Chapter 42
Stop it!
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Frea ran in the direction that Natsu and Grey's Energy Signature's had just drastically faded a minute ago, indicating they were either hurt badly, or knocked out. She stifled a wince as she moved her shoulders as she ran, the cut that Shadelocker had given her had been cut deeper than the others, but she ran anyway. One damn cut wasn't going to make her stop running. But she was forced to come to a stop as the ground started to tremble, she stared in shock as the top of the castle shortened and the entire city started to shift. Her head snapped up to where the very top of the castle had sunken in, as extremely large waves of pure power began to radiate over the city from the spot.
What the hell is going on?
"Frea!" Frea glanced up and quickly jumped out of the way of a large winged creature, and her jaw dropped to see Lucy riding it with a small girl. "Get on!" Lucy yelled at her and Frea quirked an eyebrow.
"You want me to get on that?" Frea asked and Lucy rolled her eyes.
"There's no time to argue, their about to shoot the Dragon Chain Cannon into Extalia!" Lucy snapped and Frea reluctantly climbed on.
"I want some answers." Frea muttered, and she stiffened as the creature lifted off into the air. "Why aren't you a Lacrima? Your not a Dragon Slayer, and I am pretty sure you didn't show up when we saved Erza and Gray." Frea told her.
"Horologium passed through his gate on his own and protected me from being sucked into the Anima." Lucy explained. "Mystogan sent me here."
"Alright... I can understand that. So where are we going? And what's with 'Extalia' and this 'Dragon Chain Cannon'?" Frea asked, her gaze switching over to the small girl riding the creature with them. "Whose that?"
"We're going to find Gray, Natsu and Erza." Lucy explained. "The Dragon Chain Cannon is a Magical device that is being powered by the Magic Energy that the Kingdom sucked out of Natsu and Wendy. The King is going to shoot it into the island that has the Lacrima made from Everyone in Magnolia on it, and direct the chain to make it crash into Extalia. Extalia is the floating kingdom of the Exceeds, Happy and Carla are Exceeds." Lucy continued to explain. "When the Lacrima crashes into Extalia, the magic power will infuse and rain down on Edolas to provide it with Eternal Magic Power." Lucy murmured. "That's Coco, and this is her Legion." Lucy said, patting the creature carrying them.
Frea stayed silent for a minute as she tried to let all the information sink in. When Frea simply stared for a long while without saying anything, Lucy and Coco exchanged a glance.
"You ok?" They both asked at the same time and Frea let out a soft sigh.
"Yeah... I think I understand now." Frea murmured. "We have to find the others and find a way to stop the Lacrima from running into Extalia?" Frea asked and Lucy nodded. Frea sat up a little straighter and licked her thumb, wiping the blood off of her cheek where it had dripped down from the shallow cut on her cheek. "Then we need to hurry, that Dragon Chain Cannon is giving off an unbelievable amount of Magic Power."
Lucy and Coco nodded, and the small Edolas girl urged her Legion to go faster. All three of them stiffened as a huge chain launched out from the castle and latched on to the underneath of a floating island. Frea narrowed her eyes as she saw faint traces of powerful blood red Magic appear at the base of the chain, before she could feel it start to get closer and travel up.
Frea jumped to her feet, "Wait a minute! We need to stop, a very large wave of Magic is about-!" She tried to warn them but realized there was no time. Lifting both hands out to the side her Silver Magic surrounded the Legion in a dome shape. "Energy Sphere!"
Frea grunted as the Magic traveled up the chain at an amazing speed, and sent a wave of it out in all directions. Though she knew Lucy and Coco couldn't see it, they would be able to feel it. Frea managed to keep the shield up around the Legion, but she flinched a little as the Magic hit her own Magic. Once she was sure the Magic was passed them, she let her arms drop, and she breathed in deeply.
"How did you know that Magic would have hit us?" Lucy asked and Frea glanced down at the blonde.
