Dragons and Gods

Even Natsu felt the heat radiating from Zancrow, as he activated "God Force". He and Wendy stared at Zancrow, as he glowed in the flames. When the fires finally cleared up, they saw what he looked like now. Black cracks had formed over Zancrow's body, with black flames leaking out of the cracks. His wild hair had turned black, and now waved like flames. The colors of his eyes had inverted, with red where white should've been, and vice versa.

"This power," Wendy said, shaking slightly, "Its… its…"

"Don't be afraid," Natsu said, slamming his fist into his palm, "We can take this guy no problem!" With that, the Dragon Slayer held back his hands.

"Fire Dragon's Blast!" A burst of flames fired at Zancrow, who remained still. But as the fire enveloped him, it was sucked into the cracks that were throughout Zancrow's body.

"Seems a lowly serpent decided to fly into the gods' domain," Zancrow said, as he held up his hand, where there were was an opening on his palm. Black flames then shot out of his palm, at Natsu, who was blasted away. With a cry, he was slammed against the ground. When the dust faded, it showed that, for the first time for as long as he could remembered, Natsu had been burned.

"Natsu!" Wendy cried.

"Piss off brat," Zancrow said, flicking his wrist, and sending a blast of fire Wendy's way. Before it hit her, Carla managed to bring back her wings, and pull Wendy out of the way just in time.

"Make that two serpents," Zancrow said, cracking his neck, "And a couple pitiful cats."

"Leave her alone!" Natsu said, leaping at Zancrow again, holding up his hands, "Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" But when he brought down he explosion of flames, the dragon fire was simply sucked back through the cracks along Zancrow's body.

"Not even dragons deserve to fly where gods dwell," Zancrow said, "Anything thing that dares, will get knocked back to the ground!" He then sucked in.

"Fire God's Howl!" His own version of a breath attack consisting of black flames shot at Natsu. The Dragon Slayer tried to counter, using his own breath attack, but the god fire overcame the dragon fire, and blasted Natsu away, and through the trees.

"Natsu!" Happy cried, as he tried to fly to him, only to be pulled back by Carla.

"You'll just get in the way!" she said. While Zancrow's attention was on Natsu, Wendy came up behind him.

"Sky Dragon's Wing Attack!" She brought down her attack on Zancrow, only for him to easily block with a curtain of black flames. Wendy managed to use her wind to boost herself out of the way, to avoid his breath attack again. She could feel that she had expended much of her Eclipse powers in the fight with Azuma, which was seriously frustrating considering how useful they would have been at this point. But Wendy didn't care, she still had to fight. With that, she focused, drawing on what remained. Zancrow apparently took notice of that.

"You got something new?" he sneered, "You really think you can win?"

"I don't think," Wendy said, before looking up, and saying with pure conviction, "I know we can win!"

"How stupid are you?" Zancrow said, "Even dragon are nothing compared to gods!"

"Then I'll tear those gods down!" Natsu said as he sprung up behind Zancrow, "Fire Dragon's Hammer!" Bring his fists together, he slammed them down, creating a huge fist of flames down at Zancrow.

"You never learn do you!" Zancrow asked, as he held up his arms to absorb the flames again. But as his vision was blocked by the flames, Natsu came down through them, and socked Zancrow in the face.

"If my fire won't work, then I'll just beat you up the old fashioned way!" Natsu declared, grabbing onto Zancrow's shoulders, and then head butting the God Slayer in the nose. Dazed slightly by the attack, Zancrow was vulnerable when Wendy came up behind him.

"Sky Eclipse Dragon's Sword Horn!" She struck Zancrow in the back hard, but he didn't go forward far before Natsu hit him the stomach. No magic, just pure brute force. Zancrow, despite himself, coughed slightly at the force, and sent him flying back.

"This is our sacred ground!" Natsu said, as Wendy helped him up, "You can't beat us here!" Zancrow jumped back to his feet, and more fire began to stream out of the cracks in his body.

"For such pathetic mortals…," he muttered, "… to defy the will of the god of fire…" He then held up his arms.

"YOU WILL ALL TURN TO ASH!" Massive clouds of fire then erupted from his arms, and into he air, swirling up to form a shape.

"Incarnation of Fire!" The fire then took a humanoid form, that followed Zancrow's movements.

"What kind of magic is this?" Wendy said, holding onto her brother.

"This is this the ultimate power of God Slayer Magic!" Zancrow explained, a mad grin on his face, "There's nothing you can hope to do to stop me!" With that, he held up his hand, as the incarnation mimicked. Bringing down the fist, both Natsu and Wendy dove out of the way to avoid it in opposite directions.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu said, blasting his fires at the incarnation, only for it to be cancelled out by the god fire. The incarnation then knocked Natsu away.

