Notice: Hey readers, so this site has been acting weird with me while I was making this chapter. Sometimes it just wouldn't save when I needed it to, causing me to have to rewrite things all over again. It may be because of the length but I doubt it. Anyways I came up with the solution to just copy my work in case it doesn't save, and thankfully it was a very wise decision. Anyways here you guys go, sorry it took some time but I've been busy with school and dealing with my relationships. So I hope you like the chapter, or even better.. love it!

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R.I.P.

Gray Fullbuster

Jack Hollow

Lisanna Strauss

Erza Scarlet

Kagura Mikazuchi

Wendy Marvell

Alice Wonder

Millianna

Hibiki Lates

Hikari Kurai

Navera Narashta

Natsu Dragneel

Marine Lorem

Niel Narashta

Nelliel Deidre

Mirajane Strauss

Lyssa Erien

Kai Shimizu

Lyon Vastia

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R.I.H.

Kaius Damien

Crash Furi

Fayt Landis

Paranoia Lectra

Leah Cross

Judas Deamon

Rae Yasasshi

Kuchiku Grimm

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"Baka." Lucy mutters, perched up at the peak of a tree while looking over at the field where Rogue told her he was heading.. on his own.

She sighs and crosses her legs over each other and her arms behind her head as she leans against the trunk of the tree, easily keeping her balance without even taking her eyes of the field. She couldn't see much, but she could feel Kira and Rogue's auras. She had hidden her own but she wasn't positive she was completely hidden from the head leviathan.

She didn't even want to stay behind and let Rogue go out first, or alone. However she recounted on what he said to her when they picked up Kira's presence...

"You feel that?" Lucy asks Rogue as they stop near a large oak tree. He turned his crimson eyes to her and slowly nods. Lucy puts her right hand over her rifle about to unstrap it but Rogue's hand signal made her still. "No, I'll go alone." He tells her, stepping in front of her while still facing her.

Lucy fastens a glare on him. "Is it because I'm blonde, a girl, or because you think I'm just a weakling?! Tsk, and I thought you were better than everyone else." She bites at him, her green eye slowly darkening into a red hue.

Rogue looks right into her darkening glare and says, "Neither. Nineteen of us are dead, and we're the last ones left to finish off the last of Leviathan Skull."

"I'm aware." Lucy growls at him.

He gives a small and soft smile before speaking again, "The moment I first walked into that abandoned building I knew you were the strongest out of everyone else I've ever met, out of everyone else including myself, and not just in strength or magic power but your will to prove everyone you are stronger than they could ever think you could achieve, or that they could achieve."

Lucy's glare disappear but her focus remains on him as he continues.

"You have already fought two powerful opponents and are still standing strong and fresh on your feet. Myself on the other hand hasn't fought at all, and we're at equal strength currently, no, your still stronger even after the battles that the others sacrificed their lives to defeat. What my meaning is, I believe that your the best one to go against Kira."

Lucy nods but lifts an eye-brow in question. "Then why are you going first, Rogue?" She asks him.

Rogue's soft smile turns sad. "So you can watch and analyze her as we fight, she's the strongest but the least we can do is take advantage that there's two of us. One of us fights her while you watch to get to know what your facing, leaving us a better chance at not only winning, but at least one of us walking out alive."

"I can't let you do that." Lucy tells him as he finishes before adding, "You're the first decent non-judgmental person I've met in a long time and I can't let you die as a pawn for this war."

Rogue sighs softly and silently, his breath slightly brushing the front of her hair.

"It's our best chance against her, and giving you the advantage over her is our best course of action. We're here not just to stop the Leviathans but to secure the one's we love. Our family. Even though I know your guild has wronged you, they are still your family inside. We both know this, you just don't want to forgive them yet. I understand. We are fighting for them, not for the magic council, not for the good and the evil but for the ones we love in our hearts."

