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Harry stared at the now fading spell that just saved everyone's lives with awe, wonder, and confusion in his eyes. 'Who was that voice just now?' he thought, but he was snapped out of his musing by Castor.
"That was the Deathly Hallows symbol!" he exclaimed excitedly. Harry turned around to look at the six year old and saw the look of awe in his eyes. "Harry, are you the Master of Death?" he asked loud enough for everyone in Fairy Tail to hear, but not for Phantom.
Harry nodded his head slowly. "Yes, I am. I have all three hallows. And before anyone flips a lid, Master does know about it. I told him the day I joined," Harry told them.
"What is a Master of Death?" Erza asked, or more like demanded.
"I'm not too sure," he admitted, then held up the wand in his hand. "This is one of the Hallows. It's known as the Elder wand, the death stick, or the unbeatable wand. The other two Hallows are a stone that allows you to talk with the spirits of the dead, and the other is a cloak that hides you from everything, even Death," he explained. "Now I can't tell you more than that for two reasons. One: I don't know any more than that, and two: we don't have time for it, because we're in a middle of a war."
Everyone was brought back to reality at his words, and they all faced the Phantom Lord guild hall again. "When this is over, Harry, we're going to have a talk," Erza said.
"I told you I don't know anything more on it. Even Fawkes doesn't know, but that is because I'm the first to gain this title," Harry said, trying to get her to let go of it. "I don't see why you're so worried. The Master has known about it for about a year now. So if you want to talk about it with someone, go to him." Luckily, Erza didn't reply to that.
Harry allowed himself to focus completely on Phantom just in time to hear Jose growl out murderously, "I don't know what kind of spell that was, but I doubt you'll be able to block the next fire! I may not know who you are, green-eyed brat, but I'll make sure to kill you… Now then…we can either do this the hard way, or the easy was. Hand over Lucy Heartfilia and I'll just make sure that only that brat dies!"
"Like heck we would hand Lucy over to you!" Natsu shouted.
"Lucy is a member of Fairy Tail! No way are we going to hand her over!" Erza joined in on the protest.
"Not only that, but what makes you think that you could demand anything of us when you still plan to kill Harry!? We would rather die than to that to either of our friends!" Erza, Gray, and Natsu all demanded followed by cheers from the rest of the guild members. Even with the new knowledge of Harry being the Master of Death, he's still Harry and a member of Fairy Tail. Harry feels relief from this fact; he's glad that even now knowing, they still see him as a friend.
Jose was gritting his teeth together now. He's going to kill every last one of these pest if it's the last things he does. "You all have 15 minutes before a more powerful Jupiter fires again! But I'm going to make sure that that brat, Harry, dies last!" Jose shouted. 'He'll be the last to go… No one makes blocking the cannon look so effortlessly and lives to tell about it!' he yelled furiously within his mind.
"They're going to fire again?" Someone voiced out everyone's fear.
"Harry, can you even block another one of those?" Max asked.
Harry shrugged. "Maybe, but I don't know. I just learned that spell. We're lucky that it worked the first time," he said worriedly.
Shortly after Harry told them this, shades that look like some kind of phantoms came out of the guild hall and are now flying toward them.
"What are those things?!" A lot of Fairy Tail members shouted in fright.
"You have two choices, Fairy Tail! Be killed by my soldiers, or die by Jupiter!" Jose said over the loud speaker.
"He would really kill his own men just to kill us!?"
"Yes he would," Cana started. "Those are Jose's shade's created by his magic. They are not human. They're more like ghost."
"Shades, ghost?!" Someone said fearfully.
"We got to do something about that cannon," Cana said, more to herself than the others.
Natsu heard her though, and punched a first into his other hand. "I'm going to go smash that thing," he stated. He then turned to Harry. "Harry, clear a path for me!"
Harry nodded, "Right!" He lifted his wand and shouted, "Expecto Patronum!" A silver stag burst forth from the tip of the elder wand and charged into the shades, killing some of them. Natsu and Happy flew through them while following the path the stag is going in. The stag stopped on top of the cannon, and Natsu landed on it. "It might be best to destroy this thing from the inside," Harry's voice said, coming out of the stag. Once it said its message, it faded out of existence.
Natsu was shocked to hear the voice, and thought it was cool. He turned to looked back at his guild, and saw a glow of flames on the other side of the water, and then again right in front of him.
"I'm guessing you're helping?" Natsu asked.
Harry nodded. "Yes, I stayed back to tell Mira to get Castor out of there. She sent both him and Lucy with Reedus, but she had to knock the latter out. Lucy didn't want to just leave us to fight these guys on our own," he reported.
Natsu understood. "Alright, let's go!" Happy carried him, and Fawkes carried Harry into the cannon.
Once on the inside of the cannon, Natsu, Happy, and Harry stared in awe at the biggest lacrima they have ever seen. Fawkes pecks the three of them sharply to snap them back into reality and remind them what they are there for. It worked, so now Harry is aiming his wand at the huge lacrima, and Natsu charging at the it with a flaming fist.
