The Demon Eyes of Fairy Tail

by Michael Shadow

Itachi is given a second chance at life for an unknown reason. He is sent to Earthland where he ends up in the tower of heaven, meeting a certain little red haired girl that becomes his little sister. Join them on their adventures with the Fairy Tail guild. Rated M just in case. I don't own Naruto or Fairy Tail. Re-write for chapter 1-33 will happen in the future.

39. Zeref's Mightiest Demon!

Chapter 38: Zeref's Mightiest Demon!

The brilliant light of Fairy Law, lighted up the city with its rays of brilliant light. The source of the light traced back to Magnolia's pride and joy, the Fairy Tail guildhall, or what remained of it. Two lone figures stood in a standoff, the dwarf old man whom was Fairy Tail's master, Makarov Dreyar. And a man, who's very presence felt like one had been swallowed up by an ocean of pure darkness. Madara Uchiha, the Ghost of the Uchiha clan, and the Etherious Demon of War.

Madara smiled condescendingly down at Makarov and his little threat with Fairy Law. Makarov kept up a brave expression, starring Madara down while charging up the Fairy Law. "I'm not sure you know of this spell?" Makarov asked, his gaze narrowed at Madara, hoping the brilliant light of Fairy Law would hide away the drops of sweat running down his wrinkly forehead.

Madara's smirk widened slightly. "I know of it, yes. Fairy Law, correct?" Madara's sharingan eyed the dwarf master, making him feel as if those eyes looked straight into his soul.

"T-Then you know what it does, this is a one hit kill attack. If you don't back down, I will unleash it right here and now! And wipe your miserable existence of the face of the Earth!" Makarov declared as the light grew stronger, yet Madara didn't even flinch.

"Tell me then…" Madara took a step towards Makarov, making the old master flinch a little. "If it is a one kill attack… why do you look so frightened? With an attack like that dealing with little old me shouldn't be a problem, right?" Makarov gritted his teeth in frustration and carefully moved his hands, needing but one more movement to unleash Fairy Law. "Hn, my eyes can see it clearly… you fear me. Not that I blame you, that boy has probably told you all about me, right?" Madara asked referring to Itachi, to which Makarov took one more step backwards. "I see…" Madara uttered having gotten what he needed as an answer to that question.

"Leave!" Makarov demanded as his aura of light intensified.

"And why would I do that?" Madara slowly walked closer, making Makarov be more on edge.

"Otherwise, I will kill you!" Makarov threatened about to make the final move to unleash Fairy Law. Madara also noticed Makarov avoided direct eye contact with him, without a doubt having taken a few tips from Itachi about how to deal with the sharingan.

To this however, Madara simply laughed. "Oh, don't worry, when it comes to illusions I prefer to save them for stronger opponents. But against weaklings, I prefer to use my own hands to fight." Makarov flinched at the sudden feeling of bloodlust being unleashed from Madara. "You are one of the Ten Wizard Saints, aren't you? Well, come on then, show me what one of this country's ten elite wizards can do." Madara flared up in a dark blue aura making the space around them tremble as a result.

'Ugh! This guy… the bloodlust. Itachi wasn't kidding, this guy is a monster…' Makarov thought, and despite his old age and experience his legs trembled at this sensation. 'This is Madara Uchiha… a child raised his whole life on the battlefield of war. This is the result huh?' Makarov thought, although a sudden sensation made him widen his eyes.

"Oy, what are you spacing out for?" Madara looked down on Makarov, standing right behind him. Makarov stared in disbelief as the Madara before him, withered away like rotten wooden log. Before he had a chance to react, Madara kicked him in the back of the head. Causing the old master to lose concentration and cancel out Fairy Law. Makarov was sent flying into the air, and Madara shortly followed delivering a punch into the old master sending him into the crumbling ruins of a building.

Makarov crawled out from the ruins of the building, clenching onto his chest in pain from a broken rib. 'W-What strength…! What power!' Makarov thought, and then a shadow cast itself over him. Weakly he looked up, and saw Madara looking down on him looking unamused.

"Just like any jutsu, any spell has a weakness. In Fairy Law's case, there are plenty. One, disrupt the casters concentration before he or she charges it up. Two, cast a powerful illusion onto the caster to either, trick him into thinking you are friendly, or make the caster think of himself as the enemy." Madara delivered a kick to Makarov's gut making him cough up blood. "Three, use speed to kill the caster before he can cast it." Madara then delivered blinding blurs that were punches, from what Makarov felt. The old master couldn't see a thing, Madara's speed was so great that it was like his fist didn't move at all. "I could go on, and on, but I'm sure you got my point. Now, where is the Lumen Histoire? I know your guild knows its location."

"H-How do you even know, about the Lumen Histoire? And if you knew, why have you only come first now looking for it?!" Makarov questioned, having guessed it was what someone like Madara was after.

"Why?" Madara repeated the word while stomping his foot onto Makarov's back, pinning him down. "It's quite simple, at first I didn't know where it was. Only that it existed. I heard of this legendary power of endless magic from an associate of mine. The Emperor of the Alvarez Empire, I'm sure you are familiar with that nation? They tried to steal it in the past after all. And the Emperor, well, let's say that due to certain circumstances I couldn't make him tell me where it was. You see, he of course wanted it for himself. But he wasn't sure he needed it yet, and he didn't want me to have it either."

Makarov struggled to push himself up, he then resulted by turning into a giant to which Madara leaped off of him. The giant Makarov stood tall glaring down on Madara, whom held his hands to his hips looking unimpressed by Makarov's display. "How did you discover its location?!" Makarov asked in a booming voice, a voice that would sound threatening to most, yet Madara remained unfazed.

"Well, you see… You can thank your very own flesh and blood for that." Madara replied with a sinister chuckle. Makarov looked angered and swung his arm behind his back, and then swung it towards Madara sending rays of light raining down towards him.

Madara gracefully jumped over one after the other, looking like he barely put any effort into his movements. Makarov then threw a punch to the Ghost of the Uchiha, his very fist bigger than Madara's entire body at this point. Madara raised his right hand, and merely caught Makarov's incoming fist like it was nothing. "Weak." Madara flipped his body over Makarov's giant fist, he gracefully landed onto Makarov's wrist and ran up Makarov's arm. Jumping up to the petrified old man's face with a sinister smirk spread across his face, and kneed the giant in the chin sending him falling back. "If you were in my world, you would be considered a Kage level shinobi I will give you that. Although a Kage is nothing compared to me." Madara inhaled his breath, having only formed one hand sign with his right hand.

Fire Style: Fireball!

Madara spat out a giant blazing ball of fire, engulfing even the giant-sized Makarov in the blazing fire. The heat of the fire, melted the rubble of the ruined Fairy Tail guild hall and pushed Makarov into a crater, having reverted to his dwarf like size. Madara landed before Makarov, grabbed the old man by the throat and lifted him up. "Your very own son, revealed it to me during the Grand Magic Games. Although not intentionally. He just carelessly mentioned the name Lumen Histoire out loud. Even I heard it through a broadcasting lacrima on the other side of the world."

'Ivan…' Makarov thought of his very own traitor of a son, whom he let fall into the darkness with a man he trusted and once called master.

"Earlier I said I only cast an illusion on worthy opponents. But in this case, I am willing to make an exception. Tell me, where is the Lumen Histoire?" Madara's sharingan began rotating, although Makarov closed his eyes shut refusing to give in. "Where is it?" Madara tightened his grip around Makarov's throat, he couldn't breath, his face even began looking a little blue.

"Right here!" A new voice replied to which Madara looked to the source, looking stunned that he didn't feel this presence approach. He looked confused as all he could see was a blurry figure of a little blond girl. The girl swung her arm and before Madara knew it, he was blasted away to the other side of town by a golden wave of light.

Makarov coughed while rubbing his sore throat, in shock he looked up at his savior. "First master?" Makarov questioned as before him stood the ghost of Mavis Vermillion. "First, he saw you? It looked like he… saw you and he heard you… I thought only guild members could see and hear you?"

"I can make myself visible to none guild members if I wished, and make them hear me. And with those eyes of his, he can probably see my energy reflection in this ghost form. If it weren't for us being this close to the Lumen Histoire, I couldn't have pulled off that attack just now." Mavis glared in the direction she had sent the Ghost of the Uchiha flying, seeing Madara coming back from the distance. "Makarov, quickly escape from here. Neither of us can deal with the likes of him." Mavis ordered, to which Makarov knew and without hesitation, lifted up a banner with the Fairy Tail symbol revealing a platform leading to an underground passageway. Makarov went in and closed the door behind him, and Mavis used magic to have the banner go back in place, and cover the banner with some melted rubble making it even harder to spot.

Mavis then vanished from the spot like a ghost. Makarov being safe having installed safety measures, so that not even Itachi could find the Lumen Histoire with his sharingan. And emerging from the dust left from Mavis' blast, Madara flew out landing before the ruins of the Fairy Tail guildhall. He looked around, while dusting off his shoulder pad.

Madara scanned the area with his sharingan, and no sign of either Makarov or that blurry girl. "Where did they go? Teleportation magic? That blurry girl, her magic power seemed like a bottomless pit. Was she the Lumen Histoire? Then why can't I see her? Does her infinite power truly exceed beyond what the sharingan can detect? Or is it something else I'm not getting?" Madara clicked his tongue, and glared in frustration. Then he detected a familiar presence, causing him to look aggravated.

"This presence, Zeref?" Madara looked slightly angered, clenching his fists at the thought of the black wizard. 'Why haven't I killed him again? Oh right, this cursed existence of his is a far worse fate than death that's why.' He also then detected something else besides Zeref and Acnologia. "This presence, is that Itachi Uchiha? And another powerful presence is beginning to emerge." He looked to the distance where Fairy Tail was at this very moment fighting against the Tartaros guild. "… Why not, might as well pay a visit. Since he is in no rush to get the Lumen Histoire just yet, I don't need to worry about it either. Besides, there are still things I want to do before that time comes." Madara smiles and vanishes in a flash, leaving only behind the scars the town suffered from his and Makarov's little skirmish.

