"Arrgh! Why don't we found anyone!" Natsu yelled through the forest. Unkike Gajeel, he didn't have the luckbto find anyone to share his passion

"Maybe... it...could work...if you... don't run... like that" Lucy said, hands in her knees as she catched her breath. She was not a great athlete, so it was hard for her to catch up Natsu.

"Maybe you would be faster if you eat less" Happy mocked her delay, causing Lucy to gain a abrupt amount of energy to jumping at him and strangling him with a tigh grip

"You freaking cat ! " She shouted while strangling the poor but deserved Exceed

"Is that how you treat your guildmate? Actually, it didn't surprise me" Reve said from a bump nearby

"What do you want ?"Natsu growled.

"Just like you, I guess. But you can stop right there. Let the professional do the job" Reve said smugly

"What did you said?" Natsu approached him, his patience already at his limit. It mean not a lot. But Lucy grabbed his hand

"Forget it, Natsu, we have things to do" She plead him to not waste their time and his energy over something so trivial such as a 'allied' fight. He looked badly at Reve, before letting it go.

Seeing them departed, Reve lifted a brow in though

Maybe I would follow them. For sure they will found themself in front of the boss. He walked slowly in the same direction, the mages of Fairy Tail barely visible in the distance.

Erza managed to keep Aura and Shizu at pace. They almost got her, she almost had to use one of her armors to manage to pursuit them

They're fast

Aura was of course slowing down to permit the scarlet hair woman to follow them

We don't really going easy on her. She is quite agile. Aura smirked She would be useful for Galadriel-sama. Her enhance vision picked someone int he distance, two figures precisely

Just after that, a wall made of silver popped from a magic circle on the ground. Aura noticed it and slowed down. But she was so fast she could not entirely stop herself. She it the wall, causing it to crack.

Erza sucked her teeth, imagining how does it hurt. Of course, no damage, but the impact and the crack sound obliged her.

"Aura, are you okay?" She said, concerned

Aura sricked out her head, wearing a amused face "I'm okay"

Shizu turned her head, preparing her futurist rifle "They're here"

Not to far, here stood Melody Silver and Greg. The former absolutely proud about her trap

"It didn't hurt to much I hope?" She said joyfully

"If you wanted to hurt me, then you must trying harder." Aura responded, whip at hand.

"Discharge!" Greg launched a bolt of electricity which treat to take down Erza, but she managed to avoided it. The grass touched by it darken

"I didn't expected it to be you. I though we beat you a week ago"

"And you did. But your rope seems to be not tigh enough. We managed to escaped. And now, we seek revenge" Greg said, smiling deviously. Like his colleagues, his memories from Nazarick were removed and replaced by others, to avoid making them suspicious.

"Then I don't have the choice" Erza summonned two swords "We'll defeat you, again"

"With these pebbles who are your 'friends' ?" Melody scoffed. As if two new recruits could beat her

"I take the silver" Shizu said, pointing her rifle at Melody

"I'll help you" Erza positionned herself in front Shizu. Since she wasspecialised in ranged attack, she could served at bait or help her cornering Melody

"Welp, I guess that's leave me to you" Aura stretched her arms, making cracking noises

"Just because you're a child doen't mean I'm gonna restrain myself" Greg said, confident about himself.

A spider was on Aura's shoulder 'We averted Galadriel-sama about your encounter. She is not far from us'

'Tell her to not worry. I canget that guy' Aura tell her,continuing her warm up

Gray still followed Elfman. Evn if they are separate, the Strauss sibling was not someone who we can lose in sight, and ear especially. Although he hasten when he heard animalistic growls and felt a small tremor

In what did he put himself on again?

When he arrived, his eyes wided by the view. He saw Elfman in his Beast Soul trying to containing a big black wolf. Without posing any questions, he placed his fist on his palm, a cold wind surronding it

"Ice Make: Spears!" Spears sprouted directly at the wolf. Since it was occuped by Elfman, it could not evade the attack. It squealed in pain as it released its grip.

Elfman took this opportunity to land a powerful punch in the cheek. The wolf fy back, rolling onthe floor, before stopping itself.

"It seems like we have a new player" The man said, looking at Gray.

