Chapter 24: Mother Nature

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Start of Battles (Jura POV)

I look and see everyone running to the doors and I do not match their speed or enthusiasm, not that I don't want to fight but running out there and wasting energy is not wise. I slowly walk out with my partner Lyon and we make way to the arena, the walk not very far as it's only 10 feet away. "You ready old man? Or you need a minute to stretch?" Lyon asks sarcastically, but I don't smile or laugh at his joke, I know how serious this battle would be and I was very focused on it. "Hey old man, you alright? We got this in the bag! They got nothing on us!"

"Shut up. We must prepare for this battle very seriously. This opponent makes me uneasy, I'm not sure if we'll be enough. They are an unknown but had the ghost woman very nervous, according to Laxus at least. We should be ready for anything." I said and looked ahead and see our door, number four with the name Madre above it. "Let's go." As we walk into the arena I begin to relax my muscles and prepare for anything as I have never heard of her magic before. 'Mother of nature?' I wondered as my bro furrowed in confusion, 'what are the limitations of this magic and how does it really work? Well I'll find out soon enough, because here we go!' I walk into an open field and look to the center where I see the woman known as Madre fully for once and squint my eyes to get a better look at her. "Wait I remember you! We fought out in that one town up north! What was it…"

"Huh? Oh wait! The first person I fought when I got here! Ummm baldie beard right? We fought in…" She said.

"Wasureru! Yeah but that wasn't really a fight, we just kinda yelled at each other for half an hour before she smacked me in the face and walked away. Bitch. I told you I didn't know anyone called Padre Naturaleza!" I said as I shifted uncomfortably, she looked way to calm to me and unnerved me somewhat.

"Eh, whatever I found him obviously, so you ready to fight for real yet?" She asked totally disregarding Lyon.

"Oi, I'm here to fight you too! Don't underestimate me! Ice-Make: Lance!" Lyon yelled and shot his magic at her, I groaned at his stupidity.

"Fuego del Diablo!" She yelled as fire shot out from her hand and she melted the ice. "Really, was that it? Oi Baldie give me a minute, I'll just deal with him real quick. Tierra Firme!" she said as she threw her hand up and caused the ground below Lyon to shoot up and send him flying.

I groan as I have to save him again. "Talus!" I yelled and pillars of earth shoot out and surround Lyon protecting him from the attack and from falling down from the flight. He lands with a thud and charges her again, "Lyon, wait!"

He yells, "Ice-Make: Eagle!" He yelled as eagles attacked her and he follows up with "Ice-Make: Snow Tiger!" As a tiger appeared and followed the eagles.

The attacks land and an explosion occurs, I watch with anticipation. I see the smoke clear and she is nowhere to be found and I smirk, saying, "Nicely done Lyon! I really overestimated her! Well that was easy, let's go help Makarov-dono!" I was filled with a new hope for some odd reason.

"They weren't supposed to explode…" Lyon said and I look back in shock before realizing what that meant, my hopes being dampened quite a bit.

"Oh shit" I said quietly.

"Shit indeed." Madre said as she appeared from above him and said, "Pierdas Calientes!" Hot lava shot out of her hand and landed on Lyon, my heart sinking at the sight.

'Shit! Obaba will kill me if he dies! So will Sherry! Especially Sherry! SHIT!' "Rock Mountain!" I yell as I look and see Lyon covered in rocks and brought over to me. The rocks leave his body and have taken the lava with them, but it was a bit late as he is burned badly. He won't die but he will be badly scarred and never be the same mentally again. 'Shit. Poor Lyon, he really is going to be sad about this. I need to move him and get away from here.'

I call up an earth tunnel and deposit him inside, but before he is fully inside he grabs my arm and says, "Old man, you better win this for me, don't fuck this up like I did, she can only use her magic in close to medium range really. Don't get close unless you're armored up. She will try to kill you, so I hope you will do the same." I look solemnly at him and continue lowering him into the tunnel. He looks at me and says, "Don't worry about me, I'll live. Now go and get her back for me ok? I can't right now, I can feel the burns, Sherry won't be happy, and we finally had a date scheduled for when I got back. Oh shit. I'm so fucked. Hahaha." He says chuckling weakly, as he fully enters the tunnel and I turn my attention to Madre.

I was now thoroughly incensed about what she did, and I let the magic flow from my body, causing rocks to crack around me. "Ooooh, scary. Well now that the kids are gone the fun can begin, let us dance. Tierra Firme!" She begins her assault and tries to get me into air.

