Here is the next chapter boys. This is the final chapter of this arc. We will have a small chapter of something before we get into Tower of Heaven, which will be very different from the anime... well for the most part. I hope you enjoy this. I own nothing.
Gajeel and Natsu charged at each other. Gajeel shot out a pillar of iron from his left arm, but Natsu ducked under it with speed that surprised the Iron Dragon Slayer. Natsu never had this kind of speed before. Natsu charged right into Gajeel with a shoulder slam, sending the dragon slayer rolling across the floor and into a nearby wall.
"So, you've improved… I'm impressed." Gajeel said but Natsu just walked over towards Gajeel, his eyes narrowed and glowing red. "But you wont beat me." Gajeel replied, his body growing iron scales, which meant he would hit harder and take less damage but Natsu wasn't deterred. Gajeel charged once again at Natsu, forming his right hand into a chainsaw like blade, before leaping into the air to drive the sword down at Natsu. Natsu side stepped to the right, dodging the blow before his dragon arm, which was his left, latched onto Gajeel's face before he slammed Gajeel down onto the floor, body slamming him. 'This speed. This power! What happened to the weakling I fought before?' Gajeel thought as he was picked up by his face and tossed across the room once more. Gajeel had a few people on the sidelines watching, who made comments every once in a while about the fight.
Natsu just walked towards Gajeel, the black flames growing ever brighter, but Natsu was running out of steam. Destroying Jupiter, defeating Totomaru, fighting Aria for a very short while and all of the flames he left behind inside the massive building took a toll on Natsu. When Natsu transformed, he gained a lot more magic energy, but he used up so much of it that now, he was running close to fumes but Natsu wasn't deterred. His anger was driving him.
"Iron Dragon Lance: DEMON LOGS!" Gajeel cried out, his left arm aimed at out Natsu with a magic crest at the tip. It was then spears of iron were shot out towards Natsu but Natsu leapt into the air, avoiding them.
"METEOR STRIKE!" Natsu called out. Natsu's wings extended from his body before turning upward, making Natsu Aerodynamic. Natsu was currently twenty feet in the air before he came crashing down like a meteor, with his right foot extended, at an alarming speed. Natsu crashed right into Gajeel who put up his arms to block, but the force behind Natsu's kick was surprising to Gajeel whose eyes widened as he was sent into the ground before skidding ten feet on the ground, forming a huge crater as a path way. Natsu didn't even give Gajeel a chance to move as Natsu dashed over with a blazing slide, before slamming his dragon arm right down into Gajeel's face before picking up the Iron Dragon slayer by his throat before slamming him back down onto the ground. Natsu lost nearly all of his magical energy, so his flame armored collapsed into nothingness. Natsu was about to pick up Gajeel and slam him down, who lost his iron scales, his eyes widened at what he saw.
The guild hall was being smashed to pieces by a giant black blob, with several giant arms. It was Jose's shade magic.
"N-No..." Natsu said quietly, falling to his knees. "My home… it's… destroyed…. YOU DID THIS!" Natsu snarled, grabbing Gajeel slamming him onto his back before climbing on top of the weak dragon slayer. Natsu placed his hands onto Gajeel's throat and began to choke the dragon slayer who attempted to pry Natsu off, but Natsu wouldn't budge. "YOU DID THIS! YOU! MY HOME IS GONE CAUSE OF YOU!" Natsu roared in Gajeel's face as Natsu began to bang Gajeel onto the floor, slamming his head over and over.
'He must pay! I will not let him get away with this! Kill him! Fairy Tail is my home! Phantom Lord must pay! Kill them all!' Natsu thought, only for his eyes to widen before he quickly got off of Gajeel and scooted away several feet, Natsu staring down at his hands.
"I… I… was trying to take someones life… I..." Natsu murmured, before clenching his eyes shut. "I'm not better than them..."
Gajeel let out a grunt and sat up against a wall, looking over at Natsu. "You… you are like myself. You'd do anything for your guild." He said weakly, but it was a mistake as Natsu was upon him once more, grabbing Gajeel by his shirt.
"I am nothing like you! You cause everyone pain and misery for reasons I don't understand! What was the purpose of everything?! Why did you do this?!"
"Because you are my enemy!"
