Wind of Swords

Frieze noticed both Xinglong and Netja had been defeated. The air around him suddenly became considerably warmer, as a couple blood snakes around him abruptly incinerated. The amount of warriors fighting from him had dropped another two members. He couldn't sacrifice either of them to the ritual, since they were too far away, and even if they weren't, putting more magic power into the ritual at this point would probably overcome the girl, and kill both her and the child.

"Keep going," Frieze ordered, as he looked over his shoulder, "Don't stop, no matter the circumstances!"

(with Wendy)

"Sky Dragon's Roar!" Wendy said as she let out a burst of dragon wind at Trak. However, the guy seemed to disintegrate, and vanish into thin air.

"You know this is the fourth time you tried it," Trak commented, as he rematerialized in another section of the tunnel. Wendy cringed, as she looked up at her enemy. During this, Carla and Happy were in the background, with Happy holding Erza.

Wendy was making absolutely no progress. Every attack she threw at Trak, consisted of the dark mage apparently avoiding all of them. One of the problem that she faced, was that she was never truly much of a fighter. True, Natsu had spent some time training her how to fight, but by heart, Wendy was a pacifist; she didn't injure people, she healed them. But she had to do it; she had to save Lucy. If Natsu was her older brother, that made Lucy her big sister, and their future child her soon to be niece or nephew.

"Come on Wendy!" Happy said, "You can do it!"

"Sky Dragon's Crushing Fist!" Wendy said, as she brought her wind infused fist down in Trak's direction. However Trak held up his hand, as the Wendy was suddenly struck in the side of her body. The girl let out a cry as she was knocked away by the force.

"Wendy!" Carla cried, before looking at Erza, "Aren't you going to help her?"

"Aye!" Happy said, as he turned Erza toward him, "You can help Wendy out!" Erza's eyes glowed very briefly, but didn't do anything. Wendy looked up at Trak, glaring.

"What kind of magic is this?" she asked. Trak paused as if he apparently considered that, before shrugging.

"You'll be dead pretty soon, so I guess I can tell you," he said, "This is Particle Magic. I can control particles of all kinds." Wendy figured that was how he managed to redirect her attack, and how managed to similarly disintegrate and reform, since he was apparently doing just that. But that left her with few options. To that end, Wendy decided to play it safe.

"Sky Dragon's Roar!" she said, as she exhaled the full force of her attack. Trak held up his hand, as the wind bent around him, as he manipulated the particles. He then clenched his fist. Rocks formed over Wendy, and collapsed down. The girl managed to dodge them, but just barely. He can condense particles to something solid apparently she thought. That meant that he could do range attacks.

"Impressive how one kind of magic can do much, isn't it?" Trak said, "I can take the smallest particles in the air, and make them into almost anything I choose." He then held up his hand, and the particles condensed to form a sword. He then leapt at Wendy, and slashed. The girl dodged, but the sword caught a couple of hairs. That was rather too close for comfort. She then leapt into the air, holding up her arm.

"Sky Dragon's Guillotine!" She then brought down her arm, which was cloaked in more dragon wind. It cleaved down on Trak. It struck down on him, as he seemed to be bisected vertically, much to Wendy's alarm .

"Oh no!" Wendy cried in horror, as she covered her mouth, terrified by the notion she may have just killed a man.

"She split him straight in half!" Happy said. Carla saw that, but she wasn't as convinced about the results. However, the two halves of the body suddenly disintegrated, before it reformed in Trak's body.

"I can dissolve my body into individual particles," Trak said

"Sky Dragon's Wing Attack!" Wendy said, as she brought down her magic enhanced arms. Trak disintegrated, and reformed further away. In the process he dropped the sword, and it disintegrated, something that didn't go unnoticed by Carla, but Happy and Wendy were both too focused on the fight to realize that.

"Close but… actually no, that wasn't close in the least. If you do really want to beat me girl, you've better rise another several notches in skill."

"Then that's what I'll do!" Wendy declared, as she swallowed an amount of air. During all of this, Erza stared at the fight.

(with Natsu)

Natsu was still slowly thawing out of his icy prison. His chest was now glowing very lightly, but he wasn't in a much better state than he was earlier.

(in the mental world)

Natsu remained still in the frozen wasteland around him. The image of Lucy was sitting on a rock, glaring at him.

"I'm losing my patience here, Natsu," she said, "Seriously, if anything happens to me or our baby…." She shook her head.

"No, can't think like that," Lucy said, before sighing, and looking back at him, "But I can't wait for much longer. If you don't do something, something bad will happen to me, and our child. You know you can't let that happen." She then stood up, and started to fade away.

"Come save us," Lucy whispered before she vanished into fog.

During this, Igneel watched from further up in the mist. He certainly wanted to take action against this, but he could not directly affect Natsu like this. Smaug, as a part of Natsu, was also frozen solid, which may have been a good thing, seeing as this would've been a perfect opportunity for him to seize control of Natsu.