I dodge and yell, "Iron Rock Fist!" A fist of rock extends from my fist and goes towards her, and she dodges it and comes back at me, both her fists now coated in iron. She begin to throw punches at me at a surprising speed considering he fists were literally iron now. I continue to dodge her and eventually feel my back nearing the wall, 'Shit! She's cornering me. I'm going to have use my new technique.' "Iron Rock Shell!" I yell as rock surrounds me and creates a body of light rock armor, I had been working on this for three years now and it finally gets to see some action. She sees this and morphs the iron on her hands into knives and it resembles brass knuckles. She continues her assault as the helmet of my armor appears and I get as close as possible to her and begin my counterattack. We trade blows and we each begin to land some hits on each other. If I landed one on her stomach I got one to my side and so on and so forth, as the iron and rock only add to the damage as eventually pull back, and I realize she's barely broken a sweat, while I have begin to sweat a bit. Damn she has some seriously good resistance to that body of hers. I catch my breath, or at least try but suddenly she's on me, grabbing a hold of my beard, and pulling it and uses it to pick me up off the ground and send me flying into the opposite wall. 'Damn! She's still that fast! And that strong, just what is she?' I pull myself free of the wall and see her charging at me, as I yell "Iron Rock Spikes!" Spikes appear before me and she is unable to reach me, as I catch my breath.

"Tierra Suave!" She yells as the ground and the spikes on them turn to mud and she follows this up by yelling, "Fuego del Diablo!"

Fire shoots from her hand and the ground dries up and I have to yell, "Iron Rock Mountain!" As a mountain of rocks shoot up and cover me before the fire disappears and I charge at her and we trade blows again, this time I land a clean hit to her jaw and send her back a bit and follow it up with an uppercut that sends her up into the air and I follow her and send her crashing into the ground.

A crater is there but she is already up and charging at me as we continue our exchange of fists, this time she gets the clean hit to my gut and grabs my beard again and sends me up into the air and yells, "Pistola de Fierro! Pistola de Aceite! Pistola de Agua!" Balls of iron, oil, and water shoot up at me and hit my armor and chip away at it, before finally it breaks apart and the attacks hit my back and I feel the pain of the attacks as my back starts to get cut up a bit, and worse.

I feel one ball of iron hit my spine and it cracks a vertebrae, feeling the pain I howl loudly. I finally land and yell, "Iron Rock Mountain!" and I immediately see the rock cover me. As I writhe on the floor in pain I think to myself, 'Crap this is bad. I think she broke that vertebrae and if that's the case I won't be able to fight much longer, I will need to end this quickly. I could use THAT technique but it's risk, even with my great endurance I could lose my magical power before I finish her off. And I have no clue if she'll kill me or not when I black out, ahhhhh! What to do?' I then remember what she did to Lyon and my resolves goes rock hard, 'Yes I must use it. I must win in the ten minutes it will give me, and that's all I will get here. Already used a lot of magic today, ten minutes is all I can hope for.' I stand wearily and ready myself. I then see the mountain start to shake and crumble. 'Shit. She's about to break through, no time to waste then. "Supreme King Rock Crusher!" I yell and the mountain sweeps away from me and surrounds her and encases her in rocks, then crushes her inside of them, but when the rocks are crushed instead of her being hurt she simply lands on her feet and cracks her neck and takes a fighting stance, motioning me to attack her.

I look and at her and smirk and yell, "Iron Rock: Body Change!" I feel the bones of my body harden and see the look on her face go from smug to confuse as she watches my body turn into rocks.

(POV Change to Madre/Nena)

'What in the world was this? He could turn his body into rock? He looks like a golem if anything; he definitely doesn't look human anymore. Oh well, his body is harder now, not any stronger. I'll just have to crush him soundly and erode the rock away.'

(POV Change to Jura)

"Iron Rock Fist!" I yell and the rock fist extends from my arm and attacks her as I begin to move towards her, my body not slowed down by the rock bones much. 'But I am slower, I'll have to keep this battle close up, which is our expertise.'

I see as she dodges the fist and closes the gap and comes right up to my face and yells, "Lluvia de dos mil días!" and rain begins to pour down in the room, which she follows up with "Pistola de Tierra Suave!". Mud comes and covers me and as it begins to really cover me from head to toe she yells, "Fuego del Diablo!" and fire shoots out at me and I cover my face but realize she only intended to dry the mud and keep me in place. Two minutes gone, eight to go.

I flex my arms and rip through the dry mud and charge at her, yelling "Iron Rock Wall!" A wall shoots up behind her and is angled at her back, shooting her up. She is sent flying towards me and I continue to charge, but with my arm out in a close line, which she flies into and I throw her into the ground as she arrives into my arm. Three minutes passed.

She gets up and yells, "Pierdas Calientes!" and lava shoots out from her hands. I block with my arms but realize that she only used that to get my guard up and she hits me in the gut with her iron-coated fists. I am pushed back by the strength of her blow but stay standing as my rock body stopped the majority of the attack, but I still feel the force of her punch. She the yells, "Nieve de Temósachi!" as snow then covers me but is melted away by the rain that is still falling. Four minutes have passed.

'Crap, this rain is bad for my earth magic, I need to find a way to either dispel it or knock her out.' "Rock Wall! Continous!" I yell and rock walls begin to form and stop when I yell, "Rock Avalanche!" The rock walls crumble and the are sent at her and hit her, and continue do so until I yell, "Iron Rock Powder Explosion!", and new rocks shoot up and hit her in the shoulder and leg, all on her left side as she was able to dodge the majority of the attack. I watch as she falls to the ground and I feel the sweat building up on my brow and my energy starting to wane. 'Fuck. I need to end this quick.' Five minutes have passed, the time limits half way up I really need to hurry!