"I'm the Energy Dragon, I can feel all types of Energy around me, and sometimes see it without using a spell. Something as powerful as that wasn't hard for me to catch, and I could tell it would definitely hurt us if we got hit." Frea explained. Lucy nodded in understanding, and she noticed Coco cast her a smile. Frea crouched down as the Legion dove suddenly, and she steadied herself enough to not fall off. The Legion broke through the top of the tower with little problem, and they found Erza, Gray, and Natsu surrounded by soldiers.
"Come on guys!" Lucy yelled and they stared in shock.
"How did you manage to ride that thing Lucy?" Natsu asked and Frea frowned.
"This Legion is mine." Coco piped up.
"Get on!" Frea ordered sharply, and at once Gray and Natsu hopped on, with Erza following more slowly. The Legion lifted away, and sped off toward the already fast moving Lacrima.
"Faster!" Natsu yelled as he stood on the Legions head. Frea straightened up and spread her feet apart to steady herself. They turned sharply and the Legion crashed into the side of the Floating Island as it tried to stop it. Frea stumbled a bit at the jolt of hitting the Island, and the Legion was pushed back by the force of the moving Island.
"Everyone! Release your Magic Energy!" Erza ordered and Frea raised both hands toward the Island, a large silver Magic Circle appeared before her. The combined forces of the Wizards helped the Legion to push harder, but they were still being driven backward. Frea cast a quick glance over her shoulder and the land of Extalia was getting closer by the minute. Frea narrowed her eyes, and took a step forward until she was shoulder to shoulder with Natsu, and she placed both hands on the Floating Island.
Damn it... think Frea! What spell...?
Frea closed her eyes, she knew that Extalia was close now, and the impact would be to much for them to stop.
"Energy Sphere!"
No One POV
The edge of the Floating Island that the Lacrima sat upon, crashed into the side of Extalia and stopped short before it went on to destroy the rest of Extalia. The dust cleared to reveal the Fairy Tail Wizards propped between the two floating islands, hands pushing into the Lacrima Island and their feet pushing against Extalia. Frea had her hands pressed against the Island as it kept pushing at them, with her eyes shut tight and teeth clamped together, glittering pieces of Silver Magic were falling to the ground.
"We gotta stop it!" Natsu yelled.
"Push harder!" Erza ordered.
"We better stop this damn thing!" Frea hissed. "I didn't just waste half of my Magic slowing it down as it hit for nothing!"
"Push!"
Frea's POV
Frea stifled a wince as she trembled from pushing against the persistent island. Her muscles ached and half of her Magic was gone. She had placed an Energy Sphere around them as they hit Extalia, and she had even gone through with the effort of making it thicker and harder than she normally would have. It had done its job, when the Sphere was hit on both sides from both Floating Islands, she had been able to keep it up long enough to slow down the moving Lacrima. She pushed harder in an effort to stop the still pushing Lacrima, they couldn't let them hit, or Magnolia would be lost forever!
She was almost to focused on pushing against the Island, that she didn't notice that Extalia was giving off a rather unhappy Energy. They probably realized that Extalia might be destroyed with them on it...
Coco jumped down and started to push against the Island, and Frea's silver eyes glanced sideways to see Happy appear and start pushing against the Lacrima. Frea closed her eyes and willed her arms to push harder, and she wrapped her Magic around her hands to try and help push the Island away.
The scent of metal hit her nose and she opened one eye to see Gajeel jump down and start helping. Then not to long after, Carla appeared out of nowhere to help too, along with Wendy.
Frea stiffened as a more powerful Energy started spreading out behind her from the direction of Extalia. It was strong... it felt like a lot of positive emotion... Being an Energy mage Frea was sensitive to different levels of Magical Energy, along with the emotions of other people. Different emotions and Magic Energy Signatures affected her attitude at times, and very rarely, her strength.
The pure goodness of the approaching Magic Power made her feel as if strength started to spread through her limbs, and on all sides Hundreds of different Exceeds crashed into the side of the Island and began pushing. Frea smiled and pushed harder than before, the extra strength she was getting from the pure good Energy around her, fueling her. She started to push so hard, her hands made the Island crack under her.
