Unison of the Stars and Dragons
A bright light shot out of the forest. The trees that had died had returned to life with the darkness fading away, restoring the area back to normal. A soft breeze rolled over the area, blowing the three wizards' hair back.
Lucy was still in Laxus' one arm embrace with her forehead pressed against his chest. The man's tears had faded away and his old strength returned while Erza was simply relieved her two friends were alive.
The sword that Laxus tried to use had rusted and broke apart. It turned to dust that flowed in the air. "DAMN YOU!" The voice broke the sweet moment of peace, making all three wizards look up. The light that had shot out of the forest along with the destroyed sword shot up into a pair of magic circle that stood in midair that spun against each other.
"What's happening?" Lucy questioned.
The circles turned into a light form, recreating Zane a physical form. He flipped back, sliding away from the three man team. Laxus turned around and stood up to face him along with Lucy and Erza. Zane stood up with a glare in his eyes.
"Zane, how are you back?" Erza questioned. "You're body was destroyed." The S Class woman was filled with anger for what the man had done to her friends.
"He uses an exchange magic, right?" Laxus said. His eyes were focused on his opponent from The Grand Magic Games.
"Of course, since his spell failed to kill you two he must have gotten his body back," Erza responded.
"You damn fairies," Zane cursed. "I'm going to make you pay." He tilted his head to the side. "If I can't get you to kill yourselves I'll just have to do it will my own hands. Sore Joker: Curse Beast." His eyes glowed a dark purple.
A dark twister formed around the wizard, shooting high in the sky.
Natsu looked in the direction of the twister. "What is that?"
"Hey, isn't that the same direction Erza went?" Happy asked.
"Yeah, maybe if we're lucky we'll find Laxus and the other one there. Let's go, Happy." Natsu leaped off the hill he stood on.
"Aye, sir." Happy grabbed Natsu and flew in the direction of the dark energy.
The twister vanished. Zane had transformed into a large demon three times Laxus' size with armadillo's armor on its back side along with a long shell tail, black fur for the front, and glass like red eyes.
"It's huge!" Lucy yelled.
The demonic demon raised his hand and balled it into a fist. "Say goodbye, Fairies." He slammed his fist down toward the three wizards.
"Move." Laxus shoved Lucy back with his arm.
"Hey," Lucy yelled.
Laxus grabbed the fist with both of his, stopping the attack. He struggled to keep the fist at bay from the sheer physical force of it.
"How are you going to fight like that?" Zane raised his second fist ready to bring it down.
"He's not the only one here."Erza requiped into her black wing armor, flying up to slash at the monster that stood before her.
Zane shot his tail at Erza. Erza swung her sword to counter the tail each time it shot at her from various heights. The tail finally swept her aside.
Laxus turned into lightning and flew up above Zane from behind. He interlocked his hands that he charged with lightning and slammed them down on top of Zane's head. "Lightning Dragon's Jaw!" A crater broke down below the demon.
Zane quickly flipped under Laxus and swatted him with his hand, crashing him down into the ground next to Erza.
The two S class wizards slowly managed to pick themselves up.
"I maybe big, but I'm also fast," Zane taunted them.
Lightning danced around Laxus' body.
Erza changed into her Heaven's Wheel armor.
"Let's see you deal with this." Laxus swung his hands down, sending a lighting blast down from the sky on Zane.
Erza flew up in the air and summoned her circle of blades and launched them forward. "Dance, my blades!"
Zane wrapped himself up in a ball, having his armadillo shell wrapped around him that blocked out both Laxus and Erza's attacks. Erza's blades bounced off of him while Laxus' attack simply did nothing.
Zane unwrapped himself, standing up. "Was that you're best shot?"
Laxus shot himself into the air in the form of lightning. He slammed his electric charged fist right in the demon's face.
Zane fell back, returning to normal. He fell back toward the ground and swung his hand across himself. "Crescent Strike!" A large purple crescent shape shot came out of his hand, striking both Laxus and Erza.
The two Fairy Tail wizards crashed to the ground in front of Lucy. Dust rose up into the air. "Laxus, Erza," Lucy said worried.
Erza and Laxus struggled to pick themselves back up while Zane landed safely on the ground opposite of them. "You two are too slow." He held out two fingers, sweeping them aside.
"What the?" Laxus looked down.
"Oh, no." Erza saw the purple energy chains around hers and Laxus' legs that had come out of the ground, keeping them held to the ground.
Zane clapped his hands together. "Sore Joker: Unequal Assault."
A purple magic circle appeared under both Laxus and Erza. An energy blast shot out of the circles. Laxus crossed his arms to protect himself. Both wizards scream from the sheer force and power shot at them.
Lucy stepped forward. "No!"
"Hey, Natsu look," Happy said.