"Pistola de Agua, Francotirador!" She yells and instead of the ball of water that shoots out, a long and slender, almost bullet like, projectiles are shot at me, albeit at a much slower rate.

They land indiscriminately and I wonder, 'What's the point? My rock body can absorb all of this. Wait! I get it now! The rain, the attacks meant to keep me in place, it all makes sense now! She's trying to erode the rock body I have and get the rocks off of me! That's why the water is just hitting me instead of having a true target! I have to stop her now!'

I see that there are still enough rocks around and I attack yelling, "Supreme King Rock Crusher!", and she is again crushed by my rocks. This time she is a bit more visibly tired and takes her time getting up, but she still gets up. 'Damn she has more endurance than I do! She's tough I better hurry and use my last attacking technique.' Six minutes have passed, no time to waste.

I charge and get close to her and punch her into the ground, and I yell, "RUMBLING MT. FUJI!" The ground shoots up and an immense amount of magical energy is released, destroying the ground and, hopefully, her as well. I wait as the smoke from the attack clears and I see no one there, at the bottom of the crater. "Yes! I did it!" I yell uncharacteristically but well deserved given the situation and the severity of the battle. 'This was for you Lyon, I hope you know that. This is the power of nakama! Now to go and help Makarov-dono' I turn around and begin to walk away, limping a bit as the adrenaline of the battle begins to wear off.

"No, you didn't, Baldie." I hear these words and my body freezes in place. Seven minutes have passed and I know I can finish this. "You should never turn your back on an opponent. Especially one that is stronger than you. Fufufufu!"

(POV Change to Madre/Nena)

'Almost did though. If I hadn't sent myself flying right when the attack was launched I would have been crushed, killed even. Boy that was close, I will finish him now so he can't try that again.' "Lets dance Baldie!"

I turn to look at her and gawk as she is barely even scratched, 'WHAT! THAT WAS MY STRONGEST ATTACK! HOW COULD SHE BARELY HAVE TAKEN ANY DAMAGE?!' I am broken out of my reverie as she is suddenly on top of me and using her iron-coated fists, crushes me into the ground. I blink a couple of times and wonder, 'Did she get faster? How did she get faster?' I get up and get out of the crater she created by crushing me into the ground and that's when I feel it. The rocks have begun to fall off of my body and the pain of having rock bones become normal bones begins to set in. 'SHIT! NO I SHOULD HAVE MORE TIME! DID I REALLY USE THAT MUCH MAGIC AND TAKE THAT MUCH DAMAGE?'.

I howl in pain and she notices, using this to her advantage as she charges and using her iron-coated fists punches me, sending me flying into another wall and follows up with another punch and an uppercut followed by a hammer blow to my head. I crash into the ground and a massive crater is formed by it. I try and get up but lose my balance and fall over on my back and howl in pain since one of my vertebrae, er more now, are broken. 'Damn this is going to be a long recovery from this.' I say and look up and see her right above me.

"Gracias Baldie, you gave me the best fight I have had in over ten years! You really were a worthy adversary! Sadly for you, you still didn't get my full power, only about ninety percent." She said and I feel my heart sink.

I thought to myself, 'Damn only ninety! She completely outclassed me and she went at ninety. Lyon, Makarov-dono, Richard, and Laxus, I'm sorry. I lost.' That was the last thing I thought about before her fist of iron came and hit me square in the face, breaking my nose and my pride as I blacked out.

(POV Change to Madre/Nena)

I walk out of the crater, one of several that we made, and make my way to the exit to join whoever else has won. "Man, that was fun! Too bad he wasn't strong enough to make me go all out. One day, hopefully soon, we'll meet and you'll be stronger, and then we can BOTH go all out. Then you'll see the true strength of the woman known as Mother Nature." I look back one more time and sigh, wondering how Father Nature as the English speakers call him. 'Mother and Father Nature, what fitting names.'

(POV Change to Mavis)

I watch hoping that Jura could pull it off and we could hopefully reinforce the ones fighting Natsu. My hopes are dashed as I see the scoreboard light up and another point going to Ronin, it saying: Winner-Madre. We are doomed.

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A/N: Score is now Ronin 2 – Fairy Tail 0. Oh shit though, that battle was nice! It was back and forth and not even I was sure who would win… Just kidding, I knew. And hey know that only Madre's, an OC, and Jura's two moves that put rock on his body were not moves that Hiro has put in the story, the rest were Jura and Lyon's actual moves! And yes I did look them up, no way I could recall those from memory I'm not THAT obsessed, but yes I made sure their moves were real moves. And also, no deaths yet! So, will we go under or somehow over the three person death over/under? Tell me what you guys think and I be ready for a battle that is mainly Warrod vs. Padre/Esoj! It will be just as epic as this fight was! At least I hope so. Won't promise anything since it could easily be broken. SO PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! ADIOS!