"Columna Ignis!" Harry called out the name of the fire spell, but before either his or Natsu's attack reached the lacrima, the flames on the dragon slayer's fist turned and punched him in the face, and Harry's flames turned and tried to hit him, but Fawkes blocked the attack and absorbed it into his own body, but not like how Natsu does it. The flames became one with Fawkes' feathers.
"Natsu, Harry, are you both okay?!" Happy called out worriedly.
"Don't worry, little buddy I'm fine. How about you Harry?" Natsu replied.
"Yeah, Fawkes made the flames a part of his body," Harry told them what happened.
{Harry…} The wizard turned to Fawkes when he started speaking. {Look down there in that shadowy corner,} he instructed him.
Harry looks down where Fawkes was pointing with his beak and saw a man standing there. "A guard…? They have this over grown cannon guarded?" he asked in disbelief.
Happy and Natsu heard him and also saw the guard. The guard steps out of his hiding spot and smirks. "I won't let you destroy Jupiter," a man with white and black hair said.
"Who are you?" Harry demanded.
"I'm Totomaru, one of the element four. If you want to destroy this cannon, then you're going to have to defeat me," Totomaru challenged.
Natsu gritted his teeth, but turned to Harry. "I'll deal with him, you destroy the cannon," he ordered before charging at the man guarding the cannon.
"Right!" Fawkes lifted Harry up into the air with his talons, but before they could do anything, they saw Natsu punch himself again with his fist on fire.
{I get the feeling that this Totomaru can control others' flames and use it against them,} Fawkes said.
"No…what gave that away?" Harry said sarcastically. "We'll just not use fire to destroy it then." Fawkes nodded his agreement. The two of them flew for the lacrima while Harry was ready to cast a spell at it, but all of a sudden he and his familiar are sent flying away from it. "What the heck, Fawkes?!" Harry shouted, thinking that the phoenix pulled away.
{It's not my fault! I felt like someone grabbed and tossed me,} Fawkes explained.
Harry looked down at Natsu and Totomaru and saw that the Phantom Lord mage was looking toward them. He figured out that the man was the one who did it, but how? Fawkes wasn't in his flame form. "How did you do that?" he interrogated.
"Well, your bird is made of fire, right? You said that it made those flames a part of him, so that means his body is part fire, am I wrong?" Totomaru explained.
Harry wanted to face-palm, but held back the urge. 'I had to say that, didn't I?' he scolded himself. "So what you're saying is that if the fire is part of the body then you can do with it what you will?" The man nodded. Harry turned back to his familiar. "Will that work against Natsu?" he whispered.
{No, unlike Natsu, my body was born made up of fire. Natsu's flames are inside his body, where it cannot be reached,} Fawkes answered.
Harry nodded to show that he understood. He turned back to his other friend. "Natsu, you better distract him better this time, or else this thing is going to blow!" he shouted toward the end of his sentence.
"Nine minutes till the Jupiter fires," A robotic voice said, making Harry nervous. 'We've been at this for six minutes now? We'll be cutting it close at this rate,' he thought worriedly.
Harry tries again to cast a spell at the cannon, but Fawkes gets thrown away from it again.
Natsu is glaring at Totomaru while baring his teeth. "Move…" he growled."Either Harry or I are going to destroy this stupid cannon!"
"I said I wouldn't let you, didn't I?" Totomaru questioned.
"We'll see about that!" Natsu shouted and dashed forward with a fire dragon's iron fist aimed for the other fire mage, but before he could hit him, the fire fist slammed into his face again. The impact was so powerful that it sent Natsu spiraling on the floor and away from both the lacrima and Totomaru. He got up and glared daggers at the man.
Natsu charged at Totomaru with another flaming fist, but just like his attack the result was the same; it didn't land on the target. The flames wrapped around Natsu's body, but since they are his he couldn't eat them. While distracted by the flames, Totomaru slams a knee into his gut and pushed him back.
"I don't know if you heard me tell your friend up there, but all flames are under my control. Be it nature or enemy's flames, all of it is mine!" Totomaru declared.
"My flames are mine!" Natsu shouted, and then got up while wiping his mouth. "Trust me I noticed when you were throwing Fawkes around that you can control fire. I'm not that stupid," he said.
"Hurry up, Harry!" Happy said somewhere in the background, but Totomaru heard him.
"Bomb…" Harry was cut off from casting the exploding spell. Totomaru threw Fawkes again, and the two almost slammed into the wall.
While the Phantom Lord fire mage was busy with Harry and Fawkes, Natsu tried to attack again. "Fire Dragon's Claw!" Before Natsu's flaming foot hit its target, Totomaru had the flames swing his foot back up and made Natsu do a back flip. While his back was facing the white and black-haired mage, said mage kicked him in the back, and then sent blue fire at him.
