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"Speech"

"Thoughts"

"Don't worry, this is not over yet!" Grabbing hold of her shoulders Natsu embraced Lisanna "We'll get Angel back and make that asshole pay for what he did to us!"

Even with their bodies so close to one another, both still felt like the heat they shared was no longer there. While Lisanna buried her face on his chest, trying to absorb as much heat as she could from her boyfriend, Natsu was clueless on what to do; he had no idea where Luzbel was, and if they returned to the guild it might be too late to save Angel.

But what was really a priority on his head was why he couldn't feel Lisanna's presence like before; Was Luzbel's really capable of severing the bond between him and her?

"Natsu…I'm cold…" Looking up she turned to Natsu for an answer, anything that could alleviate her worries: "Why do I feel like this?"

Natsu saw how lost she was while he thought on an answer to give her "Lisanna doesn't know about the bond between us, I really wanted to tell her about it but not like this!" Seeing she was still looking at him with hope in her eyes he started explaining: "Lis-chan, do you remember that mission where we confessed to each other?"

That was one of the happiest nights for her, and aside for Jashin's interruption, she would treasure it forever. "Yes, I remember"

Pausing a moment he formed the words he wanted to say to her: "When that mage attacked us, you and I…"

Hearing a moan from nearby caught their attention, Happy was starting to wake up. Putting their conversation on hold for the moment, they went to check on the blue cat. Opening his eyes the first thing Happy saw was the relief sketched on both Natsu and Lisanna.

"Hey there buddy! Glad to see you're fine."

Tearing up, Happy embraced Lisanna as he sobbed: "Forgive me! When I tried to defend Angel that man tossed me aside like nothing."

"There, there. It's not your fault, don't blame yourself." Lisanna patted his back trying to comfort Happy when she felt a paper stuck on his back. Curious, she removed the sheet and studied it before realizing what it was. "Natsu! Look!"

Handing him the paper, the slayer read what was written in it:

"Your friends were taken here:" The sheet had a makeshift map detailing Trinity Wraith's location "hurry and come get them before nightfall. P.S. A friend."

The scent on the paper was familiar to Natsu but he couldn't remember from where. Looking at Lisanna he spoke: "Let's go there!"

"Right!" even when she still felt cold, Lisanna was up with for the task at hand.

Nodding to her, Natsu turned to Happy: "Go back to the guild and tell the others what has and Lis-chan will go ahead to rescue Angel."

Of course, the blue cat was against the idea "But Natsu…"

"Happy; If we don't hurry up they might do something to her and if no one informs the others then they won't know where we are. Make a copy of the map and find Erza, then come and back us up. Alright! "

Reluctantly, Happy started drawing a second map to take to Erza, once finished he handed the original back to Natsu: "please come back safely!"

"Of course!" Giving him a huge grin Natsu added: "We'll get Angel back and kick that guy's ass. Count on it!"

Lisanna hugged Happy one last time and let him fly towards Magnolia. Giving them one last look, Happy soared out of view.

One he left, Natsu turned to Lisanna "Let's go"

"Right!" The girl wanted to continue the conversation of before, but for now they had to hurry and retrieve Angel. Reaching down and grabbing Angel's discarded keys Natsu took the lead, followed closely by Lisanna.

"Now I wait" Ultear thought as she followed Luzbel trough the guild. Unknown to him she was the one that stuck the note in Happy's back; if the plan worked perfectly, when Luzbel starts the revival of Zeref, Natsu would barge in and create the perfect distraction so she could strike Luzbel down. Then, if what he told her was true, Zeref would be all for her.

"You haven't told me how exactly we will revive Zeref?"

Stopping midway, Luzbel turned to Ultear: "Well; there's no harm if I tell you. Our clan has worshipped the dark mage since ancient times, legend tell us it was trough him that we learned the takeover magic."

The raven hair woman scoffed at his words: "Please, takeover magic is one of the simplest magic's one can learn."

"Oh, but you see, there is more to it than you think; When we do a takeover we literally take control of the soul of the creature we transform into. And sometimes, to gain a powerful takeover, we must first kill the creature and then bind it to our will."

