Just to let you know.

"Talking"

'Thinking' Natsu speaking Yamamoto through his mind for example.

"Yamamoto speaking."

Oh and just to let you know, since a lot of kido we don't know the chants for, I've made some of my own, I hope you like them.

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Fortunately, the attack had taken place in the night, according to Mirajane. There was a sense of melancholy however as everybody was drinking away, even the Master was drunk, earning a boot to the face from Lucy when he tried to grope her.

'Yama-jii...I can't learn your name yet, I know that, but tonight, can you teach me some things?' Natsu asked Yamamoto who rumbled out a question. "Why, Natsu, why do you want me to teach you?" He asked.

'I want to learn so that I can make sure that nothing like this happens ever again. So that I can protect them.' Natsu said as Yamamoto rumbled, pleased at the answer. "Very well then, let us go, so that they may face justice. Tonight as you sleep, meet me in the inner world. I will teach you." Yamamoto said as Natsu nodded in consent.

Team Natsu ended up in Lucy's apartment, much to her consternation, but her anger was allayed by Erza's explanation that since Phantom Lord had been in Magnolia, they probably knew where they lived and that it was better to stay together. Natsu asked Yamamoto what to do to reach his inner world since the last time they met Natsu had been unconscious. Yamamoto quickly explained the process of jinzen. When asked why he was taking such a pose, Natsu's simple answer was that he wanted to talk to Yama-jii.

Once he was in his inner world, nothing affected him from the outside, something that Gray quickly took advantage of. Natsu however, was back in the volcanic island of his inner world and was currently training with Yamamoto.

"The Shinigami have four basic arts, Hakuda, the art of the white hits. Hoho, fast movement. Kido, the demon arts, and Zanjutsu, the art of the sword. First, I will teach you how to move, then I will teach you how to fight, and in this world, we have all the time we need. To begin, I shall teach you the basics of Shunpo, the flash step method. It is a relatively simple process, and since you have a decent amount of control it should come to you easily. First you must push your reiatsu to your legs and feet, keep it there, push off and…" He said as he suddenly disappeared. Natsu looked everywhere before turning around and seeing Yamamoto right behind him.

"WHOA, that's so cool. I couldn't even see where you went." Natsu said before he ran to a good spot, alright...push my reiatsu, wait, Yama-jii! What's reiatsu?" He asked as Yamamoto opened his eyes slightly in surprise, "It seems I'd forgotten that your world uses magic and not reiryoku. Very well then, here's the basic explanation, for a Shinigami, our reiryoku, is the power that is within us, to compare I would say the magical energy that is within you, reiryoku comes from the Sanketsu and Hakusui, the soul chain and soul sleep. Our energy is converted into reiatsu, our spiritual pressure that we can expel at will, those of high enough spiritual pressure can crush enemies and allies alike if it is uncontrolled, like so." Yamamoto said before an unbelievable force was thrust down on Natsu quickly bringing him to his knees. He couldn't breath, he couldn't move and all of a sudden the pressure went away. Natsu took a few gasping breaths before quickly jumping up and pointing at Yamamoto.

"YAMA-JII! THAT WAS SO NOT COOL!" He said before he grumbled and continued to listen.

"The best I can say it is, find your magical energy, channel it to your legs and feet, keep it there, don't use too much or you'll blow your legs off, use too little and you stumble and fall over, a balance must be achieved, once you have that balance, push off, don't let go of the energy, keep it tight so that the next step you take you're ready for it. Now try, Natsu." Yamamoto said as Natsu took his stance. He locked the energy and pushed. But Natsu is Natsu, and as such something is bound to happen, in this case, he bashed face first into the side of the volcano.

"Ouch!" He cried out as he stumbled backwards from the hit. He groaned as his nose now hurt from the stone, but shook the pain off and got into another stance, this time however he disappeared and reappeared in a heap.

"You see what I mean now? Use too much, and you risk losing control, going so fast you can't react to your surroundings, too little, and your landings fall short, I have see many recruits do the same as you have done now, it takes time to learn and remember Natsu, in this world, we have all the time we need.'

Hakuda

A spar between two, one of a thousand, with the score being 999-0 to Yamamoto, until finally, an opening, a quick fist, and Natsu finally made a hit. A grin of joy and bloodlust, before being knocked out by Yamamoto.

"Never be distracted during a fight." Yamamoto said as the score became 1000-0 in his favor.

Kido

"Ye Lord! Mask of blood and flesh! All creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march onto the south! Hado #31 Shakkaho!" Natsu said as the ball of fire grew in his hand and exploded outward, firing towards the target that Yamamoto had set up and destroying it. He pointed his hand at another target and began the incantation for another hado.

"Ye Lord! Mask of bone and flesh! All creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and Temperance! Upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws! Hado #33 Sokatsui!" He yelled as another target was destroyed. Now he had to do bakudo but first he celebrated.

"ALRIGHT! I DID IT!" He cried out before Yamamoto's gruff voice spoke out.

"Good, you've shown improvement in hado, which is to be expected from your personality, but now I want you to try your hand at bakudo. If you succeed, I will teach you another one hado in the 40's level."

