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The answer of the question…GAJEEL! CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE!

Chapter 18: Revealing the undead

Natsu clenched his fists with excitement. The day has come…She's finally coming back… He stared at the hole anticipating for something to happen. According to his plan, he would somehow get Jose to touch the light and since he was one of the Ten Saints, he would be a large sacrifice. The lucky part was that Jose jumped on his own. 'She's coming back' Natsu thought with a smile. She'll be here soon.

But the moment of truth didn't come…Nothing happen…Not even a sign or a standing Kami-sama or something!

The waiting had made Natsu start to worry. 'Why it's not working?!' Natsu thought angrily to himself. 'A few more seconds…Maybe it'll work then…' He thought but the sounds of yells behind him didn't help his concentration. Seconds later he just lost it.

"Why is it not working?! Isn't Jose a large sacrifice?! This is supposed to work! She's supposed to be here now!" Natsu shouts at the ditch. Lucy looked at him confused. 'She?' Lucy thought but Natsu was right…Why wasn't it working?

The thought hits her. Jose was about to die from the arrow Master had shot but he chose to die from the light. He wasn't pushed or tripped. And the last creepy smile Jose had when he jumped by himself as if he knew something… Jose wasn't a large sacrifice…This is his final act in mocking us.

Natsu dropped to his knees and starts to pound the ground with his fists in rage. He had figured out Jose's intention, his plan hasn't gone right at all.

"Damn you Jose" he screamed at the ground. He suddenly froze. Natsu had sensed something vibrating in the ground. His eyes turned to the hole.

On cue, the temperature dropped like the ice cold tundra. The white light turned into a dark gray color. Something starts to rise from the light and start to form around the hole like a barrier. Lucy looked closely and realized the things were runes…

The runes started going into different directions. Some turned, some went down, and some just stopped. Natsu stared at the runes in awe, for some reason his left arm started to hurt but for only a second. He clutched it as if it still hurt him but there was only a scar that remained when Wendy had healed him. Had he imagined it? No he was sure something had stung him…Something was definitely wrong…

The scripture finally stopped moving and a huge number 360 was left in the center of the ditch. There was an eerie silence; even the sounds of fighting ceased and no one made a sound. That was when Lucy knew everyone was looking at the huge number.

*Beep*

*Beep*

*Beep*

The number starts to go down… 356…355…354…

Lucy's voice caught in her throat, she couldn't speak. Someone behind shouted the word that is dreading in Lucy's mind right in this moment.

"BOMB!"

With that single word, everything went in chaos. Mages start to run in the distance, trying to get away from the bomb while others pulled them back so they would be first. There were screams as magic was used so some can get out of there first. Everyone scrambled for cover until the 6 minutes finished.

The only one who stayed still was Fairy Tail, the blonde, Natsu, Wendy and Makarov. The old man looked at the bow and arrow in his hands and then at the hole where Jose had fell.

Had Jose detonated something before he fell? No, he knew if the R-system was kept waiting without the last sacrifice…It would explode. He clenched his old hands. This is was Jose's last scheme and they fell for it… Either way you lose.

The seconds counted down and they started to scramble. They looked at the runes and tried to decipher it. Levy and Freed was the only ones who knew a lot about the scripture but somehow their faces went blank. They couldn't read them...

Natsu growled in frustration at the mystery runes. If only if he could read them then he would know a way to stop it. The bomb reached 200; they had to come up with something quick. Suddenly something was leaking out of the ditch, it was black and it didn't look promising. It headed to the unconscious Wendy who was dropped by Jose when he jumped.

Natsu dashed and pulled her away from the dark slime's grasp. Where it trailed, the ground made a hissing sound and the ground where Wendy once laid was destroyed. 'The black stuff was like acid' Lucy observed and walked away from the slime. It stopped and was still, it was almost scary. It is looking for something…

Natsu's mind clicked together, like Master, said the R-system would explode if it didn't get its sacrifice…

Carla ran to Wendy while Natsu laid her down gently beside the white-haired girl. Carla looked at Natsu with a wondering expression. Carla remembered her premonition… One already came true. The thing that was sticking out of Lucy's chest was a lacrima arrow. The other two was the palace crumbling and Natsu in a bright light. Carla looked at Natsu again. Will he be the savior?

The 360 seconds had reached to 150 seconds. By examining how big the hole was, the explosion can take out the whole entire, maybe the country.

The thought hits Lucy like a bullet. 'The town!' She covered her mouth and dropped to her knees. 'Miss, Misaki, the kids, everyone! Will be diminished by the bomb!' Lucy's tears started fall and she began to sob. Erza came over and patted Lucy's back in a comforting way. Gray was quiet and he kept his eyes closed at the sky.

