Erza, Laxus, Mirajane, Elfman, Warren, Natsu, Juvia, Gray, Lucy, Happy, Carla, Lily, Gajeel, Cana, and Wendy all climbed the mountainous area within the center of Fiore. When they came to a clearing, they stood in front of a large tower that had a close resemblance to the Tower of Heaven. The ground was lightly caked with snow, just enough for a minor audible crunch sound to occur whenever someone took a step forward. "Cynthia's in here..." Wendy said, looking up at the large tower.

"She's probably at the top," Laxus said as his coat blew lightly in the direction of the wind.

"Let's not waste any time then..." Mirajane nodded slowly.

"Oh, why not stick around a bit?" Maggie walked outside from the tower's front door, a sly smirk appearing over her face.

"You're one of those mages that attacked Fairy Tail!" Natsu growled as his body flickered into flames, glaring at Maggie.

"Yeesh," Maggie sighed. "I knew Tobias was a waste of space...the bloomin' wanker can't even get rid of a couple of Fairies..."

"You didn't think getting rid of us was going to be that easy, did you?" Erza asked, glaring at the lava mage.

"Maybe for Tobias it isn't," Maggie shrugged, then pointed over to the front door. "Oh, you blokes wanna get in here, don't'cha?"

"Don't even think about getting in our way either..." Wendy replied in a serious tone.

"Oh, what's with the tone, love?" Maggie smirked slyly at Wendy. "You should be thanking me! If it wasn't for me you and the child would be in prison right about now. So don't get your nickers in a twist," Wendy stayed silent after Maggie's comment, unsure on how to respond.

"You don't owe her anything, Wendy!" Carla shouted.

"But she did..." Wendy started.

"She didn't do it for you," Lucy started. "She did it for her own selfish reasons, not for you!"

"Right...!" Wendy nodded.

"Hm, you're a lot smarter than ya look, blondie," Maggie replied. "I gotta say, that child is quite a piece of work. She's quite the fighter, and a strong one, eh?"

"Stop stalling us," Gray said, glaring at Maggie.

"Stalling?" Maggie asked with an innocent look. "Now why would I do such a thing?"

"Trying to prevent us from getting in," Gray replied, taking a step forward. "We're not idiots. We're here for Cynthia, not idle chit chat with someone who destroyed Fairy Tail!"

"Juvia agrees with Gray-sama!" Juvia flailed her arms around before glaring deeply at Maggie.

"You guys go on ahead," Gray said, immediately throwing off his jacket, showing how serious he was. "I'll show this woman what happens when you mess with Fairy Tail and the people inside..."

"Allow Juvia to help!" Juvia nodded, looking over at Gray.

"Juvia. Go," Gray said in a demanding tone, keeping his gaze on Maggie.

"You better kick her ass, Gray!" Natsu shouted, running inside the front doors along with all the others.

"Don't worry," Gray replied, placing his fist into his palm as a chilling wind surrounded his legs.

"...Why the hell did you just..." Maggie shook her head, a devilish smirk appearing over her lips. "Ice wizard, hm? Well, I'd love to be the one to melt that ice of yours," Maggie's smirk widened as her hands glowed a bright red, eventually leaking lava from the palm of her hands. "Play with fire, get burned, love..."

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"L-LET ME GO...!" Cynthia's body erupted in dark red flames as she attempted to break free from her restraints, but she was unable to do to so, only causing her to struggle even more.

"Hm..." Aiden paid no mind to Cynthia's plea, instead he just observed the flames around her body. "Your flames...Hm...they're stronger...not just from your emotions...interesting..."

"STOP IGNORING ME!" Cynthia clenched her eyes shut, struggling as she started to make minor leeway in her restraints.

"Tch, stop avoiding my question, you brat..." Aiden pressed a button on a device nearby, causing the restrains to tighten, constricting Cynthia even further.

"EEK!" Cynthia let out a yelp as she felt the restraints tightening against her. Causing her voice to lower to a whimper. "I-I want Wendy..."

"Tch...Wendy this, Wendy that...you just won't shut up about her..." Aiden groaned and then looked up at several lacrima screens. "Oh...?" Aiden noticed that the group of Fairy Tail wizards entering the tower, and Gray standing behind to face off against Maggie. "What's this...? They actually showed up? I'm impressed..."