Natsu jumped in excitement before controlling himself. Bakudo had been harder for him to do but he could do it. "Bakudo#1, Sai. Bakudo# 4, Hainawa! Disintegrate you black dog of Rodanini, look upon yourself in horror and claw out your own throat! Bakudo# 11 Horin! Bakudo # 33, AGH!" Natsu cried out as the spell imploded on itself, covering him in soot.

"Hmm, to think, that bakudo isn't even related to fire, ah...I see the answer, when you use hado, putting your fire magic into it enhances it, but with bakudo, it does not work, fire is not meant to restrain, it is meant to burn, what you just did caused the fire to lash out. So for future reference, DON'T USE FIRE!" Yamamoto said, the explosion was precariously close to burning off his beard.

Zanjutsu

"I have saved zanjutsu for last because of the fact that any damage you take in your inner world, you take to your body. Now, before we begin, I will teach you a bit of kendo, the usual stances before we begin true training." Yamamoto said as Natsu stood a bit shocked at the fact that the damage he took here would appear in the real world, he already quite a few bruises and burns from the hoho, hakuda, and kido training, he couldn't even begin to imagine what he'd look like after zanjutsu with Yama-jii.

"Alright, let's start what's first?" Natsu asked before Yamamoto started his lesson on kendo, the proper stances, its history, its effectiveness in battle. He taught Natsu the stances, and once he felt Natsu decently ready, sparred with him, so far it was good, they sparred with kendo first, Yamamoto always stopping his blade just as it touched the skin, enough to scratch, but not break it.

After a few hours to Natsu, and some rest, Natsu and Yamamoto stood in front of each other, "What's next Yama-jii."
"Now young'un, it's time for the real fight, I've gone easy on you, so that you could gain the muscle memory from kendo, although once you leave here you will have to train you body extensively to be able to handle what you can do in your mind. As it is, now it is a time to truly test your swordsmanship, not just in kendo, but your ability in other things as well." Yamamoto said, and Natsu suddenly felt a feeling of dread drop to his stomach as Yamamoto's haori flew away from him and as he took off his shihakusho leaving it to drape over his hakama. His cane, which he had used during most of the kendo spars and still soundly beat Natsu with started to unravel and disintegrate leaving Yamamoto's true blade.

"Oh...crap" Natsu said before he shook his head and a bloodthirsty grin spread across his face. He grabbed his own blade and got ready, the two forces looked at each other for a moment before they sprung to a start as their blades clashed against each other.

In Lucy's apartment, everybody was shocked as a spurt of blood suddenly appeared out of Natsu's body, with it being deep night they could only watch and call out Natsu's name as the wounds accumulated and he kept in his meditative stance. What seemed like minutes for them however, was years to Natsu as he trained in his inner world.

"That is enough, good job Natsu, you've done well, mastery of Shunpo and Hoho, great proficiency in Hakuda, although you still won't be able to beat me, proficiency in kido, greater in hado than in bakudo, but you've even managed to learn a bit of kaido as well, undoubtedly important in case one of your friends gets injured. Most importantly however, you've gotten a great proficiency in zanjutsu, you are still not yet ready to hear my name, but for now, it is enough. Now, return to the outside world, your friends are worried about you." Yamamoto said as Natsu started to disappear.

"THANKS YAMA-JII!" He yelled out before disappearing only replied with a grunt before contemplating to himself. In his past life, Yamamoto was the Soitaicho of the Gotei 13, and because of that he was duty and honor bound to follow the laws to the letter, and look at what had happened. Eleven of his best officers, forced to exile by a madman who wanted to become God. So many problems that happened, many of which were dealt with by Kurosaki Ichigo, he had seen Natsu's memories, and saw how he was willing to break the law to save his friend from the council, even if that whole arrest and trial was just a farce, a show of power, the Central 46 had done the same thing every now and then to assert authority.

But perhaps, now that he was free of such a responsibility, he could now understand personal justice over the justice of the world, at this he pondered, how were Jushiro and Shunsui, how was the Gotei 13, and Kurosaki Ichigo as well because the boy had been instrumental in many of the fights that the Gotei 13 had, the Bounts, the Reigai, Muramasa and the zanpakuto rebellion, all of it. He had broken so many laws it wasn't even funny, yet, Yamamoto couldn't help but feel as if Kurosaki Ichigo had been just what the Gotei 13 needed, a fresh new face, one that brought new ideas, and brought out the best sides of his officers, restoring the boy's powers, had been one of the better decisions made, in Yamamoto's personal opinion, not that anybody would know of that.

Kurosaki Ichigo had a certain charisma, yes, he was blunt, headstrong, and a bit naive, yet he was able to rally the different officers of the Gotei 13 together for many battles, he was respected and admired for his power and his reputation, once or twice he had heard new recruits in his division calling the boy 'Seireitei's Dark Protector', the Gotei 13's '14th' captain, or his personal favorite, Kuchiki Rukia's 'Strawberry Ronin', for he did not have any true master. Yamamoto was not one to put so much faith in many people, but he believed that if anybody could defeat Ywach it would be Kurosaki Ichigo.

Now however, Yamamoto was in this new world, a world where the rules of Soul Society don't apply, where hollows didn't even exist, so Yamamoto had an idea, one that would've given heart attacks to Jushiro and Shunsui, yes, Genyusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Soitaicho of the Gotei 13 for over a thousand years, was going to have some fun.