Lucy clenches her jaw but nods. "Fine.. you're right, I just don't want to lose anyone else." She says before reaching up to her neck and unhooking the necklace along her neck before reaching it out as an offering to Rogue. "But this is war, and we have to do what we have to do. Since your going against her alone, I want you to take this. For luck."

The necklace was on a long silver chain and had a quarter sized pendent at the end. The pendent was circular and looked as though a dragon's red eye was looking back at you.

Rogue gently took it from her hands before looking at the eye of the pendent. "What is it?" he asked her.

"I found it a while ago, in some old antique shop. The owner told me that the red eye was formed from dragon blood and over time hardened after thousands of years. It was eventually reshaped to appear as an eye of a dragon. He told me he got it a few years ago from a trading merchant and he discovered that the pendent has enchantments. For one it was meant for dragon slayers because it enhances your abilities. I don't know how but the guy said it was something about the blood knowing it's kin. It should enhance you senses as well, but that's all he told me so the rest I'm sure you'll find out during the battle." She told him, watching as he hooked it around his neck loosely so the pendent was just between his breast-bones.

"Thank you." He told her with sincerity in his voice.

Lucy grinned. "Your welcome, besides I wasn't about to give it to any of the dragon slayers in Fairy Tail, even Wendy. It wasn't doing me any good besides looking cool but at least now it can come into use."

Rogue nods and the two fall into silence.

"I should go." He tells her, breaking the silence.

Lucy nods, "Spill some blood while your out there for me alright!" She shouts at him as he begins to walk away.

"Oh and Rogue?" Rogue turns his head, looking back at her while still walking.

Lucy flashes him a real smile. "Good luck, saber."

He gives another small smile before turning around again but waves back at her and says, "You too, fairy."

Two auras then spike slightly catching Lucy's attention further as she leans forward, her body now tense as she gets to her feet but keeping one hand on the trunk for balance as she looks out into the field spotting two specks.

"Soulless Eyes." Lucy's eyes corrupt into black irises leaving a red pupil for each eye. The affects were perfect for analyzing the battle because Lucy could now see across the field to Rogue and Kira perfectly. However instead of her vision being in color everything was a light shade of black while anything that was living was red, ironically Rogue's crimson eyes were even darker than the red that Lucy saw him as.

Lucy settled her eyes on the two of them, more on Kira then Rogue and settled her mind on watching and memorying everything and anything useful on Kira that she could take advantage of. She looks at Rogue one last time before turning her eyes back on Kira and says,

"Give it your best shot, Rogue."

On the field with Kira and Rogue...

Rogue walked past the last trees into the field where Kira Tenshi stood, the women seemed annoyed by his presence however Rogue made no move to show he cared or would leave.

Kira sighed, turning to him and crossing her arms. "You get one chance to leave now and not die, I would take it if I were you." She told him.

Rogue looked at her curiously as he drew nearer before stopping just twenty feet from her.

"Why spare me?" Rogue asked her, his right hand near his katana handle just in case for sudden movements.

Kira chuckled, "Sparing you is a bit much, but if you must know the reason for letting you go, if you chose is because I don't care for you. I only care for one person."

Rogue swallowed silently before asking, having a good idea who she cared for. "Who's that?" He asked, silently hoping he would be wrong.

Kira smirked, "The only other one like me, Lucy Heartifilia."

Rogue knew not to ask more questions, he didn't want to know more anyways. Maybe she would try to change his view on Lucy, but he knew even if they were the same in magic and strength, Lucy was still fighting for the good of the people and not for herself. She's already proved that to him.

Nineteen of them are dead already, but even with Lucy's lack of emotion he knew she really cared for her teammates, even the strangers. Like him, she just couldn't show it how most would. She's been staying strong, and she needs to stay strong for the people and take on Kira and end this war!

Rogue stared at her for a moment longer before getting into a fighting style, Kira shrugged then before saying, "Alright, suit yourself for passing up your only free pass. Just remember there's no walking out of this alive." Kira told him, before getting into a weak stance, not really caring to go all out believing it not needed.