"Are you telling me you defeated an angel?"

Luzbel just chuckled a bit, deliberately not answering her question. "Anyhow, the lost magic I shall use to revive Zeref is the same: When night comes both girls will be used to give Zeref a physical body where we can deposit his soul, however, we still need another element."

"You're talking about that girl, Lisanna, right? Why did you say she was worthless to you?"

Luzbel frowned, recalling the moment Lisanna used Dragon soul. "she allowed an inferior being to mark her as his own! When that happened she was no longer a potential candidate to help me with the revival of Zeref."

Ultear decided to leave it at that, there was no point to indulge more into it.

"Even when she is removed from the equation I can still do the ritual, but first we'll need something else."

"Which is?"

"A great source of magic power" Luzbel answered as he put a hand on his sword, a movement Ultear noticed while staying on the offense. "Here is where you come in, my dear. While you're not of my clan, you have a great magical power which is the only thing I need."

In a blink of an eye, Luzbel crossed the distance between them and slashed at her, however, she had anticipated the attack and leaped back. Using her arc of time magic she tried to rust his sword to dust but to her surprise the sword remained intact.

Seeing her expression he decided to elaborate: "Yamato is a special katana; a magical barrier protects it from any harm. Your magic won't affect it"

"Fine, then I'll just have to break it alongside everything else" If she couldn't destroy the sword, then she might as well bring the entire room down over Luzbel "I was going to wait until you revived Zeref , but now I'll just have to kill you without knowing if you were telling the truth."

As pillars came crashing down upon him, Luzbel ran and dodged each and every one of them as he reached for Ultear. When he got close enough, Ultear prepared her orb to attack when she suddenly felt herself moving slower and Luzbel faster. In the brief moment of time, Luzbel delivered a crushing blow with the hilt of his sword on Ultear and before she could recover he slapped a dark choker to block her magic.

"Nicely done" Luzbel said to Llyria, who moments ago used her time magic on Ultear. Glaring at him Ultear grabbed the choker and tried to remove it but felt all of her strength and magic being drained by the item.

"Let me go!" Ultear tried to hit him, but Llyria restrained her while Luzbel cupped her chin.

"You should be glad; thanks to your 'contribution' Zeref shall be reborn." With that said he gestured to Llyria to knock her out and take her with the others to get ready for the ritual.

Meanwhile, with Erza's team;

"They were here, not long ago"

"Really, what gave it away?" Gray replied to Freed's comment as the mages surveyed the countless dead mages littering the ground: the only lead they had so far on Mira's location. Finding a dark mage alive to interrogate was out of the question.

Seeing it was another dead end, Erza prepared the ritual to find out where else had Sixring teleported, hopefully it would lead them to the dark guild's location this time.

"Look up!"

"Over there!"

"What's that?"

"Flying cat!"

"Is that Happy?"

Hearing Bickslow's dolls the team looked up and spotted Happy flying, and from the looks of it he was heading back to the guild.

"Happy!"

Looking down, Happy spotted their group and lowered himself to meet them. The moment he touched down he went straight to the point: "Erza! Angel has been captured by those mages! Natsu and Lisanna went to rescue her! You gotta help them!"

"What! When did it happen?"

Once Happy had given the short version of the story, the Fairy Tail mages were more than willing to assist: "Where are they now?"

"Here!" Happy handed her the map he drew, the mages studied the crude drawings made with crayons barely understanding it.

"Who the heck did this? It looks like the work of a five year old." Lucy said and instantly regretted her words when Happy crouched in a corner.

"Lucy's mean! She criticized my work!"

"Sorry! Sorry! You're a regular Picasso!"

Tightening her hold on the map, Erza addressed the others: "We don't have time to waste; let's go save them!" Hopping aboard the vehicle Erza had 'borrowed' from someone in the city, they set off to save their friends.

After returning to trinity Wraith Llyria had dropped an unconscious Angel in the same cell Mira resided in, which is where the girl found herself when she opened her eyes. Scanning her surroundings she remembered the events from before: "I was captured…Natsu and Lisanna…" finding herself in a cell she spotted another person next to her: "Mira!"

