Chapter 17 - The Sword

"Do you think anybody is worried about us?" I ask while kicking out at an imaginary opponent. Laxus grabs me by the waist and flips me up onto his shoulder. I cartwheel down and kick which every fake foe he was fighting.

"No," he punches at me this time, but I use his hand arm as a springboard, launching myself above his head and landing slyly. The unfortunate part of that move was that I had to rebalance myself and that takes time. Laxus took advantage of it, and kicked out at me.

"Why do you think?"

"You called them."

"Since when," in the background we continue the fight.

"Oh well, maybe."

"Shit!" I fall on my butt. Laxus ends it there.

"That was five hours; that's barely any improvement."

"You suck," I tell him. My muscles ache, but the numbness in them with eventually go away.

"Tomorrow's the big day; get some rest."

Laxus walked next to Lucy with stiff strides. The fate of Earthland rested on their shoulders. "You okay?" Lucy asked. It wasn't his job to be nervous, and yet he was.

"Fine." She gave him a look that said 'sure.'

"I see you have accepted my invitation," Acnologia boomed.

"We wouldn't have missed it for the world." The pair walked into the grand throne room filled with all sorts of destruction much like the rest of the Dragon World.

Laxus stiffens even further. A memory, a very dim memory, hits him. Walking in, be washed by blood. Acnologia was too big for his throne.

"Look at you little Dragonslayer and your mate. I don't recall you having one last time."

"LAxus?" Lucy flashed him another look, but her partner was frozen in place. SHe took action and pulled out Wilson's key.

Laxus eyed the Dragon King remembering everything. He had captured them, the SLayers, using the other dragons. Two of which had trained Gajeel and Wendy - he nearly killed one for disobeying. Then he had hooked them up to some machine and started to take their magic away. The details got fuzier after that.

"Laxus!" Lucy screams. She was pulling him down a hallway, as Wilson and Acnologia fought, both nearly the same size.

"What?"

"The staff," she has a questioning look in her eyes. Laxus holds up the weapon; lucy's brows met.

"Lucy?"

"Acnologia has an identical one."

"The sword," Laxus whispered. Acnologia was holding one the day he killed Igneel. What had happened to it?

"Yes, but it wasn't a sword it was a staff that looks like half a sword, and Acnologia has another one that can do the same thing."

"No," Laxus shook his head, "he has the other half of the sword. You can only control Dragons with half of it, but with the whole thing...he kill Igneel with it."

Just then, Wilson crashed through the wall. Lucy and Laxus were pushed back.

A/N: This is late; I'm sorry about that. My family and I took a vacation before school started and I wasn't really available to write at the time, but now that school has started I 'm going back to the every other week updating. So this Saturday is when I'm next updating.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail

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