What's with this bloody smoke!

Chapter 18

We were nearing the place the map indicated.

"Be prepared everyone. This guy is strong," I said and looked around while running. Slowly the air around us became misty until we couldn't see where we were going. We stopped running.

"What's with this bloody smoke," Gajeel said as he tried waving it away with his hand with no effect.

"Come out here and fight us you coward!" Natsu yelled out.

"Wait guys if we can't see him, he can't see us either right?" Rogue asked. They heard a voice coming from above them.

"That would be correct. I can see just as little as you can. However, since the smoke dragon, Mistinia, trained me I can feel your movements through the smoke. Whenever the smoke moves unnaturally, I can feel it. I can't see you now since you're standing completely still, I still know your last location and that's good enough for me. SMOKE DRAGON ROAR!" everyone bolted out of the way and nobody got hit. Drake suddenly appeared in front of Cobra and hit him straight in the face sending him flying. "What's wrong Cobra? How's the hearing?" Drake taunted. He continued to almost teleport to each of the others and hitting them. When he got to Gajeel, Gajeel blocked his attack. Drake let on a smirk. "SMOKE DRAGON MIRAGE CLONE!" Drake appeared again behind Gajeel and got to him as well. We all stood up. How were we going to fight someone we couldn't even see. Drake had a giant advantage over us. "SMOKE DRAGON MIST IMPLOSION!" The smoke everyone suddenly imploded into everyone. I fell to my knees he was powerful and he was well aware of that. "Did you guys like that it hits EVERYONE inside the smoke cloud friend or foe with massive force I have yet to master it," My eyes widened. Wait a minute. If that attack hit everyone INSIDE the smoke, he had to be outside of it. Which meant there was an outside nearby. "GLASS DRAGON STAMP!" I stood still as my stamp sent my high into the air. I did manage to go just above the mist when I felt something grab my leg. I looked down and Drake smirked his annoyingly cool smirk. He pulled me back down. I hit the ground and I knew he was going to come down and try to knock me out before I could tell the others. "GLASS DRAGON PISTON!" My hand transformed and I felt that I hit something and I felt the smoke getting lighter.

"Guys! I've got it! The smoke disappears the more damage he takes."

"Got it!" everyone said in unison. Drake made a 'tsk' noise.

"Very good, but I won't help you defeat me. SMOKE DRAGON STREAM!" Drake's hands changed to smoke and they started shooting out. He moved his hands to shoot at everyone inside the mist. He hit two or three of us before something came out of the smoke headed directly for him. It was an iron pillar. Drake stopped his attack and jumped over the pillar. As the pillar retracted, Gajeel came out of the fog with his other fist raised. Drake looked behind him and saw that Gajeel had formed the end of his pound to a sort of hook, which was stuck to the wall. Drake couldn't dodge since he was in the air but he still put his hands up to block. Drake flew backwards and saw someone coming from behind him.

"You ready Rogue?"

"You got it!" the twin dragons folded hands with each other. "UNISON RAID: HOLY SHADOW DRAGON FLASH FANG!" A large burst of light and shadow energy was released from Sting and Rogue's hands it headed straight for Drake as the two beams started spiraling around each other merging. Since Drake was still in the air, he was hit and fell towards the ground where Natsu was standing. "FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!" Natsu hit Drake in the back with his flaming hand sending him into the air once more. The fog disappeared because of the attacks. Cobra felt his hearing return. He let out a relived sigh.

"Now to finish you off! POISON DRAGON ROAR!" The roar was about to collide with Drake when he was snatched out of mid-air by someone. When the figure landed, he put down Drake, who didn't even look the slightest bit hurt from all of their attacks. Drake started clapping.

"Good work figuring out how to defeat my fog of death. Now, it's time for you to defeat us," he pointed to himself and the person standing beside him. It was Zane.

"But you're supposed to be majorly injured from your fight," Natsu said.

"My good friend Drake here can make some very… realistic smoke clones."

"But why?" I asked looking around at the others who looked like they were about to ask the same.

"We had to get your attention somehow, now face us. The seven of you vs. the two of us, Drake said," it was on! We were going to beat these guys once and for all.

"Before we begin mind if we take this a place that's a bit more… deserted," Oh right. Drake took out a remote control and a pinch sphere between them and us. It started growing and absorbed all of us. I only saw complete darkness for a moment and then we were back at a place that looked exactly the same as before.