In the morning when Natsu woke up he immediately felt sore and battered, Erza shaking him asking him what was happening wasn't helping. After a quick explanation of Yama-jii's training, and that now that his mind had the idea, he needed to train his body to wield the power. He also said that because he was in his inner world, any injury he took on the outside would not affect him, or rather, he wouldn't notice it, however, any injury he took in his inner world would be reflected in the real world.

Erza to say the least, had been worried for her friend when blood started to shoot out in spurts from what had looked like sword wounds, Natsu's explanation, that Yama-jii was a kickass old man who could probably roast Makarov with the fires of creation, and that he was so scary strong it took 1000 battles for Natsu to even hit him. Unfortunately, Natsu still hadn't been able to learn Yama-jii's true name, said he still needed to find his true purpose.

"Well, come on, let's head to the guild, the bandages we found in Lucy's home should last and help with your injuries but we should still get that checked out. Come on Natsu let's head to the hall, well...what's left of it." Erza said as they all headed over to where Fairy Tail was, Natsu winced however, and Erza supported him from his injuries. As they were walking however, they noticed a crowd at the park, and a bunch of whispers involving them.

"Guys, we need to check that out...I smell blood." Natsu said before Gray shook his head.

"Of course you smell blood, don't you remember what happened to you flame brain?" He said to Natsu before Natsu's eyes widened and it was his turn to shake his head.

"No...it's not mine, this scent...it smells like...Levy?" Natsu whispered out, before Erza carried him with a yelp and they ran through the crowd, when they finally burst through the image was terrible. Team Shadow Gear, Jet, Droy...Levy, all of them were hanged to the tree by chains on their wrists, beaten, and on Levy's stomach, shown to the world was a stamp, the guild mark for Phantom Lord.

"They got you too Natsu?" Makarov asked, his anger was apoplectic and he was clutching his staff so hard it was creaking.

"No Master, these injuries are from somewhere else, I wasn't attacked by Phantom Lord, but Shadow Gear, this...this is wrong." Natsu said as he was finally let down by Erza, he growled in rage, his mind was getting clouded until he heard the voice of Yama-jii. "Calm yourself Natsu, these people will get their punishment, for now, you should get them down." He said and Natsu's eyes widened as he realized Yama-jii was right, he couldn't let his anger get the best of him, not now. Natsu grabbed his sword and threw himself at the tree, a few well placed slices and the chains were broken, he quickly grabbed Levy while two others grabbed Jet and Droy.

Levy groaned at the movement and the pain, she opened her eyes to Natsu's face and started to speak.

"N...Na-Natsu, Phantom Lord, they...one person...we...we couldn't...we couldn't fight him." Levy started before Natsu started to shush her.

"It's okay Levy, you're gonna be fine, Jet and Droy are gonna be fine too. We'll get you help." He said before Levy croaked out another few words.

"D-dragon...slayer, it was...the iron...dragon...slayer…" She said before she passed out. Natsu eyes were wide before he narrowed them in rage, he picked up Levy, and looked at Makarov, both knew what needed to be done.

"I can accept my guild hall being destroyed, but I will not stand for my children being harmed. Council be damned. FAIRY TAIL GOES TO WAR!" He yelled out as everybody else cried out in agreement.

In the guild hall of Phantom Lord, the members were drinking and sneering at Fairy Tail's current situation.

"Heh, Gajeel certainly did a number on the guildhall of those flies." One member said as he laughed along with his buddy.

"Yeah, and didja hear about that team with the girl, they were brutalized! Shows those flies their place eh?" He said before a rumbling was heard, all of a sudden a pure shot of energy shot through the gate, doors, and walls of the hall.

"FAIRY TAIL IS HERE!"

Outside the guildhall Natsu suddenly stopped in front of Makarov who stopped and had the rest of Fairy Tail stop.

"I want to make an entrance, and try out a new spell I've learned, shock and awe them so that we go in, go fast, go hard, and beat them all to the ground." Natsu said as Makarov pondered it, then ceded to the idea, he had the others stand back as Natsu prepared the spell.

"The dragon to the east rises with the sun to bring light upon the earth, the dragon to the west descends with the moon, ready to retake his dark throne. The dragon to the south falls from the skies, cast out to wallow in his shame, the dragon to the north soars to the heavens to reclaim his home among the stars. Strike from above, four pillars, eight paths, Rose of the Winds, heavens asunder and shattered earth. Heed my call. Hado #88: Hiryu Gekizoku Shinten Raiho!" Natsu cried out as a torrent of energy ripped away from him, it was like lightning but with a tinge of fire due to Natsu's magical nature and it ripped through Phantom Lord's hall completely decimating anything in its way.

"FAIRY TAIL IS HERE!"

War had started, it was chaos everywhere, Fairy Tail was winning however, their unity and unique magics made quick work of Phantom Lord. Makarov himself used his giant magic in his rage.

"MONSTER, HE'S A MONSTER!" One Phantom Lord member yelled out as Makarov batted them away like the flies they insulted.

"AND YOU DARED TO HURT THIS MONSTER'S CHILDREN!" Makarov said before he found a staircase. "Erza, Natsu, I'm going to find Jose, he will pay for what he's done! JOSE! JOSE WHERE ARE YOU! COME ON OUT!" He yelled as he made his way up.

