"UNCLE!" I hear Erza and Gray shout back at me.
"Yes. Now you all know. I wanted what my brother had. I wanted a family full of powerful mages! I wanted to take over the world and leave them as my heirs! I wanted you and Natsu! I wanted us to be a family but your precious Father never wanted it. So what are you going to do now eh? Are you going to attack your dear Uncle while your brother and his lover are unconscious. You are bleeding from head to toe right now, I hardly doubt you can barely stand!" He turns to Gray and Erza.
"And you two. The ice-mage and the ex-quip mage. I already know all about you two. I can push you both down with a single finger. So go ahead! Try me! Because you are never going to win!" Zeref shouts and with that Erza and Gray start shooting magic towards Zeref while I put Natsu down out of the way and join in. Fire, ice, swords, kicks and punches are thrown everywhere towards Zeref. I try to hold him down my fire chains that held Gray in our previous match but they do nothing to him, Gray tries to freeze him but he just breaks through and Erza tries to attack with hundreds of swords and multiple armours but to no succession.
We are panting and bleeding profusely trying to forget our current injuries. Looking at Zeref you would think that puppies or small babies have attacked him! He has not even a scratch on him! We are drained of magic but we try to carry on anyway. In a matter of a few minutes, Gray and Erza are unconscious on the floor and I have collapsed. I have landed next to Natsu and I grab his hand knowing that this would be the last time that I would probably do so.
I start to cry knowing that these would be my last few minutes on Earthland. I have nothing left in me to fight, no matter how hard I try. This is it. I am officially going to die, or Zeref is going to wait until I am unconscious and take both myself and Natsu back to be forced to follow him! That is not the life I planned for you Natsu. I wanted to find you, to know that you had a good life and be with you to watch you grow up, find true love, marry a lovely girl – maybe even Lucy, have multiple children and live happily ever after with that life that you deserve! Anything but this! I can feel him walking towards myself and Natsu chuckling to himself.
"At last. You both will be mine!" I hear him and I grab onto Natsu's hand tighter as if he was my lifeline! He is still unconscious but I just have this instinct that he will protect me like all brother's should.
"GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY CHILDREN!" I hear a loud gravely voice shout out. I bring up whatever energy I have left to turn my head and see Master Makarov and what looks like the rest of Fairy Tail and other people that aren't part of the guild in the background. I look carefully and I recognise some of the guild marks. I see the boys from Blue Pegasus and everyone from Lamia Scale, Sabertooth and even Crime Sorcière! They are here! Everyone is here to help! I sigh a silent 'Thank you' to Wendy who must have summoned them all. Zeref looks up to the large crowd surrounding us now. I look around and still see that Erza, Gray, Lucy and Natsu are still unconscious.
"Ah…Makarov! Brought a few of your minions to see the show?"
"You leave my children alone Zeref!"
"Oh Makarov. Don't you already know? Natsu has already joined me. It won't be long before his sister does too and then I will have my complete army! Bow your head to me Makarov and follow me and I'll let Fairy Tail live!"
"We will never join you Zeref! Now let's end this once and for all"
Zeref again laughs "Bring it on!" He shouts throwing his hands in front of him causing a magic circle to form around his feet. Before we all know it, there are hundreds of 15ft black creatures with long muscular arms and legs covered in spikes with claws at the end, large horns on the top of their heads and large fangs appearing out of their wide mouths. They looked lethal but the moment that they appeared all hell seemed to break loose.
"Alright my children! It's now a free for fall but leave Zeref. He is mine!" Master Makarov shouts The sky is suddenly lit up like the night sky with multiple colours from spells coming from every angle possible. With this distraction in the sky, I use this opportunity to get myself closer to Natsu and try to move him out of the way but to no avail. I am just too tired and he is just too heavy.
One by one I see the monsters that Zeref created be defeated only to watch the other mages collapse with them from exhaustion. I watch as Zeref and Makarov battle almost to the death. Again punches, kicks and all forms of magic is thrown around throughout while they are throwing us all around like ragdolls due to the full force of energy running between the two powerful wizards. From what seems like hours later, all of the monsters have been defeated, only to see unconscious bodies scattered everywhere. The only two people left standing are Master Makarov and Zeref who both look like they are on their last batches of energy.
"Let it go Zeref. You are not going to win" Master Makarov shouts at him while trying to catch his breathe.
"Never. I will go until my last breathe." Zeref shouts "Which will now be yours" A shot of magic is trust towards Master Makarov followed by a bright shining light covering my entire vision. The light stays that way for while as I get my vision back slowly, only to see Master Makarov collapsed on the floor unconscious. I scream knowing what was going to come next.
"No!" I shout as I almost seal my fate. Zeref walks towards me as I struggle to clamber over Natsu in a bid to protect him.
"Last chance Nozomi. My niece. Join me."
"Never!" I shout and this time I know what I need to do. I try to gather as much power as possible knowing that I don't exactly have much left. I feel Natsu stir from under my grip as I gather my power.
"N..Nozomi" He mumbles. As he becomes more conscious, I see his hair turn back to it's normal pink, the scales disappear, his scarf turn back to white and most of all, his pupils return to his normal eyes. It is such a relief to see.
"Natsu….Don't say anything. Let me handle this. I need to create a dome that pushes out to Zeref knocking him down. Zeref is weak. I think one more powerful move will kill him."
Before I can say anything Natsu drags himself up and looks at me. "We do this together" With that he grabs my hands locking them in place pushing out whatever magic he has left and I with mine pulling on the magic I have managed to revive so far. We both gather our energy as Zeref runs towards us preparing a big spell to take us out.
With an almighty roar we both shout out "UNISON RAID! FIRE DRAGON MEGA DOME!" causing our surroundings to turn red as we are encased in a massive red dome set on fire. With one large bout of magic, we both send it out as fast as we can towards Zeref hitting him full on. This lasts for quite a while as we bring out every last bit of magic possible created from the adrenaline of the fight and the fear of dying.
All we can hear are Zeref's cries. All we can see is red and flames surrounding us. All we can feel is the magical link and the physical link between our hands as the unison raid takes its full effect. We keep going until we are exhausted. The cries have died, the flames have started to go out and we are left holding onto each other's hands, staring at each other directly.
"I love you brother" I say before everything turns black.
What do you all think? I don't normally write fight scenes so I hope that this is good. Thank you all so much for reading this story! I love that I can get this one out of the public since I've had this idea for a while.
Please don't forget to comment, PM, review, follow or favourite this story! Every action done gives me more inspiration to carry on! There is only one more chapter now for this story so thank you so much for reading this far! Will see you all next Monday morning (GMT time) for the final chapter of 'For The Love Of Family"
Because I feel like I need to write this now - Disclaimer:I am not Hiro Mashima! I don't own any characters or ideas of characters linked to Fairy Tail. I do however own the story idea and Nozomi!