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Recap: Fawkes landed on Harry's shoulder. {Well, congratulations are in order, Harry. You just did wandless magic.}
"Wandless magic?" Harry asked in confusion. Lucy, Erza, and Happy were looking at Fawkes when he landed on Harry, but after he spoke they turned to him again.
"What does wandless magic mean?" Lucy asked.
Fawkes explains to Harry, and he tells his friends out loud. "Wandless magic is what it sounds like, except not all wizards could do it. Yes, Natsu and Gray don't need wands, but their magic is different, and they are a different type of magical humans. You guys are all mages, while I'm known as a wizard. Wizards were the first before mages and haven't been seen in 500 years," Harry paused.
"Wait…if they haven't been seen in 500 years then how are you here?" Erza asked.
{A very powerful dark lord named Voldemort,} somewhere in a forest, a snake-like man felt someone say his name, {used a spell that he didn't understand, and froze himself and everyone else in time,} Fawkes finished explaining, while Harry repeated to his friends. He was also having a sense of déjà vu.
"Fawkes also says that the dark lord heard him say his name. He put some kind of taboo on it, so if you say his name he could find you, which doesn't sound good." Harry turns to his familiar. "He isn't going to come here now, is he?" Fawkes shrugs in answer.
"How powerful he is?" Happy asked. Harry was getting a headache from all of this talk about Voldemort; he kept getting flashes of green, a woman crying, and red, snake-like eyes.
"-arry…Harry!" Erza shouted while also hitting his head.
"OW!" Harry cried out while holding his head. "What?"
"Do you remember how powerful this dark lord is, if not than what did Fawkes say?" she demanded.
"I don't remember." He turns his head to face Fawkes. "Does he have red eyes?" The phoenix nodded. "Can you repeat what you said about how powerful he is?"
{I said that he can also use wandless magic; this tells you how powerful he is. The stronger the wizard, the stronger and better their wandless magic is. He doesn't really need a wand now-a-days.} Fawkes waited for Harry to repeat what he said before continuing. {He also knows a spell known as the Killing Curse. The curse is the same shade of green as your eyes, and the moment it hits you it's all over. There has only been one person that survived being hit by this curse twice. You.}
Harry, Lucy, Erza, and Happy are all shocked. "How did I/he survived that?!" they asked in disbelief.
{The first time was because of your mother, and the second, you did die, you just came back to life. The curse can only kill one thing at a time. You had a piece of his soul in the scar on your head,} Fawkes explained.
"So, if I got hit now…I will die for good this time?" Harry asked reluctantly.
Fawkes tilted his head. {I'm not sure… You're the Master of Death now. So, who knows what kind of powers you get from that.} Harry told the other three what Fawkes just told him.
"Well, let's not found out anytime soon," Erza said. "Are you going to be okay Harry?" he nodded his head in answer. "Good, then you, Lucy, Happy, and Fawkes need to go and find Natsu and Gray. We need to find them, beat Erigor, and get out of here in case this Dark Lord shows up on top of everything else." They all nodded in agreement. "Now go!" Harry and Fawkes went one way, and Lucy and Happy went another.
The sound of running footsteps down the hall was the only thing one could hear until, "ERIGOR! COME OUT AND FIGHT ME!" Natsu shouted. He stopped in front of a door to his right and opened it. "In here?" he looked inside, but only junk is all he found. He kept going from door to door in search of The Reaper, but every one of them didn't have one human being in it.
"ERIGOR! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Natsu shouted again, but this time he threw Fire Dragon's Iron Fists at the doors – blowing them up. He will sometimes hit the walls, floor, or ceiling, but everywhere he looked there was just no Erigor the Reaper.
If Natsu ever bothered to look behind him he would have noticed that a shadow has been following him the whole time. "This guy is a brute," said the shadow before Kageyama came out of it. "Let's see if his bite is worse than his bark."
Natsu turned around the moment he smelled something behind him and moved to his right, dodging shadow fists. Natsu landed on his feet turned his face up so his black eyes met Kageyama's.
"You're an agile one, aren't you?" Kageyama said.
"You again," Natsu growled. "Tell me where Erigor is!" he demanded.
"Now why would I tell you?" Kageyama sent out more shadows to try and hit Natsu. Natsu was doing a good job of dodging them, but the hallway is too small for him to get out of the way from every single one of them.
"Fire Dragon's Rrrroooooaaaaarrrrrr!" the Dragon Slayer called out, sending a huge stream of fire from his mouth at Kageyama. The dark mage didn't have the time or the space to get out of the path of burning destruction. He went flying through a wall and into a room that has a lot more space in it.
Natsu came charging into the room after Kageyama, jumped into the air, did a flip, and brought a flaming foot down, aiming for the dark-haired man. "Fire Dragon's Claw!"
"Guard Shadow!" Kageyama shouted just in time to block Natsu's attack, which hit the dome and pushed him back. "Shadow Orochi!" A lot of shadow snakes, that could make up their own snake pit, shot out at Natsu.
Natsu lit up both his hand, put them together above his head, and shouted, "Fire Dragon's Brilliant Fame!" The giant ball of fire crashed into the ground, destroying the floor below them. They fall into the new hole and into a new room for them to tear apart.
The dark mage and Dragon Slayer stared facing each other. Natsu ignited his whole body in his flames while holding up a hand in a 'bring it' way.
"Now tell me where Erigor is…" Natsu growled out through gritting teeth.
"I'm not telling you when I'm having so much fun." Was the answer that Natsu got out of Kageyama.
Natsu smirked. "Well then, I guess I'll just have to beat the answer out of you!" He made a war cry, and charged at Kageyama again.