"T-They're here?!" Cynthia's voice turned from a whimper to an excited squeal. "I knew they would come...!"

"Don't think that just because they're here they're going to survive," Aiden replied, moving his head to an intercom. "Tartaros, Silent Sanctum, it's show time."

"T-They can beat those stupid mages...and you...!" Cynthia shouted, smirking slightly, feeling better now that Fairy Tail was here to save her.

"Tch, confident little snot, aren't you?" Aiden asked, looking at the other lacrima screens, noticing a ship in the distance. "What's that...?" He reached over, pressing another button. "This should take care of whatever the hell that is..."

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Team White Eclipse rode the sky's on Blue Pegasus's brilliant ship, Christina; heading towards the mountains in the center of Fiore. All was seemingly going well, the only downside of the transportation was that the four dragon slayers were suffering from motion sickness. Waiston's face was pale as he hung his head over the side, feeling as though he was going to vomit any second. "Why couldn't we just WALK?!" Waiston asked, groaning after he spoke.

"If it wasn't so far away I'd use a tornado to get us there..." Jaxon nodded.

"Would that be better or worse than this...?" Selene groaned, leaning against the wall as she held her stomach.

"More or less..." Jaxon replied.

Reve pulled out a sniper with a scope, and looked through it, spotting the large tower way in the distance. "I can see the mountains..."

"Great, so only about thirty or so minutes before we reach there?" Luke asked, turning over to Ichiya.

"Yes, men," Ichiya nodded. "That does sound right. Isn't this ship grand?"

"If I wasn't currently suffering from whatever this is it would be great..." Heather replied, bringing her hand up to her mouth.

"This ship is AMAZING!" Zalen replied to Ichiya rather excitedly. "I love this ship's exterior, and the interior just puts me at a loss for words. And the cannons, those are just...!"

"Men!" Ichiya grinned excitedly as he and Zalen entered conversation about Christina.

"Where's Arc?" Jack asked, looking around the ship for the Demon Slayer.

"Arc can fly, so there's not much point in him riding a ship when he can do that," Luke replied. "I think he's just a little ways behind us, that's all."

"How you feeling, Tak?" Cygnus asked, walking over to Takeru, who was in the fetal position on the ground while holding his stomach.

"How...do you think...?" Takeru asked through a loud groan.

"I wish I could help you...but I only have basic healing magic..." Aira frowned slightly as she watched the suffering dragon slayers, feeling bad that she was unable to do anything to help them.

"I have a question." Jenny spoke up, causing the White Eclipse mages to turn around. "So it's clear you want to help this situation somehow, but how exactly do you plan to do that when we get you there?"

"I was wondering that myself..." Hibiki adjusted his tie. "We want to help Fairy Tail as well, and save that lovely young lady from the clutches that mad man. But I suspect your methods may be different from ours."

"We want to help Cynthia..." Aira said with a frown. "We have no connection to her, sure, but...she's just a little girl."

"Besides, we can't just stand around and do nothing. I bet the other guilds are probably on their way." Luke shrugged. "So I guess this is a rescue mission. Picking up the slack where Fairy Tail couldn't."

A few minutes of silence passed before the ground below Christina started to shake, the vibrations of the wind causing everyone's attention to snap over to the shaking.

"...What was that?" Ren asked, looking around from the interior of the ship.

"...Did we just feel the ground shake...?" Eve asked, raising an eyebrow.

"It felt like the wind...but..." Hibiki used his magic to open up a gold magic circle, but before he had the chance to do anything, the ground began to rumble violently.

"THIS IS MAKING IT WORSE!" Waiston shouted, his face turning green as he actually hurled off the side of the ship.

"What the hell is going on..." Reve walked over to the side of the ship, looking back. The ground started to open; but it wasn't quite like something was rising out of the ground and broke it open. The ground neatly spread apart, and a platform started to rise from the ground.

"What the...?" Luke looked over Reve's shoulder, unsure on what was happening.

From the platform, a large fifty foot spider emerged. A few seconds passed before the spider engulfed itself in flames and looked up at the far away Christina, dashing forward towards the flying ship. "What the /FUCK/ is that thing!?" Reve shouted, jumping back from the sight of the spider.

"SPIDER," Luke shouted.

"It's coming this way!" Aira shrieked.