"I guess you're one of the ones we want." Gray guessed, preparing another attack, but the man smirked, which perturbed Gray.

A roar attired Gray's attention from his ennemy. A big claw aimed at him. Fortunately, Gray managed to avoid it, leaving a small crater

"W-What is-?" He stopped saying anything when he saw what was before him, where stood a sort of polar bear about 3 meters hight. The most remarquable features were pillars of ice on its back, and smaller on its forearm, knees and claws.

"It's a monster specifically made for counter ice? A perfect adversary for you, Gray Fullbuster"

"Tch!" Gray grit his teeth. It' was unfortunate for him to fight a beast like this. He looked back at him, hoping to Elfm n to landing him a hand, but the wolf completely snap back to reality and block his way

"I will take my time watching you being shred by my pets" The man said, smiling sadistically.

Gajeel was facing the curly hair woman, both grinning. Lily was preparing to unleashed his sword and transformed himself, but Gajeel stopped him by placing an arm before him

"I take care of that one" He said, jis eyes not leaving the woman

"Are you sure?"

"Don't worry. I will be fine" Gajeel replied, grinning

"Iron Dragon's Roar!" Gajeel parted his lips, then released a funnel of tiny sharp of iron. It travel the air until it reached the woman, a explosion resulting from the impact, creatina a dust cloud

Gajeel was looking intensely the dust, seeing the results, when it went off, he saw a half cocoon which blocked his attack. After making sure there was no danger, the protection return to the ground

"My, you were so pressed I didn't even have the time to present myself. I'm Elise."

"And I guess it's no use for me to do the same" Gajeel said "Iron Dragon's sword!"

He brough up his arm, transforming it into a elonged chainsaw. He rushed at Elise, turning it on.

Elise lifted a finger, creating another protection, but this time, Gajeel's chainsaw cut through the defenses, until finally cutting Elise's arm

"Arg!" She retired herself , out of his range, her face showing anger

"You! You are not the kind type, are you?" Her features transformed into a deranged smile "That's fine with me"

"So you're serious now? Finally, just what I wanted" Gajeel now wore a kinda similar smile

"Iron Dragon's Pole!" His chainsaw became a pole, he extended the arm, planning to slam Elise with

"Not so fast, Earth Slam!" The ground under Gajeel began to move, before going directly at him, taking the form of a rounded tendril. It made contact, directly on Gajeel's stomach

"Guh!" His eyes wided from the shock. He strumbled back, but managed to regain his balance as he landed on the ground. On closer inspection, we could see his skin was mettalic in the area the attack landed. But despite that, he felt that

But he didn't stop here, this time, he parted his lips once again, with more magic accumulate for this one

"Iron Dragon's Roar !" A bigger amount of iron funneled through the air

"You just don't learn, don't you? Earth Wall" Elise brough both of her arms up, generating another wall made of hardened ground ambiant. The roar percutted it, making her to put one foot back, but she held good, but a strange sound made her frown. It continued until the wall was totally destroyed. She realised what happened, but she had to maintain the wall, or else the rest of the roar would engulfred her. Gajeel pass through the wall, spinning, looking like a drill.

"Iron Dragon's piercing Drill!" He stopped spinning, instead he lifted his arms up, iron scales covering not only it, but also his entire body. Since he had to pass through his previous attack, he was bruised, so he lessened the damages. A dangerous strategy, but the results speak by itself.

"Iron Dragon's Pugilism!"

Damn it! "Earth Knuckles" Elise gathered earth around her hands, in the form of boxe gauntlets. Just in time to defend herself for the plectora of hit Gajeel sent her.

The assault continued, leaving no time for Elise to counter-attack. She was in her element, with all the area being her playground But the problem wsa that he had the impression he didn't make progress. He could felt the rock he punched being break down, but the gauntlets were restituated again and again

This is not a fight I can win in the long run. I must finish her quickly . What he expected to be a funny fight for him became a race against time.

When he had finally a momentum, he slammed his feet on the ground "Iron Dragon's Rising Pillar!" A pillar rose from the ground, taking Elise with it

"?!"

