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When your hearts beats with the heat of the sun for each other, that is love. This Fairy Tail redo is a story of two people connected by a fire unquenched by any power in the world. Their bond will take change the fate of Fiore and all of Ishgar.
Chapter 30: The Oracion Seis Defeated
"Iron Rock Wall."
'Dammit!' Brain didn't have the time shout a curse as rock as hard as steel rose in pillars to strike him in the sides and chin. Each blow felt carried the force to punch through a building, and only Brain's endurance kept him in the fight. The last pillar of rock struck him in the chest hard enough to lift him off his feet.
"Ice Demon's-"
Brain couldn't right himself in time while midair. His eyes can only look at the growing source of magic to find the ice wizard at the ready. He had long ago forgone his upper clothes, and black skin had spread to cover the right half of Gray's body. Milliseconds passed as Brain's mind analyzed the magic surging into Gray's maw till his eyes widened at the impossibility. Another Demon Slayer!?
"-Rage!"
A torrent blizzard of purple ice breathed out of Gray's mouth and made a direct hit onto Brain's back. The leader of the Oracion Seis gagged in pain from the blow, but it was far worse than what he showed. The magic forcing itself upon him was so dreadfully cold that no part of him was free from it. It was more than just physical damage or his body freezing from the magical cold. The ice was encroaching upon his very soul.
Brain next felt his bones rattle and his skin bruise as he tumbled across the ground. He endured through the pain and lashed out his foot to gravity to anchor him down. His leg sent pain up through his body as it rubbed harshly on the rough ground. Ahead of him closed in the Fire Demon Slayer, Lucy, flames dancing at her feet with the Exceed Happy holding her up from the ground. He smirked seeing the inevitable futility at the forward charge and raised his staff to properly counter.
"Ice God's Ymir War Wolf."
Too late did Brain hear the call of a spell to react that blood-drawn pain laced his right arm. He looked down to see a wolf made of black ice with its jaws locked on his arm hard enough to draw blood. Above on the rooftops was Lyon, his hand extended producing a black mist, smirking down at the dark mage.
The construct of ice tried yanking back the arm to bring Brain to the ground. However, Brain's raw strength was nothing to laugh at and with a good thrust overpowered the wolf's strength to shatter against the ground. His victory was short-lived since in that time Lucy was already in front of him.
"Fire Demon's Killer Fist."
A fist of bright golden flames surged forward at sonic speeds to plant straight into Brain's chest in an upward arc. The burns were more terrible than the encroaching cold from the Ice Demon Slayer. A few ribs broke from the strength of the blow and blood was forcefully coughed out. Yet, again his feet lifted off the floor to fly in the air. It was only a second of reprieve between the blow and Brain already trying to reorient himself. His frustration grew to an erupting point when all he could see was Natsu right above him with a fist cocked back.
"Are you fucking-" Brain could not get the time to finish a swear over this ridiculous situation he has landed himself in.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist."
The first of dragon fire planted below Brain's rib cage and rattled his stomach underneath it. Much needed air was forced out of his lungs from both the blow and the impact of crashing down back to earth. But all the pain did not break Brain's thoughts as they were in a muddle over the absolute stupidity of all this. He just couldn't believe that there were three lost magics in the same place. Demon Slayer, Dragon Slayer, and even God Slayer right here in front of him. The odds were simply unfathomable of such a grouping of unique magics.
Any other situation and Brain would have been elated at such powerful magics, but that is lowered by the fact he was the sole target of the slayers' attack. This was bad for the dark mage. The combined onslaught from slayers' of impressive magnitude was waning on his strength and endurance. It won't be long before he is actually defeated and then Midnight is left to be the only link to keep him from arising.
"Fire Dragon's Talon."
Pain brought Brain back to reality as Natsu smashed down a flaming heel right on top of the dark mage. He definitely felt his ribs crack at that moment, and spittle flew from his mouth as breath was forced out of his lungs. The damage was too much that his vision started to darken around him. No, he can't now, and not because of these insects.
"AWAY WITH YOU!" Brain roared, the rush of adrenaline provided from his rage to quickly summon his magic. "Dark Capricio Scream."
