The battle against Alexander continues! By the way, I started another FT fanfic titled Fairy Tail's God Slayer. It's an OCxJuvia story and it's already gotten more reviews and followers than I thought it would. If that interests you, check it out. And for anyone reading this who is a Dead or Alive fan, I wrote a Christmas one-shot titled Christmas Confessions. I can't write a Christmas chapter for this because that date already passed in this story and to place a chapter like that in now would be intrusive to the plot. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy!
April 6, X791
The four Dragon Slayers stared in shock that despite how powerful their attacks were and the marks they left, Alexander was still standing without any signs of exhaustion.
"Against any other opponent, you would have completely annihilated them." Alexander said. "But the combined powers of my clones have enabled me to become strong enough to take on a Wizard Saint. Earth Dragon Spear Trine!"
Three rock spears rose up from the ground around Lionel and even though they didn't hit any vital spots, they did graze him along his left arm, right leg and left heel. Alexander slammed his palms together and blunt portion of the spear closed in on Lionel, crushing them into their target. Lionel was wounded from the attack, but he was still standing.
"Ice Dragon Roar!"
An icy blast of wind blew from Frost's mouth and Alexander turned to face it.
"Lightning Dragon Heavenward Halberd!" Alexander shouted.
Alexander threw a halberd of electricity toward Frost that pierced right through the gust of ice and snow and struck Frost, knocking her back into the wall behind her.
"Water Dragon Talon!"
Jayden came jumping in with his leg surrounded in water, but Alexander simply motioned his arm as if he was swatting a fly and the sudden shift in gravity sent Jayden crashing into the ground hard even though he wasn't that high in the air.
"Forest Dragon…" Sakura took a deep breath.
"Gravity Dragon…" Alexander also took in a deep breath.
"ROAR!" Sakura blasted a gust of cherry blossom petals at Alexander.
"ROAR!" Alexander did the same thing, only instead of a physical object he breathed out intense pressure.
The overwhelming power of Alexander's breath attack completely obliterated Sakura's and the pressure of the attack sent her instantly crashing into the wall that was almost 50 feet behind her.
"I'll make quick work of you all." Alexander said.
Elsewhere in the mansion, Flora, Cole and Volt were flying around the empty hallways looking for anyone that got stuck in the crossfire.
"Do you think Alexander would go so far as to kill even his own family?" Cole asked.
"That wouldn't make any sense, though." Flora replied. "It seems like he only wants to preserve his family line. Killing them would only damage his plans."
"I wonder how many people either lived or worked here, anyway." Volt said.
"Based on what Jason, Jayden's clone, told us it seems like the only other Lexus relatives who live here are his parents." Flora answered. "Perhaps some butlers and maids, too. With a family this wealthy, I wouldn't put it past me if they had at least one or two."
"If there is a maid, I hope she has a big bosom." Cole said with his mouth drooling.
"Why are you so obsessed with human breasts?" Volt questioned.
"It all started when-" Cole was about to say.
"What are you doing here?" An elderly male voice spoke.
The Exceeds turned to look at a closet door where a somewhat elderly man with thinning white hair and a butler's uniform sticking his head out between the cracks.
"Wh… Cats?" The butler asked. "And you can fly?"
"We're Exceeds." Flora said.
"Are you a butler?" Volt asked.
"Y-yes, I'm the Lexus family steward, Alfred Holmes (Age 60)."
"Why are you hiding?" Cole asked.
"When Sayako and I were busy cleaning one of the rooms, we saw through the window Master Alexander massacring all the Rune Knight soldiers." Aflred answered. "We didn't want the Master to do the same to us, so we hid in this closet."
"There's a girl in there with you?!" Cole exclaimed with a little excitement in his voice.
From behind Alfred appeared a young woman with long, flowing black hair wearing a maid uniform.
"I'm Sayoko Yoshida (Age 19), the Lexus family maid." She said.
Cole was about to fly toward Sayoko, but Flora held him back.
"We need to focus, Cole." Flora said. "We're friends of Jason. Do you know if his parents are safe?"
"I think so." Sayoko answered. "But we're not entirely sure."