Rogue focused on his magic power and looked on at Kira before replying, "I'm aware of that, but I'll at least attempt to take you with me." He told her, watching as a slow smirk graced his opponents lips.

"Shame you're going to die but I see this fight is going to be fun." Kira said before flicking her left wrist back and in her hand appeared a glowing blue hammer that soon dyed black and red (no doubt was dried blood) immediately on contact. The hammer was jagged and bladed over the main structure to cause extra bleeding of the opponent, something the bloody angel just couldn't get enough of.

"Time to meet your reaper." Kira told him, before raising her hammer over her head and began spinning it to gain speed, then spun it in front of her, before rearing her hands back and throwing the hammer at him, doing all this in a matter of seconds leaving Rogue to act fast.

His body immediately became a shadow as he sprinted away from the hammer, his shadow form sinking into the ground into nothing more than a shadow as he ran to the right to look for a weakness on her non-dominate side.

He appeared on her right side, his right arm covered in shadows ready to strike her with his Shadow Dragon's Slash, however the moment the shadows hit her skin, the shadows literally sunk into her body as though they were being absorbed instead of injuring her.

Rogue froze for half a second in surprise, but in that moment of surprised Kira used it to use her left leg and kick him in his abdomen, throwing him back away from her.

Rogue flew backwards but back flipped and slid his feet against the friction of the ground before finally stopping, his surprised eyes landed on Kira, watching as the last of his shadows were absorbed into Kira's body.

Kira's eyes lit up in hunger to kill him, but also cruel happiness toward him as she already knew his magic from even before the war began.

"I know who you are, Rogue Cheney. Shadow Dragon Slayer of the Sabertooth Legal Guild. You should've realized that you were out-ranked the moment you walked unto this field." She told him, opening her left hand as her black hammer reappeared in her hand from the area where her hammer had landed after she threw it at him.

"It would take an army of your fellow dragon slayers to even wound me, your outmatched and you should've given up the moment I gave you the opportunity of escape. Instead you damned yourself, and the last of your allies." She finished, smoothing her right hand over the texture of her bladed hammer.

Rogue unsheathed his Katana, his only weapon against her now, but he wouldn't give up. He needed to give Lucy more time to figure out Kira.

"The magic of shadows cannot harm me for I am immune to them, and in every attack I grow stronger. A blade cannot defeat me, and you know this don't you? So then why do you chose to continue a battle that you know you will die in?" Kira asked him, watching him in honest curiosity. She had never met an opponent like him before, one that knew he would die against her but still fought.

Rogue pointed his katana toward her, and got into a sword stance, before answering. "Because I fight for the honor of not just Sabertooth but the people I have permitted myself to the citizens of Fiore." He told her, awaiting her next move.

Kira slightly shook her head at him. "You're honorable, but stupid. Why fight for your people when your just a tool for them and the Magic Council?"

"Even as a tool for them, I fight so that they can bring the laughter and the love, because without that we would be nothing more than objects. I serve to protect this life, even if I have to lose my own in the end." He told her, his voice firm and prepared.

"I see no point in protecting the love and happiness when it is that in which creates the darkness." Kira told him, rearing her hammer back once more.

"That is because the darkness has devoured the love and happiness for itself, leaving you as it's weapon in it's possession."

Kira stared at him silently. "Enough of this talk, being a weapon is the best thing that has ever happened to me, no love has ever been given to me so why the hell should I want it!" She grinned, ready to turn him into a bloody pile of guts and bones.

"In order to have love you must give some first, but I see that you have lost that ability the moment you let the darkness corrupt yourself." He told her, before bringing his sword back and charged at her at the same time she charged at him.

"HYAAAAA!" Kira roared as their weapons came into contact, Rogue's katana strong and well-built enough so his blade held it's own against the force of the hammer. Thanks to the blades on the hammer Rogue's easily held unto it instead of sliding of it. The two put their strength into their weapons as they pushed against each other like an arm wrestle.