"Alright master, we'll keep them busy down here. dance my blades!" Erza said as she cut her enemies down. Natsu knocked a few away with one Iron Fist before yelling at Makarov, "Yeah gramps! Go beat them down! FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!"

The fighting continued as both guilds fought each other and it was going in Fairy Tail's favor until there was a rumbling from above, a crash, and a body fell down to the ground.

"Master! No…" Erza said as she saw his body, he was green, and sickly, he honestly looked close to death. She picked up his body as she noticed many of the others losing their morale at seeing the master defeated.

"We need to get out of here, everybody, RETREAT!" She cried out before Fairy Tail started to fall back.

"Fall back! Fall back! The master is down FALL BACK!" Cana said as she and a few others like Bisca and Alzack were covering the retreat. Natsu was angry, he could see Phantom Lord members trying to take potshots at his guild, he had to protect them, Natsu used his fire magic and sent it through his blade before thrusting down and causing a wall of fire to appear.

'Yama-jii, was that-' "No Natsu, that was your own power being sent through my blade, but I sense that you are close, soon, one day, you will learn my name." Yamamoto said as Natsu noticed everybody was nearly gone, he had an idea however, "Fire Dragon's ROAR!" He cried out causing a ton of damage to the support pillars.

"Time to do something unconventional." He pointed his fingers at the two main supports that were heavily cracked. "Hado #1: SHO!" He said as the two forces cracked the pillars even more. "Bakudo #4: Hainawa." He said as two glowing ropes wrapped around the two pillars, however, he kept a grip on them and pulled them down breaking the supports and bringing the main hall down upon them. His hearing however caught something else from the wreckage and his nose caught the scent of iron, rain, earth, and a few more.

He caught up with Erza and the others, Gray whistled at the destruction caused. "Wow, talk about bringing the house down."

"Erza, on my way out, I overheard something about Lucy, she's been taken. I'm gonna go find her and get her back to Magnolia so that we can plan, rest, and figure out what's next. We're still at war, even with the master down. Have you figured out what's wrong with him?" Natsu asked as he looked at the master.

"All evidence states that he's been almost completely drained of all of his magical energy but we don't know how. If we don't get some energy transferred to him...he'll die." She said before Natsu had an idea.

"Erza, set him down here, I have an idea, it's a type of kido that Yama-jii taught me, you have to trust me though. If I can do this, he'll have enough energy to get to Magnolia and to Porlyusica." Natsu said to which Erza nodded and gently set Makarov on the ground, Natsu was speechless, for once, the old man looked so frail and weak, nothing like before. 'Alright Yama-jii, time to put your training to good use.'

Natsu put his hands over Makarov and started to apply the basics of kaido, Yamamoto explained to him how to restore one's reiatsu but in this case it was restoring magical energy. His hands started to glow green, the tell-tale sign of kaido, and little by little, Makarov started to look marginally better, he wasn't out of the woods yet, but at least he could make the journey.

"There...that's all I can do, Masters' magical energy reserves are a lot higher than mine, but this just about makes it so that he'll make it to Porlyusica." Natsu said, slightly winded, truthfully, Natsu could've held the spell for longer but not without risk of introducing his fire magic into Makarov's system and risk burning him, he still needed more practice with kaido.

"Thank you Natsu, we'll see you back at the guild, make sure you bring Lucy back to us.

When Natsu had found Lucy's position after interrogating a Phantom Lord member he was surprised to see her jump out a window, he however, was able to catch her safely and rush back to the guild hall, he couldn't do anything however, for the tears running down her cheeks and the mumblings of 'my fault, it's all my fault', and it hurt him even more.

Quickly arriving at the ruined guild hall, Lucy gave her explanation, she was Lucy Heartfilia of the Heartfilia family, and her father, a man who never showed compassion to her wanted her back for whatever reason, she had run away from home, and through her teary eyes one could truly see how much she'd grown to care for Fairy Tail, and how much she didn't want to leave.

"Well too bad for him, we ain't lettin' ya go Luce, we're gonna fight for you. We're gonna beat down Phantom Lord and once we get the master back and this whole thing is behind us we're gonna go on another mission, together." Natsu said as everybody yelled in agreement.

"Natsu's right, we won't let you go."

"You're a part of Fairy Tail now Lucy."

"And Fairy Tail is family!"

"We fight with each other, but more importantly we fight for each other."

"YEAH 'CAUSE WE'RE MEN!"

"Natsu's right Lucy, now...everybody! We need to plan out our counterattack, with the master down, we've lost our one of our greatest strengths, fortunately Natsu, thanks to you he's on the way to recovery with Porlyusica. But right now-" Erza was cut off by a rumbling sound, like an earthquake was happening.

"EVERYBODY OUTSIDE!"

They all went outside and noticed out into the distance a giant walking machine.

"That's Phantom Lord's guild hall, on legs?" Gray said, and it was true, the guild hall was on four legs that were moving as it came closer to Fairy Tail. Suddenly it stopped, all was silent before a voice boomed out of the guild.

"THIS IS JOSE PORLA, MASTER OF PHANTOM LORD. SURRENDER NOW FAIRY TAIL, SURRENDER LUCY HEARTFILIA TO US, OR BE DESTROYED!"

"Maybe, I should just go." Lucy said as she was about to step forward before a hand landed on her shoulder. She looked up to see Natsu smiling at her.