Approaching her unconscious form, Angel shook her to get a response from her. "Mira, wake up! Please!"

"An..gel…" Mirajane slowly opened her eyes and saw a familiar face "Angel! What are you doing here? Have you come to save me?"

"I'm sorry, but no." Sighing she told her of the events that led to her capture, one in particular worrying Mira.

"Lisanna! Is she…?"

"I don't know, that guy knocked me out before I could check on them." Trying to distract her from thinking the worst she added: "We need to get out of here and help them!"

"I can't use magic, something is preventing it" Mira stated.

"It's this." Angel pointed to the black choker on her neck "It must be similar to what the council use on prisoners; all of our magic power is being restrained by it."

"Then how can we escape?"

"You won't."

Mira and Angel turned to the door to find Llyria, with an unconscious Ultear on her shoulder. The blue haired female tossed her cargo inside the cell. "You won't escape, besides, it's almost time!"

"What did she mean by that?" Mira asked when Llyria left, while Angel inspected their new cellmate.

"That guy, Luzbel, wants to use us to revive Zeref. Don't know how he can do it; but what really bothers me is why she is here?"

Looking at the woman, Mira asked: "what do you mean?"

"She's a member of Grimoire Heart, her name is Ultear."

The sun was starting to hide when Natsu and Lisanna got closer to Trinity Wraith, they had been running nonstop for a while now, according to the map they would soon reach the location of the aforementioned guild. While their main concern was to save Angel, Lisanna was still wondering one thing:

"Natsu, back there, what were you telling me?" panting a bit she added: "the cold: what does it have to do with the incident involving that man?"

Coming to a decision, Natsu motioned her to stop so they could speak, waiting for her to regain her breath he spoke: "Lis-chan…when that mage hurt you I thought I'd lost you again." Natsu's hands clenched into fists as he recalled that specific memory.

Feeling a soft hand on his arm he relaxed as he looked straight at Lisanna: "that was in the past. I'm here now, with you."

Gazing at her eyes he found the resolve to confess to her about the bond: "when he tried to kill you I did the only thing I could think of to save you, I bound your life to mine."

"You what?" Lisanna was lost on what he meant.

"Igneel once taught me a lost magic for a specific occasion, this magic can completely heal another person that I mark"

While she listened, Lisanna reached to her neck where once Natsu had bit her. Now she understood her miraculous recovery.

"However, I couldn't remember the entire implications Igneel meant with the entire binding of two souls. Only later did I learn that I marked you as my soul mate."

"Then, all that has happened ever since; me feeling you from a distance, fire magic and dragon take over, it was all because of the binding?"

"Yeah, but somehow Luzbel managed to sever our bond" Looking away he said: "Lisanna, I understand if you're mad at me."

Blinking twice she asked: "What do you mean?"

"Charle told me the mark I gave you also intensified your feelings for me, at first I thought it was ok, but now I feel like I somehow forced you to love me…" A hard slap stopped Natsu from finishing that sentence, looking at her he found an angry Lisanna.

"How dare you!"

"Lis-chan…" Natsu was tackled to the ground due to Lisanna embracing him, the girl not letting go of him like she was afraid he's vanish if she did.

"Never doubt my feelings for you, never!"

Feeling guilty, Natsu embraced her while mentally kicking himself for thinking she didn't love him. Reluctantly, they broke the hug. Wiping a stray tear she spoke: "We better go, Angel needs our help." Before she could move, Lisanna was then pulled into a passionate kiss by the dragon slayer, Natsu making sure to put all of his feelings for her on the show of affection.

Ending the kiss he said: "Forgive me, for thinking something so dumb like that"

"I forgive you, but on one condition: you mark me again" Looking at his face she added: "but first let's rescue Angel, ok?"

"Ok!" Feeling much better now, the young couple ran the last stretch towards Trinity Wraith. Lisanna would have wanted him to mark her now but, if her memory serves her well, Natsu would be drained after the binding.

She could wait. After saving Angel they had all the time in the world.