The two were both very strong, however Kira slowly began to push Rogue back, her strength surpassing his own. Quickly Kira drew her hammer away before leaping into the air and bringing her hammer down once more, directly in contact of Rogue's katana as he used it as a shield against her.

The moment the hammer came in contact a loud ring rung out from the pressure. Fortunately the katana was made of the strongest mineral, and could not be broken by the hammer, however it could be pushed against it's user. Kira lifted the hammer once more, before brining it down once more, the force would no doubt be enough to overwhelm Rogue's strength and would be smashed by the hammer, unbroken sword of not.

Fortunately for Rogue, he had the strength to get out of the way but at the cost of leaving his katana behind.

The hammer hit the ground where Rogue once laid a second ago, but the force was so strong the hammer caused a crater, putting his blade at the very bottom of it. And as the rocks and dust fell into the crater he knew then his blade was not retrievable.

Kira landed and brought her hammer back once more, before charging at him. Rogue could only dodge and narrowly miss the hammer as Kira swung it a full three-sixty forcing Rogue to duck and slide out of range.

Quickly Rogue leapt to his feet and quickly studied the area and what he could from Kira.

Kira smirked, before throwing her hammer at Rogue once more, and immediately Rogue had an idea.

Instead of dodging the hammer like Kira expected him to do, he leapt unto the hammer, ignoring the pain as the jagged blades dug into the bottom of his feet, and used to friction of the hammer to push him forward toward the unarmed Kira.

Kira who hadn't expected this was unprepared to be tackled by Rogue, the two rolled on the ground before Kira kicked him off.

She summoned her hammer back, however before the hammer could reach her hand, shadows wrapped around it and brought it to Rogue, whose shadows held it in front of him. "You may be resistant to my shadows, but your weapon is not." He told her, forming the shadows to wrap around the blade and slowly crush it right in front of Kira.

The hammer was crushed by Rogue's shadows, and left to a pile of pieces of what the weapon once was. Kira's souvenir now destroyed. Kira slowly raised herself to her feet, and turned her eyes to Rogue. However instead of being angry like Rogue had expected, she was blank. However her eyes regained their cruelty and a smirk graced the bloody angel's lips once more.

"You shouldn't have done that, because now you even more outmatched then you were before." Kira told him, and began to chuckle as she put her hands together forming a circle by her adjourned hands. "You see, you don't know the magic I used, and I hadn't planned to use it. I could take you out easily, but you've intrigued me and I cannot wait to hear your screams of agony and defeat or bathe in your blood of honor. Besides, my hair needs a new dye job." She told him, grinning from ear to ear as her black aura began to form into the circle of her hands before forming into a swirling cortex, getting bigger and bigger by the second until it was a sphere.

"See if you can survive this attack... Death Orb!" She shouted the attack name before bringing her hands back with the orb and throwing it toward Rogue who stood just twenty-five feet away.

Fortunately the orb moved very slowly, but the moment it moved away from Kira the grass turned black and died. Killed by the orb as it approached Rogue, who estimated he had forty-five seconds to evade it. Problem was the orb took on a large range, and he wouldn't get far enough away from it in time.

Quickly bring his hands in front of him he put three-quarters of his magic into his defense. "Shadow Dragon's Oblivion Gates!" Suddenly one huge, thick, black gate landed in front of him before another came and another and another. Four huge gates stood in front of him, each as black as obsidian and stronger than any obsidian of existence.

The gates were made of multiple elements: Ununoctium; the largest element and the thickest. Graphene; the strongest element that can take 15,400 pounds of pressure against it. Titanium; the strongest metal in existence. Obsidian; given the volcanic texture and hold to keep the elements and metals together. Ebony; giving the designs of the gates. What makes the gate so strong though are the demonic hearts embedded inside the gates, passing on their resistance to death to the gate serving as a barrier.

If this defense didn't work, Rogue didn't what would.