"Don't you remember Lucy? We aren't giving you up to anybody. WE WON'T BACK DOWN, LUCY'S A PART OF FAIRY TAIL AND YOU WON'T TAKE HER FROM US!" Natsu yelled out as everybody else started shouting their own agreements.

"FINE THEN, YOU WILL ALL BE CRUSHED! BEHOLD, PHANTOM LORD'S JUPITER CANNON!" Jose said as from the entrance of the guild hall, slightly ruined but still useable was a long cannon.

"That's a Jupiter cannon! It'll wipe us off the face of Magnolia!" Mirajane said as Fairy Tail started to panic, both Erza and Natsu started to run up as Erza changed into her Adamantine armor.

"Natsu! What are you doing?" Erza asked as she got her shields up in front of her.

"That's a Jupiter cannon, you won't be able to block all of that, not without serious injury! I'm gonna use a bakudo to help and the rest will go to you!" Natsu yelled out before he started chanting. "Summon the void! Divide the skies from man's greed and the earth from heaven's wrath! Bakudo #81: DANKU!" A giant semi-translucent shield appeared in front of Erza who combined her shields to form a magic circle. Natsu used a significant part of his reserves and it showed, as the black charge of the Jupiter hit the triangular shield. It lasted for a few seconds, but it was long enough for a good portion of the energy to be used, when the shield shattered the rest of Jupiter's blast hit Erza's shield which was able to withstand the rest of the blast albeit with severe scorch marks and cracks.

"Natsu!, Erza!" Gray cried out as the resulting explosion of energy knocked both of them away. Erza had been knocked unconscious, but Natsu was still awake.

"IMPRESSIVE FAIRY TAIL, BUT YOU CANNOT DENY US MUCH LONGER, PRAY, FOR IN FIFTEEN MINUTES THE JUPITER CANNON WILL BE READY AND ALL OF YOU WILL BE DESTROYED!" Jose said before Natsu stood up and cried out his denial.

"No way Jose!" Natsu said before he stood up. Mirajane and a few others immediately tried to put him down to rest but he rejected their attempts.

"We've only got fifteen minutes, you all heard that, so I'm gonna take out that cannon, I'm gonna be out of it for a while though as I regain my energy. Everybody stand back!" Natsu said as he stood on the cliff and faced the Phantom Lord guild's Jupiter cannon, he focused all of his attention on the barrel of the cannon. 'I can't use Hiryu Gekizoku Shinten Raiho, it's too inaccurate at this distance, looks like I'm gonna have to use a 90's level hado and I know the perfect one.' Natsu thought before he focused and clapped his palms together.

"Limit of the thousand hands, respectful hands, unable to touch the darkness, hands unable to reflect the blue sky. The road that basks in light, the wind that ignited the embers, time that gathers when both are together, there is no need to be hesitant. Obey my orders. Light bullets, eight bodies, nine items, book of heaven, diseased treasure, great wheel, grey fortress tower. Aim far away, scatter brightly and cleanly when fired. Hado #91: Senju Koten Taiho!" He yelled out as pinkish balls of light shot towards the Jupiter Cannon. The balls streaked across the sky, making them look like comets as they coalesced and shot through the barrel. They traveled down the barrel until it reached its control room and destroyed the lacrima powering it. The base of the cannon exploded before the entire barrel simply fell off. Natsu smirked at the sight before exhaustion caught up and he fell over only just being caught by Mirajane.

"Great job Natsu, rest now." She said as Natsu closed his eyes and passed out from the exhaustion of doing three upper level kido, one of which he put a large amount of energy to sustain, in the same day within hours of each other along with his other magical attacks.

"YOU THINK THIS WILL STOP US, YOU MAY HAVE DESTROYED THE JUPITER CANNON, BUT BEHOLD THE TRUE MAJESTY OF PHANTOM LORD. THE SUPER MAGE GIANT PHANTOM MK II!" Jose yelled out furious that his Jupiter cannon had not only been blocked but to be destroyed as well, by such weaklings like Fairy Tail, it was inconceivable, how could Makarov's brats have such power? 'No matter, I will crush them all.'

The giant lifted up its arm and a magic seal appeared in front of it.

"No...no way! That spell...that's Abyss Break! One of that size would destroy everything from here to Kardia Cathedral!" Mirajane yelled out, just then an army of shades appeared to fight Fairy Tail!

"Jose would risk his own guild?" Gray asked as he prepared his magic.

"No...they're shades, that's Jose's magic!" Mira said as everybody started to panic before a loud, commanding voice rang out, "ENOUGH!"

Everybody turned behind them to see Erza in her Heart Kreuz armor, awake and with sword in hand she spoke out her voice carrying over the battlefield. "Right now we need to focus, I'm gonna need a group of people to come with me to the giant and help stop that Abyss Break, the rest of you must stay and fight off these shades. Let's work together, Natsu's given us more time by disabling the Jupiter Cannon. So let's finish up and take them down!" Erza said as they all cried out in agreement.

"Let's go!"

When Natsu came to, he heard screaming, shouts of anger, and explosions. He noticed Fairy Tail fighting off what seemed to be like living shadows, and that Phantom Lord's guild hall had transformed into. 'What is that?' Natsu thought before he heard screaming from two points, the giants arm where Mirajane was in its hand and from the PA system, 'LUCY!'. "Dammit she must have gotten captured. I've got to save her!' He thought before he used Shunpo and flashed to the giant.