Natsu looked down in the forest to see Gray running in the same direction as them. "Gray." The ice wizard looked up to see Natsu and Happy. The blue cat landed Natsu next to the boy's rival. "So you saw the light too."
Gray putted his hand on his waist. "Yeah, I know Erza went in that direction so I decided to check it out."
"Hey, you guys," they heard a voice call from the sky. The wizards looked back to see Carla flying with Wendy. She landed them down behind the older wizards.
"Wendy, were you able to find anything?" Natsu asked.
Wendy shook her head. "No, but I saw that light in this direction so I decided to check it out."
"Well we better get going," Gray said. "If something is going down we don't want to be late to stop it again."
"Yeah, let's get moving."
The five members of Team Natsu ran forward toward the light they saw.
Laxus and Erza dropped to their hands and knees. Smoke rose off of their bodies while at least one eye was close from the painful shock of the blast they were hit with. Their breathing was heavy. The chains on their feet broken.
"How did it feel to be hit by each other's magical energy?" Zane asked.
"Is that what he did to them?" Lucy questioned.
"So this is the guy who stole a hundred wizards magic," Laxus stated.
"Actually, thinks to that damn Leo I lost those powers," Zane said. "Still I have the one magic that ultimately matters. A magic that hasn't been defeated since its creation."
"What?" Laxus questioned.
"That's impossible," Erza said. "Every type of magic fails at some point. Nothing is invisible."
Lucy moved one of her feet back. "We'll just see about that." She reached for her keys on her belt when she noticed that they weren't there. "Huh?"
"You didn't actually think I allow you to bring you keys with you when you were going to die?" Zane questioned, lifting one hand to the side.
Loke looked back from a mountain side he stood on. The wind blew around him. "I can sense Lucy, but she's far away." Loke set himself in a pounce position. "Doesn't matter, I'll travel the world to make sure she's safe."
"A Celestial wizard without her keys is useless," Zane said.
Laxus bit down on his teeth. He looked back at Lucy. "Hurry up and run, Blondie."
"What?" Lucy balled up her fists. "Hey, you're blonde too, you know."
"He's right," Erza said. "You need to go and find Natsu and the others."
"Natsu's here?" Lucy questioned.
"We had to split up to cover more ground so we could find you," Erza quickly explained. "Go find them and tell them what's going on. We'll hold him off."
"Them?" Zane stared at the three wizards before him. "More fairies, but they're not my goal. I want them to see your dead bodies on the ground when they see you again. Sore Joker: Magical Weight." His eyes glowed purple.
A dark purple field surrounded the area. All three wizards slammed down to the ground unable to get up. Lucy was down on all fours, struggling to try to stand. "What is this?" Her left eye was closed and her teeth clenched.
"This little spell weights all my enemies down by their own magical power," Zane explained. "It looks like all that great power of yours, Erza and Laxus is finally working against you." The two said wizards were fully pinned to the ground with part of the ground cracked underneath them.
"Lucy, can you still move?" Erza asked.
"Not really that much," Lucy answered.
"Try to get out of the range of his magic and run," Erza told her.
Just run?, Lucy thought. If I do that he'll just kill them both before I can even find the others. I won't let that happen even if I don't have my spirits, but what else can I do?
Lucy slammed her hands on top of the table and stood up. "Are you serious?" The Fairy Tail guild was in a pub at the capital of Fiore for the Grand Magic Games. "He used me and Laxus' powers to create a unison raid?"
Natsu leaned back in his chair with his feet on the table and his arms crossed. "Yeah, it was pretty cool actually. He made the starts glow with lightning."
Gray slammed his fist on the table. "It wasn't cool when they almost killed us all. Even Erza's armor barely stood up to it."
Lucy leaned forward. "No way."
Lucy looked at Laxus who was lied out in front of her. "That's it." Lucy practically crawled her way beside Laxus.
"What are you doing? We told you to get out of here," Laxus said.
"No, that's not going to work," Lucy responded full of determination. "The only way to beat this jerk is by combining our powers in a Unison Raid."
"Are you nuts?"
"If this guy can do it I don't see why we can't."
Zane lifted his head with a superior expression. "You're not serious. I created the strongest spell you can make with your two sets of magic and I know how to defeat it."
"Lucy, he's right get out of here," Erza told her.
Lucy reached her hand out toward Laxus. "What do you say? Our friends risk everything to save us, I think it's about time we save ourselves, but I can't do it without you, Laxus."
Laxus looked at her hand for a moment. He smirked. "Alright, Blondie." He mustered all his strength to grab a hold of Lucy's hand.
"This is just a bad joke." Zane placed his hand on top of his head, laughing madly.
"Listen, Laxus I don't want to use the same spell he did," Lucy said as quietly as she could so he could hear. "I have an idea." She quickly told him the changes she wanted to make to the spell.
"Are you crazy?" he asked.
"It's our only option."