"This is a perfect copy of this part of city. But there are no people here," Drake explained. All of us got ready to strike now that everyone were out of harm's way.

"Let's do this guys, FIRE DRAGON…" "IRON DRAGON…" "POISON DRAGON…" "WHITE DRAGON…" "SHADOW DRAGON…" "GLASS DRAGON…" we all readied our attack and yelled out in unison. "ROOOOAAARR!" the six elemental beams spiraled around each other headed straight for the two remaining dragon slayers. They looked at each other briefly. "SMOKE DRAGON…" "BLOOD DRAGON…" "ROAR!" their two attacks collided with the six of ours. Somehow, their attacks stopped ours. We stopped and so did they. Natsu decided to make the first move. "A little help here guys!" Natsu yelled getting ready for his iron fist. "You got it," I said and Natsu jumped onto my fist. "GLASS DRAGON PISTON!" I shot Natsu after Drake and Zane. "FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!" Zane jumped at Natsu before he reached them. "BLOOD DRAGON VAMPIRE CLAW!" Zane's scratch collided with Natsu's punch and Natsu smirked as Zane overpowered him and sent him towards the ground. Sting was there to catch him. Zane gave a look of surprise. "POISON DRAGON FANG THRUST!" Zane felt a wave of poison hit his back and as he was sent towards the ground Gajeel and Rogue were standing ready for him. "IRON DRAGON SWORD!" Gajeel hit Zane towards Rogue who was in his shadow drive mode. "SHADOW DRAGO…" Rogue was hit in the back by Drake who had sneaked up behind him while they were working on executing their combo and he was sent flying towards Zane. "BLOOD DRAGON SOLID SCEPTER!" Zane's hand turned into a trident-like spear made of solidified blood. He got ready to stab Rogue with it since they were on a collision course. "WHITE DRAGON CLAW!" Sting sent an orb of light at Zane and hit him leaving a mark on his stomach making it so Zane couldn't move. Rogue hit him straight into a wall making Zane stab the wall with his trident. "IRON DRAGON CLUB!" Gajeel proceeded to attack Zane while he was recovering from Stings claw attack. The iron pillar hit Zane straight in the gut making him cough up blood. Zane laughed. "Thanks for that," the blood on the ground started moving and it splashed over Zane's mark and erased it. He stood up. Zane made one of his nails extremely sharp and proceeded to cut his other arm open and blood started running down his arm. "BLOOD DRAGON RED BULLETS!" He made a quick movement with his bloody arm throwing the blood at Gajeel, Sting and Rogue. The blood took the form of multiple small needles. The three dragons didn't have time enough to dodge all of the bullets. They were all hit and Zane laughed his maniacal laugh. "You three don't stand a chance."

Drake saw his partner get thrown into a wall and was about to step in when he saw something from the corner of his eye. Drake quickly stepped back just in time to avoid a glass pillar headed straight for his face. He looked and saw me standing with my arm stretched out and forming the pillar. Drake looked up and saw a familiar pink-haired figure headed towards him. "FIRE DRAGON SWORD HORN!" Natsu's entire body lit on fire as his speed increased. Drake took a low stance getting ready to counterattack. "SMOKE DRAGON STREAM!" Drake shot his smoke stream into the air at Natsu. He was hit and sent flying even higher. "POISON DRAGON TWIN FANG!" Drake looked to the side seeing Cobra's two large poison waves coming at him. He jumped out of the way and both the projectiles missed him. "GLASS DRAGON SHARD WHIP!" I formed a large whip made of small glass shards. I swung it at Drake and the two small hooks attached at him. I used his momentum to throw him into the air at Natsu, who was still falling down. "Let's try this again. FIRE DRAGON SWORD HORN!" his body once again lit on fire and he was now falling even faster towards Drake, who had his eyes closed. "SMOKE DRAGON VEIL!" Drake breathed a cloud of smoke and Natsu fell right through it missing Drake completely. Natsu landed and the three of us looked up and saw Drake standing on the smoke as if it was solid ground. "Did you really think that would work? You are no match for me!"

This was a battle of the dragon slayers of Dragons Wrath and the dragon slayers of Fairy Tail!