Mirajane, Angel and Ultear, alongside several other girls were dragged to the very top of the castle that is Trinity Wraith, where Luzbel and Llyria waited for them. Being chained and powerless they was nothing they could do about it.

"Let us go you freaks! When I get out of these damn chains I'm going to kick your ass so hard your unborn kids will feel it!" While Angel ranted, Llyria was getting annoyed by all the screaming.

"Can I gag her, master?"

"There is no need for that" approaching Mirajane, Luzbel revealed a dagger and a decorated gold cup. Grabbing hold of her hands he made a small cut in one of her fingers to draw some blood into the cup, ignoring the yelp of pain from Mira. Next was Angel, once he had her blood the celestial mage wasted no time expressing her hate for him by spitting to his face.

"Drop dead, asshole!"

Wiping the spit from his face he spoke: "You should be glad to be a part of this moment; our clan will finally fulfill its purpose and restore the great mage Zeref to his full glory! You, more than them, should be glad Ultear."

Said woman remained quiet; for one part she was anxious for the revival of Zeref, but for the other she wasn't sure if it was worth sacrificing her life for him.

Once he drained a few drops of blood from each and every girl present, the cup was now filled to the rim. "Now then, shall we begin?"

"Fire Dragon's roar!" was heard, followed by the main gate being blasted open. Sighing, Luzbel motioned to his remaining mages to converge at the source of the interruption.

"Natsu-kun!" Angel said before being restrained by Llyria.

"No matter, that dragon slayer and the worthless one shall not be a problem for us." Luzbel said before starting the lost magic ritual; Angel, Mira and Ultear were forced to their knees in front of Luzbel with the other girls forming a circle around them.

"By the blood of our fathers…by the blood of those before us…Tonight we gather here to offer the lives of these maidens that are willing to be sacrificed to give life back to the great mage Zeref…"

"That's bullshit! Ouch!" Angel yelp as Llyria gave her a hard tug of her hair.

"Shut up!"

While the battle downstairs intensified, Luzbel finished chanting the ritual while pouring the blood on a drawn pentagram.

"This is it! Zeref will be reborn!"

Moments before…

"That must be it." Natsu and Lisanna watched the eerie castle up ahead; Trinity Wraith's base of operations. By now night had fallen and they were hidden from enemy view, not that it mattered since the guild's numbers had been drastically reduced over the last few days, besides, the remaining mages were upstairs witnessing the ritual.

"How do we proceed?" Lisanna asked as she studied the gates "do we look for an alternative entrance or…Natsu?" Looking from left to right, she finally spotted Natsu just in front of the main entrance of the guild.

"Fire Dragon's roar!"

Lisanna sweat dropped at her boyfriend's carefree attitude; nevertheless it was one of the qualities she loved about him.

Natsu had expected a welcome party, but was surprised no one came to attack him immediately. "Where is everyone?"

As if summoned, several mages poured into the main room, ready to face the incoming threat. Cracking his knuckles Natsu grinned at the battle; not wasting time he sent a straight punch to the first incoming mage, followed by a fiery swing at another one. Some mages were smarter and kept their distance from the slayer, opting instead to attack him from afar with a variety of spells while Natsu was too busy fighting.

"Natsu-kun!" Lisanna was about to warn him when a Self-energy vehicle ran past her and rammed the attacking mages. Lisanna felt relief when she spotted the driver: "Erza!"

"Erza? Where?" Natsu looked around to spot the armored female, while the other Fairy Tail mages engaged the remaining foes. "Oi! You got here fast!"

Instead of greeting him, Erza punched Natsu to the ground so hard even the dark mages cringed.

"What the hell Erza!"

"Idiot, what were you thinking when you decided to storm the place by yourself? If we weren't already close by we wouldn't have got here in time to help you!"

"We were thinking on saving Angel!" Lisanna said, much to the surprise of Erza. Seeing the expression of the armored mage she added:"It's no secret Angel and I don't get along very well, but she is still part of our guild, and we don't abandon our nakamas."

