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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

Disclaimer: I do not own the music that I listened to when making this, 1 Hour Epic Anime Music Vol. 1 by Gamming Warrior on YouTube.

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."

Kira looked at Rogue with a default expression. She didn't seem bothered by the shadows that rose off his body into the illusionary shape of a dragon. She didn't care that Rogue's eyes were now glowing in his crimson red irises. She didn't even bother to enhance any ability either, it was as though she was so confident that she could easily take down a dragon slayer with the abilities she's been using thus far.

"For you yes, me? Doubtful, dear shadow boy." Kira replied, and not a second later Rogue was charging at her.

"Shadow Dragon's Abyssal Blast!" He shouted as he ran, bring his fist together allowing a black beam to shoot towards Kira, who merely sighed in response.

"Just because you've upgraded your strength does no mean I'm any less immune than you." She tells him, opening her hand to catch it but is surprised to see it not heading directly toward her and instead smashes into the ground.

Kira stumbles away from the falling debris caused by his attack before turning and just barely brings her elbow up in time to plow into the shadow's belly that planned a sneak attack on her.

Rogue goes flying back but easily picks himself up without even a trace of harm on his body. Kira moves towards Rogue in monstrous speed before landing an uppercut on his jaw, sending him into the air where Kira continued with a downwards kick, plummeting his body harshly to the ground.

Rogue was up in a second though, and not a moment later he attacked the trees with a wing attack to send them towering down upon Kira. She however, merely caught one of the falling trees before lifting it and colliding it into the other falling trees, forming a pile of fallen trees.

Rogue shadow-traveled towards Kira once again, and just barely caught her flying kick towards his throat before throwing her into the air like a doll. He raced at her again, and slammed his fist into her side, but had not expected to have her grab ahold of his hand that impacted her hip, and merely twisted his hand until hearing a satisfying crack to her ears. She let him go before leaping up over one of the fallen trees to watch Rogue clutch his left hand in pain.

He let out a growl before he roared a whirlpool of shadows towards her. The shadows went straight through her of course, but Rogue had used that as a distraction as he appeared above her aiming a fist for her face.

Kira didn't have time to grab his fist from surprise and could only leap away from him, causing his fist to turn the tree into a million splinters. He turned his demon eyes on her, a strong growl erupting from his throat.

"I've grown tired of this." Kira spoke, before her form seemed to glitch and then she was gone.

Rogue stood and looked around for her, but all that could be heard was the slight breeze of the wind passing through the trees. And then, he was thrown backwards. He let out a cry of pain when he was thrown to the side again, and looked everywhere for a sign of movement, but every time he thought he noticed something he was attacked.

After minutes of being thrown across the field Rogue was left lying on the ground, blood soaking through his clothing from the attacks made my Kira. Whether by her claws or small spikes of dark magic, Rogue was now weakened severely and could only hold until his last strength in his Dragon Force form.

Finally Kira revealed herself to him, her hands drenched in his dark crimson blood. She smiled down on him, before slowly kneeling down over his form. She brought her left hand to his throat to slowly suffocate him, while her right hand went to just above his chest where his heart would be.

Rogue tried to squirm away from her, but her hold on his throat was so strong, and with every movement he saw black spots pain his vision. "Only one person could possibly defeat me, and that person is not you." Kira told him, before slowly sinking her nails into his chest. Rogue let out a grunt of pain, barely holding back a scream as her hand began to go through his chest.

When her hand pressed harder he let out a cry, feeling her hand worm inside his body, touching his ribs until she went up towards his heart. Rogue finally let out a shrilling scream when her hand brushed across his heart. It hurt so bad, his fingers almost missed what he was aiming to reach below the earth.

Slowly he used his strength to bring his buried katana facing the sky, and just barely launched it through the earth and into Kira's neck when her hand enclosed around his heart and was about to pull.

Kira froze, staring down at the blade that has gone through her throat before she yanks her hand out of Rogue's chest who let's out another scream of agony, before falling to the ground with her eyes closed.

Rogue clutches his chest where blood seeps from his wound Kira had created, and slowly flips himself over. He begins to cough out blood, but still tries to stand. More blood seeps through his chest wound and soaks his hand. Slowly though, he manages to rise to his feet and slowly limp over to Kira's fallen form.

He stared at her body a moment longer before whispering, "It can't be that easy."

With Lucy..

Lucy stared at Rogue's form as he stood over Kira's body. She knew something wasn't right, Kira's aura still remained. She could see it with her soulless eyes vision. She saw the living in red auras, and Kira's was still very much existent.

Which meant.. she's only pretending to be dead.

Lucy knew Rogue wouldn't make it out alive, but she couldn't just let him die. Even if it meant Kira knowing her position and giving her enemy the advantage. Lucy had gotten all the information she needed on Kira, and now she was going to go to Rogue, and try and save him before it was too late.

And with her last decision made, she leaps down the tree, landing gracefully from what an impact to the ground that would shatter the legs of a normal person, before rushing off towards the field in a sprint.

"Hang on Rogue, just hang on!" Lucy whispers as she sprints through the forest at top speed, dismissing her soulless eye vision as she did.

Finally she reached the clearing, however her eyes widened as she realized she was too late..

Kira..