Makarov wobbly walked down the wooden steps to the underground passage. Supporting himself up against the rail. He panted while holding his free hand to his broken rib. "Stupid… stupid… I never imagined the gap would be… that big." Makarov wheezed under his breath, letting out small grunts of pain. "If he and the Alvarez Empire… are after the Lumen Histoire… then we truly are doomed."

Makarov made his way to a giant door, decorated with the symbols of fairies dancing in the woods, with a giant golden heart in the top center. The door opened upon Makarov raising his right hand, moving it in a triangular pattern that formed a magic circle. The door began glowing and pushed itself open. "Unleash the light… If that is what it takes." Makarov walked in, being embraced by a blinding light.

The air was rich, overflowing with dense layers of pure magic power. A single stone bridge leading to a single pillar in the room. And there on the pillar, stood a giant purple crystal, containing the naked body of Mavis Vermillion. "The Lumen Histoire… also known as Fairy Heart." Makarov stared up at the crystal, as energies of light wrapped around his broken and injured body. He could feel the pain beginning to fade away, as his injuries were healed.

"Maybe… we could win if… No." Makarov quickly dismissed whatever thought he had. "No, that would be too risky. Fairy Heart is a last resort for a reason. Whether the situation is that dire remains to be seen." Behind Makarov appeared the ghostly figure of Mavis.

"True, but you need to remain here. In case the situation changes… But I still feel the time is not right." Mavis looked upon her own physical body trapped within the crystal, the crystal releasing such powerful magic energy, centering around her ghost form. "I will keep watch outside, and give you the signal shall the needs to unleash my body come to pass. For now, we have to have faith in our guild members." Both Mavis and Makarov looked to the ceiling, wondering how their loyal guild members and comrades were doing. Both looking saddened that they couldn't help. And that they felt darkness from Madara, Zeref, Acnologia and Itachi beginning to overshadowing the light.

Meanwhile at the ruins of the Tartaros hideout, the dragon slayers whom were raised by dragons were incapacitated. By a sudden increase of their heartbeats that froze their bodies in place. The majority of Fairy Tail taking care of the remaining henchmen of Tartaros as well as an army of Lamy's.

They all stared up into the sky, at the roaring black dragon Acnologia. Soaring in the skies above them, unleashing breath attacks to prevent anyone from escaping the area. And just by him flapping his wings while circling around sent such shockwaves that dust blew up around the lower levels of the ruins of Plutogrim. Causing many of Fairy Tail's members to go into cover behind the rocks from the ruins, to not get blown away. And standing on the edge of the ruins of the Tartaros hideout, stood Itachi, glaring up at the black dragon. Despite his lack of emotions, he still remembered that day at Tenrou Island clear as day. "Never again…"

Itachi's cloak of darkness split open into demonic tattered wings, while at the same time unleashing such energy that caused Acnologia to turn his attention towards him. "Oy, Itachi… don't tell me you are..." Kisame called out from behind him, where Erza, Mira, Seilah and Kyouka had even paused fighting each other at the sudden arrival of Acnologia. And Sasori, Kakuzu, Minerva, Happy, Pantherlily, Forsch and Lector all just stared at Acnologia whom now flew hovering over Itachi.

Acnologia let out a roar and charged up a breath attack. Before anyone could stop him, Itachi soared up into the sky looking like a flying wave of darkness. ""Itachi!"" Mira, Erza and Kisame all called out. Although Itachi may have gotten stronger, was he enough to beat Acnologia? Itachi readied his right fist, expanding the darkness of his demonic claw into a giant fist. The brilliant light of Acnologia's breath attack, blinded the others from seeing Itachi. Although then in a mere instant the light was shut off light a lightbulb, as Itachi rammed his fist in an upper cut to Acnologia's jaw slamming it shut.

Acnologia flew back a little from the force of the impact, shaking his head to regain focus. The black dragon snarled at Itachi and let out a roar, recognizing this power emitting from Itachi. "It won't go the same way as last time." Itachi declared and his body began releasing a brilliant warm red fiery aura. The aura intensified and expanded, taking the shape of a full body skeleton, that grew flesh and then from the spectral warrior grew a set of armor. The armor wrapping around the warrior's body, a blazing fire emitting from its eyes and angelic like wings expanded out from its back. The spectral samurai Susano'o warrior, stretched his hand out creating a giant red energy sword.

The Perfect Susano'o rivaled Acnologia in size, the Susano'o turned into a darker shade of red being affected by Itachi's demonic darkness. The intensity of the aura released from Itachi and his Susano'o made one thing perfectly clear to everyone sensing this power. Itachi was equal to Acnologia in power, it seemed unbelievable for someone to rival a being of destruction.

One would think everyone would feel a sense of relief from this, yet for some reason many of them were overcome with a sensation of fear. Cana looked up at the black dragon, and Itachi's Perfect Susano'o, sensing one thing. Pure darkness, released from both of them. "What is this…? This sensation?" Cana questioned as drops of sweat ran down her face from this insane sensation of pressure.

"Even if it is Itachi…." Warren uttered his eyes widened with a pure look of fear.

"He feels like… like… one of those Tartaros demons." Elfman finished as no one else from the guild besides Erza, Mirajane, Makarov and the ghost of Mavis knew what Itachi was. Everyone was left with a feeling of confusion as to why they felt this terrified of Itachi. Wasn't he supposed to be one of them? Their comrade? Then why did he feel so cold, so empty.

While the members of Tartaros, the ones that were left anyway. Felt a sensation of glee at this dark sensation. Mard Geer in particular looked up smiling. "Truly, magnificent. Our dearest comrade E, has finally returned to us. Even Mard Geer could not foresee this event. Still… why don't you have your book?" Mard Geer looked to one of the two books under his arm. "Not to worry, soon we shall wake you up." Mard Geer despite his words looked hesitant to activate the book of E. "As soon as it is needed that is." If one could see Mard Geer's expression, it could only be described in two words, uneasy and nervous.

Acnologia roared at Itachi, and charged at the Susano'o, the Susano'o held its left arm out and the moment Acnologia was about to attack. A giant shield came bursting to life blocking Acnologia and reflecting the force of the impact back to the dragon's face. Itachi wasted no time and kept going with a brutal assault, crating rotating giant belts of yasaka magatama beads flying into Acnologia. The beads burnt brightly in a chain of explosions as they each clashed into the dragon. Acnologia's roars could be heard in-between the explosions that brought him to the ground.

Itachi stared at the smoke cloud where Acnologia was, his eyes lacking any feelings of emotion not even hatred. He merely inhaled his breath and spat out a gigantic ball of fire through the mask of the Perfect Susano'o. Itachi focused his mangekyou onto the plummeting fireball, and the black flames of Amaterasu merged in with the fire. The mere size of the fireball made it look like a burning meteorite to the people bellow.

A deafening roar surged through the mountains, as Acnologia with a mere flap of his wings blew the smoke away. The dragon directed his attention to the incoming ball of fire, and unleashed a mighty breath attack. The blue light of Acnologia's breath attack blinded the bystanders that was Fairy Tail, as it clashed into the blazing ball of flames.

"Incoming!" Cana shouted a warning to her fellow guild members, and they all latched onto something as shockwaves blew through risking of sending them all flying away like a leaf in the wind.

As it looked like Acnologia's breath attack began to overpower the fireball, black flames spread from the fireball and running down the blue wave of energy. The entire fireball itself had been burnt away by the black fire now making its way through Acnologia's breath attack. It became even obvious to the black dragon that those black flames were burning away his breath attack. Then in a shocking move, Acnologia merely flew through the black fire.

Itachi looked taken aback by this, as Acnologia flew up to him, with the flames of Amaterasu burning on his black scales. Acnologia latched his jaw into the Susano'o right shoulder, digging his fangs through the spectral warrior. The Perfect Susano'o however along with Itachi vanished like a mirage in a dessert. The black dragon roared and swiftly turned around only to discover he was surrounded by hundreds of Perfect Susano'o warriors all with a sword in hand.

The spectral warriors flew at the dragon, cutting their blades through his thick dark scales and stabbing them through his body. Acnologia let out pained roars, and for each time he destroyed one of the spectral warriors another would appear. "Urgh! These parlor tricks are beginning to annoy me!" Acnologia spoke, for the first time in a long time he spoke.

Eternal Flare!

Acnologia spread his mighty black wings, and the sky lit up as if there were a thousand stars in the sky. These stars turned out to be energy waves plummeting down like a meteor shower. Each star blasted through one of the Perfect Susano'o warriors, and for each one destroyed a new one appeared. Acnologia having realized all this was a mere illusion, still couldn't comprehend how such a complex and powerful illusion could exist that it affected even dragons.

"Now then, to put an end to the legend of the Dragon King." Itachi's voice went around him like an echo. And suddenly the ground exploded in a bit of spiritual fire, and the blades of Susano'o warriors stabbed through Acnologia pinning him down. The dragon could only grunt and growl, as he stared into the sky seeing the moon itself coming crashing down upon him.

"Pitiful toy of the black wizard! You won't break my mind!" Acnologia charged up yet another breath attack to blast the incoming moon out from the sky.

"Hn, pitiful." Itachi mocked Acnologia's attempts to resist his illusion, having cast it upon the black dragon the moment they came face to face. And only first activated it the moment Acnologia flew through the Amaterasu. "Either your mind will break, or the Amaterasu will eat you alive until there is nothing left, not even ashes."

Acnologia unleashed his breath attack, only to be halted with his jaw being slammed shut. And the illusion broke to pieces, Acnologia plummeted to the ground, smoke coming from his mouth from his own breath attack. The sensation of pain having knocked him back to reality. Itachi levitated with his Perfect Susano'o over Acnologia. "He broke through by causing damage to himself…" Itachi uttered seeing Acnologia pick himself back up, letting out a mighty roar signifying he was still alive. "However…" Itachi widened his gaze onto the black flames on Acnologia, and the Amaterasu spread more around the black dragon, beginning to burn through his scales as well.

Acnologia however, kept surprising Itachi as he flew towards Itachi like the pain from the Amaterasu weren't even bothering him. It was like he didn't care, powering through with one goal in mind. To destroy. Acnologia flew towards Itachi, whom stood ready for the black dragon's incoming assault. Although, both only to be surprised as a figure of darkness clashed into Acnologia.