Erza studied the determination in Natsu and Lisanna, completely ignoring the battle raging on behind them. "You're right. Let's go save Angel and Mira!"

"Right! Wait, what? "

Once the ritual was finished, the dark mages held their breath while they waited for Zeref. Several moments passed without anything happened, after some minutes even the henchmen were wondering if something had gone wrong with the spell. Each passing second Luzbel fell more and more into despair.

"Why? Why didn't it work!" Luzbel racked his brain trying to find an answer when it hit him: "Unless…he's already alive…"

"Luzbel!" Natsu, alongside Lisanna, Erza, Lucy and Gray, faced him and his mages. "Let our friends and everyone else free!"

Luzbel scoffed at Natsu's threat, more interested in checking if his theory was correct. "Kill them! Leave the girls alive!" Order given, he proceeded to leave, ignoring Natsu's yells.

"Hey! Wait you coward!" Natsu followed him, despite the protest from Erza, and removed the mages that got in his way with a flurry of fire attacks. Erza was about to follow him when more dark mages popped out to block the Fairy Tail mages.

"Damn it Natsu! Just stay safe until we can help you!" With that thought, Erza ex-quipped her purgatory armor and attacked the enemy without holding back.

Lisanna was also worried about Natsu, but if someone could defeat Luzbel she knew it was him. Hearing her sister's voice she watched as Llyria dragged Mira and Ultear away with her.

"Mira-nee!" Lisanna also left the group to follow Llyria, much to the chagrin of Erza.

"Gray! Go with Lisanna and help her!"

"Got it"

The ice mage was then stopped by Angel. "I can help you, just remove this collar!"

Nodding, he grabbed the choker and froze it, allowing her to regain her magic power. Once done, both followed the route Lisanna had taken.

Knocking yet another dark mage Erza then turned to the blond stellar mage: "Lucy! You stay here and back me up!"

"R-right!" By how Erza was decimating them Lucy was too afraid to jump into the fray, less she gets hit by the scarlet girl my accident.

"The only logical explanation on why the ritual didn't work must be that!" Luzbel was heading to his private chambers while still thinking on the reason he failed to revive Zeref: "If that's the case, then for the moment, at least, I can use those girls to restore our clan until…" He was so concentrated that he didn't perceive Natsu until the attack touched him.

"Karyu no Tekken!" (Fire Dragon's Iron Fist) Natsu's flaming fist caught Luzbel off guard and sent the white hair male crashing through his chamber's doors. Not satisfied, the dragon slayer used his Karyu no Hoko (Fire Dragon's Roar) but by now Luzbel had transformed into his seraph form and retaliated with a horizontal slash from his sword that almost sliced Natsu in half.

"No fair! Fight me without weapons!" Natsu ranted as Luzbel just stared at him. Aiming to his face with a Karyu no tekken, Luzbel extended his wings and flied out of his reach.

"Come down here and fight me!"

"You are very foolish to face me alone. I'll give you points for bravery, but your stupidity is astounding." Preparing his sword he targeted Natsu "After our last fight you should know you can't beat me, let me show you the difference of power between us."

Mirajane and Ultear were dragged by Llyria towards another place, far away from any battle, the leather clad woman making sure to avoid running into the fights being broken between Trinity wraith and Fairy Tail mages. Once she deemed it far enough, Llyria tossed both chained girls to the floor.

"Master didn't say we couldn't have any fun with the girls, only to spare them." Licking her lips she hungrily eyed the voluptuous woman.

"Mira!" Lisanna, much to Llyria's annoyance, catched up with them.

"Lisanna!" Mirajane's joy turned into worry when she realized Lisanna was alone "Get help Lisanna! This woman is too strong for you!"

"Mira's little sister." Llyria studied the young girl that interrupted her "I also wanted Angel, but you'll do."

"Take over: Dragon soul!" Not wasting a second Lisanna prepared to fight, but to her horror she found herself unable to transform into her dragon form. Crossing her arms Llyria watched her opponent.

"I'm waiting."

Meanwhile, Lisanna was wondering why she was unable to use her take-over, when it hit her! "The bond! Was that the only reason I could use Dragon soul?"