In her mind the shadow boy made it easy for her. He believed she was dead, despite her aura still pulsing lively. He couldn't see that though, only people that knew it naturally or trained themselves to see it could see hers. Even with a sword through her throat, she really believed he made it too easy for her.

No one has ever been a real challenge for her, and no one would be unless they were at equal strength with her. And the only person that was like her, was Lucy Heartifilia.

So when Rogue leaned in toward her, close enough to just barely brush his hand against the hilt of his katana, she allowed her eyes to flash open startling the dragon slayer but didn't give him enough time to react as she grabbed his collar, and slowly pulled his katana from her neck before bringing it to his neck.

Rogue froze, believing she would slit his throat. Damn, he was a fool to think it was over. His throat was spared however, watching as Kira tossed his sword aside, far away from his grasp.

He stared into Kira's eyes as she stared into his own with her void of eyes. "Just do it already." He managed to rasp out, but could not prevent the flow of blood that seeped from his throat.

Kira nodded slowly, her left hand pressed against the right side of his throat while her right hand went to the left side of his head. Rogue closed his crimson eyes right before Kira added pressure, and snapped his neck. His Shadow Dragon Force disappeared, and he was pushed to the side before his body went completely slack, and the last of his blood left his body from the wound of his chest.

Kira smirked at his form, before letting out a chuckle which soon turned to a full blown laugh.

She turned suddenly, looking in the direction where Lucy stood. Her eyes looking at her in the same emotionless way she holds, yet her eyes sparked with a flame that represented anger, that went as deep into her soul even if her body could not betray it.

Kira ceased her laugh and eyed the black katana that was now gripped tightly in Lucy's right hand, the point tilted towards her as Lucy set her eyes on her.

Kira smirked before speaking, "Tell me Lucy, do you hate me when you know you cannot? Did you want to save your friend even though you could not feel the worry or fear of him dying as I raised my hands to snap his neck? Did you want to hate yourself even though all you could feel was nothing but the void in your heart? Do you want to kill yourself because you feel nothing for the boy who now lays dead beside me for the love you believe you would feel for him? Tell me Lucy."

Lucy's jaw clenched as she bore her eyes into Kira's. "I do, and to make it up to him and everyone I have lost, I will kill you. I will soak his blade I hold in my hand with your blood in his name and everyone that is dead here because of you." She told her emotionlessly, but damn did she want to feel the anger and the hatred she knew she would have felt long ago.

Kira laughed at her, before pointing at Rogue's deceased form. "Don't you know it's the ones we love most, that destroy us? Consider it a good thing you cannot feel what you would if you did not discover the magic you hold now. Because if you could feel, you would be as worthless as the boy."

"He was not worthless, the one who is worthless stands in front of me now." Lucy told her, getting into a battle stance.

Kira's eyes glistened in excitement before she too finally got into a battle stance. "This war is much more than you could ever imagine dear girl, and the moment your blood washes into the ground everything will be fulfilled as planned."

Lucy clicked her tongue, shifting slightly in her stance. "I have nothing left to lose now, but the least I could do is fulfill my last promise."

Kira stared at her a moment longer before asking, "And dear tell, what that promise could be?"

Lucy shifted her blade towards Kira, directed right between her eyes which went unnoticed by her. "To protect our family, until the day our hearts' stop beating."

Kira let out a full throttle laugh. "That can be arranged! Yet you are the first who I have met that have the same strength as my own. Why not join me? That way we can make everything ours and no one, no one will make us follow their laws and we can live without pain, and nobody will ever end up like us again!"

Lucy shook her head. "We may have the same magic, but we live and fight for very different reasons." She responded equally, her voice calm and steady.

Kira lost her laugh and smile, and instead frowned at her opponent. "I do not understand you, Lucy of the lost souls. Why live for the ones who hurt you the most? Why fight for them when they're already dead?" She asked her peculiar opponent.

"Because they're spirits will always remain in my heart, no matter how much darkness has seeped into it." Lucy responds to the Leviathan.

"Then I'll just have to take your heart to make you understand that your fighting on the wrong side." Kira tells her, hands turned to fists as she smashes them together, before popping them loudly.

"There will always be a wrong side if there is more than one. Everyone lives for their own reasons, and no matter what I want to believe, Fairy Tail will always be my spirit to fight for." Lucy tells her, rolling her shoulders that resound in their own pops as well.

Kira grins, and returns to her hand to hand combat stance while Lucy remains in her own. The two just stare at one another a moment longer before Lucy speaks a final time before they fight. "What is this magic called anyways?" She asks her enemy, who raises an eyebrow to her question but answers anyway.

"It's a lost magic. Your title is Lucy of the lost souls because your soul is truly erased of emotions. The magic is called Soul, because that is all that's left that makes us who we are." Kira tells her, in which Lucy responds with a nod before saying, "Well that sounds a lot better than Titania Lucy." Kira snorts at this, and the two meet eyes for a final moment of understanding.

And then, they launch at each other.

The last battle of the war has begun, and there is no telling where this will go for the two. Though one must remember, everything does not continue the way it seems in many eyes.

This chapter was a lot shorter than my previous ones. I know a lot of you are thinking of leaving this story with those that have left since the first death. I am quite positive you know where this story is going, but it will surprise you if you will just stick with the story.

My story is wild but it comes with reason, and those who remain will discover that everything does not continue the way it seems in many eyes.

Trust me.

Sincerely,

A Shadow