Brain's most devastating blast fired from his cane, a green laser surrounded in a spiral of flame. Natsu ascended in the air with the help of his flaming wings. The Dragon Slayer locked his eyes with his mate below him and a silent plan was agreed between them. They soared down together winding around the blast to get in close with Brain. The blast itself hid away their approach and it was too late to realize the danger till their fists were right in front of his face.
"Fire Demon's Killer-"
"Fire Dragon's Iron-"
"-FIST!"
Both fists of fire impacted Brain's face with a bang and sending him crashing into a stone building to then crumble on top of him to trap him in rubble. Their attack left a black bruise over most of Brain's face and his nose was set a painful angle to the right with the nostrils bleeding. His eyes were blank, indicating he was finally unconscious. With his fall, one of the marks on Brain's face disappeared, the very same effect that has happened to the defeat of the other Oracion Seis. There was only one mark left being Midnight as Hoteye had already been defeated by the top dark magician.
"That's an impressive combo you two have." Jura complimented the fire-style slayers.
Natsu smiled cheekily. "We are just natural ass-kickers."
"So all that leaves is the one named Midnight." Gray noted. "This fight is as good as ours."
"Let us not get ahead of ourselves." Jura said, his voice akin to thunder to grab everyone's attention. "There is still the matter of stopping Nirvana. Don't you notice how it is still moving even after putting down Brain?"
"Yeah, that is strange." Lyon agreed while forcing wincing from the throbbing headaches of standing the city-sized contraption. "Some of us will have to split off to investigate Nirvana and stop it permanently."
"I'll gl wreck this torture fest!" Natsu cried suddenly, soaring off in a random direction, followed soon by dust clouds as the Dragon Slayer began destroying indiscriminately.
"Goddammit Natsu!" Lucy huffed. "Happy, let's go make sure Natsu doesn't cause too much damage."
"It's not like you're any better." Happy muttered with a sweatdrop.
"What was that?!" Snarled Lucy, her eyes flashing pink.
"I mean aye, sir." Cried Happy.
The Exceed's wings gave magically-enhanced beats to chase after Natsu lest Lucy decides to make an exotic soup out of him.
(Erza and Jellal)
"Gah!" Cried Erza as she was knocked away by some unseen force that acted just inches before her blade struck Midnight.
The steel of said blade that was once in in Erza's hands shriveled and twisted in the air around Midnight till it spontaneously shattered. Erza grit her teeth in defiance at the odds stacking upon her. Ever since hearing that Jellal was here and alive, she sprinted through the forest hoping to find him, and when Nirvana was awakened it was a homing beacon for her. At the location of the pillar of dark light was where Erza found Jellal, but she wasn't prepared for what expected her.
She expected the same heartless monster that almost killed Simon. The Jellal she met that opened Nirvana can be considered an entirely different person. No, it was more that the original Jellal she knew as a child had returned. His memories of the atrocities that he caused were gone, but he cried at the mention he hurt his friends.
It proved more he was the child hero Erza looked up to when he put up a destruction seal on Nirvana connected to himself, destroying it and him along with it. Erza in a fit of rage at the man that hurt her friends and desperation save the man that was still her friend tried to dismay Jellal from doing it, but it was too late. He would have been gone if it weren't for interference of Brain who tore down the destruction seal and took Nirvana for himself.
While Jellal was unconcious from the strain of the magic seal put on him, Erza held onto him to save his life as everything crumbled around them. Next thing she knew, Erza's left hand was gripped onto the edge of Nirvana while her left held onto Jellal. She lifted them both up to 'ground' level and find themselves in the ancient city of the Nirvits. A short while later Jellal received consciousness but was considerably weaker.
Then trouble started when they encountered the most dangerous of the Oracion Seis, Midnight. Jellal started the initial attack, but every powerful blast he sent was somehow swerved around Midnight. The dark mage only needed to sweep his hand to the side to take out Jellal. It was a shock to Erza, even considering Jellal was in a weakened state.
It fell to the Queen of Fairies to take down the dark mage, but none of her attacks were met with success. The metal of her own armor even twisted and mended to snare Erza, thus forcing her to Requip into a new set of armor. Though the first exchange went poorly, it gave Erza the crucial information that Midnight's specialty was Reflector Magic. She then tested using her Heaven's Wheel armor to send a barrage of swords. They were all reflected right back at her and her own armor twisted around her like last time. Erza in her struggle at least managed to throw her sword at Midnight's head while his magic was controlling her armor. That proved that the dark mage could not in fact use offense and defense simultaneously.