"I'm tired of waiting; Dimension cutter!" dozens of blue energy waves came flying towards Lisanna.

"Ice make: Shield!" in the nick of time, Gray arrived and erected his barrier in front of Lisanna. Seeing that the ice was quickly being cracked, Angel tackled Lisanna out of harm's way.

Once safe, Angel said to Lisanna "What were you thinking? I want you out of action but not dead!"

While Angel scolded Lisanna, Gray faced Llyria when he spotted Ultear: "Ur?'

Ultear's got visibly mad when she heard Gray call her that, not that he noticed when Llyria saw him looking at Ultear.

"You like this woman, don't you?" Grabbing hold of her long black hair she simply tossed Ultear by the ledge of the roof. "Then go get her!"

Without realizing it, Gray's feet moved on his own accord as he jumped behind Ultear. Something told him this woman was related to Ur, and if she died he would never found out how.

Ultear would have easily avoided death if it wasn't for the choker negating her magic, fortunately for her she found herself sliding down an ice ramp created by Gray. After a few seconds both of them had reached the ground floor finding themselves outside of the castle walls.

"You…you saved me, why?" She hadn't forgotten him calling her Ur, but she was confused by his actions.

"To save you, that's why." Gray replied. "But, the truth is, you remind me of someone precious to me that die a long time ago, and I couldn't see it happening again. Not when this time I could do something about it."

"I…I see" Ultear found herself starring at one of her mother's students, if he knew who she was and of what organization she came from would he had saved her? Ignoring her line of thoughts she spoke: "remove this choker, please."

Gray nodded and froze the dark trinket that negated her magic, feeling her power returning she easily broke herself out of the chains that bind her. While Gray looked for a way back she spoke:

"I owe you one; Gray Fullbuster."

"It was nothing…huh?" When he turned back she was already gone "that's weird, she didn't even told me her name, but how did she knew mine?"

While Gray had done a noble action to save Ultear he had neglected to realize Lisanna and Angel were left alone to face Llyria.

Back with Natsu:

"Listen closely dragon slayer, for this is the reason you will never be able to defeat me!" once Natsu trained his gaze on him he elaborated: "I'll admit you are strong, however, you have yet to mature."

"That's not true!"

"I'm not finished! You call yourself a mage, yet you rant and whine and bitch like an angry kid! With that attitude you will never be an S-class mage, you'll never find Igneel…!"

Natsu would have said something but he had to divert his attention to avoiding the deadly blade Luzbel used to attack him. Natsu sidestepped a close swing, only for Luzbel to grab hold of his pink locks to crash his head on the nearest wall.

"…You will never stop me from killing your friends…"

If that last comment wasn't enough to awake the fury in Natsu, the next one did:

"…or from me taking your precious Lisanna."

It was one thing to threaten him, but to mess with his precious friends…to threaten Lisanna…that was crossing the line. As Luzbel tried to plunge his sword the air around them heated up violently. When the heat became unbearable, Luzbel was forced to gain distance between himself as Natsu's body was covered in flames, the flames themselves forming a dragon around the slayer.

"Dragon force…" Luzbel felt Natsu's power skyrocketing, but he was still confident of victory. "At least you'll give me a decent fight before killing you!"

Instead of replying, Natsu drove his fist into Luzbel's gut, making the white hair male stumble a few feet back. Not satisfied, he followed by several punches that forced Luzbel to a wall.

"Karyu no tekken!" Putting enough force behind his fist Natsu aimed for Luzbel's head, but the take-over user evaded the attack.

"My turn!"

Now it was Natsu's turn to take the defensive as he blocked Luzbel's attacks, the white hair man opting not to use his katana for the time being. Catching one of his fists with his hand, Natsu retaliated only for Luzbel to do the same with his punch.

"Well done! But you're still far from ever reaching my level."

"That guy left us like that!" Angel said, referring to Gray, while Lisanna was still to recover from her inability to use dragon soul. Meanwhile, Llyria smirked at her new playmates.

"Lisanna, Angel, run!" Mira tried to warn them when Llyria knocked her out.

