Shen vs. Zeth: clash of tyrant dragons
Chapter 37
"Leave this place. Now!" Shen said.
"Oh Shen. Long time no see. How's the spirit world?" Zeth attacked again and Shen blocked it.
"I have nothing to say to you chaos dragon. I will simply defeat you."
"Good luck with that. HYPER CHAOS DRAGON ROAR!" He blasted his roar off in the direction of some of our unconscious members on the ground. Shen got in front of all of us. "JADE DRAGON ROAR!" The two roars collided and they canceled each other out. Zeth jumped forward right after they stopped. "HYPER CHAOS DRAGON ANTIMATTER PISTON!" Zeth blasted away his hand. Shen ducked and pushed Zeth's piston into the air making him lose his balance and Shen spin kicked him in the face. Zeth started attacking again. "HYPER CHAOS DRAGON ANTIMATTER EXPLOSION!" He sent out a blast of dark energy again. "JADE DRAGON ARMOR!" Shen created a suit of samurai armor from jade and he stood his ground from Zeth's attack. "JADE DRAGON JIREUGI!" Zeth was still finishing his attack and was hit dead on sending him flying through the air. Shen set off after him running across the rooftops still wearing his jade armor. Zeth used his wings to break in the air and he dove down with a punch. Shen jumped into the air after him. Zeth grabbed Shen's arm with his own free one and punched him in the side of the head breaking his armor. Shen flew through the air and Zeth flew after him. Shen grabbed onto a lamppost, swung himself around it and kicked Zeth in the face before he could avoid. Shen slid down onto the ground. Meanwhile Zeth had gotten back on his feet.
"Are you holding back Shen or is it just me? You're only using weak attacks mostly just to counter. I don't mind. Makes it less trouble defeating you. "HYPER CHAOS DRAGON ANTIMATTER SWORD!" He morphed his hand into a massive sword. He swung it downwards at Shen. "JADE DRAGON DUEL JIREUGI!" He shot his arms diagonally upward so they crossed each other. The sword got stuck in the middle. "JADE DRAGON CHAGI!" He kicked Zeth in the stomach making him lose his balance. He then retracted his arms, grabbed the sword on either side and pulled Zeth over his head. He smashed him into the ground on the other side and threw him as hard as he could away from the city. Zeth stopped himself in the air and was immediately kneed in the jaw by Shen having run and jumped into the air in the time it took for Zeth to stop. Zeth continued flying and reached the fields on the outskirts of Magnolia. He looked around and saw Shen standing a bit away from him. Shen rolled his shoulders as if he was warming up. Zeth smirked.
"I get it. You just wanted to get them out of harm's way before going all out on m…" he didn't get to finish before Shen leapt forward at unbelievable speed, smashed him in the face pummeling him into the ground creating a massive crater and also causing Zeth to fly a couples of meters into the air. When he came down again Shen kicked straight up sending Zeth even further into the air. He jumped up after him and spin kicked him back towards the ground. "JADE DRAGON ROAR!" His roar was 10 times bigger than Zeth's had been every time he used it. Zeth landed on the ground looked up. "HYPER CHAOS DRAGON ROAR!" His roar was easily overpowered by Shen's and he was pushed into the ground again. Shen landed next to him. Zeth got up. "HYPER CHAOS DRAGON ANTIMATTER SUN!" He created the massive sphere and Shen jumped back. "JADE DRAGON JIREUGI!" He punched the sphere and it popped like a bubble and exploded into pieces before Zeth even got a chance to throw it. Zeth got up from the explosion and was looking quite banged up.
"Will you stop now that you've realized you don't stand a chance? I am much more powerful than you could ever hope to be. Give up and hand yourself over to the magic council. I will leave you with that, but I will not hesitate to knock you out and hand you in myself," Zeth smiled and started laughing a maniacal and insane laugh and grabbed his head and started shaking.
