The Tenrou Group Lives On - Chapter 24 – The truth?
What happens if Natsu, Mirajane, and Erza gets left behind? The guild is gone. There's only three people left to protect Fairy Tail for 7 years. Theres only three members of Fairy Tail to take control and run Fairy Tail till they return. Natsu must become the guild master until they return.
Natsu x Mirajane x Erza
Two breathtaking blurs clashed against each other. The sound of a sharp edged sword scraping against a claw on a demon was heard as both figures rushed at each other once more. The demon used her claw to block the swords women blow again as they repeated there actions and huffed. Sweat poured down there faces as there eyes showed how much they were both determined to win this fight.
The red headed armor clad women who was duel wielding her swords graced across the sky with a scream as she rushed the women who she had fought once in the past. She was sour at what the demon had turned into from her previous form, now seeing this form made her want to how strong she was. Erza Dragneel was going to do what ever she could to return the demon she was fighting again back to human.
"Erza!" The demon roared with lust as she felt her muscles shake. Her blood was pumping and breathing was taxed as once again she thrusted forward her hand that was now her claw. She didn't care about the pain, she only thought of winning, and ripping apart the women that stood between her and victory.
'Minerva..' Erza thought as she sighed and prepared herself. How could someone so mighty, so strong fall to the depths she was at now. Letting Tartarus change her into a demon? How disgusting and vile that was. 'I will!' Erza thought once more as her brown eyes lit up, a new goal arose as it took priority over going after Kyouka. "Minerva.. I will bring you back!" Erza roared as she soared straight towards the demon. What had driven that women to do that, she didn't know but it seemed she might be finding out soon.
Metal against claw struck as white sparks flew all around them. There attack broke the ground under them as the pillars that Kyouka had stood on began to crumble and crack. Brown dust flew into the air as they were blanketed by the dirty mist that know clouded there vision. Erza closed her eyes without a second thought as she perked up her ears and focused them.
Only the sound of wind already blowing the smoke away could be heard at first. But in seconds she could hear a faint breath. Crack. With a smile on her lips Ms. Dragneel turned to the right as she went towards the right and felt pressure of a sharp claw aiming for her side with her very sword. As they did so the wind finished flowing the smoke to reveal Erza's swords locked between Minerva's struggling claws.
"It's Neo Minerva!" Minerva screamed as she pulled her claw out of the lock and brought the arm back to thrust it back towards Erza.
With a glance she already knew Erza was going to block so she decided to start using her magic. "Territory!" Minerva suddenly yelled as her and Erza's body began to glow as they disappeared and switched places. Under the confusion Minerva quickly broke through Erza's defense and let her claw drag away at her sweaty dirty skin.
"Gah!" Erza yelled as she winced and pain ran through her body. Minerva's sharp edges claw dragged along her skin as it made long cuts. Red ruby blood slowly dripped form the new wound as Erza gave another huff of breath.
Erza didn't let the new wound stop her, she quickly retaliated with her swords as she thrusted one at Minerva's claw and the other towards her chest. She watched as the demon jumped back to dodge the attack but Erza kept pressure up as she took a step forward herself and brought her swords against Minerva's claws. A scraping sound was heard as both human and demon growled at each with there equal strength trying to push each other back. Neither of them budged as a smirk appeared on Erza's face.
"Why.." Erza muttered under her breath as she arms shook violently. She was using all her strength to hold back Minerva as she saw her eyes light up for a second.
"Because.. I am the ultimate Mage!" Minerva screamed as she pushed up with her claws and both of them pushed back to dodge each other's attack.
Boom!
As they separated, a massive explosion of magical power exploded in the distant of familiar magic. Both of them looked over for a glance at what happened but couldn't see anything from there area.
'Mira.. stay safe.' Erza thought to herself as she knew exactly who that magic belonged to. 'If Mirajane is going all out, it's about time I do to!' Erza thought as she brought her right foot back behind her left. She began to quickly focus her magical power as it began to soar like a eagle.
"Minerva.. you have fallen, but let me show how to stand up again, and walk the right path!" Erza screamed as she became enraged and her magical power began to surge fourth. Right away she bursts forward and instantly got to Minerva. The next second the back of her sword was slamming into Minerva's undefended bare side.
"Gah!" Minerva screamed in agony as she felt the hard object slam into her before she could even register what was going on. 'How.. how does she do it?' Minerva wondered to herself as she saw the monster women before her. When ever she was equal to this women, things would go wrong. One second she's on even terms, the second.. she was falling hopelessly.