Gajeel lost no time and propulsed himself with another pillar. The first one stopped high in the air, propulsing the confused Elise. It was in this time Gajeel jumped from his own pillar, now standing above her. He placed his hands down, a giant green magic seal appeared.

"Secret art: Metallic Crushing!" From the seal, a large cylindrical structure as large as the seal descended, menacing to crushing Elise

"This is not over yet" She screamed, looked down, and extended her arm. Down to the earth, a brown magic seal appeared, before quickly becoming invisible.

After doing her trick, the structure came down to her, descending dangerously to the ground. When it landed, a thick smoke cloud wa forming.

Lily, who was seeing what happened above, rushed toward the fight. When he arrived, he saw Elise, on the ground, defeated. When he lifted his head, he saw Gajeel, falling at great speed, without nothing to slowing down. Lily extended he's wings, caughed Gajeel, preven thim to fall flat.

"It seems to happened well" He said, smiling

"I realise she was far most dangerous than I though. Fortunately she didn't use her full power since the beginning" Gajeel explained "I think I used more magic than necessary

"Themost important is that you wi-"Barely he touched the ground the brown magic seal re-appeared. The rocks around tham levitated, trembling uncontrally

Shit! Lily panicked as he flew upright, the rock percutting to each other until they were reduced in dust

"That was close"! Gajeel screamed

"Fortunately I came to see you, or else..." Lily said, putting Gajeel, safely this time

"Maybe we should see the others" Lily suggested

"Yes. But I've got the best fight, Gihehehehe!" Gajeel said, satisfied by his fight. He and Lily parted away

Selene was standing in front of Aira, protecting her from the aquatic attack, her arms covered in diamonds

"Are you okay, Aira?"

"Yes, thanks to you" Aira replied while standing up "This one got us by surprise"

Byron didn't say anything as he formed a blue magic seal in front of him

"Hydro Canon" A funnel of water traveled directly toward the girls.

Selene puffed her cheeks, magic accumulated inside

"Diamond Dragon's Roar" She unleashed a big amount of sharp diamonds. The two attacks meet each other, in a stalemate.

Aira used this opportunity to run on the sides. Once Byron was at her range, she swiped her arm horizontally, the air compressed, looking like a blade

"Air Slash!"

Byron noticed it, he extended his hand, forming a shpe of water between him and the attack. The impact made the water splached, some of the harmless droplets ended on his face. As soon as the two funnels were stopped, Selene formed a diamounded spike behind her.

"Diamond Dragon's Pierce Spike!" With a hand motion, she threw the spike at her ennemy, who ducked it

"You're a Dragon Slayer?"

"Fairy Tail is not the one who had surprise" Selene replied, smirking "Aira!"

"Got it!" Aira used wind to jump until a branch, from there, she jump over an other tree, the one just above him. She assembled her magic, preparing for a big attack.

During that time, Selene get closer to Byron while assailling him repeatedly to preven thim to attack Aira.

They planned to corner me? Sorry, but I saw that Byron aknowledge their tactic. One served as a bait, while the other prepared something big. But he won't let this happen.

"Diamond Prison!" Byron eyes wided when he heard those words, but too late. From the ground, diamonds rose up, forming an egg-like prison. He was totally trapped.

"I trapped him, Aira. Now!"

Aira leaped elegantly, the magic she assembled earlier concentred on her extended arms. The amount made it a little instable

"Winded Pressurised Crusher!" The air flew downward, synchronised with the prison which opened . An explosion resulting, creating a huge smoke cloud

"We did it!" Aira hoped happily while cuddling Selene "We did it"

Selene smiled, proud of their teamwork "Let's see the others now"

Aira nodded as they parted...until Aira eyes wided. From her torso, a water tendril pierced her

"A-Aira?" Selene was shocked. They swear they beat him.

The tendril brough Aira back, who rolled on the ground, before another tendril caugh her by the feet, slamming her multiples times on the grouds and trees, until it stopped its massacre. Aira was in a bad shape, eyes closed

"A-Aira!" Selene rushed at her comrade, but something came! Thanks to her enhances senses she managed to avoided it.

She looked back where the cloud disappeared. Byron stood there, bloodied, but on his feet, and angry

"You though you will take me down like that?" He almost shouted with his furious eyes