"More powerful than I could ever hope to be?! You must be joking. I'm all powerful. No one can beat me. I'll never lose. I still have a few tricks up my sleeve. This one is one you taught me," Shen looked at him with a bit of confusion.
"What might I have taught you?"
"HYPER CHAOS JADE DRAGON MODE!" He began giving off a green glow and his muscles grew bigger. The stripes in his hair turned permanently green and his blood veins turned green. He suddenly disappeared and Shen looked behind himself, but he wasn't there.
"Up here," He came down from above and smashed Shen into the ground. Shen quickly got up and recovered, but when he did, Zeth was already behind him and grabbed hold of him. Shen tried breaking free, but he couldn't.
"See? Even you can't defeat me. HYPER CHAOS JADE DRAGON OBLITERATION!" His body emitted a massive explosion and it ruined most of the field they were on. Everyone began coming out of their houses and looked towards the fields after having heard the explosion. I even woke up and limbed towards the hills. What have I done? All this power and I want to destroy the guild with it. Why would I do that? I punched a wall.
Zeth threw Shen into the air appeared in the air and double kicked him into the ground. "HYPER CHAOS JADE DRAGON SONIC PISTON!" He fired a piston made from dark matter and jade at Shen, it was too fast for him to dodge, and it hit him dead on. It created a massive kinetic explosion. Zeth grabbed Shen by the shirt and pulled him up. He started laughing again, sounding even more insane than before.
"Do you understand now!? I can't be beaten. I defeated you at your strongest. Nothing can stand up to me. I'm the strongest there is and now… this town is all mine! And there's nothing you can do to stop me," He spread his arms out across Magnolia. Shen coughed.
"You don't grasp the concept do you?" Zeth looked at him with a pissed off face.
"What are you talking about?"
"I've been fighting with only my base strength," Zeth slammed him into the ground and stood on his head and Shen grabbed hold of his foot trying to force him off.
"You're bluffing. I don't believe you."
"Very well then. SMOKE JADE DRAGON MODE!" Drake's white smoke started coming out of Shen's body. He lifted Zeth off him and stood up. "SMOKE JADE DRAGON GREEN VEIL!" The entire field got enveloped in a green smoke.
"Stop playing games Shen. Come out and play. HYPER CHAOS JADE DRAGON ROAR!" He started spinning and the roar made all the smoke disappear. "SMOKE JADE DRAGON MIST WAVE!" Zeth looked up and saw Shen above him collecting smoke in his hands. He threw the ball and Zeth grabbed it. Shen snapped his fingers and the ball exploded into mist throwing Zeth back. "SMOKE JADE DRAGON JADE CLOUD STRIKE!" All the smoke collected Shen's hand creating a big fist. He smashed down on Zeth, but he was already gone and behind him. "HYPER CHAOS JADE DRAGON SONIC STAMP!" He kicked Shen backwards with sonic speed Shen grabbed onto Zeth's foot. "SMOKE JADE DRAGON KUSANAGI!" Shen's forearm changed into a massive katana blade made from jade and smoke was coming out of it. He swung it and cut Zeth over the chest. Zeth fell towards the ground. He landed on the ground and blood was coming out of his chest.
"I'll never be defeated. I refuse! HYPER CHAOS JADE DRAGON MURAMASA!" He created a massive blade from dark matter. (Note: Muramasa is an ancient sword that cut everything regardless, even the air around it) He slashed after Shen and the air around the sword spit in two sending a wave of black energy after Shen. Shen put his own sword arm and blocked the air strike. Zeth came jumping from above. Shen jumped to the side, spinning around and slashed at Zeth's sword arm cutting it clean off. Zeth grabbed where his arm should be attached and screamed. Meanwhile, I had just made my way to the general vicinity and could see them fight. Is that me? I don't believe what I've done. I almost killed everyone. How could I? Just for more power. Nothing in the world is worth killing your friends and family for.
"I am truly sorry it had to come to this. Give up now. You've been bested," Zeth turned to look at Shen. His eyes were red with rage.
