Chapter 63: Resistance is Futile
A/N: Four. We are down to four total chapters and then I'm done. Except for epilogues but those won't be nearly as frequent. Maybe a weekly thing. So get ready, because here we go, shout out to sashaXmafuyuFOREVER as always for the review. NOW ENJOY!
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(Lucy POV)
Gajeel ran off to find Levy, most likely, so he can see where everyone is and then find his father again. Meanwhile I turn my attention to the two idiots in front of me who were fighting Aquarius and getting nowhere. I sighed and ran towards them, yelling "Open gates of the Twins and the Bull! Gemini! Taurus!" The two summoned spirits appeared and joined me in the fray, water and ice going back and forth. I ran up and brought out my whip, wrapping it around Gray's ankle as he was about to land an attack on Aquarius and I pulled his feet out from under him.
Then I spun and released some energy into the whip, then brought it down onto Juvia's back. It whipped her and wrapped around her entire body, she yelled out in pain and became water. She re-solidified away from where she was and ran after Gray who had been washed away from Aquarius. I scoffed at them and their feeble attempts at resistance and then, in a very out of character moment yelled at them, "Give up! Resistance is futile here! You are way too out matched here! Just give up before you get hurt, or worse! Give up!" I waited for a response, wondering if they realized just how fucked they actually were.
(POV Change to Gray)
We hear Lucy's advice and I think to myself, 'Damn she is cocky. But maybe she's cocky for a good reason, this is not going well, at all. Just with one spirit against us was tough enough, but three? And she is no slouch herself, that whip of hers has a long reach. And she is physically stronger now too. She might be right, resistance may actually be futile here. But we must try!' I turn to Juvia and ask her, "Juvia, have you ever seen Lucy go all out before?"
"No, Lucy has never had the need to go all out before, but this is her going at about ninety percent. She is focusing her magic on herself instead of keeping the gates open and that can only mean one thing. She is planning on using Urano Metria on us so she can end this quickly. She did not want to come in the first place, she wanted to stay home with her baby. But Natsu said that they needed to all be there and so she relented." Juvia said and the fact that she had a baby with Natsu didn't even surprise me, but the fact that she would resort to Urano Metria so early on did.
"Do we have a chance?" I asked her hesitantly and she sighed.
Her response came soon after, "Against these spirits yes. But! Not against any of her stronger spirits. We had a ranking system among the Ronin for her spirits. These spirits are what you would call tier two spirits, with Aquarius teetering on being in tier one. The other tier two's would be Capricorn, Sagittarius, Pisces, and Scorpio but barely. Tier three would be Virgo, Cancer, Aries, Libra, and her silver keys. Tier one would be Loke/Leo, Aruthur, and the Spirit King. If they come out now, we will loose and she can use up to FIVE of her tier two keys at any time. She can use all three of her tier ones at once as well. UNLESS she plans on using her variation of celestial magic where she borrows a spirit's power like in a unison raid. OR if she is using Urano Metria like she is now. If we can eliminate her spirits before she unleashes Urano Metria then maybe, just maybe, we can delay her launching of the spell and save ourselves. The spell is very powerful and could kill us if we're not careful, and she can't put any restraints on it. It is that powerful."
"Well this is no good. We would have to get a lucky shot on her or have her miss with her attack and have her use up all her magical energy at once." I said.
Juvia shook her head and said, "No, that won't work either. She can use Urano Metria up to four times without resting and while summoning her tier one spirits. We would exhaust ourselves just avoiding one of her attacks with that spell. And she would summon more spirits if we tried to exhaust her magic. Our best shot is a unison raid and it would have to be a direct attack. That is our only hope."
'Fuck. This is gonna be a tough one. A unison raid will work as we both have a deep enough connection. But the problem is getting a clear, direct shot at her. And making sure it lands as well. We will in all likelihood only have one shot at this, and if we miss we're done.' I looked at Juvia and sighed, saying, "That means we will only get one shot at this, if we miss it's over. You know that right? Maybe we should just surrender for now, live to fight another day you know."
"NO! We cannot give in here! Even if we die today at least we would die together! It is better than living with the shame of having surrendered! We are Fairy Tail mages and as such cannot surrender! Fight with Juvia, Gray-sama!" She said defiantly and held out her hand to me.
I looked at it for a second before laughing happily and taking it with a big smile on my face. "Your right! Let's go and give it our all and let the results speak for themselves! Let's go Juvia!" I yelled and we ran towards Lucy hand in hand.
She visibly sighed and said, "Aquarius, crush them please. They're giving me a headache. Taurus help her out, I'll prepare Urano Metria it should be ready in a few minutes." The big bull nodded and charged as Aquarius summoned a massive wave for us, and we kept going. Gemini appeared as well and transformed into Natsu. I sighed, knowing that was to melt my ice and we just kept charging. We reached Gemini first and I immediately yelled, "Ice Make: Diamond Sphere!" Ice surrounded Gemini and trapped him in ice so that he couldn't move, 'Thank Lyon. I remember you using that on Natsu all those years ago, so thanks.' We kept moving as Gemini kept trying to get free from the ice and reached the other two spirits.