Every movement she did was at her peak, gracefully she's danced across the battle field as her enemy was ripped to part. Every attack hit its target as her swords pushed and degraded Minerva. Erza was pushing everything she had to rip her to shreds, nothing would hold her back now, and she would bring her enemy from the Grand Magic Games back to being human.
"Why fight.. why did you fall this low?!" Erza suddenly screamed as the words hung in the air and she watched as her opponent stopped moving.
Like bells jingling in the breeze, the noise rung through her entire body as she shivered as if suddenly the world had switched seasons, and it had became winter. Her mind began to swim around in circles in a endless ocean as she tried to remember why she was fighting. 'To be strong..' Minerva thought as her heart beat began to increase rapidly. That wasn't it.. Why was she fighting? 'To show my father I am the strongest..?' Minerva thought again as her mind went foggy and she began to scream.
Horrid terrible memories from her childhood began to flow back. She remembered what her father did to her, all the nasty red ruby blood, and the life to death situations. Her childhood wasn't pleasant, it was a nightmare that she wanted to stop. It was like a story that she was the damsel in distress that needed to be saved by a knight. Now.. a red haired knight was standing in front of her with her swords ready to strike, her knight had arrived.
"Walk the right path!" Erza screamed as her swords glowed red and they slashed out. As each sword hits its target she could feel her enemy collapsing down towards the ground. The fight was over.
Minerva's eyes were blinded at first. But soon her vision came back as at first she saw the night sky with the millions glistening stars shining so bright high in the air. A single tear began to roll down her cheek as she thought of what happened. She wasn't able to see it, her knight was so fast and strong. As she fell towards the ground she felt her body began to feel warm. A warmth that she hadn't ever felt. The warmth of someone saving her. 'So.. this is how it feels.. I'm glad I was able to feel it before I die.' Minerva cried to herself as the new found feeling made her happy. But with Tartarus' plans in motion.. they wouldn't be living long.
She watched the demon collapse, her knees together on the ground, and there tears begin to fall like a waterfall. They ran down her cheek and showed proof that maybe her human side was still inside of her. Erza watched with a small saddened smile as the fight finished and she could breath normally once more. Her body know ached as she began to sooth her nicks and cuts along her body. "Minerva.." Erza whispered under her breath as she watched the her rival from the Grand Magic Games cry.
"Thank you.." Minerva cried. "Thank you.. For saving me.." She continued. "I'm weak.." She began to say as she wiped away her tears that stained her cheeks and looked up towards the red headed women. The knight wasn't just strong, she had a family, loved ones, and people who cared for her. Not like she did. She didn't have a guild or a family.
"Weak?" Erza repeated out loud with a question as she began to giggle. "Your not even close to being weak, your one of the strongest people I know. At the Grand Magic Games you proved that." Erza explained as she went over the time she saw Minerva soar and show how truly strong she was.
"B-but-." Minerva began to say something else to demoralize herself even more but was cut off.
"Minerva, you have a family to go to, and friends that want you home." Erza explained once more as her mind went straight to Sabertooth. Sabertooth was the guild that was restarted and now from what she heard was walking down a new path. A guild that was now chasing after how Fairy Tail lived and was.
"Family.." Minerva repeated as her mind flashed back to her friends. Yukino, Orga, Rufus, and many other members began to flood her mind as she smiled. Yeah.. she did have friends and family that she wanted to return home to.
Erza smiled as she saw something cross Minerva's lips that changed to become something beautiful. A happy smile with blushing red cheeks made Minerva look human and someone who was ready to follow down a new path. The right path..
"Come on.. I think it's about time to kick Tartarus' ass and go home." Erza announced as she brought her hand towards Minerva for her to take it and stand up as a human, no longer a demon.
'She really was my Knight in shining armor..' Minerva thought as she looked up towards Erza and saw her friendly hand waiting to help her up. "Thank you.." Minerva whispered as she gripped Erza's hand and together with both of there strengths Minerva was pulled back up to her feet and ready to walk once more.
"What a horrible ending.. blood wasn't even spilled.." Mard Geer sighed as he spun in mid air and dodged Natsu's fist from impacting him into the ground. As he spun he gave Natsu a chuckle as he was able to feel the fight between Erza and Minerva end in a poorly state of neither of them dying.