"A shame about Ultear, but you two will keep me company in her place."

"As if!" Angel replied, while was also wondering what to do against Llyria since she didn't have…Her Keys! Lisanna had her keys clipped to her belt. Taking them she faced Llyria: "Open the gate of the princess and chisel: Andromeda and Caelum!"

Several chains bound Llyria while Caelum prepared to fire at her, when the shot was fired Llyria used her time control magic and slowed it down enough for her to break the chains and sideblind Andromeda, then she sliced Caelum with her dimension cutter. Seeing her spirits defeated Angel reached for her last key when Llyria materialized behind her:

"Is that your best? I heard you were once a powerful dark mage, but it seemed the rumors were greatly exaggerated." Kicking her away, Angel landed harshly with a thud as Llyria approached her. "Now stay down until I get the last one."

Struggling to get up Angel spokes to Lisanna: "Lisanna…go away…leave us…"

Lisanna watched as her so called love rival told her to run away, even when Angel is constantly flirting and trying to get Natsu away from her she can't force herself to leave her behind. Not far from her Mirajane's unconscious form also await her help, she just can't abandon both her sister and rival like that. Using her tigress take over she attacks Llyria.

"Is that all?" Even without using her time magic Llyria is still capable of expertly dodging each swing from the white hair girl. Slapping her away she scoffs as Lisanna drops easily. "You might be the demon's sister but, aside that, there is nothing similar between each other's strength"

Lisanna knew Llyria was right; she obtained the higher level dragon soul only thanks to Natsu, not by herself as Mira did with her satan soul. She had to defeat Llyria, but for that she needed more power, focusing all of her magic power for one final try she yelled;

"Take over: dragon soul!"

The fire seal appeared almost as if hearing her plea, with her body surrounded by flames she revealed her dragon take over to Llyria as she extended her new dragon wings from her back. Llyria was amazed by her transformation when she was attacked by Lisanna. Once she had dragged llyria a safe distance from Mira and Angel, Lisanna took flight and lifted her hands to form a large fireball that she sent flying towards Llyria. Everyone inside the castle felt the impact of the fireball, when the smoke cleared Lisanna was not expecting Llyria to be still standing to counterattack.

"Dimension cutter!"

Lisanna dodged a few waves, but soon she was overwhelmed and viciously hit by the cutting magic. Her wings damaged she fell back down as Angel tried to reach her.

"Die already!" Llyria charged her dimension cutter one more time when the pillars closer to her crumbled on top of her. Before she could emerge from the rubble Angel slowly reaches Lisanna and tries to help her get back up, but when their hands touched they felt an overwhelming magical force flowing through them.

"What? What is this power?" lisanna asked as she and Angel combined their magic as one. While both girls wondered what it was, Llyria trembled when she recognized it.

"It can't be...Unison raid!"

Flames surrounded both Lisanna and Angel, but both girls remained untouched. The one really starting to sweat was Llyria when the brunt of the fire was directed at her.

"Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh!"

A whirlwind of flames danced around Llyria for several seconds in which the leather clad woman was burned beyond recognition before finally turning into ashes by the fire magic. Once Llyria was no more, Angel and Lisanna's triumph was short lived when both girls succumbed to exhaustion.

"Lisanna, even if you're my main obstacle to be with Natsu I gotta admit; I couldn't have done it without you."

Laughing a bit, Lisanna replied: "It was me who did most of the job" When she turned to Angel she found that the celestial mage had passed out. Smiling Lisanna mimicked her and closed her eyes as well.

Once Llyria was finally dead, Ultear decided to call it a night and leave. She had gotten her payback from that blue haired bitch when she toppled the pillars over her. As for the fairies, soon they would face each other again.

When Elfman and the others finally cached up with them, they found Lisanna and Angel embracing each other during their sleep. If it wasn't for Happy taking an instant Polaroid of the moment, neither girl would have believed them.

"Damn it! This guy doesn't quit!" Natsu, still in dragon force, kept exchanging blows with Luzbel, but for the looks of it, the dragon slayer was receiving the worst part.