"How?! We are magical guilds?! Why can't we share this world!?"
"This has nothing to do with sharing the world! You are our rivals, ergo our enemies!"
"That's not how it works!" Natsu said, grabbing Gajeel and forcing him to look at his home. "This is my home! These are my family! Do you not feel the same way about your guild?! What if we attacked first and caused all of your friends pain!?" Natsu cried out, slamming Gajeel up against the wall. Gajeel's eyes were widening as he listened to Natsu rant. "I didn't have anywhere to go in this world. Look at me! My body is a monstrosity. I have the arm of a dragon after someone cut it off. I have the markings of my father, an evil dragon! I couldn't live in this world because no one would accept me… but Fairy Tail did! And now I lost everything!"
"You can rebuild..."
"How?! With what?! When everyone is dead?!" Natsu demanded, shaking Gajeel though very weakly. "I already lost my mother… I don't wanna lose the people I love too!"
"I'm… sorry." Gajeel said quietly, looking away.
Natsu put Gajeel back on the floor and backed away. "Where is he?" Natsu said quietly.
"Who?"
"Your master! This has to end."
"You can't beat him." Gajeel said, looking at Natsu. "He is a wizard saint."
"I don't care! I rather die protecting my friends then live like a coward! Where is he!"
"He's currently fighting one of your friends…. Erza." Gajeel said, which got Natsu's fire to begin to spark again.
"I need more power. I need fire!" Natsu roared, looking around for a flame source. "I have to save her!"
"Here..." Gajeel said, sending out his right arm and smashing into a mechanical device which exploded upon impact. Natsu was fast and began to suck in the flames, only for Gajeel to hit another and another, with Natsu sucking up more and more flame. After about seven tries, Natsu returned to full strength.
"Why did you do this?" Natsu asked, looking back at Gajeel.
"Because… I was wrong and it was the right thing to do." He admitted, looking up weakly from his sitting position.
"When this is all over… and the dust all settles… Think about looking up joining with Fairy Tail."
"Why offer that?" Gajeel asked.
"Because, If you can see the error of your ways… you are redeemable. Plus, weren't you the one who said it? You and I are very much alike." Natsu said before turning into his flamed armor, before walking back towards where he left Erza. He felt a different power down the path he was going. It was Jose's, Erza's and someone else.
"You have shed the blood of our children… and that is unforgivable. They have been made to suffer because of the incompetence of their parents. We are both to blame Jose. This war between us has gone on long enough! Let's end this here and now!" Makarov said, glaring at Jose.
"If we fight… it could cause a catastrophe."
"I will gladly take that risk for my children!"
It was then Jose turned his head to the left as did Erza and Makarov.
"N-Natsu." Erza said. She could see the black flames creep up from under the door nearby.
"So the little brat has come as well?" Jose spat. The door exploded inwards and they watched as the entire hallway was flooded with flames that felt angry. Looked angry. It was then Natsu appeared at the end of the hallway, walking towards them with steps that held power. He was mad. Very mad.
"There's too many men… too many people… making too many problems." Natsu said, though it was mostly to himself. "You hurt my friends… You destroy my guild… You hurt my master who has done nothing but care for his guild… and you hurt the ones I love… For this, I cannot forgive you." Natsu said as he entered the room, staring down Jose. "I will make you pay."
"Natsu." Makarov said, as if warning him. "It's good to see you. Think you can handle this?" Makarov said, putting his magic away.
Natsu growled in response, never taking his eyes off of Jose before charging right at Jose, his dragon arm extended, though his right arm was behind at his side with a ball of flame in his hand. Jose quickly disappeared in an instant, smirking.
"You are fast boy, but you are fighting a wizard saint. You wouldn't have hit me with that attack even if you were twice as fast."
"Who said that was my goal?" Natsu said, a devilish grin appearing on his face, showing shiny white teeth in a malicious grin.
"What are you tal-" Jose said, only to stop as his eyes widened. Around his legs were two ropes of black flame, that didn't burn. "When did you do this?!"
"It was my plan to chain you down while you distracted by my dragon claw attack."
"Hah, as if this would hold me down." Jose said, throwing a blast of dark energy at his feet, to destroy the chains. When the dust settled, the black flame chains still remained, though it was more of a rope. Jose's face sunk when he realized he couldn't destroy it. "What is this?" He demanded.