She was going to switch to a more flexible armor to counter Midnight's distortion until he instead chose to torture Erza in a twister of distorted space trying to rip her apart. She felt the steel of her scattered blades shatter and claw into every part of her. The shrill scream of agony that left her lips could not be held back from the pain that Midnight licked at.
There was a definite bang of magically-enhanced fist impacting a jaw followed by the sweet release of the torment that inflicted Erza. She forced herself from rest to see what was the cause of Midnight's interruption. Standing in the dark mage's place was Siri, the Sky Demon Slayer, perched while looking blankly at a now newly destroyed building. It was not a mystery to figure out in that rubble was where Midnight was buried under.
"You know, I do get the turn on getting delicious from people like the next guy, but," Siri commented, "you're just meh. I'd rather have a more hands on approach."
Siri made several evasive blackflips as the rubble exploded outward from distorted space. Out from the dust cloud trudged Midnight with a look of pure hatred on his face bruised up from the punch.
"I'm going to make you pay, you bitch!" Growled Midnight.
"Fu-fu-fu." Siri chuckled at the heated words from the dark mage. "Miss me with that goth shit."
Siri's taunt served to fuel Midnight's anger and he lashed more offensively, tearing the land apart. Yet, no matter how much he unleashed Siri new exactly how to dodge it perfectly all with a smile on her face. Erza watched this display of agility from the Demon Slayer with surprise, and it was clear to Titania that Siri was much stronger than the last time they fought.
"I mean really" Siri continued, her body going horizontal to avoid two slashes of distorted space. "Lipstick and nail polish? I get being goth, but that just makes you look more gay. Unless you are actually gay."
Veins bulged visibly all over Midnight's forehead and his teeth were gritted so hard that anymore force can crack a few molars from accident. Not that Midnight cared at all. His already meager reasoning was all gone at the end of Siri's taunt. Pure rage dictated all of his effort by abandoning all notions of defense to completely obliterate the Demon Slayer.
That's when Erza saw the underlying plan in all of this. In his rampage after Siri, Midnight had completely forgotten about her and Jellal. Forcing through the pain that still throbbed through her body, Erza stood back up on her feet. She blurred the distance between herself and Midnight with the latter's back turned. It was only the glow of her Requip summoning a sword to her hand that alerted Midnight to the incoming threat, but it was already too late. He couldn't bring up his defenses before Erza dealt a clean slash with her sword down Midnight's back.
'My only prayer is to finally sleep in peace.' Thought Midnight, letting out one last gag of pain before falling face first into the ground unconscious.
With that, all of the Oracion Seis had been defeated. Erza turned her attention back to Siri with a blank stare. They were once enemies on the battlefield when Phantom Lord destroyed the original guild hall of Fairy Tail. In all honesty, Erza had her guard around the Demon Slayer half-expecting to be attacked. She could never forget the cruelty and sadism Siri displayed that day.
"You planned that I would attack him while he was distracted, didn't you?" Erza said with a neutral tone.
Siri shrugged. "Eh, more or less. Didn't really care about him since all he did was just stand there. Prefer my enemies to struggle by throwing a punch or something like that."
Another thing that Erza disliked about the Demon Slayer. Ever since the beginning of the mission, Siri was so nonchalant on everything and never put up an air of caution. It bothered Erza how someone can be so carefree in a crisis such as this. Then again, Siri has said that she herself isn't right in the head.
A grunt of pain from Jellal caught Erza's attention, and her eyes widened seeing how bad his injuries were as he clutched his chest in pain. She cursed herself in her negligence of Jellal's state because of her sole focus on stopping Nirvana. He needed to be healed soon.
"Erza!" Cried a high-pitched voice.
Titania looked up the sky to find Wendy and Adrian softly descending from the air to land in front of them, aided by a magical axe-hammer that the latter was holding over his head. As soon as they landed, Wendy ran up to Jellal and started to heal his injuries.
"It's good to see you here, Adrian." Erza greeted.
Adrian nodded before turning to Jellal with a blank expression. "Jellal Fernandez I presume. You have a whole lot to answer for."