Everything moved in slow motion in Itachi's eyes, as through the waves of darkness clashing onto Acnologia's head he saw one thing. A man, a man with long spiky black hair, dressed in a black cloak with a bright red samurai armor underneath. The young Uchiha widened his eyes at seeing this figure, at seeing Madara Uchiha dropkicking Acnologia in the head. Madara's red burning eyes of sharingan looked back at Itachi, with a smirk spread across the older Uchiha's face. Everything began moving back in a normal pace, as Acnologia plummeted back to the ground like a big black meteorite.

Madara landed onto Acnologia, looking down on the black dragon with his arms crossed. "Yo, been awhile. Acnologia." Madara greeted earning him a growl of hatred from the dragon.

"You!" Acnologia roared, feeling a stingy sensation of pain from the Amaterasu on his back. Madara raised his brow and looked behind him, seeing the black fire on Acnologia's body.

"Ho? Amaterasu eh? The strongest fire jutsu in existence. I didn't even notice it, what with your black scales and all." Falling into Madara's palm from his coat was a scroll, Madara opened the scroll and biting his thumb drawing blood onto the scroll. He directed the scroll towards the fire, holding his available hand in the tiger hand seal. "Fire Seal!" The Amaterasu was being pulled in by a blue surge of energy, the flames were pulled off from Acnologia's body and right into the scroll. "But like any jutsu, it has its weaknesses." Madara declared as the flames had all been absorbed into the scroll, and new writings appeared onto the scroll. Madara then closed up the scroll and held it in the palm of his hand. "And this sealing jutsu can seal any kind of fire… or so they say."

The scroll in Madara's hand began leaking out black fire to which he tossed it aside, letting the scroll burn away in the flames of Amaterasu that vanished soon after the scroll was gone. "Impressive… you are able to control the Amaterasu to such lengths that it can even burn through the fire seal if you put your mind to it. Although, I would say that Sasuke Uchiha manipulated those flames better." Madara looked to Itachi, smirking as it seemed he struck a nerve at the mentioning of Itachi's brother.

Acnologia let out a roar, to which Madara jumped off from the dragon's body. "You are welcome by the way." Madara taunted the black dragon earning him a snarl. "I'm surprised you haven't sensed it yet…" Madara added to which Acnologia seemed confused, and Madara's eyes diverted to the ruins of Tartaros where a bright light shined. "A new powerful player is about to join in."

At the ruins, Natsu folded over in pain, along with Gajeel while Lucy, Levy and Juvia stood by helpless to help them. Lucy tried touching Natsu, but would quickly pull her hand away as Natsu's body was as hot as a furnace. "AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!" Natsu screamed and out from his body erupted a surge of fire, fire that began taking shape.

Everyone stared in shock, their jaws dropping at the sight. As a red scaled dragon formed out from the fire. Natsu raised his body up, still on his knees as he stared up in awe. "I apologize for everything, Natsu." The majestic red dragon spoke as he rose from Natsu's flames. "I've been inside you all this time. This isn't the time to tell you everything. First I need to get rid of Acnologia!"

Natsu trembled, his face wet from the tears running down his face as he gazed upon the red dragon. "Dad…" Natsu uttered confirming it was his long-lost adoptive father, Igneel.

Acnologia rose up from the ground as the red dragon charged at him, and an even greater feeling of rage and bloodlust came from Acnologia than ever before. A dragon stood before him, after all this time. Acnologia blinded by rage charged at the red dragon, both clashing their heads together while roaring. "A red dragon?" Itachi rose his brow at this new dragon that appeared out of nowhere.

"Things really are heating up here." Madara hummed, looking amused at the gathering of such powerful beings in one place. Itachi averted his gaze from the battle between the two dragons, he looked to his true foe. Itachi's Perfect Susano'o faded, and the young Uchiha flew down to face Madara.

Madara analyzed the young Uchiha from top to toe, bringing his right hand to his chin as he hummed. "Not too shabby. Not too shabby indeed, for a mere child."

"Hn." Itachi merely narrowed his cold gaze at Madara, not caring about the words of his ancestor.

Madara looked captivated by that killer stare Itachi gave him, grinning from ear to ear. "Ho? Guess you are no ordinary brat after all. But to me, you are still a mere child." Madara released a dense dark blue aura of power, adding in the shaking of the space around them from the already ongoing battle between Acnologia and Igneel. It was also due to the clash of dragons, that the bystanders didn't notice this extra presence of power thinking it was the dragons. "Well? Do you want to test your abilities against mine? It really doesn't matter to me. It would be much more fun to fight you at full power." Madara shrugged his shoulders, and Itachi merely still glared at him not uttering a single word.

"…"

"What? Lost the ability to speak or something?" The silence and lack of responds of Itachi, really started to make Madara feel actually concerned. For years he had heard from Zeref how E is the one being with power able to match his own. "It's rude not to respond when someone's asking-"

"What do you want? Why are you here?" Itachi interrupted the older Uchiha, still glaring at him.

"Hn, and interrupting is even ruder." Madara smirked at the feeling of the tension rising, and at the feeling of Itachi's darkness pressuring the air around them. "I guess… one could say I was bored. And since I was really nearby, I figured why not pay my fellow clan member a visit."

"Nearby? Why were you nearby?" Itachi added hostility behind his voice, yet Madara did not flinch.

"What makes you think there is a reason?" Madara asked.

"Knowing your type of character, you wouldn't stumble randomly into an area where I am just for fun. You came here for a reason, now tell me." Itachi replied, earning him a sarcastic clap from Madara.

"My, Zetsu said you were a perceptive one." Madara commented to which Itachi flinched at what Madara knew of the Akatsuki and of him. "I like that reaction. I know much more than you think I do, mister clan killer. May I thank you on that by the way? That self-absorbed arrogant clan had it coming. Their foolishness knew no limits. After everything I did for them, and they betrayed me just like that. I'm actually thankful for you and Obito on that one."

Itachi grew tired of this idle chitchat and as a result increased the intensity of his own aura. "Just answer me already." Itachi surprised himself a little, for some reason he didn't react to Madara's comment of their clan. Despite that event being such a crucial one in his life, in his current state he felt almost nothing of it. And what remained of what he felt were directed at a mere few individuals. Hatred, towards Danzo and his father's three advisors. Sorrow over Izumi's death and the fate of Shisui, and of the pain he caused Sasuke.

"That darkness is really having an effect on you, isn't it?" Madara looked somewhat disappointed that Itachi let the darkness have such an influence over him. "Anyway, to answer your question. I originally came here for something… yet it seems to avoid my grasps for now. For how long remains to be seen I suppose."

"… Lumen Histoire, huh?" Itachi concluded being the only thing that could be here that would be of any interest to the older Uchiha.

"Just mere moments ago, I interrogated that old geezer of a guild master about its whereabouts. Yet some ghost managed to help him escape." Itachi flinched a little at that, with Makarov and Mavis instantly popping into his mind. "That ghost… is she Lumen Histoire? Do you know anything about that?"

"I don't care…" Itachi bluntly replied, not really all that interested or concerned about what the Lumen Histoire was. Whether that was out of respect and trust in Makarov, or due to the darkness having swallowed up most of his emotions remains unknown.

"I see…" Madara vanished from Itachi's field of vision in a flash, Itachi stared with a look of awe at the sheer speed of his ancestor. Itachi swiftly turned his body around clashing his arm into Madara's. "Ho?" Madara began increasing the speed of his movements, delivering jabs and kicks at Itachi. Whom blocked each of the strikes with darkness covered body. Madara threw a punch, and Itachi caught it into his claw of darkness. Madara then in an instant pushed his own body forward, pushing Itachi's body back as well. Madara then followed by slamming his elbow into Itachi's cheek forcing him to let go of Madara's fist as he skidded backwards.

"Not bad…" Madara smiled as he noticed a paper bomb tag attached to his fist, the paper bomb exploded creating a smoke screen around the older Uchiha. "You're a quick thinker." Madara appeared behind Itachi, seemingly unharmed from the explosion with not even his clothing tattered.

Itachi ducked from Madara's arm swinging over his head, Itachi manipulated the darkness of his cloak to push Madara back. Itachi raised his right claw, giving it a good swing sending giant shuriken projectiles of darkness at Madara. Madara gracefully moved his body like he was dancing to avoid the projectiles. Itachi appeared before Madara, and slammed his giant fist of darkness into Madara sending him skidding backwards, dragging up the ground beneath the sole of his feet.

Itachi moved great speed, delivering jabs into Madara's gut, and spin kicking him to his face. Madara fell to the ground, laughing as he did. Itachi wasted no time and threw another punch, although this time Madara caught it. "I suppose Zeref was right, you are strong. But calling you my equal… may be a bit of a stretch. Then again, your potential might be worthy of being my equal one day. That alone is more than enough of a reason not to kill you after this." Madara declared, revealing identical black flame like marks growing on the right side of his face under his bangs. "I think I've seen enough… for now at least." Madara vanished once again, leaving a stunned taken aback Itachi.

Itachi felt a small sensation of relief wash over him, and a single drop of sweat dripping down from his chin. 'Guess he intends to be a bystander for a bit." Itachi eyed in a certain direction where he felt Madara's presence, along with a certain someone else.

Meanwhile, Erza stood in shock same with the rest within the ruins of the control room. They watched on at the two dragons battling it out in the sky, and Erza's senses were focused upon what felt like two waves of darkness clashing with each other. And from the corner of her eye, she saw a line of fire flying towards the dragons. "Natsu?" Erza questioned noticing that it was Natsu soaring towards the dragons like a rocket.

"That red dragon… could it be… Igneel?" Happy questioned from all the tales he had heard from Natsu about his dragon father.

"Dad! We got to talk!" Natsu roared as he flew towards Igneel ignoring Acnologia like he wasn't even there.

"You idiot, not now! I said we'd talk later!" Igneel looked to Natsu from the corner of his eye, barely able to dodge Acnologia's next attack.

"Let's talk now!" Natsu latched himself onto Igneel's wing. "Why did you suddenly disappear?! And what do you mean you were inside of me? The whole time! Where are Wendy and Gajeel's dragons?! And what the hell, happened on July 7th, 777?! Tell me, Igneel!" Natsu didn't care and wanted answers now.

