Contract
"What did you do to Laxus and Lucy?!" Natsu yelled.
Zane smirked. "A little forbidden wind spell called Life Drain. That brat Laxus deserves it after humiliating me like that just now and as a result all my magic is restored." He lifted his hand in front of him, staring at his palm.
"What about Lucy?" Erza questioned. "Why did you attack her too?"
Zane looked at the members of Fairy Tail again as he putted his hand down. "It's a shame, but Life Drain does have its requirements. Like it can only be activated when my set limit has been reached and in order to unlock the limiters an exchange of two lives must be taken. One male and one female, Lucy just happened to be the first girl to reach the circle. I suppose you can just bury those pieces of trash now."
Every member of Fairy Tail glared at Zane. Natsu stood up with his body trembling in anger. "You're going pay for that! I'm going to kill you!" Flames and lightning consumed Natusu's body to form his lightning fire dragon mode. He flew forward.
"Stop wasting your time," Zane said. "Why don't you spend it saving your friends' lives while they still have a chance?"
Natsu's eyes opened wide.
The dragon slayer stopped in his tracks. "What are you talking about?"
"You're friends aren't dead yet," Zane explained. "Technically, they're both in a death like state since my magic is base on exchange and both of the wizards were drained of their power without consent a fight for their lives must be held to finish the spell."
"You really think we would gamble our friends' lives?" Erza questioned.
Natsu punched his fist into his hand. "I'll beat you I'll beat the crap out of you."
"Very well, Natsu Dragneel," Zane's smile widen, "you have signed the contract to fight on your friends' behalf. However if you fail their blood is on your hands for being weak." Runes appeared on Natsu's right arm. Zane stretched his arms out to the sides. "How about the rest of you?"
Freed, Bixlow, and Evergreen all stood up. "We will fight on Laxus' behalf," Freed stated.
Zane stretched his hand out toward them. "Very well, Freed Justine, Bixlow, and Evergreen of Fairy Tail you are now contracted." Runes appeared on each of their right arms.
The remaining members of Fairy Tail's A and B teams stood up with full resolve in their eyes. "We won't let them fight alone," Erza claimed.
"You can count us all in," Gray said.
"Fine." Excitement flashed across Zane's face. "Erza Scarlet, Gray Fullbuster, Wendy Marvell, Mirajane Strauss, Gajeel Redfox, Cana Alberona, and Juvia Lockser you have signed the contract." Each person he named had runes appear on their right arm.
Zane lifted his hand straight in the air. "Now the contract is set!" A giant glowing green magic circle appeared underneath the arena floor with a dome rising up around them several feet above. "Now no one can interrupt the contract without paying deadly price."
"What does that mean?" Natsu asked.
"It means no outside help for you unless you want an automatic lost," Zane snickered.
"I don't need any help to defeat you," Natsu declared. He charged at Zane again with his fist pulled back.
"Oh, Zane is going to single handedly face off against Fairy Tail," the announcer spoke clearly not thinking about the seriousness of the situation.
Zane stuck his hand straight out. "Fool." A magic circle appeared in front of him, shooting a wave of mud out to blast Natsu back.
Two magic circles appeared, taking away Laxus and Lucy's bodies.
"What did you do with Laxus' body?" Evergreen shouted.
"Come now, you don't honesty want to corpses just lying on the floor," Zane said. "There'll come back as long as you keep to your contract and win." Sparks flew off of his body. He transformed into lightning that shocked everyone before he struck each of them to the ground.
Natsu managed to pick himself up before Zane kicked him down. Zane turned back to normal and slid back from the Fairy Tail wizards on one hand and feet. Each of the wizards grabbed the area that was hit at as they picked themselves back up.
"He can turn into lightning." Natsu clenched his teeth.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that I also stole your little friends' powers," Zane said. "Think of me as a Laxus version two far superior to the original."
"You don't hold a candle to Laxus." Evergreen flew up and swung her fan across her body. "Fairy Machine Gun." She shot out several energy needles at Zane.
Zane pulled out the golden key and stuck it out. "Open gate of the ram, Aries." Aries appeared before Zane, creating a pink fluffy cloud that stopped Evergreen's attack cold.
"Lucy's Keys!" Erza shouted.
"Didn't I tell you I took your friends' powers," Zane said. "I can't believe you didn't even notice her keys were missing." Zane lowered the key down. "I think it's about time I even things up." He lifted up the nine other golden keys in his hands.
"You can't possibly plan on summoning all ten of them," Erza stated.
"Open the gates of the Water Bearer, Golden Bull, Giant Crab, Maiden, Archer, Lion, Twins, Scorpion, and Goat." All of Lucy's zodiac spirits appeared before the Fairy Tail wizards. Zane pointed straight at the group ahead. "Go, destroy the Fairy Tail wizards."
Scorpio shot his sand buster at the group while Taurus swung his battle axe to create a spinning dome of sand around the members of Fairy Tail. The ten spirits then rushed inside the twisting sphere.
Wendy crossed her arms in front of her. "Where did everyone go?"
Gajeel stepped back and looked around. "Damn it, I can't see a thing."
Erza carefully looked around requiped in her black wing armor. She held her sword at the ready. She felt someone come up behind her and began to swing.
Natsu leaped out of the way. "Easy, Erza it's just me."
"Oh, sorry. This place makes it so hard to see it makes it nearly impossible to tell a friend from foe." She looked away to see if any enemies were coming.