"... Apparently." Jellal answered solemnly while Wendy gave a Adrian a worried look.
"But," Adrian pointed out, "I am willing to ignore that seeing as we have a common enemy, and the fact that I owe you for helping Wendy long ago, even if you don't remember it."
"I thank you then." Jellal said.
"Now that all of the Oracion Seis is done for all we have to do is-" Adrian was interrupted when a giant explosion came from the center of the ancient city.
(Earlier)
Eventually, the light mages consisting of Jura, Lyon, and Sherry caught up to Natsu and Lucy to the central tower of Nirvana. When they arrived, they saw Lucy looking blankly at the scene in front of her. Following her line of sight, they understood why.
Natsu was in the middle of a fight... with a talking staff. The very same staff that Brain used to cast his magic and shouting something along the lines of his grandmother being a great redwood or something like that. Even when Natsu had the supreme advantage of arms and fire magic, he somehow blundered the fight to make it more even. While Natsu would grab on the staff to hit it against the ground, the staff would escape to get good whacks in on Natsu's head.
"Is this really the same Salamander?" Lyon deadpanned, a sweatdrop going down the back of his head.
"Trust me, it wouldn't be my Natsu if he wasn't so stupid at times like these." Lucy said.
The awkward atmosphere was broken for Jura when he suddenly sensed danger the likes that made his instincts scream. It was a vile sorcery familiar to Brain, yet far more darker than he could imagine. He moved in position and summoned up an Iron Rock Wall in time as the wall outside exploded. A Capricio blast twice the size that Brain could summon smashed into the Iron Rock Wall. Unlike before, the Iron Rock Wall crumbled before the blast and an explosion level down everyone in the room who were unprepared for it.
"I cannot believe Brain and the Oracion Seis actually fell to such insects." Spoke a voice very similar to Brain, but dripping with bloodlust.
The light mages were felled on the floor from the recent blast, but the more enduring fighters struggled to lift their heads. Those included Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Gray. Jura, Sherry, and Lyon were unfortunately out of the battle. Raising their heads, the still conscious mages saw a man of white skin and hair with blood red eyes and wearing a green military coat.
"M-Master Zero!" Cried the staff, bowing before the new dark mage. "I-It is wonderful for you to r-return."
'M-Master, as in the master of the Oracion Seis!?' Thought Lucy in a panic.
A cruel grin stretched the identified Zero's face. "And what wonder it is. My body is brimming with power waiting to destroy whatever I see fit. Starting with the one that damaged this body earlier."
Lifting a finger, Zero fired a massive Capricio to finish off the unconscious Jura. At the last second, Gray forced himself to his feet and stopped the blast with a wall of demonic ice. Even so, it took effort for Gray to hold back the blast as cracks appeared on the mystical ice.
"You coward!" Growled Gray. "You would attack a man who can't defend himself!"
"Whether it move or not does not matter to me!" Zero claimed, his smile turning insane. "What matters is that everything turns to dust!"
With that shout, Gray's ice wall shattered and left him at the mercy at the Capricio blast that sent him into a wall. Natsu and Lucy together took the next attack hammering down fists of fire. Zero blocked it with a singe hand that produced a magic circle, and the clashing forces created shockwaves. His eyes widened in surprise finding his feet sliding back from the power of both the Dragon and Demon Slayer pair.
"How interesting." Zero commented.
He added more power into his magic to blow them away, but it ended in a stalemate with both sides blasting off each other. Zero managed to stay on his feet in pure strength while the fire-style slayers did a few flips off the ground to right themselves on their feet.
"As interesting as you two are, there are grander things awaiting for me." Zero said.
His hand raised up to the air and fired a Capricio into the ceiling. The effect was instant as the entire tower that held the controls fell on top of the light mages. As darkness took them and the rocks forced them to the ground, all they could hear was Zero's mad cackling.
Like I said, updates on this story tend to be very long. This is more of a comfort fic for me to write when I have writer's block for my other, more popular stories. But I am still writing this so don't worry.
I am thinking of adding Ruby Rose as a Dark God Slayer in the story. If you have read any of my other works, you'll understand Ruby from RWBY is one of my favorite characters.
Maybe even a new fanfic of a Dark Light Dragon God Slayer featuring Ruby. I don't know. Please let me know what you think.
Up next is Chapter 31.
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