Hey guys! I want to tell you something before you start reading this chapter. At the end of this month, I'll be putting this fanfic on hold. I've got something I need to work on, so I can't write and do that at the same time. At the very least (Note: VERY LEAST) I should finish it within a month's time, but the most would be before Christmas. What I'm working on is an animation for the holiday.

I'll try to get a chapter out for Halloween and Thanksgiving, but they will be short. Once I'm done the animation, sounds, all that lovely stuff, I'll get back to working on the fanfiction again.

Anyway, enough about that, please enjoy the chapter, and vote on the poll! ^-^

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Recap: Harry didn't know what he was doing until it happened. Out of impulse, he pulled away and kisses Mira right on the lips.

Harry came back to his senses and quickly pulled away with his face beat red. Mira wasn't doing much better, but she didn't look embarrassed like he did, she just looked shocked. She placed some fingers on her lips gently with a bright flush dusting her cheeks.

"Sorry…" Harry said. "I don't know what came over me to do that. Maybe I was just so worried about your safety that I just…" he couldn't bring himself to finish his sentence.

Harry didn't have time to think of what he needs to say to explain what he did with Mira, because there was a dark aura right behind him. He turned and saw the most intimidating sight that he has ever seen. Elfman was standing close behind him with shadows covering his eyes. Harry knows that if they weren't, he would know that the look in the little brother's eyes would scream that he's going to kill him.

"What do you think you're doing, Harry?" Elfman said in a deadly calm tone.

Harry gulped, but before he could say anything, Mira gets in between them. "Elfman, knock it off," she ordered.

"But sis!"

"But nothing! Elfman, Harry was worried about me, and I had no problem with him kissing me." Harry looked shocked at that.

"You…you didn't mind?" he asked softly with a hint of hope that he didn't understand fully.

Mira turned to him with a nod of her head. "Yes, Harry. I have fallen for you a long time ago. I just didn't think you saw me the same way."

Harry was confused at first. 'I liked her like that?'

Fawkes nodded his head. {Yes, you do,} he said. {You got angry when Jose planned to kill her. All the other times when something similar happened you were thinking of hurting them as well. These were all due to you loving her. If you weren't in love with her, you wouldn't have kissed her just now, and would have stuck with just the hug.} Harry's eyes widen at the explanation. He thought about it more and realized that he's right; he was in love with Mira and has been for a while now.

"The giant...it's slowing down…" Mira's voice said, snapping Harry out of his musing. He looked to where the giant was drawing the magic circle, only to see that Mira is right. The drawing has slowed down.

"Why did it slow down?" Harry asked more to himself than anyone around him.

"That's it!" Mira exclaimed, making Fawkes, Harry, and Elfman to look at her in question. She turned to look at them. "Harry how many of the element four have been defeated?"

Harry was confused by the question, but answered anyway. "Only two have been defeated, last I checked."

"When Elfman defeated Sol, the magic circle slowed down," she said. "Since that's the case then the power source for the spell are the element four!"

Harry realized where this was going. "That means that if we take out the last two elements, then that spell will no longer be cast!" Mira nodded her head to confirm. "Alright, now that we know how to stop this thing, let's split up to find Gray and Natsu. We need to tell them what we know," he suggested.

"Good idea, Harry. Elfman and I will go this way," Mira said, pointing back toward the hole that was created by Elfman's fight with Sol. "You'll go where ever Fawkes feels Natsu's life forces."

Harry showed that he understood with a nod of his head. He looked to his familiar and said, "Let's go, Fawkes." Fawkes trilled while gripping around the shoulders of Harry's black with green-flamed pattern shirt, and flew off toward the chest of the building.

Harry was running down a hall way, but he had to stop and catch his breath. He leaned on a wall to relax. 'Darn, magical exhaustion is not fun,' he thought.

Fawkes hovered in front of him, waiting for Harry to turn his attention to him. When he did, the phoenix said, {There is a way to restore your energy, you know.} Harry waited for him to continue. {All you have to do is picture and feel the energy in the air flowing into you, straight into your magical core,} he explained.