"Quiet!" Igneel flew over the chagrining Acnologia catching Natsu into his claw, while unleashing a gigantic wave of fire onto the black dragon at point blank range. The wave of fire looked like the sun itself, and the heat released from it spread even beyond the mountains.

Itachi stared in awe, his darkness almost being blown away by the intensity of the fire. "What power… so this is the fire dragon Igneel?" Itachi uttered as he stared at the plummeting fire covered Acnologia.

"That didn't even injure him." Igneel's loud voice, reached even the ears of the young Uchiha. And Acnologia blew away the fire surrounding his body with a mere roar and a spread of his mighty wings. "I'm fired up now!" Igneel used Natsu's very own catchphrase as Acnologia rose back into the sky eyeing Igneel with killing intent. "Natsu. You are in the way." Igneel eyed Natsu in his claw.

"In the way?! That is what you say after finally being reunited after all these years!" Natsu threw a fit, after all those years of searching and this was it. He expected Igneel to give him the answers to all the questions in his head.

"I told you, we will talk later. You have belong to one of those guilds now, right? Then I will officially hire you." Those words managed to catch the pink haired hot head's attention. Igneel held Natsu out to look down in a certain direction, to Mard Geer. "You see those books that guy has? Those are the books of E.N.D and E. Bring me the book of E.N.D."

"Why would I do that?" Natsu questioned,

"Because you are the only one who can. Besides, he is responsible for this whole mess. That should be more than enough of a reason for you." Igneel smiled on the inside, glad to see Natsu was still the same after all these years. And Natsu smiled on the inside as well, over how well his father knew him.

"That guy?" Natsu glared at Mard Geer whom glared back up at them while smirking.

"Listen, under no circumstances are you to open that book, or destroy it. Just take it from him." Igneel seemed worried, his voice carrying a hint of unease in it when it came to that book. Which made Natsu wary of it, considering how powerful Igneel was, and if he sounded this uneasy about it than this E.N.D must be really powerful.

"What's the reward?" Natsu humored himself seeing Igneel's reaction.

"W-What?!" Igneel sweat dropped.

"Of course, I work in a guild now. I don't work for free." Natsu gave Igneel a sly smirk while rubbing his fingers together. Although what he wanted was something money couldn't buy, which Igneel knew what was.

"A-Alright. Your reward will be everything you wish to know."

"Heh, I accept!" Natsu smirked, seeming satisfied with Igneel's answer.

Igneel threw his arm with Natsu behind his back, going in a baseball like fashion. "Go and get him! Natsu!" Igneel threw Natsu, whom soared down towards Mard Geer like a ball of raging fire.

"You just be sure to keep your promise! Don't go anywhere!" Natsu shed a few tears that dried up pretty quickly from the wind blowing to his face.

"I won't." Was all Igneel said before returning to his battle against Acnologia.

"I'm fired up!" Natsu roared as he glared at the smirking face of Mard Geer.

"And who might you be?" Mard Geer smirked at the incoming Natsu.

"I am Igneel's son! And I will be taking that book! And stop Face!" Natsu declared throwing a fiery punch to Mard Geer whom caught it with his bare hand. Both father and son, mimicked each other's movements perfectly, as they struck their individual opponents.

Mard Geer smirked, distracted from contacting his two remaining demon gates through telepathy. Ordering one of them to link up with the main lacrima, to hasten up Face's activation, and Kyouka without hesitation linked herself to the lacrima despite it meaning she would die, she would do it for their life long cause. "Everything we do! Is for Zeref!" Mard Geer, Seilah and Kyouka all valiantly declared.

Both female demons struck the two strongest female members of Fairy Tail with all their might. Having caught up to speed with their scheme, Erza and Mira retaliated. While standing in the background was Kisame, Kakuzu and Sasori.

"They sure seem to have this covered." Kakuzu commented.

"Yeah, and things seems more complicated with Kyouka having speed up Face's activation by connecting it with her own life. Killing her might not help either and force a chain reaction of the Faces." Sasori analyzed the situation and eyed the giant lacrima. "Maybe… Kisame, Kakuzu I might have a plan." Kisame and Kakuzu both looked to Sasori knowing out of all the revived Akatsuki members he was probably the second smartest after Itachi. "Kisame, you go and meet up with Itachi clear out the remaining members of Tartaros and Mard Geer. Kakuzu, since you and I have worked a lot with Kyouka on this lacrima and its connection with the Face project. I want you to cancel out Kyouka's life connection with it. That way we can be sure Face won't be activated. I will work as backup for the girls if they need it." Sasori whispered to them, and they both gave a nod approving of the plan. And Kisame quickly vanished to go and find Itachi and begin a purge of Tartaros soldiers.

"Very well." Kakuzu stretched his arms out, latching onto the giant lacrima in the sky. Earning him a deadly glare from Kyouka, whom also hissed at him with anger.

"You traitor! What do you think you are doing?!" Kyouka seemed worried, knowing how much work Sasori and Kakuzu had when it came to preparing this lacrima and the Face project. If anyone could stop Mard Geer's plan, it might be those two.

"Bastard, are you willing to go against the wish of Lord Zeref?!" Seilah also hissed at Kakuzu taking a break from fighting Mira and Erza, whom also halted with a confused look at Kakuzu.

"Just because that whiny brat gave me life again. Doesn't mean I feel like I owe him. In fact, I couldn't give a damn about him. And even if I did, I'm not going to blindly follow and overconfident demon like Mard Geer, claiming all of this is the wish of Zeref." Kakuzu declared as his tentacles spread across the lacrima, beginning to move and make various symbols on the giant lacrima globe. To which Erza and Mira quickly caught on what was happening.

Erza sliced her sword across Kyouka's gut, and Mira slammed her fist into Seilah's face to which both demons leapt backwards. "Curse you all!" Kyouka hissed.

"…" Seilah remained quiet, things seemed to be going against them. And with three of their strongest members now siding with the enemy, they all only had one hope left. "It doesn't matter…" Seilah began to giggle, wrapping her arms around her body with a crazed look in her eyes. "Even if the Face project fails, E-sama's true resurrection is within reach. Humanity shall perish, one way or the other!"

"Seilah…" Kyouka uttered looking a little confused, seeing as Seilah a mere few days ago had an undying loyalty towards her. "Hn, whatever, let's end these humans." Kyouka's claws expanded and she charged at Erza, cutting through her armor so that it shredded itself to pieces. "Face won't fail… I will make sure of it!" Kyouka declared and the countdown for Face's activation went from 32 minuets to 20 in a heartbeat.

"I won't let you!" Erza entered her black wing armor and charged at Kyouka. Kyouka deflected each strike from Erza with her expanded claws. For each time their blades met, Erza's sword gained new cracks. Kyouka enhancing her powers with her curse by the second, going as far as needed until Face would be activated.

While Seilah in her Etherious form traded blows with Mira in her Sitri Satan Soul. Both fighters were exhausted, this being the third time they had come head to head. Neither had enough energy to last that long, Seilah pushed herself in hopes of reuniting with her beloved E. And Mira pushed herself to save her beloved Itachi as well as her family the Fairy Tail guild.

Mira took a giant leap backwards, and Seilah shot a bombardment of rocks levitating them with such force it could penetrate steal itself. Mira used her speed to move past the flying rocks, although her concentration was interrupted by a sudden surge of pain going through her body. "Argh!" Mira screamed in pain as the mere feeling of the wind, felt like getting tossed into racer sharp blades.

She wasn't the only one, Erza's screams of agony echoed through the room. While Minerva, Kakuzu, Sasori, and the Exceeds grunted or wailed in pain as well. "I've enhanced everyone's sensation of pain within this room. Although I put my main focus on you three." Kyouka declared looking to Erza, Mirajane and Kakuzu. "The wind itself should make your whole bodies burn with pain."

"Heh, I've been through worse." Kakuzu twitched his eyes in pain and kept on going with his goal of shutting down the Face project.

"E-Erza…" Mira looked to Erza, being bombarded with a surge of green energy from Kyouka. Erza screamed as it felt as if her body was being fried, the green surge of electricity from Kyouka burning into her body. Mira's focus was taken away from Erza, as it felt like her entire body was getting torn apart by a bombardment of rocks from Seilah.

"Lady Kyouka is quite something. With her curse power and mine… you are all done for." Seilah smirked as Minerva, Happy, Pantherlily, Frosch and Lector began choking themselves from the effects of Seilah's Macro curse. "My curse doesn't affect those two though…" Seilah looked to Sasori whom stood on the sidelines, and at Kakuzu whom was still attached to the lacrima.

"This brings back memories, Erza? Of that torture room in the basement. Sadly, I don't have time to play with you." Kyouka taunted and gave a flick of her claws with her gaze focused on Mira and Erza. "In order to complete the task given to me by Mard Geer-sama, I need to eliminate Kakuzu first." Kyouka stomped her talon onto Erza's gut making her vomit out a puddle of blood. "I shall make you feel despair, first I shall take your vision." Kyouka let out a sadistic laughter, making sure the last thing Erza saw was her smiling laughing face. "Then your sense of touch, sense of taste, sense of smell. And your hearing, this is the last thing you will ever hear. Farewell, Erza." Kyouka's laughter fell on deaf ears for Erza, not able to detect Kyouka's presence despite Kyouka abusing her body.

"Erza!" Mira pushed Seilah off to the side and rushed to Erza's aid.

Before she could reach her, Kyouka looked to Mira and gave a flick of her claws. "I shall do the same to you." The next thing Mira knew, her vision vanished, she couldn't feel the air touching her body, she couldn't taste, she couldn't smell anything, neither could she hear anything.

"Nice, Kyouka!" Seilah blasted Mira from behind with a wave of energy. To Mira out of nowhere her nerves began screaming in pain, and she with them. "Time to die! Human!" Seilah looked in glee as Mira and Erza both laid helpless on the ground. Seilah threw her right hand behind her back, and an eye opened in the center of her palm. A surge of darkness and a dark blue menacing aura gathered into the eye.