"Keep Pushing!"
"We have to save the Guild!"
"We have to save Extalia!"
Frea smiled, "Keep it up guys..." She murmured and closed her eyes. She could feel the surrounding power of both emotion and Magic begin to bubble up, and the Island didn't seem to be pushing against her hands as hard. The Power was getting stronger and Frea let her Magic go, so it spread out around her body. "Come on! Push harder!" She ordered and they did as she asked, as the Power just about reached its peak.
"Power of Emotion,
Strength in our hearts,
Spread out around us,
and push the force away!"
Frea hissed under her breath as the Power reached its peak and the Island was pushed away in a flash of light, and it lasted until they could see the Lacrima was no longer there. Frea caught her breath and glanced up at a light brown Exceed who had caught her before she fell. Frea winced slightly as pain spread up around her shoulder for a minute before fading. Her eyes trained on to the Floating Island they had just pushed away, and she stiffened when she finally registered the Lacrima wasn't there anymore.
"What happened to the Lacrima?" Natsu asked.
"I sent everyone back to EarthLand and returned everyone and everything to normal." Frea glanced up and smiled a little. "I apologize for being so late." Mystogan apologized and Frea shook her head, sighing.
"The Prince is back!" An Exceed exclaimed and Frea stiffened, Prince...?
"Everything's back to normal?"
"We saved Extalia!"
A chorus of yells and shouts sounded and the Exceeds flew around in victory, and the other EarthLand Wizards let out sighs of relief. Frea glanced in the direction of a large black Exceed with armor on and a white muzzle.
"Thank you, my Prince." The Black Exceed thanked Mystogan, who only smiled in return.
Frea stiffened as a loud crack sounded and everyone's faces fell as the Black Exceed was shot in the stomach, blood spurting out into the air.
"Lily!" Mystogan yelled.
"Black cat!" Gajeel yelled. Frea's eyes were torn away from the falling Exceed, to the massive amounts of soldiers on Legions behind him, with a woman who looked exactly like Erza in the lead.
"KnightWalker..." Erza growled.
"It's not over Scarlet!" Knightwalker yelled.
"Somebody catch Lily!"
"Begin Code ETD!" Knightwalker commanded as the solders began to attack the Exceeds and turn them into Lacrima. Frea was dropped back down on Coco's Legion along with Lucy, Gray, Gajeel and Erza. All of them froze when something massive came from the ground in some ruins on a Floating Island. Frea stiffened at what came out, it looked like a giant, metal...Dragon...
"Mystogan!" Erza yelled as she warned the mage, and the blue-haired man turned and set up a shield to block a blast that the Metal Dragon had sent his way.
"The Dorma Anim..." Frea struggled to hear Mystogan mutter the words from so far away, even with her Dragon Ears.
"Mystogan? Is that what you call yourself now?" And old and gruff voice echoed from the Metal Dragon. "I no longer see you as my son! Die traitor!' the voice yelled and Frea guessed it belonged to Edolas's King. Another blast was sent for Mystogan, which sent the Mage into the trees below them.
The Legion moved under her feet swiftly as it dodged a blast from the Dorma Anim. Frea exchanged a quick glance with Gajeel and he gave her a slight nod. Both of them ran forward and jumped away from the Legion. Gajeel got a good hit on the Dorma Anim, and so did Wendy and Natsu. Frea stretched her arms out in front of her and focused her Energy around them.
"Energy Beam!" She hissed and her Magic shot out of her hands in a straight line, hitting the Dorma Anim. Frea pushed off the metal body as soon as she touched it and landed neatly beside Natsu, Wendy and Gajeel.
"This is made from metal that nullifies all magical attacks!" The King gasped. "Your hits shouldn't have down anything to it!" The King raged.
"Didn't you hear?" Natsu asked.
"We're Dragon Slayers, old man." Gajeel smirked.
"Ready guys?" Frea asked and they nodded.
Time to really fight!
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