"What's that suppose to mean..?" Natsu muttered with a breath as he used his fire on his feet to propel him back towards Mard Geer after missing his initial attack. He tried to follow up but Mard Geer quickly slipped out from in front of him and laughed. 'He's not even serious..' Natsu thought to himself as he watched him. But he was also in the same boat as he wasn't going all out as well. What made him more curious was the book he kept tightly in his hand.
"It simply means there isn't enough blood being spilled among this battle field.." Mard Geer sighed as he looked at the mere human trying to fight him. He was most surprised at this particular human as he could feel earlier that he was much stronger, but now that output he was showing was much smaller. 'I wonder why he's holding back for..' Mard Geer thought to himself and shrugged. It didn't matter, if the human didn't get serious soon.. he would be dead.
"You know.. blood doesn't always have to be spilled in a battle. It could always end peacefully.." Natsu informed the king of the underworld as he stood in the spot he had been for a bit. He sighed and could feel how his wives and his family was doing. Erza's magic was dropping but she seemed to be in no danger, Mirajane's was a bit different as he could feel no magic from her or how she was doing which worried him, Ultear and Meredy were magically exhausted, Gray he could feel was fighting someone strong, and the others were to far away or he was having issues telling.
"I'm a demon.. or did you some how forget?" Mard Geer laughed as he blinked and began to move when he saw the dragon slayer taking off towards him. Without another word both were back in action as steaming hot fire appeared behind him and he was forced to run towards the Fairy Tail Guild Master. But like an instinct he dodged sideways to avoid a powerful fist.
Natsu smirked as he saw Mard Geer easily avoid every single one of his attacks. To be honest he shouldn't have been surprised. He was already 10 minutes into this battle and he already felt out his enemy. Now that he knew how he moved he was able to react better to his opponents attacks, but that was also the same to Mard Geer.
With a single step, Mard Geer pushed himself into the air as he kept his eyes locked on his opponent. As he watched him he saw how he moved, the dragon slayer was trying something.
"Time to make things a bit hotter in here.." Natsu muttered with a low voice as steam escaped his mouth. A small smirk then appeared on his face as he called out a spell he loved using. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu screamed with his two hands coming to his face and then suddenly a volley of circle flames were shot off towards the unexpected demon in the air.
Seeing the stream of fire hustling towards him made him happy, it seemed the fire dragon slayer was warmed up. Now he was finally getting serious. With a wave, a vine broke out from the ground and shielded him as the flames spewed all around him. The vines quickly began to burn as he smirked and used the last of the decaying vines to push himself back towards the ground. Once landed he had a second to realize that Natsu was already in his face.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu called out as flames swirled around his right fist and it impacted right into Mard Geer who was jolted up as Natsu was already aiming his left fist right into his stomach. It slammed the demon across the room that they were in as he hit the stone gray wall and fell down.
"So.. the dragon slayer was holding back." Mard Geer began to laugh as slowly pulled himself up to his feet. He slowly used his hand to brush the specs of dirt off his jet black coat as he looked at Natsu with a demonic smile crossing his lips. The punches barely even effected him.
"Heh.. maybe I was, but so were you." Natsu replied back with a grin, his fires rolling over his hands as they burned and we're ready for anything coming.
Mard Geer stood still for a few seconds before looking over at the book of E.N.D he had slipped away to put down in-between fighting Natsu. Tartarus's goal was to bring there guild master back, but at this rate of how many of them were falling. It didn't look good, it was becoming quite a horrible situation they were putting them selves in. But it was about time he took out the trash.
"E.N.D, do you know what that book means to us?" Mard Geer spoke aloud as he walked over to the book and slowly picked it up while looking at the rugged cover of it. It had dust, grime, and a old worn look over the front. But the spine of the book which had the labels of E.N.D looked sturdy and strong but a facade that it was old.
"Not really, but honesty I don't care." Natsu began to explain. "By the time I'm done with you, face will have been stopped. So it's not like it's going to revive.." Natsu finished telling the king of the under world as he watched the demon smile and instantly appear in front of him.
Natsu reacted by blocking the first initial attack, but the attack after hit his side as he was forced to stay around. The next attack was a flurry of punches and fast moves kicks as they streamlined towards him. Luckily he was able to dodge or block the oncoming attacks until the very end. With the last attack, Mard Geer had increased his power as was able to send a sucker punch straight at his chest.
