Chapter 34

At My End

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The man standing before them had dark brown hair, blue eyes and was wearing a trench coat with black pants and hiking boots. His arms were crossed over his chest, smiling at the two Mages before him. When silence met his words as the two looked him up and down he tilted his head.

"Are you ready?" He asked again. Frea clenched a fist and took a step toward him, eyes narrowed and anger flaring up at this man.

"Your the one that attacked my friends?" She hissed and he smiled wider.

"Why yes, I am." He replied in an even tone. "Will I be fighting you, or both of you?" He asked and she was aware of Laxus stepping up to stand at her shoulder.

"I may not be part of Fairy Tail anymore, but anybody who messes with them, is my enemy." Laxus growled and the man looked pleased. Frea glanced in Laxus' direction, eyes widening at his words. She had never pegged Laxus for being someone who would care about Fairy Tail, especially not after his behavior over the last few years she had known him. She smiled a little at the pure determination he had showing in his gaze, she glanced back at the man.

"You have your answer." She hissed and the man nodded.

"It seems I do." He murmured. "Before we start, I'm going to give you my name." The man told them. "Rified. And I do hope your ready for my challenge, I have never been beaten." Rified explained and Frea narrowed her eyes.

"Well there's always a first time!" She growled and Rified smiled wider.

"I suppose that's true." Rified replied. Frea rushed forward and her Magic wrapped around her fist, she swung out and Rified dodged, barley. She managed to graze him and the man winced. Rified's hands clapped together and he smirked, "Death's Lance." Rified chuckled and a long lance made up of his black Magic appeared from his hands and threw Frea back. Frea winced as the lance made of his Magic hit her and she hit the ground, sliding back on the grass.

"Damn him..." She hissed and pushed herself to her feet. Laxus had already begun his fight, swinging lightning encased fists at Rified, who was surprisingly dodging all of them. She shook her head in frustration, damn she was tired...

"Death's Blast!" Rified shouted and a large beam of black magic hit Laxus, and sent him flying. Frea glanced over to where Laxus had landed to make sure he was ok, and she saw him get to his feet, looking extremely pissed off at Rified. Frea closed her eyes and sucked in air, leaning back a little as she did.

"Energy Dragon's Roar!" She yelled and a tornado of her spinning silver Magic spiraled out toward Rified, who had neither the time, nor the room to dodge it. Rified was thrown back by her Magic and she steadied herself, breathing a little heavily, a bead of sweat rolled down her face. That one damn spell... it took more than half of my Magic Energy...

She wasn't about to quit, she was mad enough at Rified, to at least fight him, for now.

So she pushed herself to run forward, heading toward Rified who was getting to his feet, looking rather annoyed. Laxus appeared at her shoulder and both of them swung out at the same time, catching Rified on each cheek, and knocking the mage back again. Frea skidded to a stop, Magic disappearing from where it had been around her fist.

"Since when are you a Dragon Slayer?" Laxus asked and she cast a quick glance at him.

"Its a little complicated." She murmured and both of them looked away from each other as Rified got to his feet again. Damn it... this guy just doesn't stay down...

"Death's Bolt!" Rified yelled and lifted both hands toward the sky. In an instant a bolt of black lightning cracked down and hit both Dragon Slayers. Frea hissed in pain and fell to the ground, struggling to push herself back up. Laxus on the other hand, didn't seem to have been hurt by the attack, and the Lightning Dragon Slayer glared at Rified.

"That was a pretty dumb move." Laxus growled and Rified shrugged, giving the man a smile.

"It got one, of the two." Laxus launched forward and went after Rified again, Rified smirked and dodged the first couple of hits. Frea hissed in pain as she struggled to sit up. She was just about drained, and the metallic taste of blood hit her tongue as she coughed some up onto the grass. The edges of her vision were begging to blur, and her entire body hurt, she had hardly any strength left.

She managed to push herself into a sitting position, and shook from the effort or remaining that way. She glanced up to see Laxus fighting with Rified, and stared in shock as the Lightning Dragon was blown away. Rified was surrounded by his black Magic as a sphere of it started to form in the Man's hands. She cast a look between Rified and Laxus, who was fighting his way out of a large hole in the earth.

"This hit should finish him, then I can deal with the other one..." She heard Rified mutter with the help of her advanced hearing and she stiffened. Rified was radiating the immense power he was giving off as he prepared his spell, and she had no doubt, that that Spell would seriously hurt, or even kill Laxus. Frea forced herself to stumble to her feet and she ran toward Laxus, just as the sky above the Lightning Dragon began to spin and a huge vat of black appeared in the center of it.

"Laxus!" She yelled as she jumped into the hole and slid down beside him, just as a huge beam of black Magic poured from the sky, and Rified yelled out the name of his spell.

"Death's Reaper!"

Laxus' POV

Laxus growled in frustration as he began to push himself to his feet. His chest hurt from where he had taken the hit from Rified, and been blown away to land in this hole. He faintly wondered why, why had Frea been taken down so fast? He'd seen the young woman take on vast amounts of Damage before and still stay standing. He knew he had noticed something was off about her before now, she had seemed sort of... sick... yes, sick was a good word for it.

He was even more confused as to why he had never known she was a Dragon Slayer.

What happened? I thought I knew all I could about her, but man was I wrong... He got to his feet and rolled his shoulder's, hearing them crack before he rested his eyes on Rified. The Mage was surrounded by his dark magic and it was only now, he could feel the vast amount of power coming from the guy. His eyes widened in surprise as Frea slid down the side of the hole, and yell his name before the world went black around them.

NoOne POV

The Hole in which the two Dragon Slayer had been standing was engulfed in black light as the beam shot from the sky. All visibility was cut off, and the earth shook from the power of the spell. When the dust that had risen up, cleared, Rified's eyes went wide and his jaw dropped. Frea was standing in front of Laxus, bangs shadowing her face and arms raised to the sky. The Energy Dragon glanced up at Laxus, and her arms dropped. She swayed on her feet and took a step back as she tried to catch herself. She coughed up sticky blood that rolled down her chin before her eyes closed and she fell back.

Laxus had been looking at Frea in pure shock, as he registered what had just happened. He snapped back to reality as Frea fell back and quickly caught her before she could hit the ground. The Energy Dragon was out cold, and her breathing was strained and shallow, she cringe weakly in pain from time to time.

"You should be dead!" Rified yelled in fury, clearly pissed off that his attack had failed.

Laxus' POV

Laxus gazed down at the young woman in his arms, and he frowned a little. It had all happened so fast, he couldn't be entirely sure what happened. All he knew for certain was Frea had been hurt, badly, and Rified was still looking for a fight. He set Frea gently down before straightening up and walking toward Rified, lighting crackling around his body.

"I'm done playing games." He growled at Rified. Rified glared back at Laxus, and opened his mouth to speak. But before he had a chance Laxus launched forward and hit the man with hit after hit, moving faster than the other Mage could. Laxus brought his fist back after hitting Rified for at least the fiftieth time and he clenched it harder, lighting around his fist growing stronger. He hit Rified in the jaw and the mage was thrown back a couple hundred feet, until he slid back on the destroyed grass and lay in a crumpled heap on the ground.

Laxus threw one last glare at Rified before hurrying back over to where Frea lay and crouched down beside her. He picked her up a little and gently tried to wake her up.

Her breathing was getting shallower, and more blood dripped from the edge of her mouth. He couldn't feel any Magic Energy coming from her, which was extremely odd considering she had always radiated with an extremely odd amount of Magic power. He frowned more,

"Tch... Damnit Frea, wake up!"

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