Aquarius came at me and I dodged her attacks, her whirlpool of water missing me by mere centimeters. I run at her and yell, "Ice Make Unlimited: One Sided Chaotic Dance!" and a seemingly unlimited number of swords appeared. The swords flew at Aquarius and she simply melts them with her water, which is hotter than my ice. But I had not planned on it working in actuality, but it was a distraction as I got into my demon slayer mode. I charged her and she tried to stop me with her whirlpools but I simply froze them with my magic. Then I reached her and yelled, "Ice Devil's Prison: Ball!" Ice came forth from my hand and froze her solid, freezing her in the shape of a ball.
I looked to see Juvia finishing Taurus off with, yelling, "Wings of Love!" A massive whirlpool of water appeared and swept him away, leaving the path to Lucy open. We see her gathering magic with her eyes closed. Then she heard us yelling and then she opened her eyes.
She sighed at the fact that her spirits lost already and said, "I guess I'll just do this by myself then." She closed her eyes and put her hands up, then her eyes shot open and were strange, golden almost as she yelled, "Survey the Heavens, …"
We realized she was about to cast the spell so we charged her, "Open the Heavens...All the stars, far and wide..." We were still too far away to get the shot we needed so we kept charging, taking each other's hand. "Show me thy appearance...With such shine…" We got closer but I knew we needed to get a little closer still, but we saw her starting to sweat a little bit, "Oh Tetrabiblos... I am the ruler of the stars...Aspect become complete…" We finally got close enough and took our position, facing each other and taking each other's hands, "Open thy malevolent gate. Oh 88 Stars of the heaven…" She almost finished the spell but we stopped her by yelling out as loud as we could, "UNISON RAID!" A torrent of ice and water so large that we almost were caught in it came forth and was aimed at Lucy. Then it started spinning and flew at her, and then hit her. The water and ice had become like a drill and hit her at point black range, causing her to be crushed into the ground.
We waited for the attack to finish, and stood up. We stood shakily as we were now both extremely tired as we had put everything into that one attack and knew it had done it's job. The attack had finally stopped and all that was left was a crater and a badly injured Lucy. "YES! We did it Gray-sama! WE DID IT!" Juvia yelled and I turned to her and nodded happily. I took her hands and looked into her eyes lovingly, then kissed her for a job well done.
Then our moment was ruined as we heard clapping behind us and the person we thought was in the crater say, "Well done! Good job! Good effort! You beat Gemini who is seventy five percent of me! Good job you two!"
"Wh-wha-what? That is impossible! Juvia know that it was…" Juvia started and I looked in the crater to see Lucy was right, Gemini had de-transformed from being Lucy and was now the two small spirits. I looked to where I though Gemini was and saw no one there, and I realized it was a psychic projection.
"How did you do that? We were here the whole time!" I asked Lucy and she laughed at me.
"Well…"
FLASHBACK- (LUCY POV)
I see them whispering to each other and sigh, knowing they're mulling my question over at least. Then I realize that they are probably planning to use unison raid on me and I think of a truly genius plan. But then Gemini seemed to read my mind and said, "Let me do it Lucy. My transformation into you is nearly perfect in terms of power and I have your appearance down perfectly! Don't worry about me getting hurt, because so long as it's them I won't die!" I looked at Gemini and thought that it would be easier than a psychic projection of me.
Then a psychic projection of Natsu, I could tell it was missing a scar on his chin that he had now and only Natsu would mess up that obviously, appeared and the plan was now complete. So I looked and saw them stil talking and not noticing us and said, "Ok, listen up guys, and listen well…"
END FLASHBACK
(Still Lucy POV)
I looked at the two dumbfounded idiots and said "Well nice try at least. Now the battle can end. Goodbye." I closed my eyes and threw my hands up and I felt the power of all eighty-eight constellations coursing through me as I yelled, "Survey the Heavens, Open the Heavens...All the stars, far and wide...Show me thy appearance...With such shine. Oh Tetrabiblos... I am the ruler of the stars...Aspect become complete...Open thy malevolent gate. Oh 88 Stars of the heaven... Shine! Urano Metria!"
The spell came forth and crushed the Fullbusters. I waited a moment then turned and left, leaving my opponents to their fate as I heard Levy's voice in my head, "LUCY! Can you hear me?"
"Yup, what's the news Levy?" I asked her.
"All of it good news too. Everyone won. Natsu just finished and is ok. Rai and Gōsuto just got back with the saber twins in tow, and Esoj and Nena are here as well. Everyone else is at Beta base in the remains of Boa, so they are safe as well. That took you a while, are you ok?" As Levy finished her report and I smiled softly at the good news.
"Yeah, just had some fun. I'll be right there and then we can go home… Rai and Gōsuto destroyed the mansion huh?" I asked not really wanting the answer.
"Yup. It's completely trashed. But oh well right?" She said and I nodded to myself as my spirits came up behind me and yelled their goodbyes. I waved to them and they went back home to the spirit world.
"Yeah, we can just rebuild it. Lords know we have rebuilt guild halls before right?" I asked and realized I had just called our home our guild hall. Which it now was I realized and I smiled at that. Freedom was ours.
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A/N: No surprise here I think. Just because they trained doesn't mean they are anywhere near her level. They are nowhere near her level, Natsu is the strongest here and Lucy is not far behind. But where does this leave Laxus in our story? Don't worry, you'll see soon enough, tomorrow actually! Three more to go! Remember! READ AND REVIEW, OR FAVORITE OR FOLLOW EVEN IF YOU SO PLEASE! ADIOS!