"This has gone long enough!" Gaining some distance Luzbel aimed his sword and unleashed an x slash towards Natsu. Thinking fast, Natsu fired his dragon's roar to the floor to propel himself out of the attack's path. However, that was what Luzbel was expecting; once in the air Natsu was in the receiving end of a vicious kick that sent him crashing down.

While Natsu tried to recover from the attack, Luzbel taunted him: "see what I mean? Your childish techniques are of an immature child! As much as I'd like to keep playing with you I'm afraid our time is up."

Aproaching him, Natsu's fist was caught by Luzbel's hand as he began to drain the dragon slayer magic like he did with Sixring. Luzbel's smirk, however, morphed into one of pain when he felt his hand starting to heat up, courtesy of Natsu. Not holding anymore he released the dragon slayer, tending to his burned hand.

"This power! Where does he get the energy to keep going? "

"You want serious, I'll give ya serious: Shiranui Gata : Guren Hōō Ken" (Hidden Fire Form - Crimson Lotus: Phoenix Blade).

Igniting his entire body in flames Natsu rammed Luzbel. His left hand was surrounded by fire in the form of a dragon which he used to deliver a devastating punch that sent Luzbel and Natsu trough several floors until both reached the rooftop. Once the attack ended Natsu was stunned to see Luzbel still standing, albeit clutching his stomach from where he connected his punch.

"To think…you defeated me…urgh" Coughing some blood Luzbel slowly made his way to Natsu, while the dragon slayer took a fighting stance in case Luzbel attacked him. When he was only a feet close to him, Luzbel unclipped his katana and presented it to a confused Natsu. "You'll need this, the sword of the takeover clan. After all…he's alive…"

Before Natsu could ask what he meant by that, Luzbel finally succumbed to the damage he received and fell dead onto the floor. Natsu stumbled and grabbed the katana as he wondered just what Luzbel was talking about.

"Natsu!" Erza called as she joined him, when she spotted the master of Trinity Wraith she was more that surprised: "You defeated him… by yourself?"

"What? Is it too hard to believe?" before she could answer, Natsu fell down face first onto the floor. Helping him up, Erza helped Natsu walk with one arm over her shoulder. The katana Luzbel gave him not leaving his hand.

"It would seem we got here late" Lahar, accompanied by an entire regimen of council soldiers, watched from afar the events that happened at Trinity Wraith. After a verbal scolding from Erza for arriving late and not helping at all, the council mages took care of the freed girls while the fairy tail mages tended to their own. Natsu, Lisanna and Angel remained asleep after the fights they had.

"There's one thing that still bothers me: Why didn't the ritual worked?" Mira asked. "You know the one that was supposed to revive Zeref?"

"Who cares? It's best that it didn't work."

Seeming to accept Lucy's answer, Mira nodded as she joined the others to return back to Fairy Tail.

Far away, at Tenrou Island, a man rested while watching the moon up in the nightsky:

"When will they understand…I don't want to see more blood spilled on my name."

Gazing at the full moon he whispered: "Hope I'll see you soon…Natsu"

A.N.

It's kind of obvious who the last guy is. If not here's a clue: Zeref. The chapter I felt it a bit rushed, hope it came out ok. As for how Angel was capable to use unison raid with Lisanna let's just say since she's a distant cousin of the takeover clan she is able to join her magic with Lisanna. But why a fire unison raid u ask? Maybe it's for things to come...

Now to reply to some reviewers:

shadowdemon98: that would be hilarious, but; does Zeref the dark mage even takes a bath?

The Folklistener: I'll drop by and check your fic later ok.

Slax: I semi explained why Luzbel believes Lisanna was now useless for him, but if it was obscure here's a more detailed explanation; since Lisanna was marked by Natsu and thanks to the bond she was able to obtain the high level take over dragon soul Luzbel believes she's no longer 'pure' and won't be of use with the ritual to revive Zeref. Hope that explains it.

To the rest: thanks for the reviews, keep them coming. Anyway, next chapter will be the interlude before the S-class trials start. Stay tuned!

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