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Chapter Forty Five: Era Finale Part One
"I should be close!" Natsu exclaimed as he ran through the cleared passageway. The rest of his group were still busy fending off the demons behind him, so he was the only one heading to where Erza and Irene headed too.
It didn't take long for the pink haired demon of Fairy Tail to arrive in the large opening. His eyes widened at the sight of the large corrupted device of Face in the far back of the large dome-like cavern.
"What on Earthland is that thing?" He questioned to himself as he looked at the weapon. Was this what the Legion was after here? That would explain why they bothered to attack the Magic Council in the first place.
Natsu then looked around the large opened up cavern, and managed to spot Erza in combat with the Inquisitor demon Zeraful. The Fire Dragon Slayer also spotted Wendy, Chelia, and Romeo all unconscious farther away from the battle between the red haired woman and the Inquisitor. This got him to be worried, thinking that the Inquisitor was the one who put them in that state.
But then he noticed the unconscious Irene not too far from him, as well as the state she was in. Natsu's eyes widen in worry and alarmed.
"Irene!" The pink haired male shouted in worry as he ran to the unconscious older red haired woman. He turned her over so she now lay on her back. The growing cracks of the Fel magic were visible all over her. Natsu could feel the demonic magic coming from her. Natsu could see that she was breathing, but even while knocked out, she was struggling for air. Just what did those demons do to her?!
Natsu knew he had to do something fast. If he didn't remove the Fel energy from her body then she was as good as dead. And he would be darned if he let one of the women he loves to die!
'But what do I do though?' Natsu thought as he began to grit his teeth in anger. He didn't know what to do to stop the Fel magic from consuming Irene. However a thought came to him. He then looked at his hands before thinking to himself, 'Hang on, I'm a Fel demon myself right? So I should control the Fel magic and force it out of her body!'
Natsu then put his hands over Irene. He hoped that this worked. Despite regaining his memories and powers of him being E.N.D, he hasn't done anything like this before. But he would rather fail knowing that he at least tried, then fail and have done nothing.
Taking a deep breath, the pink haired demon began to channel the Fel magic from Irene. The cracks of Fel energy on her began to fade away as the destructive magic was drained out of Irene and into Natsu. It was a bit overwhelming for him, never had he done anything like this, but Natsu wouldn't stop now.
This lasted for only a minute before any trace of Fel magic was left from the Scarlet haired Spriggan. Natsu fell backwards but managed to catch himself with his right arm before he fell completely over. He looked at Irene, but saw that she was breathing normally now as if she was now asleep. Natsu couldn't help but smile with relief, glad that Irene was going to be alright now.
'Man, that was difficult. I need to improve on this in the future.' Natsu thought to himself, knowing that he might need to do something like this in the future in case a similar incident happens. However the pink haired demon hoped it wouldn't.
The sounds of a sword and magic got the pink haired male's attention once more, as he looked up to see Erza struggling with the Inquisitor. Natsu glared at the sight, knowing that he needed to jump in and help her. He proceeded to pick up Irene and went to place her next to the entrance he came from so she wouldn't be so close to the battle.
Back with Erza, she swung her sword at Zeraful once again only for the demon to dodge the blade. The demon responded by using one of his floating eyes around him to fire off a beam of Fel magic. Erza blocked it with her sword, causing a small explosion to take place, covering her in smoke. Zeraful wasn't going to wait for her to pop out for a surprised attack, so he used all three of his floating eyes to fire off beams of Fel energy into the smoke. This also caused another explosion, only for Erza to appear behind them demon from nowhere and kicked the Inquisitor in the back, making him yell from the move. Not wasting time, Erza continued to slash her sword at Zeraful, getting more hits in as she continued her barrage of slashes. This wouldn't last as the demon then vanished from the spot and reappeared a few feet away from her.
Angered by Erza hitting him, Zeraful began to summon an Ice Spike from underneath the red haired woman. She managed to notice this as she moved out of the way before it sprung from the ground. She was force to keep moving however as the Inquisitor continued to do the same thing, not letting her get a moments rest. The S-Class wizard of Fairy Tail was too focus on avoiding the Ice Spikes that she didn't noticed the three floating eyes of the Inquisitor heading toward her. Erza dodge another Ice Spike only to cry in pain as three beams of Fel magic struck her right into her back. This got her to fall to the ground. Luckily she managed to get up and avoid another barrage of Fel beams from the three floating eyes. One of them fired off another one, causing Erza to deflect it with her sword. She then jumped into the air to avoid the other two eyes firing off another beam of Fel magic at her.