"Gah!" Natsu grunted as he lost his breath and slid back while grinding his feet into the ground so he wouldn't be thrown back to the floor. The punch was strong and meant that his opponent was bumping his power up higher. It really seemed this fight was finally going ready to explode.
After only seconds of recovering they were both back at it. Both were sending incredible power combos to dish each other's attack outs towards one another. A few missed and were blocked and others hit. Scratches appeared on both of them and there energy began to spike up do to the adrenaline. Both strong opponents were viciously strong as they went back and fourth.
It wasn't until mid fight when something truly mysterious happened. As they fought and Mard Geer now held the book of E.N.D, neither of them noticed were one of Natsu's punches got in when he was able to crack the demon's defense. By the time either of them noticed it was long to long. Natsus fiery punch was heading straight towards the book of E.N.D.
Shock, anger, and confusion rolled through his mind as what happened next took place. Mard Geer watched as Natsu fist hit the book, but instead of feeling the book be pushed out of his hand and go towards the ground, his opponent was hit by the punch and pushed back. 'WHAT?!' Mard Geer thought and almost broke his facade of not showing any emotions. In front of him he had witnessed the book in his hands be punched and at the same time his opponent hit with a punch he didn't throw. Things didn't add up, how could the book which was a seal to hold back the most powerful demon of Lord Zeref's do that?
"Oww.. What the hell..? Thought it was just a normal book sealing a demon?" Natsu asked in question as he placed his hand exactly where it felt like he punched himself. He was still trying to figure out how the book or his opponent landed that strong of a hit without him even seeing it.
Instead of saying anything, Mard Geer only did one thing and stayed silent. To cease any questions that were now running through his mind, he raised the book up in front of him and placed the cover towards his opponent; Natsu Dragneel.
The book began to glow deep red as only the King of the Under World was now able to see what the book was showing. What was in front of him, made him even more confused, and shocked. It began to overwhelm him as he couldn't believe his eyes what he was able to see.
The book showed a dark cloud with white lightning hidden above Natsu. But inside the cloud that was only being shown to him by the book, was a demon chained by bounds, and seals. The demon had pink hair and looked exactly like the human under him who was wondering what was going on. What made him gasp was the simple 3 letters on the chest of the demon.
"E.N.D."
"I see.."
Smoke was blasted out his nose as he sighed. Never had he hoped this would happen. Finding out the identity of that demon was horrid. It would cause issues once found out and only make a mess, but another mess much larger was coming. He could feel it. The cold shivering magic energy was nearing as another monster was on the way to them.
"Acnologia." The beast sighed. "Why must you come, but I guess it's about time your slayed." He then sighed as he slowly rose from the ground. His glistening red scales shinying in every direction. His century old scars showing his victory in battles. The beast was known over many regions and known still by many humans. He was a king, the monster that stood upon the top of his kind.
With his eyes looking up towards the sky, he could feel the others readying themselves. He sighed once more and could already feel the headache that this would cause all over Fiore and to the children.
With a gust of his large scaly wings, Igneel the king of the Fire Dragon took to the sky. He began to climb up as he soared high above the molten lava spewing from the hundreds of volcanoes on the land. Rivers of hot magma was going every way the eye could do as only a tiny bit of land and a single cave was safe from it. The sun shining down from above him was fiercely hot as never bothered him due to being immune from the heat. With a laugh Igneel continued to soar even higher. It was time for the dragons to return to save the humans, and fight back against there largest enemy.
Either they or him. The dragons were all going to war against Tartarus, then the largest fret; the unpronounceable king of the dragons, Acnologia. They would do whatever they could to bring the chaos dragon down, even sacrificing themselves. They had to, the monster needed to be slain.
The dragons were going to be joining the fight. With the chilling sounds of Acnologia voice in the air making everyone's skin grow cold, the largest fight of there lives was in store for them.
It's officially time, woo! Finally made it to the part I was waiting for! The part where I can get off of cannon and do something original!
With this started hopefully next month you'll all be seeing more of this story spear as my other story I'm working on "Unlocking the Frozen Flame" has only one chapter remaining an ill be writing that after this story. Then I push this story and finish it and work on Retell of Fairy Tail in between! Gonna be fun, though I'm still struggling to write as much as I would like due to full time work and college. Also another note.. sorry for writing such short chapters these days, I've been struggling hard to get time to write. Also.. HOLY, this story has reached over 1,000 favorites and followers! Thanks you for the support and i'm gonna keep going!
-ValinNight