Natsu smirked. "I know what you mean." A flaming fist slammed into Erza's back by 'Natsu.' "Iron fist of the Fire Dragon!" The chuckles of Gemini came out of Natsu's mouth.
"You're not Natsu." Erza flipped through the air changing into her fire empress armor, facing her opponent.
"Bring it on, Erza." The fake Natsu said before transforming into Erza herself. The second Erza switched into the sea empress armor. "Let's see if you can beat me."
Freed walked forward, looking around. The ground cracked underneath him that dropped him into a pit. "What just happened?" He looked up to see Virgo at the top of the pit.
"I'll assure that you never see my master again." Virgo swung her hands to have to pit cave in around Freed.
"NO!"
Juvia and Gray stood back to back, trying to be prepared for anything that might come at them from either side. A sand twister blasted Juvia from the side, blasting her away. Gray turned around. "Juvia!" He then looked in the direction the sand had come from to see Scorpio who held up a sign with a cocky smile.
"You're going to pay for that." Gray took off his shirt and took his fist into his palm as he brought them back, taking up a battle stance. "Ice Make-"
Gray was sent flying back by a kick from the side. He crashed to the ground. He slowly sat back up to see who had hit him. "Capricorn." The goat man stood before him.
Sagittarius fired three arrows at Evergreen who flew in the air. "Fairy Machine Gun!" Evergreen swung her fan, shooting out the energy needles. The attack shattered the arrows apart. "You can't make a fool out of me."
Chains wrapped around the woman's body. She was swung down as Virgo leaped up in the air. "I think that it's very easy the humiliate you." Electric sparks came out of the maid's eyes.
Cana threw three cards at Cancer. "Card Magic!"
"Ebe." Cancer cut the three cards in half, charging for the young woman.
Cana held out three cards. "Heaven, Reverse Death, Mountain. Summoning Lightning!" She shot a blast of lighting at the crab man that just barely leaped out of the way.
Zane stared at the twisting dome. "Hmm, I guess I should be a good Celestial Wizard and help my spirits out." He stuck his hands out. "How's this." He shot a wave of lightning from his palms.
Gajeel swung his steel sword at Leo, trying to hit him when the lightning flew through the dome and struck him like a lightning rod.
"Come on, Fairy Tail at least make it a little more challenging," Zane taunted. Magical circles appeared above the dome. They rained lightning down inside the dome. The members of Fairy Tail were either struck by lightning her pounded on by the Celestial spirits.
Zane held his palms out and fired.
Capricon leaped away from Gray. "Hey where do you think you're going?" the ice wizard questioned.
Five lightning bullets came in Gray's direction, hitting him dead on. Gray flew back and hit the ground.
Zane lowered his head, hiding his eyes behind his hair. "I suppose it's time for that now."
Suddenly the dome burst from above. Natsu flew up in the shape of a dragon of flames. "That's it."
All the spirits and wizards looked up with equal amazement. "Nice one, Natsu," Gary commented.
"Now that we can actually see we can fight back," Cana stated.
The sight was short lived by all when they saw orbs of light surround them in a space like atmosphere. The team of Fairy Tail looked over at Zane to see him radiating in light with a magic circle underneath him. "I am the ruler of the stars…Aspect become complete…"
Erza took a step forward. "He's casting Lucy's star magic spell. I have to stop him." Erza requiped into her Adamantine Armor.
"Open the malevolent gate," Zane continued to chant. "Oh 88 stars of the heaven…Shine!"
Erza leaped into the air, using Natsu as a spring board to be above all the members of Fairy Tail.
"Hey!" Natsu yelled.
"Take care of Lucy's spirits I'll take care of this," Erza told him. The requip wizard looked up, preparing to shield everyone from the attack, knowing that she couldn't stop the spell any other way with the spirits standing in her way.
"Fine, you got it." Natsu came crashing down ready to take on some spirits.
"Urano Metria!" Zane finished. The orbs came crashing down from the sky.
Erza putted the shields on her arms together and formed a magic barrier. The eighty-eight orbs of light slammed into Erza's barrier, pushing the redheaded woman down. The barrier broke after all the stars had been successfully negated.
"Nice work, Erza," Master Makarov said. He clenched his fists together, watching the sight in determination.
A lightning bolt struck Erza from behind. She screamed.
"ERZA!" Everyone in Fairy Tail screamed.
Zane had his arm held up with a smile on his face. "You should have watched you're back too. In case you forgot the spirits aren't your only opponent."
Erza came crashing back down to the ground. Her armor went back to her normal clothing. "Erza," Natsu shouted. He ran where she was falling, catching her before she could hit the ground, holding her in his arms bridal style.
"Will she be ok?"
"Yeah, Erza is tougher than that," Natsu said.
"That's really too bad."
"Huh?" Natsu looked up to see who he was talking too.
Loke pushed his glasses up. "I was hoping at least we be done with her." He balled up his fist and blasted a beam of light at the two wizards. Natsu dropped Erza who slid across the ground while Natsu flipped back to land on his feet and hands to slow himself down to a stop.
Natsu lifted his head. "What's wrong with you, Loke? Why are you acting like this when Lucy is in danger?"
Sparks flew out of Loke's eyes. "My only master is Zane who will clear the world of you Fairies." He lifted his hand up. A crimson red circle with an X inside radiated on the back of the spirit's hand.
"What is that?" Natsu questioned. His eyes went wide eye.