chakra that was stored into the Kubikiribōchō was blasted out all at once in a blade of compacted wind. The wind blade slashed through the inferno and sliced it in half; pushing the flames to the sides of the bridge. The wind blade continued its way and headed towards Ikaruga, and Naruto was impressed when the woman managed to raise her blade up to block.

"AAHHH!" cried Ikaruga as she used every ounce of strength in her body to parry the wind blade out of her direction, but then the wind's shape was disrupted and it turned into a small explosion of wind. Ikaruga was blasted backwards and landed on her back in pain.

Naruto jumped into the air with the Kubikiribōchō above his head...

Erza saw what Naruto was about to do and cried out. "Naruto don't!"

The Kubikiribōchō was slammed into the ground where Ikaruga was lying, and Erza was relieved to see that Naruto had only trapped the woman's head within one of the opened circles of his blade. Ikaruga was shaking in fear as she looked at Naruto in shock, she knew she stood no chance against the blond man.

"Where is Jellal?" asked Naruto with a low and emotionless voice.

Ikaruga was still shaking as she looked up at Naruto. "H-He's at the top of the tower..."

Naruto sealed his Kubikiribōchō back into his arm as he turned around. Erza looked up at Naruto through the card with a smile on her face, she was happy that Naruto's strength had increased so much after his transformation. Though Erza had to admit that she was a little intimidated by Naruto when she thought that he would kill Ikaruga; the look in his eyes were vicious. But Erza knew that this was still her Naruto, and he was the same sweet and kind boy she knew.

"Sho..." said Naruto with a smile on his face. "Please release Erza-chan from the card, it won't work against someone like Jellal."

Sho nodded dumbly at the powerful man and activated his card. "H-Hai..."

The card glowed and Erza was released from the card. The Titania stood proudly in her Heartz Kreuz Armor and she smiled at Sho. "Thank you Sho, now I need you to get back outside and meet the others." said Erza as the boy looked like he was about to argue. "Please Sho...go meet with Simon and the others."

Sho looked down and nodded. "Okay...you need to hurry out too, Nee-san."

Erza smiled and patted Sho's head. "Okay..."

Naruto smiled as he watched Sho leave the area. "Let's go Erza-chan, we'll finish this up together." Gently said the blond as he offered Erza his hand.

The Titania smiled and nodded. "Let's go..." replied Erza as she took Naruto's hand.

The End!

I know I said that Naruto will be fighting Jellal in this chapter, but I decided to end it here. The next chapter will be out very soon, I just like to keep each chapter around 4000-5000 words.

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