"How do I do that?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow.

{Closing your eyes would be a great start.} The wizard glared at the fire bird before doing as told. He closed his eyes, and felt for the magic in the air around him. {Once you feel the energy, will it by thinking it going into your body. Don't force it, just keep relaxed,} Fawkes instructed.

Harry followed every word told to him. It took a bit of time, but after a few minutes, he was able to get the hang of magical energy restoration. Now that he knew what he was doing, Harry took in enough energy that made him feel like he could run for a whole 24 hours.

He opened his eyes and turned to Fawkes. "Let's go. We need to find Natsu," he said along with his familiar nodding his feathery head in agreement.

Within a few minutes of running they found themselves at a crossroad. Harry and Fawkes looked at both paths, but since Harry can't feel life forces he turns to the one who can.

"Which way do we need to go in?" he asked.

Fawkes closed his eyes while hovering in between the two pathways. He turned his head from left to right a few times, before settling with the left path. He turned back to Harry. {I feel Natsu and Happy's life force down this path,} he told him.

Harry nodded in understanding before taking off down the left path. Fawkes hurried to catch up to fly next to him when he noticed something else.

{Hold on!} he squawked. {I sense someone else there too.} Harry didn't look all that surprised.

"Natsu must be fighting then," he muttered.

{Yeah, but I feel like Natsu isn't winning.} Now this did surprise Harry. Natsu is losing in a fight to – Harry guesses – one of the element four; someone that Natsu would want to make sure to beat the holy heck out of.

'Wait…wasn't it one of the element four that took out gramps?' Harry questioned to himself, but Fawkes heard him.

{Yes, and I believe it's the same guy too.} Harry clenched his teeth together in his anger at the thought that Natsu is losing to someone, who obviously sneaked up from behind Makarov. Natsu would be beating himself up if he knew.

He gets to where Natsu, Happy, and the – from what it looks like – air elemental mage. He walks up to Happy, who is hiding and watching the fight from behind a wall. He bends down to the blue cat's level, and taps him on the shoulder, startling him. Happy yelped in fright, turning around only to see the green-eyed wizard. The blue, fish loving cat sighed in relief.

"Oh, it's you, Harry. You scared me," Happy said.

"Hey, Happy, can you tell me what's going on?" Harry asked.

"It's not good. Natsu is losing badly to this guy." The cat pointed to the element four member.

Harry looked up to the fight. "Yeah, I know," he said more to himself than Happy. "Did you get a name on this guy?" he asked.

"His name's Aria of the element four," Happy answered. The wizard nodded his head in thanks.

Just as they finished talking, Aria disappeared, only to reappear behind Natsu while casting a magic draining spell. Harry's eyes widened at this, knowing that this must be the spell used on Makarov. His eyes narrowed while he lifted his wand up to aim at the air mage.

"Expelliarmus!" he shouted out the first spell that came to mind. The red beam of light slammed into Aria, sending him a few feet away from Natsu, who luckily didn't lose too much magic that he'll fell over.

"Harry?" Natsu asked in surprise. "When did you get here?"

"I got here not too long ago; although, if I had been any later, you would be in the same state as gramps," Harry answered.

"Yeah, thanks for the save. Wait…this guy is the one who hurt gramps!?" Harry only bobbed his head in answer.

"You rest up, Natsu. I'll take it from here," Harry offered. "Besides, I haven't had a good fight since… Lullaby I think," he said unsure.

Natsu looked surprised by what Harry said. "How were you able to last that long without going crazy? I would have just died if I didn't get a good fight in," Natsu gaped in shock.

"I don't know," The wizard said with a shrug.

{It might have something to do with the fact that you lasted a full school year without fighting,} Fawkes suggested.