Zeraful grinned at seeing her struggle, knowing that she couldn't keep up the stamina for long. So the demon begun to head to Erza to resume his attack… only for a Fel Fire covered fist to strike him in the side of his face and hood. Zeraful looked to see the pink haired Fire Dragon Slayer glaring at him with his fists still alit with Fel Fire.
This got Erza's attention as she now saw Natsu had appeared. A large smile formed on her face.
"Natsu!" She called out in relief, glad that he showed up. She then avoided another beam of Fel magic from one of the floating eyes.
"So…," Zeraful began to speak as he looked at Natsu, "You finally showed up E.N.D. I was worried that I would have to end the party a bit too soon," The Inquisitor then chuckled, "No matter, you will meet the same fate as many others before you-."
Zeraful couldn't finish as Natsu dashed at him and slammed another Fel Fire covered fist into his chest. This got the demon to roar from the sudden hit as he put his hands over his chest to ease the pain.
"Maybe you should talk less and fight more demon!" Natsu shouted at him, charging at the Inquisitor demon once again with his fist set ablazed with Fel fire. He flung his fist at the demon, though this time Zeraful managed to blocked it.
But then without warning, the entire cavern started to shake. This got Natsu and Erza to be confused by what was going on. Zeraful knew though, as he grinned.
"Well… looks like the Face device is about to be activated." The Inquisitor stated with a grin, getting the two Fairy Tail wizards to look at him in surprised.
As soon as he said that, the weapon of Face begun to shake as well. The Fel energy from the markings begun to radiating from the weapon begun to glow as the face on the weapon began to move as if it was shrieking in horror. The weapon begun to move upward toward the ceiling of the cavern itself.
Up above the cavern in the city of Era, Sans was still engaged with the Doomguard Gavaror in the city's streets. But then not far from them the Face weapon shot out from the ground as it now stood tall toward the sky. His eyes widened in worry at the sight of the weapon. Gavaror merely smirked at the sight as he looked back down at the future son of Natsu and Irene.
"What a magnificent sight to behold!" The Doomguard mocked Sans who only glared at the demon flying above him, "At long last, destruction has come to this pathetic world!"
Sans merely gritted his teeth in anger with his left eye continuing to glow with his right completely pitch black.
"Enough of this! You've wasted enough of my time!" Sans shouted at the demon as he was enveloped in pure fire.
Gavaror waited to see what the red haired male was planning, however the fire died down only to see that Sans was no longer there.
"What? Where did he-?" The Doomguard began to question…
…Only to felt a dragon looking hand going through his chest.
The demon roared in agony as the demon was then sent flying into the ground, causing a small crater to form. Sans was now flying above the nearly dead Doomguard. However he was now in a different form.
His hands, arms, legs, and feet now looked like that of a red dragon. His face and the rest of his body that didn't completely change into a humanoid dragon skin showed only scales like that of Natsu's Dragon Force mode. Two large dragon horns also stick out of his head as raw fire enveloped him all around. Two large red dragon wings also sticked out of his back. A tail like that of a dragon's also was now present on the red haired male. His jacket, shirt, and flippers were gone, but his shorts were still present as the only clothing he had in this form. His left eye continued to glow like a uncontrollable flame with his left eye remaining pitch black.
This was Sans's humanoid dragon form, from which he gained from inheriting his mother's dragon essence despite her being fully human at the time of his birth.
"I'm ending this now." Sans spoke with his voice having a dragon tone accompanying it.
He took a deep breath before he fired off a full size Fire Dragon Roar at the bleeding demon. Gavaror could only look in anger and shock as the large breath of fier engulfed him. His screams were only heard for a moment until he was completely erased from the attack. The Fire Dragon Roar also completely decimated the district of the city of Era Sans was in.
He looked at the destruction he caused around him before he sweat drop from seeing what he did.
"Heh, guess I went a bit overboard with that BLAZING move." Sans told himself, all while making a pun about his attack being blazing due to fire. The red haired male then exited out of his humanoid dragon form, with his clothing once again present on his body. His eyes also went back to normal as well.
The ground shook once more as Face was powering up. Sans looked to see the large hole that lead to the cavern below where his parents and the others were at. He knew that the Inquisitor still needed to be dealt with.
Not wasting any more time, the future son of Natsu and Irene then flew toward the giant Face device to get back to the others to end this attack once and for all.
So… what do you all think? Good? Bad? What me to kill myself? Let me know.
In case anyone's wondering, or might question, Sans's Humanoid Dragon form isn't stronger than his Havoc Demon, they are the same strength. The only difference is that his demon form focuses on his demon power more, while his dragon-like form focuses more on his dragon power that he inherent from Natsu and Irene. Just thought I cleared that up in case anyone was wondering. Hoped I didn't' suck at explaining since I'm awful at that.
Anyway, See you all next time, whenever that will be.