Natsu grinned. "It's not meant to hold you down. It's mean to slow you down." Natsu said before slamming his shoulder into Jose, Jose's speed was cut down immensely, being equal to Natsu's. Jose was slammed right into a wall.
Erza looked at Makarov with his eyes, demanding answers. Makarov smiled and gave her a wait finger, wanting her to watch.
"So, you are able to slow me down, but it's not like you turned my magic down!" Jose said with a scoff before sending a ball of purple magic right at Natsu who merely caught it with his dragon hand before squeezing it, exploding it. When the dust settled, Natsu was left with no damage. "What?! How?!"
"There are two reasons." Natsu said before charging right into Jose and delivering an uppercut right into the gut of the Phantom Lords master before back handing him in the jaw, sending him into a wall. "Allow me to tell you why you are being defeated by a weaker magic user. I am a user of Shadow magic as well as shadowfire, meaning your magic will not do much to me. Two… my flames cannot be extinguish by normal means. Only powerful water magic or powerful magic of the light can extinguish my flame which is why you can't remove that rope that binds your speed. Three… My left arm has been replaced by the arm of a dragon."
"How is that possible?!" Jose demanded, firing another ball of magic at Natsu who did the same with it, squeezing it with his dragon hand. "You're just a wizard!"
"Four. You underestimated me and Fairy Tail." Natsu said before decking Jose in the gut and then spartan kicking Jose in the face."
"Damn you boy! I WILL NOT LOSE TO YOU! I WILL KILL ALL OF YOU!" Jose roared out, as his hand formed a magic crest before firing out a beam. However, Natsu was quick and wrapped his dragon hand around Jose's hand, absorbing the powerful attack without a care.
"Five. You did no research on Fairy Tail's members, except the older ones. I am new." Natsu said as he gripped onto Jose's throat with his right hand, squeezing before tossing him through a pillar and into a wall. Natsu cast six spells quickly before his body exploded outwards, sending flame all over, coating the humongous throne room in black flame, forming an inferno. However, Gray, Elfman, Mira, Erza, Makarov and Jose were not affected by the flame.
"How… how am I not burning?"
"I put a flame shield on you." Natsu said, not even looking at Erza as he stared down Jose whose eyes were wide.
"Who… are you?" Jose said, fear entering the veins of the guild master of Phantom Lord.
"I am the son of Acnologia, the strongest dragon to ever have lived! I am the son of my mother, Katase Dragneel a wizard!" Natsu roared, the flames on his body growing larger with his claim He then extended his twenty foot wingspan. "I AM FAIRY TAIL'S DRAGON! I AM YOUR JUDGMENT AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND WANTING!" Natsu roared out before grabbing Jose by his shirt before body slamming him down onto his face and stomach, right before Makarov. "You come near my family again and attempt to harm them and I will KILL YOU!" Natsu said before he closed his dragon eyes and all of the flames from the entire building came rushing back towards Natsu, all being absorbed into his feet. The flames on his body gathered into a single ball before launching into the air.
Outside near the rubble of Fairy Tail's guild hall, a giant ball of flame launched into the sky before it exploded, revealing the dragon that Natsu had summoned earlier before he transformed into the armored form he wore to fight. The dragon roared in fury before launching itself towards the shade army, crashing right into the giant blob of shade before it move and wiped out the rest of the enemies shades.
"It's Natsu." Cana said, smiling happily. "He did it."
"NATSU!" The entire guild cheered.
Back in the throne room, Natsu collapsed onto his knees, all of his magical energy gone. He fell down onto his two fists and panted, before falling onto his side, unconscious. Makarov flipped Jose onto his back and stared down into the broken form of Jose who was cowering in fear.
"Natsu was much weaker than you… but your arrogance had you fall to him. If you ever come back to Fairy Tail and attempt to harm my children, I will annihilate you and your entire guild from existence." Makarov warned before turning to Erza and the others. "Go get Natsu out of here… He needs to rest… he saved us all." Makarov said with a smile.
Erza and Mira picked up Natsu together before the flew off towards the other members, happy that Natsu was back with them and that they had won.
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