The moment the death orb came in contact with the furthest gate from Rogue, it went right past it, carving a hole from where it passed through. The gate shook before crumbling into a pile of dust. The same happened to the next gate, but by the second to last gate, the orb slowed down yet still got through it. Finally at the last gate, Rogue could only hold his breathe not able to see what was occurring only knowing that three of the gates had been destroyed by the deplete in his magic storage.

The death orb dissolved halfway through the gate before shrinking until it disappeared, and not a moment later did Rogue's last gate perish. Rogue stared at a curious Kira, who's curious expression soon turned to excitement.

"Maybe this fight will be of some fun after all." Kira told him, before charging at him without further notice.

Rogue was worn by the excessive use of magic made for his defense and was distinctively aware that the death orb didn't appear to have caused Kira any amount of strain. He knew that she could use it against him again if she chose, and he knew he would fall the next time it occurred. The Oblivion Gates was his strongest defense and he could only use it once and couldn't use it again until his body and magic reserves recovered from the strain of using it which took two months approximately. He clearly didn't have that time, and was left with minor defenses.

So he did the only thing that was left for him to do as his best chance, go out all offensive. Kira didn't form another death orb or weapon in her hands though, seeing as she sent him her bare fist at him. He blocked her fist with his forearm, ignoring the sharp pain that went through his arm from the force of Kira's strength put into the blow and instead returned it with his own strikes. Kira had speed though and in every strike there was a block and a counter.

Rogue was practically fighting on defensive with her, realizing she was a master at hand to hand combat he knew he had to stick with magic. He only knew Shadow Dragon Slaying magic however, and he never expected someone to have a resistance to it. That choice most likely has caused his loss in this battle.

He knows he won't survive this, Kira doesn't appear as a mercy type of women, so Rogue is left to give Lucy as much time as he can. Hopefully she is watching with full attention, because Rogue doesn't know how much longer he can last.

"This is Kira Tenshi, though her given name by the number of people she's killed she is known as the 'Bloody Angel'. We don't know much about her, only that she has been killing since she was rather young, and was eventually arrested by the Royal Army and was to be executed. But she broke out on the day of her execution and slaughtered everyone who got in her way, including half the Royal Army." My eyes widened at this, the sheer strength needed to do so is unheard of. "She hasn't been spotted since, until the recent months were Leviathan's Skull revealed their presence. She is the most powerful of the guild." Hibiki stated. "To be truthful she is the absolute last person you would want to face alone, to go against her would take all of us, and that would be at our maximum strength." He told us.

He was right, she is the strongest opponent I ever fought, probably stronger than Skiadrum. I wish I could've proved to him that I could defeat my idol, Gajeel Redfox. I know he's with me, somewhere in my heart watching me as I fight. Skiadrum, spare me the strength to give it all I can against Kira, with my last minutes of my life so I can give Lucy the best leverage I can give her against her.

Please, she's the one who will save us all in the end. She may seem rude but I know in her heart she loves Fiore, even after what her guild had done to her, I could see it in her eyes she cared deeply for them. As though the side of her just couldn't let go of the friendship she had with them, like with you and me.

Father, give me the strength to do this.. please.

Rogue's aura became visible in his shadows flaming off his body, they pulsed twice before returning to his body, immediately shadow scales wrapped around his skin in it's unique pattern, his power waving off of him in ferocity. As though a dragon's wrath had taken the feeling of his magic.

His raging red eyes met Kira's own bloodshot black eyes, his glowing of determination and Kira's gleaming in killing instinct.

The shadows blazed off his Rogue's body before he ran forward towards Kira, himself armed with the last of his strength and magic he placed inside his Dragon Force, and ready for the last battle of his life, he believes.

"This is the final hour, Kira Tenshi."

Fhew, that took a while with all that saving trouble. It may just be my computer acting funny, I really don't know.

Next chapter will be up when it can, usually takes me a week tops unless my school decides to pull my exams early on me. In any case, be prepared. The story still has a long way to go, and I'll be sure to surprise you at every possible moment.

Keep reading everyone, live a thousand lives my friends, it helps to escape you're own when you need it most.

Sincerely,

The Reaping Wolf