Laxus lowered his head and shut his eyes. "I swear that idiot Natsu has rubbed off on you, but I suppose there is no other choice."
Zane looked down at the pitiful wizards. He smugly smiled at them with a superior gaze. "Give it your best shot." He brought his hand forward that glowed in a purple light. "I'll block your worthless attack and then kill you both."
The ground under Laxus' cracked some more from his massive power. "Unison Raid," the two blond wizards said together. A golden magic circle appeared underneath them.
Lucy lowered her head and shut her eyes. "Survey the Heavens, Open the Heavens. All the stars, far and wide, show me thy appearance with such shine. Oh Tetrabiblos…I am the ruler of the stars." The area around them become like they were in outer space. "Aspect become complete…open thy malevolent gate."
Several orbs gathered gather around the area while Zane looked at them with pure amusement. "I already know this trick." He held his hand out and started to create a shadow mist type of barrier around himself, starting at his feet.
He won't be affected by this, Erza thought.
"Oh 88 Dragons of the heaven…" Lightning sparked off of the orbs.
"What?!" Erza said.
"She misspoke and now it won't work at all," Zane butted in.
Lucy opened her eyes with a magical circle inside them. The same thing appeared inside of Laxus' eyes. "Roar!"
Zane had already lowered his barrier and was just about ready to attack with a smug toothy grin on his face. Suddenly the roar of dragons interrupted him. He looked up with his eyes opened wide in shock. "What the…?"
"Am I imaging this?" Erza stared up at the sky in just as much shock as Zane.
The orbs had transformed into several different types of dragons, all roaring at the same time.
A powerful wind blew, forcing Natsu and the others to cover the fronts of their bodies with their arms to protect themselves. "Am I, crazy or do those noises sound like dragons roaring?" Happy asked.
"No, I hear it too," Natsu said.
"Then should we really keep going?" Carla questioned.
"Who knows one of them might be Igneel."
Zane looked around. "No, this has to be some kind of trick. It's impossible to summon dragons like this. I thought celestial magic could only be use to summon spirits with keys."
Lightning sparked out of the ground, weakening the effects of Zane's magic. Zane stepped back in horror. "What's going on?"
Laxus clenched his teeth. He managed to pull himself up on his knees. "Descend! Urano Metria's Dragon Bite!" he said along with Lucy.
Zane formed a dark energy ball in his hand. "No, I'll kill you first."
The dragons flew down upon Zane. One from behind bite his shoulder, another chomped into the man's extended out arm, a third bit his leg opposite of the arm. More dragons swarmed around him."
"I can't die here," Zane yelled. His eyes glowed purple. "Sore Joker-" As the dragons continued to come around him to rip him apart with their teeth made of lightning. A dark purple pressure pushed on top of Laxus' right arm, breaking it as he continued to hold Lucy's hand. A lightning pillar arose out of them, shooting straight up as Zane's magical weight spell was broken.
Lightning shot throughout the ground, ripping it apart. A powerful blast of wind blew out from the pillar of lightning that tore down trees on the mountain they were fighting on. Erza was now able to get on her knees and crossed her arms across her chest and as she turned back to her normal armor.
A blinding light engulfed the area.
Erza was blasted away as she screamed.
Laxus and Lucy were being blast back by the intense power of their spell as well. They didn't hold their ground any better than Erza. "Hold on," Laxus said as he felt their hands ripping away from each other from the massive force.
The lightning wizard wrapped his other arm around Lucy's waist, holding her against him. They were blasted back as the mountain was torn apart by the eighty-eight dragons. They ripped the mountain of trees apart, crumbing it into a crater while the three wizards went flying throughout the forest.
The lightning and wind blasted throughout the forest, reaching Natsu and the others. They flew back not able to grab onto something first, flying back."What's going on?" Wendy screamed.
"I don't know," Gray shouted.
Lucy and Laxus landed somewhere deep in the forest near a cliff. They lied side by side with their hands barely apart. Both of them were badly injured and couldn't move after they had hit the ground.
Laxus had a smile on his face with his eyes close. "That was one stupid attack to use so close to ourselves." He opened his eyes and shifted them over toward Lucy.
"Well, it worked," Lucy said. "We finally beat him." Her head titled away from Laxus as she passed out.
"Hmm, Lucy?"
Standing in the middle of the destroyed mountain was a greatly injured Zane. Smoke came from his body and bites were on several places of his body along with his clothes being ripped there. His head was lifted up with shock. He let out agonizing noises.
His eyes glowed purple. He slowly lowered his head back to regular height. "That was close a one. I underestimated them again. Lucy, Laxus…I'll make you suffer." A sharp pain shot through his body, making him collapse onto his knees.
He grabbed his shoulder where he was bitten. He clenched his teeth together. He let out heavy breathes. "I'll have to recover first." His eyes glowed brighter and a dark hole appeared below him. He slowly descended down into it, disappearing from the forest.