'Great, I'm low on energy. I need a fire. He noticed the fire coming from the area where the cannon was attached to the guild hall and went inside, he noticed the control room, the damaged lacrima and the very injured, very unconscious person on the ground. 'Huh, wonder who that was, oh well, no matter, time to eat!' Natsu thought before he slurped up the fire around him and smacked his lips. "Hmm, a bit too electrical for my tastes, not too bad though."

He sniffed around, trying to catch Lucy's scent, he quickly found it along with a few others, most importantly he smelled the scent of iron.

"I'm coming Lucy." A stirring in his soul as well as an ear piercing shriek, "FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" He cried out as the roaring blaze blasted through the door and knocked out the mages inside, except for one. The man in front of him, long spiky black hair, dark clothes, piercings over his body, but most importantly he smelled of iron, and of old books.

"You...I'm gonna take you down for what you've done to both Lucy and Levy." Natsu snarled out as both he and the man in front of him got into their battle stances.

"Alright then fly, let's see if you can back that up. I'm Black Steel Gajeel Redfox, the Iron Dragon Slayer." He said to which Natsu replied with his own, "Natsu Dragneel the Salamander, the Fire Dragon Slayer."

"Alright then Salamander, there ain't enough room in the sky for two dragons, so let's get this over with." The two of them charged their respective attacks and at once cried out,

"FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!"

"IRON DRAGON'S ROAR!"

The two attacks combined and exploded, at the same time, an old man was watching, marveling at the power these two so young held, and again was amazed at the diversity of magic in this world, 'Mayuri and Urahara would be salivating at the opportunities.' Yamamoto thought before he focused his attention on the current battle, he was also focusing on Natsu's senses and using them to broadcast his own.

'Hmm, it seems as though that knight-girl is fighting somebody of decent power right now, that beastly one that keeps crying out the word 'man' is also fighting although his reiatsu has increased significantly, it seems as if his sister is hurt but not too badly. The child of ice has just finished his fight it seemed, his opponent seems unconscious, but it feels as if...nevermind.

One by one the fights between the members of Fairy Tail and the Element Four were finishing, Aria, struck down in vengeance for Erza's master. Totomaru, taken out before he could fight by the destruction of the Jupiter cannon. Sol, crushed by Elfman's full power. Juvia, seduced by Gray, unknowingly to him. All that was left was the fight between Natsu and Gajeel.

Natsu had actually taken out his sword and was using it to parry Gajeel's strikes from his iron clubs and sword.

"Pretty nice sword there Salamander...I wonder how it tastes." Gajeel said before he snapped his teeth and clamped the sword holding in place. All of a sudden Gajeel screamed in pain as his tongue was burned and smoke flew out of his mouth.

'Stupid whelp, I do not appreciate being a meal.' Natsu heard Yamamoto say in his head.

"Sorry 'bout that Gajeel, but Yama-jii ain't food." Natsu said as Gajeel snarled in rage. He grabbed some spare metal off the ground and started to chew past the pain of his tongue, his skin then started to turn grey and metallic as scales appeared over his body. "IWON DWAGON SCALETH" He half yelled and half lisped out and launched himself at Natsu.

"Hahaha, your freakin' voice is hilarious. Come on Gajeel time to show why iron shouldn't be in the sky! IT'S TOO HEAVY!" Natsu said as he got underneath Gajeel's punch and uppercutted him before jumping and kicking him in the head sending him through the floor along with three others. Natsu however was a bit worried, he was running low on magical energy, that fire from the control room helped but wasn't nearly enough, and there was metal everywhere for Gajeel to eat. 'I'm gonna have to end this quickly. Wait a minute, he's made out of metal, his attacks and defence are gonna be much tougher, what should I do? My fire attacks won't do much damage, especially with my low magical energy, I'd need something that heavily affects...metal.' Natsu thought as he noticed a cable with sparks coming out of it.

"That's it...Yama-jii, I have a plan." 'Surprise, surprise. But I can tell it's going to be a good one.' "Oi...anyways, let's do this, I can finally have a go at that bakudo without you shattering it or me being trapped in it." Natsu said before a rumbling rang out and a hand burst through the floor and punched him. Natsu cried out in pain before he flipped over and landed on his feet. He glared at Gajeel as his head rang and he became slightly dizzy who glared right back as his plan slowly came to motion. Gajeel rushed at Natsu who stayed still and started his chants. "Bakudo #1: SAI!" Gajeel suddenly stopped as his arms were suddenly wrenched behind him halting his momentum. "Bakudo #4: Hainawa" A golden rope wrapped around Gajeel as he just freed himself from the Sai. "Bakudo #9: Geki" A red flash and Gajeel was paralyzed but still struggling. "Carriage of thunder, bridge of a spinning wheel, with light, divide this into six. Bakudo# 61: Rikujokoro." Natsu said as six thin but wide yellow lights hit Gajeel's torso and kept him trapped. 'Low level bakudo aren't much, but they're great for distractions!' "What the...what kind of magic is this?" Gajeel cried out. "Sprinkled on the bones of the beast! Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring. Move and become the wind, stop and become the calm. The sound of warring spears fills the empty castle! Hado #63: RAIKOHO!" Natsu cried out as a torrent of lighting, with a small tinge of fire due to Natsu's nature shot towards Gajeel who's eyes widened in shock.

