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Recap: Harry, Natsu, and Happy ran for about a half hour before barging through a floor. Within side the room they charged in, they found Lucy and Castor, but also found Gajeel and a few Phantom Lord mages.

"I protected Castor using my Winter Dragon Slayer Magic," Lucy told Harry.

"Fawkes, are you going to come with us, or are you going to go back to Harry?" Mira asked. Fawkes held up two talons to tell her that he's going back to Harry. Mira nodded, "Alright, you, Harry, Natsu, and Happy better be careful or else," she said threateningly.

Fawkes shivered, but nodded to show that he understood her crystal clear. After that, he took off to find Harry again, leaving Mira, Gray, and Elfman behind him, knowing that they're on their way out of the Phantom Lord guild hall to help protect Fairy Tail.

Chapter 34: Natsu VS Gajeel Part 1

When he and Harry charged into the room that he knew held Lucy and Castor, he spotted Gajeel frozen from shock with his hand in some weird iron club. Natsu didn't think much of it, instead he dashed over to him with his fire burning with so much heat it was matching his rage perfectly. When he is in front of Gajeel he doesn't pause in his advance. He threw back his fist and swung in forward, slamming it into the iron dragon slayer's face.

The force of the punch is enough to send Gajeel flying across the room and hit into the weaker members of Phantom Lord like a balling ball. Natsu was not planning to let up on his attacks though. He raced across the somewhat icy floor and gave Gajeel an uppercut to the chin, sending him up into the air.

Gajeel smirked down at him – not like Natsu really cares much though – and kicked off the ceiling so he can return the attack.

"Don't get so cocky!" Gajeel said with an insane smirk eating away at his face. "Iron Dragon's Club!" He aimed, but missed, or more like Natsu jumped over it.

Natsu placed his hands on the arm–turned–iron–club, lit his right foot on fire, and sent a kick right for Gajeel's head. It hit, and since he had the club in his hands he was about to throw him, but he was suspicious of the smirk that is still on Gajeel's face.

Natsu decided to ignore the warning signs and wrap his arms tighter around the club, getting ready to throw the smug iron across the room. After he had that done, he planned on using his breath attack right after. This was the plan, but it would seem that he shouldn't have ignored the warning that the smug smirk was giving off.

Gajeel turned his iron club into an iron, spiked blade. Natsu quickly released the arm, but he was injured due to not letting go sooner. The spikes on the blade pierced his armpit, and cut a little into his side. While stunned after that attack, Gajeel got him back by kicking him in the face with an iron covered foot.

Natsu dug his heels into the ground to stop from sliding any farther from his enemy. After coming to a slow stop, he looked back up to see Gajeel still smirking. He really wants to wipe that grin off his face, or burn it off. This thought made Natsu grin.

"Let's end this, Salamander," Gajeel said, sounding like he believed that he could win the fight.

Natsu's smirk only got wider at Gajeel's delusion. "I'm just getting warmed up, but I'll be the one to end this, scrapheap."

Maybe Gajeel's delusion isn't without sound, because his body is now covered in dragon scales, something that Natsu can't do quite yet without a power boost, and the fire dragon slayer knows it. Natsu is slightly worried, but he would rather eat his own fire before ever admitting that aloud. Instead, Natsu prepared for the attacks to come.

Gajeel charged at him with an iron scale-covered fist and moved faster than Natsu was ready for, slamming the fist into fire dragon slayer's face before he could even think to dodge. Natsu skidded across the floor, and rolled to help with the impact, it also helped with dodging the next attack, which was a kick.

Natsu, as well as Harry, Lucy, Castor, and Happy were all shocked by the power the kick had if the gale was anything to go by. Natsu didn't let this faze him for long and shot up from the ground with a flaming kick to Gajeel's chin, and then aimed a fire cover punch to his face.

Gajeel is still smirking, showing no signs of pain at all, but the punch did do some damage, just to the wrong person. Natsu yelled in pain as his hand felt like it was broken, but he knows it really isn't. It really doesn't matter though, since this gave Gajeel the time to punch him in the face and succeed were Natsu had failed.

After the punch, Gajeel grabbed hold of Natsu and brought down his claws to Natsu's throat, but said slayer kicked Gajeel's hold off of him and rolled out of the way of the attack. Once steady again, Natsu inhaled deeply.

"Fire Dragon's…" Natsu started to say, but it would seem that Gajeel had the same idea.

"Iron Dragon's…"

"ROAR!" The two finished together as well as sending the breath attacks at each other. The two attacks slammed into one another, creating a bit of a shockwave as a result. More like a hurricane decided that it wanted in on the action!

The shockwave sent everyone flying all over the room, except for Harry, Lucy, Happy, and Castor, because Harry was able to put up a shield in the form of jagged rocks to protect them.

Gajeel is mocking him, Natsu knew, but he really can't help but feel smug. He may have bits of iron sticking out of him and blood rolling off, but he knows that his attack did some damage to those so called unbreakable iron scales.

"Oh, really…? Are you sure you're not feeling a bit of a breeze?" Natsu said with a mocking smirk.

As if on cue, a crack formed on the scales located at Gajeel's forehead. This shocked or surprised everyone else in the room.

"Dragon fire isn't like normal flames, they can burn anything it touches," Natsu explained after taking the last of the metal out of his body. "If you don't hit me with everything you've got, then you're going to be smashed to bits. Now that we know each other's power level, playtime is over!"

Natsu could hear his friends somewhere to the left of him. "You mean to tell me that they were just playing this whole time?" He heard Harry say is shock. He guessed he couldn't blame him, after all the area looks like a warzone.

Gajeel's smirk is a little strain when he said, "The sky isn't big enough for two dragons. I'm going to strike you down, Salamander!"

TBC

I'm pretty sure I told you guys that this will be short. This fight is a long one, so it is going to be in 2 parts…maybe. I'm following how the fight is going in the manga with slight add on(s) to it. My writing is the only thing different about this fight really.

Hey at least put it this way, you guys get a Natsu and Gajeel fight for Halloween and Thanksgiving. :)

Harry: How is the animation coming along?

Enj/Dark: I got 16 scenes out of 38 done. So I have 22 left to do. *sigh* This is taking a lot longer than I thought. Good thing I said that I'll need two months at least and Xmas the most time I would need to work on it.

Natsu: Did you get a minute in there?

Enj/Dark: No…around half a minute is how long it is. I'm still a beginner, but this is coming out a lot better than I thought it was.

Zeref: Some parts are a little fast, but you keep getting better each time. The first Scene gave you the hardest time.

Enj/Dark: If I have time, I'm going back to fix that god forsaken scene. It did not come out like I wanted, but I'm not good at angles on a face yet. At least this time I would know what I'm doing.

Voldy: Where did you even learn to do this?

Enj/Dark: I'm self taught. -_- Now imagine what this would look like if I had a teacher?

Harry: What I'm impressed with is that you're doing this by yourself.

Enj/Dark: Yeah, but I wish I had help. Now this AN is getting really long so, Natsu can you?

Natsu: Please review! XD