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Gray placed his hands into his fist, a blue magic circle appearing in front of him, "Ice Make: Geyser!" Gray put his hands on the ground, causing an ice geyser to shoot up, trapping Maggie within the frigid ice. A few seconds passed and Maggie's body glowed a bright red, causing the ice to emit a steam as a soft sizzling sound resulted because of it. "What?" Gray's eyes widened slightly.

The ice melted, and Maggie stepped out of the ice prison with minor damage. "Too hot for you?" Maggie smirked as tilted her head up, gathering a large volume of ash into her mouth. "Ashfall..." Maggie threw her head forward as a grey magic circle appeared in front of her, unleashing a large ball of ash in Gray's direction.

"Ice Make: Cocoon!" Gray brought his arms together as a large cocoon made of ice appeared around his body. It was enough to soften the blow of the exploding ash, but it wasn't enough to withstand it as the cocoon shattered and Gray tumbled across the ground. When Gray came to a stop he immediately looked around...however the exploding ash was now covering the entire battle field, and he was unable to see anything in front of him.

"Is there a problem, ice boy?" Maggie's voice came out as a soft giggle, though Gray was unable to pinpoint her location due to all the ash. Maggie's body turned into lava and slipped through the tiniest cracks in the ground, appearing right behind Gray, a sadistic grin tugging her lips. Maggie reared her arm back, using her magic to give it a bright red glow, signifying the temperature on her arm was quite high. Maggie then swung her fist at Gray's back, a sizzling sound caused by the meeting of flesh and lava.

"GAH!" Gray felt a burning sensation on his back as he tumbled forward, deep into the surrounding ash. "Tch...is that all you got!? Natsu's flames are hotter than yours!" Gray looked around once again, staying on guard as Maggie continued to giggle darkly. "Ice Make: ...Fan!" A large fan made of ice appeared in Gray's hands; he gripped the handle firmly with both of his hands then swung it forward, creating a large gust of wind that forced the ash down the mountain, revealing Maggie's location a few feet to Gray's left. "I got you!" Gray swung the fan again, sending a harsh gust of wind towards Maggie.

"Clever..." Maggie smirked slightly as her body turned into lava once again, slipping through the smallest cracks in the ground, avoiding the harsh gust of wind.

"Not this time...!" Gray dropped the fan, causing it to vanish as he placed his hands on the ground. "Ice Make: Floor!" A large portion of the ground froze over, just as Maggie slipped through. Gray smirked, now having Maggie just where he wanted her. "Ice Make:..." Before Gray could finish his sentence, he noticed a large magic circle appearing just below the ice. "What...!?"

A pool of lava appeared under the ice, quickly causing it to melt. Gray jumped into the air, luckily avoiding the lava before it vanished. Maggie stood a few yards from Gray, dusting off her jumpsuit. "Heh..."

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"Fire the cannons!" Hibiki shouted.

"On it!" Eve pressed a few buttons, and the cannons on the bottom of Christina released blue oval-shaped blast down at the incoming fire spider. The blast came in rapid succession, but the spider hopped from side to side, avoiding the magical blast, and the explosion radius as well. The spider then opened its mouth, sending multiple fire balls up at the ship.

"MENN!" Ichiya shouted as the fire balls neared.

"Everyone hang on!" Ren shouted as the ship made a hard left, avoiding the incoming fire balls.

"What the hell is up with that spider!?" Luke shouted. He then puffed his cheeks out, releasing an Ice Dragon's roar down on the spider since Waiston was currently unable to do so. The roar hit the spider, causing it to stand its ground for a few seconds. "Now!"

"I don't know but I want it dead!" Reve had a secret fear of spiders, so a giant flaming one really set him off. Reve requiped two assault rifles and released a seemingly endless stream of bullets down towards the spider, stopping its movement even farther.

"Again!" Eve pressed the same button he did last time, sending multiple oval shape blasts from Christina's cannon, this time hitting the spider as a large explosion occured.

"Got it!" Aira shouted, letting out a sigh of relief.

"That crazy scientist didn't make that...did he...?" Selene groaned, almost vomiting from the ship's hard left a few seconds before.

"I don't know..." Jaxon replied. "But there's something wrong with that man, no doubt..."

"Is everyone okay, men?" Ichiya asked, looking primarily at the Dragon Slayers.

"Just...watch where you step..." Heather replied.

"I feel like dying..." Takeru replied.