"NEVER! I still have one more trick that no one can compete with," The earth started shaking and small pieces of dirt started floating around him.
"DEMON FORCE!" Zeth's body started pulsing. An arm suddenly sprung from the hope in his body. It was red with only three fingers. Each of them had a big claw on the end. His opposite arm grew even larger than before. A pair of demon wings sprouted out of his back. One of his eyes grew larger and got a lizard look turning green. He also sprouted a dragon tail. His fangs grew too and a he got an extra pair going upwards. Horns grew from his head. His legs became a lot like those of demons, by bending the opposite way of a human. He was barely a human anymore. He roared and Shen had to lean forward so as not to be blown back.
"I love this new power. With this strength, why should I stop with Fairy Tail? No one can stop me. Not even you with your fancy tricks," His voice was lower and more demonic.
"When you're gone I'll go for Magnolia. Then Fiore and finally the world. DEMON DRAGON SUPERNOVA BEAM!" (Demon dragon is much easier to say than Hyper chaos jade demon dragon) He held up his hand and a massive orb of dark matter pulsing with green stripes. It was about half the size of Magnolia itself. He compressed the entire ball so it fit on his fingertip. He pointed at Shen and fired a beam off. Shen managed to dodge partially, but was impaled in the shoulder. The beam hit the ocean and exploded creating a gigantic crater in the water bigger than Magnolia.
"Sorry I haven't quite got the aiming down on that attack. Let's try again. DEMON DRAGON SUPERNOVA BEAM!" He recreated thee sun as if it was nothing and compressed it. He fired it again. He hit Shen in the leg this time. "SMOKE JADE DRAGON GAS JIREUGI!" Shen's hand turned into jade he shot it off like a rocket with smoke propelling through the air. He hit Zeth straight on, but he didn't move an inch.
"Was that an attack? Let me show you an attack. DEMON DRAGON DEVILS FURY!" He blasted a barrage of dark energy blasts at Shen. He jumped into the air and jumped off them to get extra height, but each time he hit one it exploded. One of them hit him and he was sent out over the water. Zeth flew through the air and grabbed him holding his head over the abyss he'd created. Shen's body was hanging limb in Zeth's hand.
"This is the end. Take one last look at what you tried to save. See how you failed them. Look at the despair in their eyes," He forced Shen to look out over the city where we were all looking at him. All the citizens and the wizards of Fairy Tail. Shen's been defeated. We lost. Just how strong was he?
"This should be far enough."
"What are you blabbing about now?"
"You're lucky. You will be the first person to ever experience me at my strongest."
"Shut up punk. You're about to die! Any last words?" Shen smiled.
"I've got two," Everyone awaited eagerly for what he was going to say. After what felt like an eternity, he finally said the two words we'd secretly wanted to hear.
"DRAGON FORCE!" His body began glowing lime green. He opened his eyes and they were the purest jade green I've ever seen. His hair started flowing like it was underwater. His nails and fangs became the same green as his eyes. He gently grabbed a hold of Zeth's hand and slowly removed it like as if Zeth wasn't even holding on him. Zeth quickly backed away.
"No way you're that much more powerful now. You don't even look that different," Zeth leapt forward again, and tried hitting Shen. Shen held up a finger and touched Zeth's hand coming at him. It stopped completely and Shen pushed a little causing Zeth to be flung back.
"This isn't possible. No way you're that strong. DEMON DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART: HYPER NOVA OF OBLIVION!" This time he used both his hand, created an enormous ball of dark matter twice the size of the previous, and once again compressed it so much he could hold it in his hands. He fired it as a massive beam of black matter. Shen merely put up a hand and grabbed the beam stopping the explosion from even happening.
"Dragon force isn't a power to be taken lightly. Once one has acquired it, he or she spends his entire life perfecting it. It is not just a temporary power boost. It's a state of mind. The more chaotic the mind the more apparent the look. I have spent the entirety of my afterlife perfecting this technique. And yet, I have still yet to master it completely. PERFECT JADE DRAGON CLEANSING SWORD MASAMUNE!" (Note: much like muramasa, masamune was a katana from legend, this sword however refused to cut anything pure and good only cutting that which truly needed to vanish from the world) His forearm turned into a normal sized katana blade made from pure jade.