"Well I wouldn't know since I don't remember my time at school," Harry said while glaring at his familiar. "Now then…" he turned back to Aria, "Fawkes and I are going to wipe the floor with you. Not only are we going to do that for you hurting gramps, but also doing it like a coward!"

Harry and Fawkes got ready to fight, ignoring the now smiling man, who is taking the white cloth off of his eyes. "I never fought a phoenix before, but I have heard they are powerful. So, I'll have to take this more seriously," Aria said with his eyes now open, making Harry wonder why he had them covered in the first place it he still had his eye balls. "Come at me!"

{Harry we're going to have to take him out quickly. I sense the magic circle is about to be completed,} Fawkes said. {Oh, and this guy's power went up when he took the blindfold off.}

"Right…" Harry said to show that he understood both of the new information, and then fired the first spell to start the fight. "Rupes!" Spiked rocks sprung out of the ground and headed straight for Aria. He was able to dodge the attack, which shocked Harry since he didn't look like he would be able to move so fast. Fawkes may not have seen it coming, but that didn't make him pause; therefore, he was able to send two blades of fire from his wings to his enemy, and this time the attack landed. They heard a crash from where Aria slammed into the ground.

There is smoke in the air thanks to the heat of the flames and the crash, but when it cleared neither Harry nor Fawkes saw him.

"Where did he go?" Harry asked under his breath. He tried to listen for Aria, but could hear nothing. An instant later, he heard his familiar's voice inside his head.

{Behind you!} Harry, trusting Fawkes, dived to the side just in time before Aria could cast Metsu on him.

Harry spun around and called out, "Causa Satani Maxima!" A few small lights formed all around Aria's body. They were only there for five seconds of charging before exploding.

Aria groaned in pain, but the duo weren't going to let up just yet. Fawkes flew as high up as he could go, and dived down in a spiral. Flames spun around his body in a tornado, and just like a tornado it landed on its target and picked Aria off the ground. The wind in the tornado of fire was tearing into him, and the flames would close them, so Aria didn't lose any blood from the attack, but he will be covered in burnt scabs and boiled flesh.

Harry heard the name of the attack from Fawkes. {Phoenix Tornado…} He had to say it was fitting.

They waited to see if Aria had enough yet. When the man got up off the ground they saw that his clothes had burnt holes in them. Aria glared at them, and shouted, "Zetsu!"

Harry knew that his protection charm isn't going to be able to save him from this, so he risks it and uses the new spell he learned. "Scutum Mortis!" The deathly hallow shield appeared in front of him; however, the airspace attack broke through it like it wasn't even there. Zetsu hit Harry, who cried out in pain. He went flying back, and landed roughly on the cold, hard ground.

Fawkes cried out in worry and anger for his bonded one. The phoenix glared hard at Aria and turned his whole body into flames. He changed his size to be half the size of the room that they are in, so the air mage didn't have anywhere to run that easily.

The heat from Fawkes' body was enough to cause burns and pain on Aria, but they were somehow healing Harry. Harry looked down at the bruises that were forming on his skin, and saw that they stopped darkening. He got back up just in time to see Fawkes breath fire like Natsu right at Aria.

Aria was hit, but he was able to jump back away from taking any more damage. He landed on his back, but got right back up with a bit of effort, and his glare turned up its heat to match Fawkes' flame form.

"I've had enough of this," he growled. "I'm ending it now!" Aria exclaimed. The air started to blow around his body, and he lifted his relaxed hands. Harry had a bad feeling about the attack that is about to be thrown at them.

{Harry, quickly get close to Natsu and use that shield again!} Fawkes ordered.

'But that shield didn't work last time!' Harry protested in his mind to his familiar.

{Yes, I know, but since the spell means shield of death, I think that it blocks spells that will kill you if you're hit with it.} Harry didn't say anything, but ran over to his friend, and brought the shield back up.

'You better be right about this…' Harry thought.

Not long after Harry brought the death shield up, Aria's attack was cast. "Zero!" Wind shot out from in front of him, along with small lights. Fawkes shrunk his size to the size of crow, and flew behind Harry's shield right before the attack hit it.