Seilah threw her arm forward, sending a powerful wave of energy blasting out from the eye in her palm. The wave incinerated anything that stood in its path and inched closer to the two mightiest women of Fairy Tail. "Erza! Mira!" Happy shouted, tears of sadness and pain from the effects of Kyouka's curse, running down his furry face.

However, suddenly both Erza and Mira jumped to their feet and leaped out of range from the energy wave. "What?!" Kyouka and Seilah both looked in disbelief.

"Impossible… they shouldn't be able to-" Kyouka was interrupted as Mira's fist slammed straight into her face. And Erza entering her Flight Armor charged at the shocked Seilah, and two cuts appeared on Seilah's back from Erza's blades.

"Lady Kyouka's curse failed?" Seilah quickly dismissed that thought. "No, something else is at play here…" Seilah looked to the ones at the sidelines, Minerva, Happy, Pantherlily, Lector and Frosch all looked in awe. "Wait, where is-" Seilah looked around noticing a certain someone was missing. "Sasori is gone?!"

"What?!" Kyouka looked in shock beginning to look around for Sasori, although that task was prevented as Erza in her flight armor moved at super speed. Giving Kyouka barely enough time to deflect the strikes with her claws.

Erza herself didn't seem like she could comprehend what was going on herself. All she could feel was that her legs and arms moved on their own. 'What is going on? It is like someone is moving my body for me?' Erza thought feeling a little freaked out over not being able to sense anything.

"I can't detect him anywhere, where did he go?!" Seilah hissed while blocking punches and kicks from Mirajane. 'What is going on? Her fighting style is completely different from before!' Seilah thought as the way Mira moved was that of a master martial artist.

Mira delivered a spin kick to Seilah's face, knelt down delivering an elbow strike to Seilah's gut, followed by a 360 turn and a blast of energy sending Seilah skidding backwards. 'My body is feeling pain from all this moving, but what is causing me to move? These moves I feel my body make… they are a lot similar to…'

'To onii-san's fighting style…' Mira and Erza had the same thought, their mind instantly going to the hand to hand combat moves Itachi usually performs in battle.

"Heh, fools. Sasori is a puppeteer master. You are not supposed to sense him or see him." Kakuzu chuckled while he changed a few symbols on the giant lacrima all to defuse the Faces.

"Puppeteer master?" Minerva looked confused at first, although then she saw it. Thin blue strings of pure energy attached all around Erza and Mirajane's bodies.

Sasori was hidden within a dark space, with a small crack of light. That light was how he could see the battlefield. He felt slightly amused over Seilah and Kyouka's attempts to find him. One thing he was glad about Tartaros for, they weren't as good as the Akatsuki when it came to figure out their own members abilities and skills. It made it easier for Sasori, Kakuzu and Kisame to keep secrets from the rest of the dark guild. 'I apologize for the pain that will follow with some of these movements. But try and endure.' Sasori thought knowing the effects of Kyouka's curse was still surging through his two new puppets.

'Hn, Sasori is making them use basic taijutsu forms to prevent straining their bodies too much. How considerate of him.' Kakuzu chuckled a little condescendingly at Sasori, considering how he used to be far more ruthless even to his teammates.

"Now then, let's begin this puppet show." Sasori smirked to himself, and merely flinched his index finger. Erza jumped towards Kyouka, requiping into her Armadura Fairy Armor. 'She has quite the arsenal.' Sasori thought, moving his right hand into a hand sign.

Erza's sword began glowing with an overflowing red aura of the Ethernano Blade. Utilizing the same principles as a chakra blade, made it easier for Sasori to have Erza using it.

Erza felt nothing but pain, and her own magic power being utilized. "This is… the Ethernano blade? Just what is going on?"

"Titania, can you hear me?" Erza for some reason could hear. No, it was telepathy, allowing her to hear Sasori's voice.

"You are…" Erza remembered their last encounter during the Nirvana incident, it wasn't a pleasant one.

"Good. Now listen, I'm only able to communicate with you and the She-Devil like this through my chakra threads sending my thoughts to you. I'm controlling your bodies at the moment to fight against Kyouka and Seilah."

"Why should I trust you? For all I know you can be using me and Mira to kill our comrades!" Erza didn't trust any of the former Akatsuki members except for the man whom was like a brother to her, Itachi.

"Right now, you don't have much a choice. Neither of you do."

"… I don't trust you either." Mira's voice now reached Erza as well thank to the mental link with her, Mira and Sasori. "But I trust Itachi… So, I shall put my faith in you for now. But if you are lying, I swear nothing will save you from me!" Mira boldly declared to which Sasori let out a sigh.

"Man, Itachi your woman is scary." Sasori lightly joked as he made Mira duck from an attack from Seilah, while at the same time spinning her leg into Seilah's making her trip. And then Sasori had Mira race her right leg in the air and slam it into Seilah's gut, making the demon cough up dark purple blood. "By the way, are you sure you can endure this pain for long?"

"I'm fine! This pain is nothing, compared to what everyone else will feel if Face is activated! And for my friends, I shall endure!" Erza decided to like Mira put some faith in Sasori for now as well, plus like Sasori said they didn't have much of a choice in the matter.

Mira countered blows from Seilah whom was like a wild animal, charging at Mira. As such her moves became more sluggish, and her stamina drained faster. "I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!" Seilah kept on shrieking, Mira twitched from each blow she countered feeling like her arms were about to be torn into nothing.

"If I remember right… Itachi had taught you a taijutsu move, right?" Sasori asked Mira through the telepathy link.

"Yes, the Lions Barrage. Although I call I Demons Barrage." Mira replied as Sasori kept moving her body to dodge blast attacks from Seilah.

"Good, I will give you some free will on movement here. On my signal, do your thing." Sasori ordered, which Mira didn't really like but she had no choice.

"Got it." Sasori had Mira advance towards Seilah, having her bend down a little to drag her hand up against the ground.

"Ouch! What are you doing? Feels like my hand is touching sharp blades."

"Gathering a distraction." Sasori replied.

Sasori gave his right hand a good thug, and Mira blasted an energy blast to the ground making a smoke screen. "Argh!" Seilah closed her eyes as dust got into them.

"Now!" Sasori signaled and Mira fell on her back and delivered a kick to Seilah's chin. "Keep at it!" Sasori instructed and Mira flew up with the help of Sasori delivered a barrage of kicks into Seilah.

"Not this again!" Seilah grunted and formed a speck of darkness onto her gut, lessening the impact of Mira's kicks. "Die!" Seilah held her right hand out with a charged up sphere of energy.

"Halt with the kicks!" Sasori ordered to which Mira stopped.

Seilah blasted the sphere of energy, only for the blast to be intercepted by a black scorpion like tail flying in between them. From his hiding spot Sasori moved his hands swiftly, and Mira grabbed onto the scorpion tail to throw herself over it and thereby over Seilah. "Finish it She-Devil!"

"Demon's Barrage!" Mira plunged her demonic fire covered foot right into Seilah's gut. Sending her plummeting down like a meteorite, it didn't end there however as Sasori had Mira gather her hands together, forming a dark energy that merged with the fire of her Sitri form.

Evil Explosion!

Mira blasted a wave of fire mixed with her dark demonic energy, blasting it into Seilah. Whom let out a banshee like scream, that was drowned out by the sound of the explosion. The smoke cleared, revealing Seilah in her base form, her body trembling and with her clothing torn up. "I… can't… move…" Seilah uttered only able to stare up at Mirajane hovering over her in the sky, with the full moon behind her casting an ominous light over her. "E-sama… forgive me… I'm not worthy after all…" Seilah shed a single tear, followed by her eyes closing for good.

Mira landed onto the ground, and Sasori released her from his threads to which she reverted to her base form. Also unable to move from all the damage she took, and having used up most of her power, if not all of it. Before Mira would pass out, she couldn't help but feel a sense of pity towards the demon.

"Found you!" Kyouka charged at the spot where the black scorpion tail came from, only to find nothing, just a hole in the ground. 'He tricked me!' Before Kyouka had much time to react, Erza appeared before her giving her a cut on the arm.

Kyouka took a giant leap back. "That coward, where is he hiding?" Kyouka hissed and scanned the area for any sign of Sasori, while dueling against Erza fierce fiery red blade. Kyouka took every chance she had to wildly fire energy slice attacks around to room in an attempt to locate Sasori.

"Titania, Kyouka is right in front of you, is there any kind of attack you can use to blast her?"

"I'm in my Armadura Fairy armor, correct?" Erza's body leant backwards to avoid a slice from Kyouka.

"I think so, is it the pink one with some wing decorations on it?"

"Then…" Erza smiled and held the tip of her sword directed at Kyouka, while charging up a green sphere of magical energy.

Fairy Burst!

Although Erza couldn't see it or hear it, her magic attack definitely made contact with someone. Kyouka was engulfed in a green wave of energy blasting her to the other side of the room. Kyouka was gaping, her eyes pure white and blood running down from her lips. Kyouka managed to halt herself from falling, barely able to stand up on two feet, and with a look of pure rage. "You traitor! You will not get in the way of our desire! We shall return to our Lord and Master!" Kyouka shouted out to Sasori, whom didn't even flinch.

"Time to shut her up." Sasori sent Erza charging forward, and Kyouka hissed seeing Kakuzu almost finished with defusing the Faces.

"Dammit all!" Kyouka roared and sped up the timer, making it go down five minutes every second. She flew high into the sky, and she swung her claws around rapidly, giving it her all, completely blinded by loyalty to the cause of Tartaros. Zeref, it was all for him, this was all in the great name of Zeref.

For every strike, every sensation of the wind, every peddle that hit her. To Erza it felt as if her body was being ripped apart by a wild beast. Yet she endured, knowing her body was probably just fine. Erza jumped over two of Kyouka's claws, and ran up them having changed into her Flight Armor to increase her speed.

Kyouka swung her left arm towards Erza, sending her claws flying at her like the talons of an eagle ready to catch its prey. "At this rate you won't get close to her, do you have an armor to increase your strength enough to throw something very far?" Sasori asked through the telepathy link.

"I do!" Erza jumped off from Kyouka's claws, and Sasori had her do a backflip to dodge the incoming claws. Erza requiped into her Giant Armor, a massive golden plated armor completed with a headgear with the appearance of big metal ears. She held her hand out wielding a giant spear in hand, sending her magic energy into it covering it with the red aura of Ethernano.