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"Oh...it's that ship, Christina..." Aiden replied. "From Blue Pegasus? What are they doing trying to get over here...Oh...what to do with such troublesome...OH!" A dark grin appeared over Aiden's lips as he looked over at Cynthia, who stopped resisting for the moment.

"W-What...?" Cynthia whimpered softly, her eyes watering.

"This will be a great chance to see your new power, Fiore's End," Aiden grinned, walking over to a device and began pressing a few buttons. A large open cylinder appeared over Cynthia, leading up into a larger device.

"M-My name is Cynthia..." Cynthia replied, looking up at the cylinder.

"No, you're a tool, not a person," Aiden replied, completely ignoring the harshness of his words.

"B-But I'm a member of Fairy Tail..." Cynthia said.

"Are you really? Can you call yourself that and mean it?" Aiden asked, looking up at the lacrima screen recording the incoming Christina.

"I-I did before...!" Cynthia replied, raising her voice slightly.

"Oh, but did you mean it?" Aiden asked once again, looking over at Cynthia as his finger lingered over a red button.

"I-I...Back then I..." Cynthia thought back to the first time she called herself a Fairy Tail wizard, and back then she wasn't quite honest with the saying. She still felt like a tool to be used back then, and she only said it to make herself feel better about being free.

"I thought so. Now...I wonder what would happen if I sent the most powerful mage here to Wendy..." Aiden smirked.

"YOU LEAVE WENDY ALONE!" Cynthia screamed out, dark red flames appearing as she attempted to struggle once again.

"It only takes this much to set you off? Heh..." Aiden pressed a button, and the cylinder above Cynthia started to extract the flames, forcibly causing her to intensify them as the building and the area around it began to shake. "This machine will amplify your firepower...coupled with your high magic, and..."

Cynthia let out a loud shriek as her flames intensified without her consent, feeling the cannon extracting her magic power and causing strain on her body. "S-STOP IT!"

"Omega Fire Cannon...FIRE!"

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Maggie and Gray stopped in their tracks, looking around to see where the shaking was coming from. "What the hell...!?" Gray shouted, looking up at the tower. The tower's top began to shift, changing into a large cannon pointed in one direction. The cannon's inside gave off a bright orange light, signifying that it was going to fire off in a matter of seconds.

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"Uh..." Luke pointed to the cannon off in the distance. "What is that thing...?"

"It looks like a cannon..." Zalen replied, squinting his eyes to see if he could get a better look.

"I...Is that thing aimed at us...?" Cygnus asked, quickly looking over to the others.

The cannon gave a low robotic sound before unleashing a MASSIVE funnel of dark red fire, aimed directly at Christina. "MENNNN!" Ichiya screamed out.

"ITS AIMED AT US ITS AIMED AT US," Luke shouted, panicking as the funnel of fire raced forward.

"Look out!" Hibiki shouted as the ship made a sharp move to the left, mostly effective, but the right-wing of the ship was utterly obliterated and the ship began to nose dive towards the ground.

"WE'RE GONNA DIE," Waiston shouted.

"I got it!" Zalen pointed his hands at the broken wing, a magic circle appearing as he slowly began to fix it.

"We're not gonna make it...!" Aira shouted.

"I...I got it!" Zalen fixed the wing just before Christina hit the ground, allowing the ship to pull up back into the air safely.

"Nice Zalen!" Reve panted, but he gave his friend a smirk. Everyone looked back at where the shot the cannon fired went off to, only for their eyes to widened. The cannon hit the ground, causing a fiery explosion that wiped out everything with a 40 mile radius.

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Even from Gray's position, he was able to see the explosion caused. "W-What..." Gray's eyes widened with pure shock.

"Bloody hell..." Even Maggie was shocked by the sheer power of the cannon, and the destruction it caused.

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Inside, team Fairy Tail got a visual on what was happening via lacrima screens posted everywhere, most likely by Aiden. Their eyes widened when they witnessed the destruction the cannon caused. "T-Those flames..." Wendy stuttered.

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Cynthia's head fell back as she panted heavily, feeling the immense strain on her body the cannon caused, tears rolling down her cheeks. Aiden ignored this and gave a hearty laugh. "WAHAHAH! That was only 30% power too! This is excellent! This is only a portion of the power of the tool that will be used to destroy Fiore!"

"Tool..." Cynthia closed her eyes as the tears streamed down her cheeks.