Harry was shocked, but glad that the spell worked this time. It wouldn't let one lick of the attack pass through it. Once the attack stopped, Harry heard Aria gasp. He looked up to see that the air mage was in shock.

"How…how were you able to survive that? That spell is supposed to kill you on contact!" Aria shouted in confusion, anger, and fear; alas, Aria will not be getting his answer. Fawkes shot forwards the moment the death shield spell fell and went straight through the air mage's shoulder. When Fawkes came out on the other side, he emits a beautiful song that lasts a second. The flame trail that was still through Aria's shoulder exploded shortly after the sound of a phoenix's song was heard.

The element four member fell to the floor unconscious, or at least Harry hoped he was unconscious. Fawkes came back to his side and transformed back into his normal form. Harry noticed that his familiar was panting in exhaustion, most likely from the fight. Fawkes isn't use to all that fighting after all.

{Don't worry he's not dead, but he will be out for quite some time,} Fawkes said. {As to why I'm out of breath is due to being out of fuel. I won't be able to produce fire for the next hour.}

"Oh…" Harry mouthed. "We should take this chance to rest. How is the spell out there doing?" he asked.

Fawkes closed his eyes and concentrated. When he opened his black eyes again, he said, {It crumbled to pieces. I guess that means someone was able to take out the last member of the element four.}

"Do you know who did it?"

{Judging by the life force, it was Gray, before he was told what happened. I noticed he was fighting someone before we stepped foot into this room.} Harry nodded in thanks for the explanation.

"Natsu, Harry, Fawkes, are you okay?" Harry and the other two that were named turned to see Happy running up toward them.

"Yeah, we're okay, little buddy," Natsu answered, and then looked to Harry. "I actually enjoyed watching you fight, Harry. It was a good thing you learned that shield when you did."

"Tell me about it. I didn't think it would work, but it would seem that Fawkes' theory was right," Harry said. "I guess if the attack is going to kill, the shield should be able to block it, but if the attack isn't like that, it will break through, but it will still hurt like heck."

"What makes you say that?" Happy questioned.

"The Jupiter cannon wasn't a killing spell like that spell Aria used on us last. The only reason it would kill is because of how must power is within it," Harry explained. "At least that's what I'm guessing." He turned to Fawkes, who nodded to say that he agreed with it.

They rested for about another minute, when all of a sudden Fawkes chirped, but it sounded more like a squeak of shock. Harry, Happy, and Natsu turned to face the fire bird and raised their eyebrows at him in question.

{Lucy and Castor's life forces have appeared above us! They are close to where Jose is! Gajeel captured them!} Fawkes said in a panic.

Harry's eyes widened, but not from shock. His irises were the size of a nail point in rage. His teeth clenched and his eyes glowed like the killing curse in his anger. Phantom kidnapped his son. If they hurt him, they will regret ever laying eyes of his boy.

Natsu and the others backed away from Harry is slight fear at the sound of a growl or hiss, they weren't sure which one it was, but they didn't care. All they cared about is that someone might die today.

TBC

Enj/Dark: Zeff, I need you to do the AN for me this time. I've got to run, bye! *hands him the notes before running out the door*

Zeref: What just…? *heard another door being banged opened*

Harry: *come through door furiously* Where is she?!

Zeref: She just left…O_O

Harry: *runs out the front door* Enjali, how dare you have Castor kidnapped! DX

Zeref: …Okay…*looks at the notes* "Now you know how the spell isn't so OP. It only blocks attacks that are meant to kill, nothing else. Now I have to run before Harry finds me."

Voldy: What kind of power does he have that will make her run for it?

Natsu: Who know…?

Zeref: The note also says, "Voldemort, it is your turn. If you don't do it then I'll know, because the note is charmed to turn you into a muggle till the end of the next chapter if you refuse."

Voldy: O_O PLEASE REVIEW! DX