"Come on, boy," he muttered, "Save your mate. Save my grandchild."

(in the real world)

Natsu remained still. But his chest glowed slightly brighter.

(with Wendy)

Wendy was knocked back by another one of Trak's blasts. She then whirled around to face him, as she held up her arm.

"Sky Dragon's Scythe!" An arc of wind was slashed in Trak's direction. The dark mage disintegrated, before reforming further on.

"Particle Magic: Rain of Rocks!" Trak said, as he held up his arms. Rocks then formed over Wendy, and melted down on her. The girl let out a cry as the rocks pelted her.

"Wendy!" Carla cried, before looking at Erza, "Damn it, Erza! You know you can help her! Can you just swallow your damn pride!" Erza was still. Carla was going to make another demand, but Happy had a better idea.

"Aye!" Happy said, "Take this!" He then threw Erza. The mage turned staff's eyes glowed angrily at that. Wendy looked over her shoulder, and saw Erza spinning toward her. Instinctively she reached out her arm, as she caught Erza.

"I'm sorry to do this to you, Erza," Wendy said, "But we need to save Lucy. Will you help me?" There was a period of silence, before Erza' flashed "yes". Wendy grinned.

"Let's do this!" she declared. Erza was silent for a time again, before her eyes glowed in agreement, to which Wendy smiled. She then turned to face Trak.

"So you're using the girl that was cursed, eh?" Trak asked, arching his eyebrow, "That's certainly creative, but it won't do any good."

"Watch me," Wendy declared, as she thrust Erza forward. A couple of blades then appeared out of thin air, and slashed at Trak. However, Trak held up his hand, and the swords disintegrated.

"I'm insulted by how quick you've seem to forgotten my magic," Trak said, "Particles are particles, no matter what it is." That didn't discourage Wendy, as she swung Erza, sending another few blades at him. Trak again dissolved the metal. While he was focused on that, Wendy inhaled, and let her breath attack again. Trak leapt out of the way.

"He dodged," Carla muttered, as he watched.

"Aye! Cause he's a whimp who can't handle Wendy!" Happy said, "Go get him!"

"That's not what I meant tom-cat!" Carla said, "I meant that he didn't try to redirect Wendy's Roar while he was dissolving the swords. It doesn't seem like he can manipulate the particles of something, while he's focusing on another different thing." Wendy then jumped at Trak, as she swung down at him, summoning Erza's Lighting Empress spear, which struck down at Trak, who concentrated a wall into existence.

"Wendy!" Carla called, "You have to merge your power with Erza's!"

"Merge?" Wendy echoed, as she looked at Erza. True that notion had crossed her mind, but she didn't think she could. But if the whole point of the Furari Potentia was to allow a person to manipulate another's magic power, then supposedly it could be done.

"Erza?" Erza's eyes flashed "yes".

"Well then I guess its worth a shot," Wendy said, as she held Erza in front of her, as she closed her eyes, and concentrated. This didn't go unnoticed by Trak.

"Like I'm going to let you gather strength," he said, as he held up his hands. However, his focus was broken when Trak was body slammed in the face by Happy flying at him. That gave Wendy and Erza just the amount of time that they needed. They were now both glowing, as wind picked up around them, and blades appeared in the wind. Wendy then held up Erza, and glared at Trak as he regained his footing and looked in her direction.

"Wind of Swords!" The blades then spun through the wind, as they blasted down at Trak. Trak held up his hands to dissipate the attack, but found he couldn't. The magical particles of the combined attacks were too tightly intertwined to do anything.

"No! This can't be!" he cried, as he was struck directly by the attack. He was blasted through the air, before slamming into the wall. He was unconscious before he even hit it. Wendy panted as she looked at her defeated foe.

"You did it!" Happy cried happily. Carla sighed in relief. Wendy then looked at Erza, and smiled.

"Thanks," she said. Erza's eyes glowed warmly.

(with Frieze)

The indication of Trak's defeat showed itself on Frieze's map. Another several blood snakes incinerated, and another several froze.

"Looks like I might be going into battle sooner than I thought," he muttered.

Note: I hope you liked the fight between Wendy and Trak. I know this chapter was relatively short, but there's only so much I can do with this. And this fight at least has Trak losing in a serious way, unlike his fight with Juvia, which was meant to be comedic.

Next chapter will feature Juvia and Geier's fight. It might not be too long either.

Be sure to review.

Something I'm considering doing is another story about Fairy Tail's disbandment, and what happens afterwards with the characters, specifically Natsu being seriously torn up about it, in a similar vein to I See Fire In the Sky, which was very fun for me to write. For me, you can never have too many stories, active or not. Also, there seems to be a serious lack of stories with that premise (including my own, I've only see maybe four), and I urge more people to do stories like that. Please feel free to share ideas like those if you have them.