Harry is running down the hall with Fawkes flying next to him when he heard an explosion from above him. He stopped and sweat dropped, knowing for well who that was. "How much you want to bet that's Natsu?" he asked, looking to the phoenix.
{No competition, we both know that he's the only one the makes that much of a ruckus when fighting... or for anytime for that matter,} Fawkes answered.
Harry grinned. "I don't know, Gray and Erza can be just as loud."
{Well, Erza's not fighting, and I don't feel cold. It has to be Natsu.}
Harry laughed, "Calm down, I'm just pulling your feathers." He continued running down the hall, looking for some stairs. When he found them, he was about to go up when he saw Gray running up to him, and thought he saw something red up at the top of the stairs, as well as blue and gold.
"Fire Dragon's Iron fist!" Natsu aimed the flaming punch at Kageyama, but the dark mage had other ideas.
"Knuckle Shadow!" Shadow fists went flying at Natsu, hitting him in the gut, chest, and anywhere else they could reach. He engulfed his body in his flames to create light, so the shadows will disappear and stop hitting him. "What?! Where did my-" Kageyama turned to look behind him to see that his shadows are all behind him now, not able to move forward and attack the Fire Dragon Slayer.
Natsu sneered. "I learned that from Harry and his light deer!" he boasted, and then charged at Kageyama while still on fire. "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" He head butted the dark mage in the gut, knocking the breath out of his lungs and crash into the wall behind them. Natsu backed up for some space and jumped into the air. "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!" Whips of flames were brought down, cutting into the wall and on Kageyama. "Fire Dragon's…"
While Natsu was getting ready to send the attack, Kageyama said with wide eyes, "You're a monster!"
"Iron…"
"Natsu, that's enough!" Natsu stopped dead in his tracks when he heard a female's voice. He turned to look behind him to see Erza, Lucy, Gray, Happy, Harry, and Fawkes. The moment he saw the look on Erza's face along with the sword he panicked.
"AHHHH! WHATEVER I DID, I'M SORRY!" Natsu yelled while the sword moved passed by an inch and right next to Kageyama's neck, who is staring at Erza like she's insane.
"Now tell me where Erigor went," Erza ordered.
Natsu, who is trembling in fear with his eyes wide in horror, says, "Just do it, man! This chick's the real monster!"
Kageyama moves a little over and away from the blade. "It's too late, Erigor is no longer here."
Gray rolled his eyes. "Yeah, we got that already."
"Where did he go?" Harry asked more calmly than Erza did the first time, but still firm; Fawkes told him that he had a bad feeling as to where the Reaper went.
"Even if I told you it'll be too late. He's long gone by now, and there is no way you're getting out of here," Kageyama chuckled. "Tell me, from here where do the tracks lead too?"
There was silence for a moment, until Erza figured it out. "He's going after the guild masters!" she stated. She glared down at the dark mage. "You're coming with us, so you can…" Erza wasn't able to finish, because Kageyama's face twisted in pain, and then a hand came out of his abdomen.
The Fairy Tail mages and wizard, cat and phoenix all stared in shock at seeing another member of Eisenwald behind Kageyama, who was the one who stabbed him in an attempt to kill.
Natsu snarled in rage "How could you…?" His whole body went up in flames. "He was a member of your guild, and you tried to KILL HIM!" The pink-haired Dragon Slayer was about to use his Iron Fist on the chubby man, but the dark mage, who looked like he didn't want to do what he did, retreated back into the wall; however, this didn't work as plan for the mage. Natsu's flaming fist crashed into the wall, and still hit the man – sending him across the room, hitting the other wall, and knocking him into unconsciousness.
"Kageyama, get up, we need you!" Erza ordered.
Natsu turned to look back to his group. "Why do we need him?" he asked. "We need to go after Erigor before he gets to the guild masters."
Harry rubs the back of his head. "I hear there is a problem with that, but Erza hasn't told us what." He looks over at the S-Class mage. "Let's just take him with us. Fawkes says he can heal him."
Erza looks at everyone in the room after shaking Kageyama too forcefully. "There is still a problem on getting out of here," she stated.
'We know, but what?' everyone thought, but were too scared to say out loud.
A few minutes later, after Erza brought them onto a balcony, they see what the problem is. They were in like a giant tornado, that Erza said was what Erigor called a wind barrier.
TBC
Natsu's noisy when he fights, isn't he? ;) I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I tried my best to make Natsu and Kageyama's fight as long as I could.
P.S. Sneer… Okay, I read a lot of fanfics and ran into this word a lot. When I first hear this word I thought it meant something different – like the same as snarl. But then I read a different fanfic that used it differently – like a grin. I decided to look this word up, and realized that a lot of people got this word wrong. Sneer means mocking smirk, cruel smile, and the like. Basically a sly grin. That is all I have to say about this. I know some of you already knew this, but to those who didn't… READ THIS!
Harry: I could see you being friends with Hermione.
Enj/Dark: I could too. :)
Voldy: While we're here, let's not talk about a mudblood.
Enj/Dark: *turn slowly to face Voldy with a glare* *deadly calm tone* You did NOT just say the M word in front of me, did you?
Voldy: …No…
Natsu: What's a mudblood? :/
Harry: I'm not stopping her! :D
Enj/Dark: *make a fish bowl appear and turn Voldemort into a gold fish* Say that word again, and I'll put a piranha in there with you.
Zeref: How long is he going to be like that? And you might want to answer Natsu.
Enj/Dark: Till next chapter for Zeff's question. and Mudblood means dirty blood. Harry, you explain the rest, I'm not in the mood. And Tom, it's your turn. You're not avoiding it this time.
Voldy: *sigh* Rev- *sees me about to snap fingers to bring in a fish eater* please *cough* review.