"Shows over." Sasori declared as Erza threw her arm behind her back, and gave the red aura covered spear a good toss. Sending the spear piercing straight through Kyouka's chest, dragging out what appeared to be her heart with it.

Erza regained her vision and other senses, and what she saw was a gaping Kyouka hovering over them in the sky, with a giant hole in her chest left by Erza's spear. Erza's armor vanished and she went back into her standard clothing and then she passed out right next to Mirajane.

"Face has been disarmed." Kakuzu jumped down from the lacrima that vanished, neither of them having time to notice each of the lights representing the Faces vanishing mysteriously one by one. The ground beneath them split open, and out jumped Sasori.

"Those girls, they are quite something." Sasori praised them, for being able to endure such pain from Kyouka's curse. Kakuzu have a nod in agreement, while the unconscious Mira and Erza were surrounded by Happy and the other Exceeds as well as Minerva.

Watching from afar, Zeref studied the scene he had predicted would be the end of Tartaros. "So, you came to try and take the Lumen Histoire?" Zeref felt the presence of Madara appearing with a gush wind, glaring at the black wizard with hatred lingering within his eyes.

"You should have figured it out from the moment I arrived. After all, you are the one person in this world that knows of my goal." Madara looked like he was holding back his anger of attacking the black wizard. "And you should know why I came to you."

"… I do, you want to know what the Lumen Histoire actually looks like." Zeref kept on smiling, despite Madara now pulling him by the hair and holding a kunai knife to his throat. "Heh, if you wanted to you would have done it years ago." Zeref taunted the Uchiha, to which Madara held the kunai closer to his throat piercing the tip into his neck.

"Tell me, before I make you tell me the hard way." Madara threatened.

"I'm sure you already have a good idea of it yourself." Zeref replied, and Madara thought back on that ghost like figure.

"… A girl." Madara uttered to which Zeref's smile widened confirming it to the older Uchiha.

"The Lumen Histoire, also known as Fairy Heart. Is the body of Fairy Tail's first master, Mavis Vermillion." Madara lowered the kunai and released Zeref's hair from his grasp.

"I see, so her grave on that island is actually empty. Then where is her body?" Madara asked, being the one reason, he came here thinking it would be easier to force the answer out of Zeref than playing hide and seek with Makarov.

"I honestly don't know. I just know that it is hidden somewhere in town. It has quite the defense system. Mavis endless magic power manipulates the people that enters the town, preventing them from being able to locate the source, her body. Her magic power messes with ones mind, even an immortal like myself and even you cannot escape those effects. And before you ask, that magic power simply feels so natural that one won't even notice it messing with their mind." Zeref breathed in the rich magic air reaching them all the way from Magnolia.

"So, that old dwarf is the only one who can show me where it is?" Madara gritted his teeth in frustration over having wasted his time, ready to go back to find Makarov.

"Now, now, don't worry. I plan on going after Fairy Heart soon enough. And you get to help me get it." Zeref chuckled, his eyes beginning to flare red with malice.

"And why would I help you?" Madara taunted in a snort as he crossed his arms.

"Because, I'm planning something big. And you are a crucial part of that plan. If you want you can try and obtain it for yourself, just know it won't be easy." Zeref stood up, turned his head to look at Madara, both of their red eyes glaring into the others soul.

"And what is stopping me from taking it now?" Madara challenged.

"Me." Zeref boldly declared and summoned forth a book that caused Madara to flinch. Zeref tightened his grip on the book, releasing an intense aura of darkness around it. Madara clenched his hand over his right chest, feeling like he was having a heart attack. "Hn, so just be patient." The book vanished through a dark dimension, and Madara eyed it seeing the initials E.M.U on the cover of the book.

In the very next instant Zeref hit the ground, Madara's left hand on his throat and his right raised with a dark aura leaking from it. "Try that again, and I won't show you any mercy." Madara slammed his fist mere inches away from Zeref's face. "Fine then, I will follow your plan… for now. But be warned, when I see my opportunity I will strike."

"Good, now, how about you watch the show. You might see something interesting." Madara released Zeref, and they both averted their gazes onto the ongoing battle between Tartaros and Fairy Tail.

Further in the ruins, what remained of Tartaros' soldiers were splatters of blood and mangled body parts spread across the ruins. And standing in the center of it all, were Itachi and Kisame. "Feels like the good ol' days, eh Itachi?" Kisame looked to his best friend, whom looked onto the dead corpses of the guards feeling nothing. To one whom barely knows Itachi he would seem like his usual emotionless stoic self. But to Kisame, he could see it clear as day. Itachi's face would usual look stoic but his eyes would be burning with emotions. This was not the case here, now his eyes seemed rather empty and hollow.

"…" Itachi didn't bother to respond to Kisame's comment, and merely ended the suffering of the still living guards.

"Then again, knowing the truth now. I guess those days weren't so good for you after all." Kisame tried to ease the mood, although it was the undeniable obvious that Itachi was slowly losing the struggle against E from within.

"… As I remember, those days weren't always that bad." Itachi replied and began moving forward.

"You worried? About Mira and Erza? About your guild?" Kisame wanted to get some sort of reaction that showed Itachi still had some sense of control.

"…" Itachi didn't respond, he didn't even flinch. He just kept his focus on what laid ahead, more carnage. "Gray…" Itachi uttered and Kisame felt a chill run down his spine, he turned around and saw the ice wizard wielding Devil Slayer magic, in his hands he held Natsu's white scaly scarf.

"Itachi…" Gray narrowed his gaze onto Itachi's back getting a good view of his new stage of darkness. Although as Itachi turned around, Gray's focus went directly to the black letter E stamped onto the center of Itachi's chest. The tension grew, as well with the chilling aura from Gray. "I see… I suspected something like this…" Gray clenched his fist, remembering his own vow upon his father's second death. Had it just been Itachi's old Akatsuki comrades, he would have fought and tried to kill them without hesitation. But this was Itachi himself, his friend, someone he has looked up to, someone he had too many good memories with. They were fellow Fairy Tail members, sons of Makarov, they were basically like family, brothers.

"Move." Itachi uttered, his emotionless gaze felt like it was digging into Gray's very soul. Gray didn't budge, instead he blocked Itachi's path with a wall of light purple ice. 'He didn't even make move…' Itachi thought, a little astonished at Gray's growth in power. The sense of astonishment vanished quickly, and turned into a glare. "What are you doing?"

"… I want to ask you the same thing." Gray replied, his gaze hardened onto Itachi, yet lingering behind those eyes was a feeling of sadness. Why did it have to come to this? Am I going to have to fight him? Were the thoughts that ran through Gray's mind this very moment. "Also… I wanted to ask. What's going to happen now? What will you do? Knowing what Zeref made you into… What about our guild? Our comrades? Mirajane? Erza? What are you planning to do about all that?"

"… Move." Itachi didn't flinch at Gray's questions, instead he dodged the question.

"Answer me!" Gray roared and chains of ice wrapped around Itachi's body restraining him.

"Oh boy, this won't be good." Kisame rubbed the back of his head, wondering if he should pick a side on this matter.

"Don't get in my way Gray…" Itachi stretched his body out, shattering the ice chains into pieces. "This is your final warning."

"Hn?" Kisame raised his brow at this, and smiled on the inside. 'If Itachi-san wanted to, he could have put that boy in an illusion and just move on. Seems he doesn't want that though, perhaps this is a way of seeing Itachi struggling against E from within?' Kisame thought and looked intrigued at the scene taking place before him, wondering what would happen next.

"Go ahead, I dare you." Gray stared into Itachi's eyes without fear, his gaze alone could make hell freeze over. Black spots grew on Gray's right arm, spreading to his shoulder.

"… Don't be a fool." Itachi uttered, able to put an end to this whole matter in a mere instant with his sharingan.

"Heh, you should know by now. Our whole guild is filled with stubborn people." Gray smirked to Itachi, getting in a stance of his maker magic.

"… I don't have a plan." Itachi bluntly replied to which Gray merely flinched. "I don't know what to do, I don't even fully understand what this means for me. All I know, is that in this very moment all I want. Is to kill Zeref… that is the only thing I can think of. It keeps repeating itself in my head like a broken record. Anything else, doesn't seem to matter as much anymore. Except for…" The darkness around Itachi's right hand opened itself, revealing his Fairy Tail emblem. "…" The words wouldn't come out from Itachi's mouth, whatever was happening to his mind wouldn't let him speak such words.

Gray lowered his arms, and the cold aura died down. His eyes burning with a sense of hatred, although focused on Itachi not directed at him exactly, Gray's eyes were focused on that E mark on Itachi's chest. And hated what it represented. However, his hate for the demons of the book of Zeref, did not blind him from Itachi still being Itachi, a member of Fairy Tail and family. The answer Itachi gave showed Gray just that. "I get it already. We'll cross that bridge when it comes to it." Gray stepped aside and started walking ahead of them. "First, we have something else to take care of." Gray kept thinking back on his father, and his death, the promise he made. Weighing the options in his head on how to deal with all of this.

"… Take down Tartaros." Itachi uttered and followed after the ice wizard, with Kisame right behind them.

Meanwhile, Natsu, Sting and Rogue had been fighting against Mard Geer, and things did not seem to go so well. At first Natsu by himself in his Lighting Flame Dragon mode was able to go up against Mard Geer, that is until Mard Geer got serious and put the books of E and E.N.D down. At this point even the three of them at once weren't able to injure him even.

"Our purpose is to return to our Lord and master, and put an end to his accursed suffering of immortality. That is the purpose of all of Zeref's demons." Mard Geer having gone through explaining his motives to Natsu, Sting and Rogue. Started going on the offensive, Sting and Rogue were slapped back by giant plant roots, and Natsu ended up restrained in veins with a giant man-eating flower coming straight at him. Then the very next instant it froze, along with the veins and roots restraining Natsu, Sting and Rogue.

"What the, ice?" Natsu questioned, and suddenly felt something fall around his neck, he looked down in confusion and saw his own scarf. "My scarf… I thought I-"

"I found it." Natsu looked next to him, seeing the black-haired ice wizard Gray. "If it is so important to you, don't lose it again." Gray merely flinched his fingers, and ice started to appear around Mard Geer's arm.