"That was a bunch of nonsense. Magic is about power and nothing less. State of mind. You won't be able to touch me with that blade let alone hurt me with it," Shen was suddenly standing a couple of meters behind Zeth. After about ten seconds of complete silence, a massive gust of wind blew in Shen's direction. All the water below them split in two right along the path Shen had taken. Zeth started screaming his body began emitting a massive burst of black energy in a column. The column expanded and it was 20 meters in diameter and went up and down as far as the eye could see. It collapsed in on itself on a single point on Zeth's body.
"It can't be. I can't be defeated. I will return Shen and then we'll finish this. That little guy down there will surpass you with my help," with his last words the energy exploded out again obliterating him. The explosion reached the shore of Magnolia, but didn't destroy any of the city. The shockwave however could be felt even at the far other end of Magnolia. It was finally over. Zeth was defeated all thanks to Shen. He came floating down to the shore and went out of his dragon force form. I limped up to him.
"Are you alright Jack? You had a pretty tough fight."
"Are you kidding me!? You had it a million times worse. I've never seen anything like that. How did you do it?"
"I trained for 500 years straight on perfecting it, but it is still not pure enough. You can still tell when I'm using dragon force."
"That doesn't matter at all, but please tell me what the hell that attack was," That was what I was most curious about.
"The perfect jade dragon cleansing sword masamune cleanses all evil from whatever it touches. Zeth's soul was pure evil. I've never encountered anything like it before. Almost like, he was a pure evil version of you. Allow me to escort you back to the guildhall," He picked me up and suddenly we were at the guildhall. Or rather, what was left of it.
"Everyone. I am truly sorry for not being here fast enough. Because of me you've all been hurt and your guildhall is destroyed, but unfortunately the only place Mavis was able to send me was Tenrou island. It was the only place that had enough magic energy to contain my real form," He bowed deeply in shame even though he just saved our guild. No, scratch that. Fiore from Zeth.
"Wait. Tenrou Island? Isn't that like three days by boat from Magnolia. When did you get sent here?" Levy asked after going through it in her head.
"I was sent here 1 hour and 15 minutes ago. I am sorry again," he bowed once more.
"AN HOUR AND FIFTEEN!" Everyone yelled in surprise.
"Hold on. If this battle has been going on for about an hour and a half and you got here when we were all knocked out, which was 45 minutes into the battle. That means you made a three days boat trip, on foot, in just 45 minutes," Silver proclaimed. Everyone's jaw dropped and they all just looked at him.
"As a show of apology I will ask of you to let me rebuild your guildhall. I have approximately five hours left before I disappear. You all need your rest. You've had a tough battle today.
"Wait a second somethings been bugging me. How are you even here? You said you could only come to this world once every 100 years. As far as I remember 100 years didn't pass since we last saw you," Gray asked out of confusion. Everyone started discussing that it was actually true.
"Very well observed. You're master Mavis is a truly fantastic person. Her and my students Drake and Zane put all their energy together and created a small window I could use to get into this world, but I can only stay here for six hours. Luckily that was enough to defeat Zeth. You should be very thankful you have such amazing guild masters. Now if you'll excuse me I have a guildhall to rebuild. He started running around and grabbing the pieces of the guildhall that were still remotely intact. He reached down for a piece and Makarov grabbed the same piece.
"We will all help you rebuild the guildhall. It is our pride and joy. But thanks for the offer," he pointed back towards all of us.
"Alright everyone. Put the stone over there and the wood over there," we were already beginning to collect everything.
"In that case would you mind if I talk to one of your children."
"Of course. You are pretty much my superior at this point. Hoho," Shen bowed and went over to the group working hard to rebuild everything. To rebuild our home. Fairy Tail!