"Well, now's a good chance to look for them." Flora said. "Four of our guild's wizards are meeting with Alexander right now."
"That would explain the vibrations we've been feeling." Alfred said.
"Guess they're all fighting right now." Volt said.
Alexander walked up to the wall where Sakura was, picked her up by the throat and started squeezing it.
"You're all starting to annoy me." Alexander said as his grip on Sakura's neck tightened.
Sakura's eyes became more reptilian, her body was surrounded in a pink aura and her skin looked like it was being covered in leaf-like scales. She then pushed her foot against the wall and delivered a powerful upward kick on Alexander's chin.
*This must be the power she attained from her dragon's lacrima.* Alexander thought. *Forest Drive. Not only has her power and speed increased, but now she can enter Dragon Force at will.*
"Dragon Slayer Secret Art!" Sakura shouted as two large pink leaves formed in her hands and she charged at Alexander. "Dancing Spring Blades!"
She repeatedly slashed Alexander with the large pink leaf blades with swift, graceful movements without letting up even once until her entire body became surrounded in cherry blossom petals.
"Forest Dragon Oak Crash!"
Sakura crashed into Alexander, creating a massive explosion and Sakura jumped back. Jayden and Frost looked at her in amazement.
"… She's got the right idea." Frost said, looking directly at Jayden. "The three of us are Third Generation Dragon Slayers."
Jayden smiled and nodded and he and Frost stood up.
"Ice Drive!"
Frost activated her Ice Drive and covered her skin in icy dragon scales.
"Water Drive!" Jayden said before his body was engulfed in a blue aura and water appeared around his body, covering everything except his face and wrists.
Jayden and Frost's eyes also became like Sakura's as they activated their Dragon Force.
Lionel walked up to them. "White-Lightning Dragon Holy Thunder!"
Lionel charged lightning in his right hand and light in his left hand and combined them to form a radiant, sparkling blast he shot directly at Alexander.
"Dragon Slayer Secret Art!" Both Jayden and Frost shouted as they charged their respective elements in their hands.
"Holy Hail Swords!" Frost summoned forth a hundred ice blades that fell right above Alexander.
"Raging Storm Rapids!" Jayden shot two massive torrents of water at Alexander.
All of the attacks struck true and when the smoke cleared it appeared that Alexander was on his last legs.
"How is he still standing?!" Lionel questioned.
"He won't be standing for much longer!" Sakura responded.
"I really didn't want to do this, but I guess I have no other choice." Alexander said, circling his hands in the air. "Remember what I said about mixing Earth and Gravity Magic with Dragon Slayer Magic? There's one more form of magic I created."
Red orbs of pure energy formed in Alexander's hands and he raised them up into the air.
"Void Dragon Rain!"
Out of nowhere, red, laser beams fell from the ceiling and pierced everything in the room.
"What kind of magic is that?" Sakura asked as she was being pelted by the laser beams.
"It's Dragon Slayer Magic I mixed with the element of nothingness." Alexander answered. "The power of the void."
"I don't get it." Sakura said.
"The power of nothingness allows him to create objects from nothing." Jayden said. "Since those objects don't truly exist, they represent the element of nothingness."
"I shall end you all in one attack." Alexander said as he circled his hands in the air with purple shadows enveloping them. "Void Dragon… Feast."
The entire ballroom became flooded with purple and black muck that began to swallow up the four Dragon Slayers.
"What the hell is this?!" Sakura shouted as she struggled to break free from the muck.
"I am casting you all into oblivion." Alexander answered. "You will all wander the abyss for all eternity. Not even I know what awaits you there, but I certainly know that you'll never be able to escape."
"Gh… Dammit!" Sakura shouted.
Sakura struggled to reach Alexander as the muck began to swallow her, Jayden, Frost and Lionel. Before she could touch him, all four of them were absorbed into the muck which formed into a ball and grew smaller until it completely vanished.
"I didn't want it to come to this, but you left me no choice." Alexander said.
A/N: This fight and this arc will only have one more chapter left. After that are a couple of things I need to put in before I can officially start the Grand Magic Games arc. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Stay tuned for next time!