"Who are you?!" Mard Geer grew a little worried over this dangerous magic power that loomed over him in the air, and it was coming from this human.

"I am the Devil Slayer that came here to kill you. Prepare yourself, demon." Gray held his right hand up, and the black tattoo grew on his arm emitting a surge of a chilling aura.

"Devil Slayer?" Sting questioned.

"If Dragon slayer magic is for dragons and God slaying magi is for gods. Then this…." Rogue looked astonished at this discovery.

Mard Geer tried to make a move, only for Gray to freeze him in a pillar of purple ice. "There is no mistake… this is Silver's." Mard Geer released a surge of his power and shattered the ice containing him. "I always knew he would betray me one day. Although I never imagined it would be in this form. Fate is indeed amusing." Mard Geer smiled and sent thorny veins flying towards Gray only for them all to be frozen.

"You think fate is amusing? Well I don't think so…! For my old man, I shall destroy you!" Gray charged at Mard Geer, although a new figure suddenly appeared and elbowed Gray in the back forcing him to back away. The figure looked like a giant, demonic version of Jiemma. His hair wilder, his eyes red and his ears pointy topped off with black spots of darkness around his body.

"That is Saber's former master…" Natsu widened his eyes at this development.

"He became like Minerva huh? Made into a demon." Gray rotated his shoulder while glaring at this giant of a man.

"Made into? Wrong, I choose this all to become the strongest of all!" Jiemma foolishly declared.

"For that you gave up on your humanity?" Rogue questioned with a slight look of pity.

"That's insane." Sting followed with the same look as Rogue.

"With this new power I gave him. He surpasses all of the Nine Demon Gates. My newest servant." Mard Geer declared upon which Jiemma flinched.

"My name is known through out the land, and you call me servant… Underworld King?! Ones I dispose of these pests you are next!" Jiemma powered up in an intense aura of darkness.

Natsu leaped to him, and punched his face, yet Jiemma didn't flinch. "I'm not interested in you." Jiemma declared and Natsu was sent flying back. "Sting and Rogue on the other hand…" Jiemma turned to the fearless looking Sting and Rogue, aiming to change that.

"Everyone in this land knows you?" A condescending voice reached Jiemma, followed with a fist to his face that sent him skidding back. "Sorry old man, but who are you exactly?" It was Kisame, looking at Jiemma like he was a joke.

"I should ask you the same!" Jiemma glared at Kisame, whom smirked as he looked up into Jiemma's glowing eyes of rage.

"I suppose I should introduce myself. The name is Kisame. Oy, Itachi, you want me to deal with this geezer?" Kisame looked behind him, where Itachi in his cloak of darkness walked in, filling the air with a cold sensation of darkness.

"Do whatever you want. He is of no interest to me." Itachi walked past both Kisame and Jiemma, whom growled with rage and charged up a magic attack to blast Itachi. Only the very next instant, his magic vanished. "What the?!"

"No good old man, you should pay attention." Kisame cackled while holding onto the bandaged-up sword known as Samehada. "My blade here cuts through magic and chakra, and devours it." Kisame followed up with forming a hand seal as Jiemma's fist was mere inches away from his face.

Water Style: Water Sharkbomb!

A shark water avatar figure flew up from the ground, and blew up right into Jiemma's face sending him falling onto his back. "Oy, you might be stronger than the Nine Demon Gates… but compared to Mard Geer, you truly are nothing. And I am stronger than Mard Geer." Kisame smirked while looking down on the astonished Jiemma. "You truly are a weak fool."

"Weak?! You damn shark! I am far stronger than you could possibly imagine!" Jiemma jumped up to Kisame, raising his mighty fist at the shark like demon.

"Man, you are delusional. I'll tell you what, I will show by defeating you with just one single attack. That should wake you up to reality." Kisame held his right hand up with his finger pointing upwards, Jiemma glared at that finger with pure rage.

"One attack? One attack?! You are the delusional one!" Jiemma swung his magic covered fist at Kisame, whom merely lifted up his middle finger forming a hand sign.

Water Style: Water Prison Jutsu!

Jiemma was trapped within a sphere of water, unable to move or focus his magic power. "What is this?!" Jiemma's voice could barely be heard through the water that began filling his lungs.

"Game over." Kisame cackled focusing on restraining Jiemma whom roared from within the water sphere, calling him a coward and to fight him fair and square. Yet Kisame didn't care, if Jiemma was unable to break free from this than he wasn't worthy of being an opponent.

Natsu, Gray and Itachi stood face to face with Mard Geer, whom only focused his gaze upon Itachi. "E… I see… so this is your sleeping state. Quite something indeed." Mard Geer applauded, then he exploded with a sensation of power. His very body beginning to change, turning into what resembled a full body black armor. With might demonic tattered wings growing from his back, he had entered his Etherious Form. "Although, I won't let you get in the way of Tartaros' victory. The era of magic will come to an end today!"

"Itachi, Natsu, this feels bad…" Gray pointed out seeing as a dark mist began growing and envelops around them. Out from the mist came something that resembled dark spirits of the dead.

"…" Itachi remained unfazed and stared Mard Geer down.

Memento Mori!

"This is my Ultimate Curse ability, that I designed to kill Zeref! You all shall no longer be neither alive or dead. Only destroyed, become nothing for all eternity." Mard Geer chuckled, seeming to have no problem erasing even E. 'E's soul should survive this no problem. But that other soul of the human should perish.' The very next moment, Natsu, Gray and Itachi were surrounded by a giant pillar of those souls. The pillar reached far into the sky, even going in between the two dragons battling in the sky.

"Natsu!" Igneel looked with worry as he saw the pillar of destruction.

The smoke from the explosion cleared, and Mard Geer cackled at seeing no trace of those humans. "I've won. Now all that remains is to fully revive E and master E.N.D. Humanity is done for-" Mard Geer's smirk faded as he saw blood, dark purple blood, and a severed arm falling right before his very eyes. Mard Geer widened his eyes and looked down onto his left arm only to see a bloody stomp left.

"You designed that to destroy Zeref? No wonder he gave up on you." Itachi's voice came from the smoke, revealing Itachi, Natsu and Gray whom was covered in black spots of darkness, all surrounded by the red burning spectral warrior that was the Susano'o. "Just like I thought, you are nothing but a bunch of broken toys he got bored of."

"Impossible! Even with that all of you shouldn't be-" Mard Geer halted himself noticing the black spots on Gray. 'Don't tell me Silver's power… he had a way of defending himself against my Ultimate Curse?!' Mard Geer enraged charged towards the three.

"You mere humans!" Mard Geer roared, although was halted by Natsu.

"You ain't gonna win!" Natsu declared having grown dragon like scales around his face, and his arms also covered in those red scales.

"His power… has grown! This is, Dragon Force?!" Natsu roars, fire flaring intensely around him burning brighter than ever before.

Crimson Lotus: Phoenix Blade!

Natsu clashed into Mard Geer, the power of his dragon force lasting only a mere instant before he would run out. Mard Geer coughed up a small puddle of dark purple blood. The demon shook of this shock and latched his claws into Natsu. "You are going to have to do better than that!"

"Heh, I'm not the only one you are fighting." Natsu smirked, to which Mard Geer looked down in terror seeing Gray wielding a purple ice bow and arrow. "Do it! Gray!"

Ice Devil: Zeroth Destruction Bow!

Gray's left eye flared in a glint of dark purple, Gray unleashed the frozen ice bow string sending the ice arrow soaring into the sky. Mard Geer was about to react, only then Natsu slammed his remaining Dragon Force fire covered fist to the Demon's face. "Ugh!" Mard Geer widened his eyes as the bow pierced straight through him, the ice expanded from the bow tearing through his flesh.

Natsu was released from Mard Geer's grip and fell into the palm of Itachi's Susano'o and gently lowered to the ground. Reverting from his Dragon Force back to his base form, and Gray's black spots vanished from his body.

Mard Geer fell to the ground and the ice bow shattered. Too injured and on the brink of death, Mard Geer reverted back to his base form. "Impossible… W-What about Face?" Mard Geer looked to the timer only to see it had frozen on 00:01. "N-No… What happened?"

"My guess is that Sasori and Kakuzu disarmed all the Faces. And of course, defeated Kyouka and Seilah." Kisame informed the self-proclaimed Underworld King, and on que the other to Akastuki members arrived in a flash.

"I assume things went well on your end." Sasori looked down on the injured Mard Geer.

"What happened to Mira and Erza?" Itachi instantly asked them.

"They are fine, those Exceeds and that Minerva girl are helping them recover." Kakuzu replied.

Mard Geer huffed on and looked on in rage, pulling his injured body up from the ground. Mard Geer holds onto his stomp where his left arm used to be, blood gushing out from the hole left in him from Gray's ice arrow. Mard Geer glares daggers at Natsu, Gray, Sting, Rogue, Kisame, Kakuzu, Sasori and Itachi. "Vermin…! You may have defeated Mard Geer, but Tartaros is far from finished!" Mard Geer held his hand out, and one of his cursed vines reached out for a dusty old book, with only the black thick letter E on the cover. "Time for you all to taste true despair! As the Extinction of you fairies and traitors begins!" Mard Geer gave a maniacal laughter as he opened the book, making Itachi whom was about to move freeze in his steps. His legs refusing to even budge, the darkness around him restraining his body from moving and inch. His mind feeling blank, unable to focus.

"Crap!" Just as Sasori, Kisame and Kakuzu were about to make their move, only to be blown back by powerful surges of wind coming from the book.

"Awaken! E! The original Etherious! Awaken The Demon of Extinction! Awaken and serve your one true master! Zeref!" Mard Geer chanted, and all that was heard was a heartbeat. The heartbeat started to get more intense by the second, they all turned to Itachi the source of this heartbeat.

"Itachi-san…" Kisame utters looking frightened as the darkness around Itachi begins waving out around him like wild tentacles. Itachi's pupils shrank, sweat beginning to pour down from his forehead. Itachi brings his hands to his forehead, as he begins to scream in pain.