Makarov looked at the scared princess, Erza, Gray, his family. He looked at Natsu's angry face and Wendy's unconscious face but her lips quivered as if she was conscious. Lastly, he stared at his hands once more and clenched them tightly. He knew what he must do.

Master suddenly grew in height until he was tall enough to be a giant. He held his arms around the light, careful not to touch it and stayed like that.

"Ji-chan?!" Natsu shouted in confusion. "What are you doing?!" Natsu screamed at him. Lucy's watery eyes widen at the old man. The Master of Fairy Tail smiled once the number hit 100, it made his mustache stretch.

"Protecting my family" He said. He was going to take in the explosion for himself… Natsu screamed at Makarov. Mirajane's hands went to her mouth and she started to cry as well. Screams of protest were fired at Master but the old man made no intention to stop. The loudest protester was Natsu.

79

78

76…

"Are you crazy?!" Natsu's own tears start to fall. "Are you trying t-"

"QUIET NATSU!" His voice booms. Natsu stopped and huge tears fell from above that came from Master.

"Just…Just let me be a responsible parent for once…" Ji-chan said. Everyone was quiet except the sounds of sobbing. The pink haired teen gritted his teeth hard against each other. He looked at his hands and saw them trembling. 'You're so weak…' his mind said. Natsu clenched his fists again; hard enough that it made them bleed. For a long time he stared at his dark red blood. He came up with a answer.

'Ji-chan doesn't have to die...' Natsu got up. Lucy looked up from her hands as Natsu walked toward her. He wrapped his arms around her in a hug. Lucy stared at him in surprise. Natsu released his hold and applied his hands on her frail shoulders, making her look in his onyx eyes.

30 more seconds left.

"Sorry Princess but I can't keep my promise" Natsu grinned. Lucy was confused as the teen rose up and walked to the light. Everyone watched as the teen stuck out his arm in the light.

"Natsu?" Lucy said as Master looked down to see Natsu in the light.

"I'm going to protect my family this time. Just stay back and maybe drink tea Ji-chan" Natsu said and winced as the light started to spread all over his body.

He gave one more look to Lucy and mouthed the words "I love you". That's when the R-system enveloped the light around him and dragged him in the center. The number stopped at 10 which made a huge clank sound.

'The next premonition…' Carla whispered.

Everyone was still; they tried to process what had happened. The last scene they saw showed Natsu giving one last smile to his guild and then started to fade. (Like Éclair and Momon, boy that movie made me bawl my eyes out…)

Lucy scrambled to her feet, her hand outstretched to the light that completely took away the dragon slayer. Suddenly a huge gust of wind blew everyone back; the R-system turned into a sunlight yellow and blinded everyone's sights.

When their vision was cleared, the first thing they saw was rubble. The wind had somehow blown the battle field into cracks of Earth.

Erza got up from the huge rock that blocked her and started to help her guild members out of the rubble. She looked where the castle is or was. The castle of the Heartiphilia's started to crumble and crash into a heap of debris. Erza looked to the side as the palace finally reached the ground and bit her lip. She clenched her armored covered fists.

She scanned the destroyed field until she spotted a blond who was still standing at the hole where the R-system was. Erza started to run toward the shaken blonde. The hole was not filled with light anymore but with rocks. Lucy was still shocked and her voice wouldn't come to her.

Lucy dropped to the ground and looked at the hand she had outstretched to Natsu. Tears started to fall onto the hand and she started to sob uncontrollably.

A hand touched her shoulder lightly but it wasn't Erza. The red haired was standing a few meters away, shocked, at the sight of someone touching Lucy's shoulder.

"Are you okay Lucy?" A new voice said to the crying Blonde. Lucy's stopped until she glanced at the person. The person that Natsu wanted to revive stood behind her. When Lucy saw that person's face, she started to cry again. Lucy grabbed the person in a hug while saying the words:

"M-mom…"

The newly revived Queen Layla Heartiphilia wrapped her arms around her daughter as she sobbed. The queen started to cry as well as if she never wanted to let her child go which she probably never will.

"I'm back"

End of chapter 18

Haha! Did I get u?! I bet none of you got that! But if some of you did then good job! I made a hint in one of the chapters that I'm too lazy to check about which chapter it was in but remember that Natsu entered the Queen's room? Well there's your hint! Hehe well the story is not over so stay tuned for the next chapter!

Coming up next chapter 19: The end?

What happens next?

Where are Lucy's keys?

What happened to Natsu?

What's wrong with the next chapter's ending?!

Question of this chapter! Who said this?

"Those who break the rules shall be subjected to a fate worse than death."

Hint- He was there in the Tenrou Island Arc but this quote was said in a different arc. (Sorry but if I give something else; it would give it away…)