"AAARRRGH!" Gajeel cried out as he was electrocuted, his iron scales making him like one big lightning rod. The electrocution lasted for a few moments but it was enough, smoke wafted off of Gajeel's body as he was still held up by the kido, he fell to his knees as the kido dispersed and allowed him to fall over. Natsu himself fell over due to exhaustion, he didn't know how much he should've put into the spell so he put as much as he could into it without trying to accidentally kill Gajeel, the groan next to him showed that Natsu was successful.

"Hey, you're a dragon slayer, did your dragon disappear July 7, X777?" Natsu asked as he panted out of breath. Gajeel couldn't move so he thought, what the hell, might as well answer.

"Yeah, mine was Metallicana...yours?"

"Igneel."

"I hope you find yours Salamander."

"Yeah, you too."

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...

"Hey Lucy, by chance can any of your spirits make fire?"

After fighting Gajeel, and gaining a nice little pick me up from Lucy's Sagittarius shooting an arrow and causing an explosion, Natsu quickly got up despite the pain and went to where he heard sounds of fighting, he found Erza fighting Jose, and she was losing, badly. Gray, Elfman, and Mirajane were down, and he had little fire magical energy.

"I just need one lucky shot." Natsu said as he started to chant. "The dragon to the east rises with the sun to bring light upon the earth, the dragon to the west descends with the moon, ready to retake his dark throne. The dragon to the south falls from the skies, cast out to wallow in his shame, the dragon to the north soars to the heavens to reclaim his home among the stars. Strike from above, four pillars, eight paths, Rose of the Winds, heavens asunder and shattered earth. Heed my call." He started before he used shunpo to appear directly behind Jose. "Hado #88: Hiryu Gekizoku Shinten Raiho!"

The lightning torrent ripped through Jose's side causing serious injury. Jose cried out in pain and rage before he simply kicked aside Erza while grabbing her sword before turning around and thrusting it into Natsu.

The sword pierced through Natsu's stomach and straight out his back and he coughed up blood as he collapsed in pain, idly he noticed Erza crying out his name.

Jose then picked him up by his throat and threw him towards the wall him sliding down leaving a bloody smear.

"How pathetic you Fairy flies, you'll definitely pay for that one boy I'll make you suffer." Jose snarled out as Erza struggled to get to Natsu, Jose raised his hand ready to unleash a spell before a booming voice called out from behind them.

"THAT'S ENOUGH JOSE!" Makarov yelled as he glared at the young man, "That's enough, no more blood needs to be spilled, end this now Jose, you've lost. End this peacefully or I'll be the one to defeat you. I'll give you three seconds."

"You think you can threaten ME! I am the strongest of Phantom Lord, the strongest guild, not your pitiful one!" Jose started, his mind was already at the fringe considering that his guild was being defeated by these Fairy flies! It was impossible, it was inconceivable.

"One…"

"I will destroy you Makarov and this boy who dared to do such grievous damage to me, and this girl for challenging me so foolishly, your guild for daring to stand up to my own!"

"Two…"

"You've already lost! Your guild hall is destroyed! Once I'm through with you nobody will stand up to Phantom Lord's might! You hear me! We ARE THE STRONGEST! NOBODY WILL DEFY US!"

"Three…"

"Nobody! NOBODY! NOBODY!" Jose yelled as he charged up a magical attack.

"I invoke...Fairy Law."

The bright light was the last thing Natsu saw before he fell unconscious.

"Natsu, are you alright?" He heard the old but strong voice of Yama-jii ask. Natsu groaned as he opened his eyes to his inner world.

"Eh...Yama-jii...what happened? What am I doing here? I don't remember much." Natsu said as Yamamoto looked at him.

"Well, you've just gotten out of a fight. Though it wasn't much of a fight to begin with." Yamamoto said as Natsu started to remember.

"Oh yeah, I fought Gajeel, used a bunch of bakudo and then raikoho'd his ass. Then I ate some fire, traveled to where Erza was fighting that Phantom Lord guy, the master I think, she was pretty hurt, I remember using Hiryu Gekizoku Shinten Raiho, and I frickin' ripped through him and then, oh, yeah, ooowww, having a sword thrust through your gut is not nice." Natsu said as he winced, meanwhile Yamamoto sort of shrugged.

"It's not so bad after the first few times it happens." Natsu just stared as he wondered just how many times Yama-jii had been stabbed in the stomach. "It does help if you can trap your enemy with the attack, I've done that a few times. One of the Gotei 13's former enemies was a trio of ex-taicho's who had betrayed the Soul Society, their leader's zanpakuto had the ability of complete hypnosis, able to trick all of the five senses, by having him stab me in the stomach I was able to trap him and attack, I could not mistake the sense of the reiatsu in that blade."

Natsu just continued to stare before he just shook his head. "Alright you may have a point but still I'm gonna avoid getting stabbed in the stomach, that crap hurts."

"Either way, it seems as if you are ready to awaken, when you can, come back so that I may teach you more, I've taught you in the body, but not in the mind, that is an oversight that must be corrected. You have no sense of strategy, but your tactics are phenomenal for one such as you. I will teach you more about that along with some history of the Gotei so that you may be more well-rounded."