When the blue flames hit Natsu he started to eat them, surprising Totomaru just a little. "Whoa, that was cold! I have never eaten cold fire before. Wait… I didn't even know that were was such a thing as cold fire!" Natsu said with wide eyes.
"I see, so you're the Fairy Tail Dragon Slayer that I heard about. I wasn't sure if it was true or not," Totomaru said. "I guess this would be bad for the both of us."
"What are you talking about?" Natsu questioned.
"Well, both of our flames are not effective against each other."
Natsu glared. "Don't jump to conclusions…" he growled."You haven't even tasted my flames yet!" Natsu paused for a moment, and then an idea popped into his head. "How about this attack?" He inhaled deeply. "Fire Dragon's…"
"I won't work!"
"Spit!" Natsu finished, shocking Totomaru with the not so flaming attack, which also resulted in the spit to hit him right in the face. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Natsu laughed at the disgusted look of the other fire mage's face.
"You little punk, you tricked me!" Totomaru shouted. "Orange fire!"
Natsu started to eat the flames, but then he started to spit them back out and tried to cover his nose. "Oh god, this stinks! Just what is that?!" Natsu shouted, making his enemy laugh loudly, but before Totomaru could answer the question after calming down, both he and Natsu saw Harry about to about to cast a spell that he has been charging up for about a half a minute now. But what they don't know is that Harry was not casting a spell, but is just charging up pure magic energy.
"Oh no you don't!" Totomaru said, and grabbed hold of Fawkes with his magic and sent both the phoenix and wizard through the wall at high speed.
"Harry, Fawkes!" Natsu roared out worriedly. He glared with burning rage at his enemy, and ran as fast as he could at him with his fist cocked back. He swung for the man's face, but Totomaru dodged it.
"So you decided that since you couldn't use your flames you're just going to use your fist? Well then, if that's the case then I'll use my sword!" Totomaru swung a blade out of its sheath and at Natsu. Natsu was able to dodge the attack, and all the others that came after.
Natsu lit his fist again, and his flames punched him in the face again. "Natsu," Happy cried out, "we don't have time for this anymore! Harry is out, and the cannon is about to fire in two minutes!"
"I know that!" Natsu said, but he was smirking; however, that smirk turned into a deep frown. This man hurt Harry and Fawkes while he was fighting him. He couldn't believe he let that happened.
The reason he was smirking not long ago was because Natsu was able to hit the Phantom mage by making his flames big enough. While gritting his teeth, Natsu growled in anger. He put all the rage he has build up from Phantom hurting gramps, to kidnapping Lucy and making her cry, for Phantom almost killing all of Fairy Tail, hurting Harry and Fawkes to the point they are knocked out, and angry at this thorn in his side for controlling his flames! They were his, DARN IT!
"These are my flames! I won't let you control them!" he exclaimed. "Fire Dragon's ROAR!" A huge beam of flames shot out of Natsu's mouth and straight for his enemy and the lacrima. Totomaru tried to make the flames move, but they wouldn't listen, but he started to laugh was they missed him.
"You can't even hit me when you have control!" he shouted, but then he stopped when he heard a crash. He turned and saw that the flames destroyed the lacrima that was about to fire at any second.
"Now it's our turn to crush you, Phantom!" Natsu said demonically and with his eyes burning green again. Totomaru looked at Natsu like he was some kind of demon.
Harry and Fawkes were not out for long, and got up and out of the hole in the wall just in time to see Natsu smash the lacrima to pieces. With a sigh, Harry shook his head. Why did he even bother with being here when Natsu had the cannon covered? Oh yeah…
Shortly after Natsu said something in a demon-like voice, the Phantom Lord guild hall started moving again. 'That's why I came here. I came, because this building moves, and Natsu has motion sickness!'
{You sure that was your reason before now?} Fawkes said mockingly with a tilt of his head.
'Shut up, Fawkes…'
TBC
Well, I hope you all enjoyed the fight. :)
To the guest from the last chapter, I do plan on doing all three of those things. It is just going to take some time. I need Death to show up at some point to get Harry to learn what it means to be a Master of Death. So more spells based off of Death, but not like Zeref's magic.
P.S. The new spell I gave to Harry is not as OP as some might think. I won't say it here, you'll just have to wait and see what I mean.
Harry: Why am I not allowed to look at your notes for the spell? :(
Enj/Dark: Because I need you to use it again at some point in this arc at the wrong time.
Natsu: What does that me?
Zeref: I doubt she's going to tell you. -_-
Enj/Dark: He's right! ^-^
Voldy: I get the feeling her not telling Potter and the viewers what this spell can't do is because I'm here as well. She doesn't want me to know the weakness for this, does she?
Enj/Dark: You're not wrong. So when it's shown, I'm going to have to make sure you're not here when it happens. By the way, Zeff, it's your turn.
Zeref: Please review!