His mind felt like it was on fire, burning away and into nothing but ashes. While at the same time slowly sinking to the bottom of the ocean, drowning. Itachi's breaths began to grow heavier and more incoherent, his very body trembling.

"Itachi!" Natsu shouted as he and Gray jumped to him, reaching their hands out. However, they were both slapped away by tentacles of darkness. Itachi's screams were silenced as the darkness wrapped around him, trapping his body within a sphere of darkness.

Both Zeref whom watched from the distant with Madara, and Mard Geer smiled with glee over this scene. "The hell?" Gray uttered as all they heard from the sphere, was the beat of a heart, followed with the intense pressure released from it. Everything was shaking, the whole mountain where the ruins of Plutogrim laid were shaking.

Natsu, Sting and Rogue not understanding what was going on, could only look in confusion. While Gray, Kisame, Sasori and Kakuzu looked with what could only be described as fear. Both from the intensity of this pressure, and from what most likely awaited when Itachi would come out from the sphere.

"The hell did you do to my friend!" Natsu results in charging at Mard Geer, whom waved his remaining hand to the side, trapping Natsu in thorny vines. Natsu struggled to push through, he tapped into his newly developed perfect Dragon Force power. Burning the vines into a crisp, and slammed his fiery fist into the weakened Mard Geer.

"It doesn't matter… you are all doomed either way." Mard Geer chuckled, as Natsu grabs onto his collar and begins pummeling his fist into his face.

"Stop! Stop whatever you are doing to Itachi!" Natsu roars as he keeps beating on Mard Geer, whom merely chuckles from every punch.

"I have won…" Mard Geer uttered, and Natsu kept punching him telling him to stop.

"Natsu!" Gray calls out to the pyro, Natsu halts from punching Mard Geer and looks to Gray. "Stop it, this isn't the time to be beating on a beaten foe! We have bigger problems on our hands!" Gray pointed to the sphere of darkness containing Itachi, where the heartbeats started becoming more intense than ever before. "Kisame, is there any way we can stop this?!" Gray looks to the shark like man, whom merely shakes his head in responds.

"There is only one thing to say… we are dead." Sasori glares at the sphere while small drops of sweat runs down from his forehead. While behind them Sting and Rogue could only stare in horror, as the chilling energy of darkness released from the sphere overwhelmed them. Neither of them could move a muscle, it was like they had reached the bottom of an endless ocean of darkness. Neither of them could put this sensation into words.

While in the distance, Madara had his eyes widened slightly at this sensation of power growing rapidly from Itachi. "This power…" Madara utters his body beginning to tremble.

"Told you, E is your equal in power." Zeref chuckled at finally feeling the full force of his creations power once more.

Madara wasn't trembling out of fear or worry, far from it. Despite trembling, he had a crazed grin spread across his face. "I haven't felt this excited since Hashirama!" Madara looked with glee that finally a potential worthy challenge had arrived.

Within the sphere, Itachi thought back to his confrontation with Zeref earlier about his powers. "You are quite the special demon. I know a lot about your old world." Zeref's voice echoed through Itachi's mind. "I assume you have heard of Ashura and Indra? And of the Sage of Six Paths? You can thank them for you having all this power."

"What are you talking about?" Itachi heard himself question.

"Surely you know that all Uchiha's originate from Indra's bloodline. Meaning you all come from the Sage himself. Which means there is a very tiny small amount of the Sage's DNA within all Uchiha's and Senju's." Zeref's malicious laughter echoed in his mind. What I did to you, was that I expanded upon that DNA trace from the Sage to the point where it almost took over."

The entire space around them went silent, the heartbeats had stopped along with the shaking. Everyone could only stand in silence as they looked at the sphere of darkness. The silence ended with the mere sound of a crack, coming from the sphere. The sphere had cracked in the top center, everyone gasped in anticipation and fear as the cracks expanded.

Flakes of the sphere began falling, making a hole in the sphere. Everyone focused their gazes into that hole, where they saw nothing but darkness. Although then they saw a light, a tint line of purple light beginning to open. They all for some reason took a step backwards, their bodies reacting on instinct. Then in a burst the light opened, revealing to be an eye. A purple eye with a ripple pattern spread around it, to which the three former Akatsuki members widened their eyes in horror.

"Th-That's…" Kakuzu uttered in disbelief.

"Impossible…" Sasori looked in disbelief, just how much could Zeref accomplish if he was able to give this to Itachi.

"That's how you awakened the Rinnegan, and gained a new form on top of it. And when your DNA began resembling more of the Sage, you gained the remaining jutsu elements, and even wood style and ice."

"There is no mistaking it…" Kisame uttered as a drop of sweat dripped down from his chin, and a smirk spread across his face. "…that is the Rinnegan." Despite his smirk, Kisame looked worried and at unease. Natsu and Gray flinched at that, having learned of this legendary eye from Itachi's own memories about a certain red-haired man with the same eyes.

All they felt from within that sphere, and by the look they got from that Rinnegan eye, they all could tell. That cold emotionless stare, this cold terrible dark sensation in the air. The cracks on the sphere began growing, and flakes of the sphere dripped down onto the ground. There was no mistaking it, Itachi was gone, all that was left was Extinction.

"And before I knew it, my greatest creation was born. And that's when I added the demonic power within your body to make you into a demon. Which is how you got those black markings." Zeref's explanation finished within Itachi's mind, now completely put to sleep, and a new consciousness rose from the darkness.

The entire sphere shattered like glass, the dark flakes of it rained down around them. Natsu stared in confusion at the figure standing in the center. "Wh-What's going on?" Natsu either didn't know, or he refused to accept it.

"You idiot, don't you get it?!" Gray snarled, clenching his fists while his body trembled. He felt nervous, afraid at this new bottomless like power of pure darkness. "He is E, a demon of the book of Zeref! Just like these three!" Gray revealed to Natsu, Sting and Rogue whom all looked towards Kisame, Sasori and Kakuzu.

"You all better stay back, no telling who he is going to kill first." Kisame warned wielding both Samehada and the Executioners Blade in his hands, he Sasori and Kakuzu standing in front of them.

"Kill? Itachi is our comrade! There is no way that he would ever-" Natsu enraged by that accusation raised his complaints, only to be quickly shut down by Sasori.

"Itachi might be, but this is not Itachi we are talking about! We're talking about a merciless monster, E! His name is literally Demon of Extinction!" Sasori declared to which Natsu flinched, and slowly looked to Itachi with wide eyes having realized the situation.

The figure standing in the middle of raining flakes of darkness. His darkness still resembled that of his stage three, with the black sleeveless, high collared, open coat. Black horns, and black lines going over his eyes, and with the black E mark in the center of his chest. His arms and lower body still also covered in darkness, his hands looking like black demonic claws and his feet like talons.

Itachi or rather E, looked at the group with his cold Rinnegan eyes. His skin now looking pale white, and his hair having changed from black to white. And floating around him were six black spheres. This was E's fully awakened state, his Etherious form. E looked at the nervous looking people before him, detecting that some of them were his fellow demons. Yet, that didn't seem to matter to him one bit. E tilted his head a little sideways, his ice-cold blank stare focused upon one individual. His eyes were focused on Natsu.

That's the end for now!

Sorry for the long wait, life kept coming in the way. And me trying to balance my writing time, with my social life and my job turned out to be quite difficult. I won't make any further promises on updates, I will still update of course but exactly when is going to be a little difficult to tell. That being said, I won't give up on either of my stories, that is something I can guarantee.

Okay, now, a thing I would like to mention. Mavis, possibly my second fav character in the Fairy Tail verse after Zeref. That being said, the one problem I had with her in the original story. That was the fact that despite being said to know all three grand fairy spells, and having infinite magic power, she never really used that power for battle. Which as you can see in this chapter, I intend on changing in this story. And before I begin to hear complaints about Madara getting blown away like that. May I remind you, Temari managed to do the exact same thing during the Madara vs the Shinobi Alliance battle.

And, what do people think of my idea for Itachi's Etherious Form here and its explanation from Zeref? It is something I thought of from the very start of the story. Anyway, while in this form Itachi has no control as you can probably tell. And as people can probably guess, Madara has the same form most likely. But… let's just say that Madara is still very different from Itachi.

The Tartaros arc is reaching its finale, with the final battle beginning and possibly ending in the very next chapter, we'll have to wait and see.

-Later!

(responds to reviews):

Nexus240: Probably, although I don't really see the point in doing so.

andresskorskiruiz: Thanks, and I've been thinking about making one someday.

Shadow Joestar: Thanks, and as we saw, Makarov would have been dead if it wasn't for Mavis.

Chrisplayz: Thanks, I've got plans for Madara. And as for the Minato story, it's not dead, but both me and my co-writer of that story are quite busy with our jobs, social life and such. We are working on the next chapter now though.

Kelmoria: Makarov would have been dead if it wasn't for Mavis.

keybladelight: The lack of character deaths in Fairy Tail was one it's main problems. Sometimes a character needs to die, for other characters to grow. Danzo and Hashirama won't be apart of the story, sorry.

Ultimatrix bearer: The thing about Acnologia being scared was more like Mard Geer stating what he thought. Although, considering how strong E is, maybe he is scared? And yes, Itachi's willpower remains, or remained until the end of this chapter.

588963-B: Things don't seem to be doing so well right now, what with Itachi having totally lost control to E.

Mr. Haziq: That is true.

Chronosign: Yeah, I decided early on to skip the filler arcs.

Guest: Well… bye then.

Jose Martin Perez Tapia: Thanks! And I won't abandon it, don't worry.

Anime Lovers Indonesia: Madara seems to be a spectator for now at least. And sorry for taking so long to update, but life just gets in the way sometimes.

Samcal: You are welcome. And I suppose it kinda was.

Guest: Thanks!

C13en: That is your opinion I suppose.

NobodyOwens5: Well, considering Lucy had to pay what 49,000 for Plue's key I thought it was fair.

Snow027: That's actually pretty accurate XD I keep imagine whenever Madara enters the field the song Indestructible from Disturbed plays in my head.

Lovesick97: Like I said in a PM, I'm re-writing the early chapters of the story for a reason.

Xud10a: If you have reached this point, he is cured.

: Sorry it took so long, hope you enjoyed it.