"Alright Yama-jii, hey, I don't suppose I could try to hear your name again no?" Natsu asked before Yamamoto simply grunted, "Let us see boy, my true name, is Ry***n **k**."

"Whoa, I heard something, but not very much of it." Natsu said as Yamamoto's eyes opened ever so slightly in surprise. "Then that means that you are closer to discovering your true purpose. Perhaps next time, you will learn." Yamamoto said as Natsu smiled at him while he was disappearing from the inner world.

Natsu groaned as he started to wake up, the light blinding his eyes. What seemed like a thousand different voices crying out his name penetrated his head.

"Oi...keep it down will ya? My head hurts." Natsu said as his vision started to focus, he saw that he was in the infirmary and that Gray, Lucy, Erza, Happy, Mirajane and Makarov were around his bed.

"Hey guys, how ya doin'? And since when did the infirmary get so small?" Natsu asked before Happy barreled into his chest. "NATSU, I KNEW YOU'D BE FINE I JUST KNEW IT!" He cried out as Lucy mumbled to Gray.

"A few minutes ago he was crying about how he was going to die."

"Natsu my boy...how do you feel?" Makarov asked as Happy took his spot on Natsu's head.

"Pretty fine considering that I took a sword through my stomach." Natsu said as they sighed in relief. Erza then spoke up as she asked Natsu her own question.

"Natsu what happened, how'd you get behind Jose? I didn't see you at all." Erza asked before Gray piped in.

"Yeah flamebrain, and what gave you the bright idea to attack and end up with a sword through your gut."

"Ah shut up popsicle, well, during my fight with Gajeel I used some bakudo to keep him still then lit him up like the lightning rod he was with a hado, having iron scales covering his body really didn't help him. Then I ate a fire made by one of Lucy's spirits, I went to where I heard fighting because hey, I like to fight, I saw Erza was really tired and about to be knocked down, so I started to chant Hado 88, used shunpo to appear behind Jose and shot it straight through the bastard. I didn't expect him to kick Erza away and take her sword before shoving it through me. Next thing I know I'm against the wall, last thing I remember was Gramps using a spell that made a really bright light. What was that?"

"That was Fairy Law my boy, it is one of Fairy Tail's holy trinity of spells, the other two being Fairy Glitter and Fairy Sphere, but those two have been lost for a long time now." Makarov said before Mira came up to him with a plate of food.

"I thought that after you rest you'd like something to eat so here you go your favorite! Steak on fire." Mira said with a smile as Natsu gasped in happiness before devouring the fire and then eating the steak. "Mmm...thanks Mira, that was really good, and it really helped out to get my reserves up. So what's up?" A small sorrowful look shared between them before Erza spoke up.

"Well, everybody's alive and well, Shadow Gear's doing better, they're all up and about, but during our battle with Jose's shades, they all combined and destroyed the guild hall, we now have to rebuild, but according to master we're going to build it better than ever." She said as Natsu became a bit despondent, the guild had been his home for years, ever since Igneel had left, for it to be destroyed…

'Natsu, do not let despair cloud your mind, your friends, your family are alive, halls can be rebuilt, but death, friends are irreplaceable, so is a destroyed place truly so important compared to the lives of your friends?' Yamamoto said as Natsu shook his head.

"Well...as long as everybody's alright, come on guys, let's go get some lunch!" He said as he tore off his bandages, they were really annoying him, to the gasps of everybody he looked and saw nothing wrong, his stomach was perfectly healed, albeit with a scar.

"What the…" A new voice said behind them as an older woman looked at Natsu with shock. "How the hell are you healed already? You took a sword through your stomach, that shouldn't even be closed yet let alone a thin scar." The woman known as Porlyusica said as she stared gobsmacked at the now healed wound.

"I've always been able to heal fast, how do you think I survived Erza's hits when we were kids?" Natsu said before Erza raised her fist.

"What was that?"

"AH...nothing Erza." Natsu cowered a bit before the fist finally receded. "Anyways, it's also why I eat so much, the food helps keep my body running and supports my advanced healing capabilities." Natsu said as just then his stomach rumbled.

"It looks like you're hungry, how about we get something to eat neh? Natsu?" Makarov said before Porlyusica came up and started to check Natsu, "As much as I hate to say it, you're right, your regenerative abilities helped you out, you should definitely get some food in you though to keep up your energy. Well...you're free to go. NOW GET OUT OF MY HOUSE HUMANS!" Porlyusica said as she started to beat them up with a broom until they finally left her house.

"Huh...so that's why I thought the place was smaller than usual...it was!" Natsu said as they all laughed before heading over to have some food.

Somewhere else

"It seems as though Fairy Tail has gotten a lot stronger, the opportunity grows nearer. Ultear, you know what you must do." A dark figure said as he looked at a lacrima that had Fairy Tail in it.

"Yes, Siegrain, as you command." A woman at his side said before she left the office they were in.

"Soon, the time will come, and you Erza, you will be the final piece for my Tower of Heaven."

And in a volcanic island, and old man looked up, knowing that the future was uncertain, and that something was going to happen. He could only hope that Natsu would be able to learn his name and combat whatever would happen in the future.

"The boy has learned so much...and in a relatively short time, yes he's not as powerful as Kurosaki, but he has so much potential, perhaps one day, maybe even...bankai?"

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