"Fire God's Ultimate Howl!" The incarnation then breathed out a burst of black fire at Natsu, who managed to move out of the way just in time.

"Sky Dragon's Torrent!" Wendy said, sending a swirl of wind at the incarnation, in the hopes of dissipating the flames. However the flames were too thick to be properly blown away. The incarnation then advanced at Wendy, who started running. Meanwhile, Natsu looked at the incarnation, and ran his options. There weren't many.

"If only I could use Dragon Aspect!" he said. Dragon Aspect drew the from the same magic pool as Dragon's Eye, the primary difference being that Dragon's Eye used half of it, whereas Dragon Aspect used all of it. And seeing as he didn't have enough, Dragon Aspect was a no go.

That was when Natsu remembered something. That time had had burned Lucy, and he had a vision of Igneel, and the dragon Igneel called "Smaug". Natsu knew the power that Smaug represented, and how Natsu had decided to reject it, so as to prevent himself from hurting anybody. But now… Natsu close this eyes and focused.

(in the inner world)

Natsu stood amongst the raging fires of the volcano, his eyes closed. Smaug loomed over him, before opening his wings, and turning into flames that swirled around Natsu. Igneel watched from overhead, narrowing his eyes. He understood the issue Natsu was facing, so it was not as if he didn't know what to do.

"Just be careful my son," he said.

(in the real world)

Natsu let out a tremendous roar, getting the attention of everyone near him. His body exploded in fire, as scales began to creep onto his arm. The arm then turned into one of his wings, though it did not expand to the rest of his body like his Dragon Aspect. Everyone, even Zancrow stared in shock at the sight.

"Natsu," Happy said softly.

"The hell's this?" Zancrow said. Within an instant, Natsu leapt at the incarnation, his transformed claw first, infused with fire. Zancrow held up the incarnation's arm, only for the dragon fire to cleave right through it, much to Zancrow's shock.

"How…" Not giving him a chance to recover, Natsu inhaled.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!" The pure dragon fire descended upon the incarnation, who held up its arms in defense, but for the first time, the god fire couldn't defend against the dragon fire, and the incarnation was pushed back.

"Natsu's pushing him back!" Happy said.

"How is he…," Carla began.

"I've got an idea," Pantherlily said, as he slowly got up.

"Lily! You're alright!" Happy said.

"That's a stretch," Pantherlily said, looking at the ensuing fight, "I'm not in fighting condition by a longshot. But as for what's going on here, I think Natsu's drawing on his internal power, which is essentially pure dragon power, right?"

"Well, sort of, but…," Happy began.

"That's good enough," Pantherlily interrupted, "It seems this Grimoire Heart member is just mimicking divine power. Natsu's power is not a mimicry, its real dragon fire." Meanwhile, Wendy looked on in awe at the sight of this.

"Wendy!" Natsu called, "Let's go!" Wendy quickly hurried over to him.

"What?"

"I've got a plan!" Natsu said, "Just follow my lead!"

"But…" Wendy quickly decided not to argue, when her brother was sure about anything, he was certainly onto something. With that, she did as Natsu instructed, and followed his lead. The two then brought their hands together, as fire and wind gathered in an orb.

"You worthless worms!" Zancrow roared, as he and the incarnation loomed over them, "Forget ash! I'm going to leave nothing left at all!" He then charged them in the incarnation. With a combined roar, the dragon siblings launched their attack.

"Dragon Slayer's Secret Technique: Fire Raining From the Sky!" The combined magic pierced right through the incarnation, and into Zancrow. Due to the magic being completely synchronized, he was unable to split the fire from the wind, and absorb it. The God Slayer was sent flying away.

"Now Wendy!" Natsu said.

"Right!" Wendy said, before using the wind to rocket herself into the air, over Zancrow, "Sky Dragon's Falling Sword!" Bring down her arms, a blade of wind struck down at Zancrow, sending him crashing into the ground. But the Dragon Slayer wasn't through yet.

"Sky Dragon's Roar!" The attack drove Zancrow even further into the ground. Wendy landed, and fell to one knee, panting. When the dust cleared, it showed Zancrow completely defeated.

"They did it!" Happy said excitedly. Wendy glanced at her brother, who grinned at her, only to suddenly collapse to the ground.

"Natsu!"

Note: I decided to end this chapter here, since the fight was so long, it wouldn't have really fit together to add something onto the end. As you might observe, this was very different from canon, probably for the best. I decided to give Wendy a role in the fight, because I like Wendy. She's my fifth favorite character with the others being: 4) Zeref; 3) Erza; 2) Lucy; 1) Natsu.

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