There is no fighting in this chapter. I'm going to say that we, for the most part, caught up with when Zancrow was supposed to die. Which means this arc is almost over. After that, I'll start working on My Hollow Siblings' continuation. ;) I know some of you have been looking forward to that, but first I need to update the old chapters of My Hollow Siblings before working on it. Some things have been fixed, so I just have to put it back up. Shouldn't take too long - I hope. :(

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Harry was surprised that Voldemort just left after he became blind. He thought the snake-faced man would have stayed to try to at least tear him apart, but no, instead he just left without a second thought. 'Why though?' Harry mused.

{He must have known he had nothing to stop his death,} said Fawkes. {With Zeref here, he may have realized the danger of staying while fighting blind. He must have thought that Zeref could kill him without him even seeing it coming.}

"That makes sense..." Harry said thoughtfully.

"Then he shouldn't have transformed into something so big. I could have killed him easily," said Zeref.

Fawkes tilted his head and said, {You do know he is insane, right? That guy probably hasn't had a clear thought since he made his first Horcrux.}

"Now that's a fact," said Harry with a grin.

A second after Harry spoke, all three heard a sound. The sound itself was footsteps splashing into puddles. They looked over to the source of the noise and saw two women. One Harry recognized as Juvia, and the other...neither of them knew. The second woman had pink hair and was wearing a weird outfit. The strangest part of her getup was the wing-like things on her head.

Between the two ladies, the pink-haired one was in the lead.

"Lord Zeref!" she called out when she spotted them.

Harry, Fawkes, and Zeref all made a face. Well, they now knew that she was not with the Magic Council.

Meredy had met up with Ultear a little while back. Ultear told her to go find Zeref, and to make sure to get a hold of Harry while she was at it. When Gray heard that, however, and he told that creepy blue-haired fan-girl to follow and make sure Meredy didn't hurt Harry, which led to now.

Meredy had been looking for both Zeref and Harry for a good few minutes with the crazy, demented woman right behind her. Luckily, she didn't have to deal with her for much longer, because just up ahead were the two she was looking for; however, now it was going to be harder to get a hold on either of them, due to Harry getting his powers back. Meredy had taken too long to find them, which made her frustrated.

She called out to Lord Zeref, but she was too far away to see the look on his and Harry's faces. She tried to think of a way to get them and thought maybe she could use her magic on them. Harry might be more willing to follow her back to the boat if he doesn't want to get a friend hurt, but what about Zeref? Ultear wasn't clear on why she wanted to bring Harry along in the first place.

Harry and Zeref turned to look at each other with silent words, but they weren't using telepathy. The two seemed to somehow know what the other was thinking because they nodded and Zeref disappeared and reappeared right behind the pink-haired woman. With the side of his hand, Zeref knocked the girl out with a single hit on the side of her neck. Juvia stopped in her tracks and got into a fighting stance. Harry got in between her and Zeref, not allowing her to hurt him.

"Wait, Juvia. He is not a threat," Harry said.

"Juvia was told by Gray-sama to protect Harry. Juvia will not allow Zeref – the man who hurt Gray-sama – hurt a friend of Gray-sama's," said the Gray-obsessed woman.

Harry felt a bead of sweat roll down the side of his head. "Yes, this man is Zeref, but he is not going to hurt anyone. He helped me when Voldemort showed up and even protected me. I owe him a lot already," said Harry.

{Actually...what I did doesn't make up for what you have done for me,} said Zeref via telepathy.

{What she doesn't know won't hurt her. Besides, you did protect me when I couldn't do anything to protect myself. So in the end, what you did for me was more than what I did for you, Zeref.}

{I'm going to stop you both on this because I know that you will just go back and forth if I don't,} said Fawkes, cutting in on their argument.

"Juvia sees..." Harry breathed a sigh of relief, glad that Juvia understood. He thought it was going to be harder than that. "Zeref has confused Harry into helping him. Don't worry; Juvia will make sure that Harry is brought back to us and that Zeref will not hurt him anymore!" Or...maybe he was right the first time.

Harry and Zeref duck under a whip of water before Harry tries to stop her again, but it doesn't work.

"Gray-sama told Juvia to protect Harry, and that is exactly what Juvia is going to do!"

"Juvia!" Harry cried out as he had to move out of the way of another attack – he was standing too close to Zeref. The two split up from the other, which is what Juvia was trying to do. After the two of them were no longer standing together, Juvia went nuts in attacking Zeref.

"Juvia, Zeref isn't trying to hurt me! If he was he would have done so already!"

"Juvia will protect Harry from the evil mage Zeref! That is Gray-sama's wish!" Juvia said while in a crazed state, attacking Zeref ruthlessly. She turned her body into water and surrounded Zeref.

Harry tried to stop Juvia from drowning the dark mage, but his hands would just go through her. He tried to just grab Zeref instead, but Juvia pushed him away roughly. Harry got back up a second later and made a guilty expression.

"I'm sorry, Juvia," he said as he lifted his wand. "Stupefy!" A red streak of light shot out of his wand and nailed Juvia's water form. Harry wasn't sure if this would work at first, but it seemed that it did. Juvia returned to normal and fell to the ground, passed out thanks to the charm.

With Juvia out of the way, and no longer drowning Zeref, the said dark mage fell back onto the ground, gasping for breath. He coughed a few times to get some of the water out of his lungs, just as Harry ran up to him to check and see if he's okay.

"I'm fine, Harry. I'm glad you did something instead of me. I didn't want to hurt her, but I do have to ask: what did you do to her?" Zeref asked while looking at the unconscious, blue-haired girl.

"I used the stunning charm. It knocks out the opponent more than actually stun them, but I'm just glad that it worked on her while she was in that form," Harry explained. He got back up and looked to her. "Now what to do with her...? I could change her memory of this, but with Gray, he might find out that something is wrong."

{Say it was a dream?} suggested Fawkes.

"That normally never works, unless she is gullible," said Zeref, having recovered from his near-drowning.

Harry thought about it. "She might just be that persuadable..." He nodded his head as though he made up his mind. "Already, if she asks where you went, I'll tell her that you were just a part of a dream or illusion that Grimoire Heart made up to confuse her. If I need to say more, I'll just say that I found her attacking air and she almost attacked me so I had to knock her out, and then fight the one that caused her to do that. I'll just say it was Voldemort. He might have a spell that does that," he said.

"So you'll be saying a half-lie," Zeref stated. "That might be for the best, but what if she doesn't buy it?"

{I'm sure she will,} said Fawkes, believing that the water mage is that easy to deal with.

All of a sudden, Zeref's body stiffened up, almost like a board.

"Are you okay?" Harry asked in concern.

Zeref started to fidget and look around, but Harry saw that he kept looking up like a bomb was going to drop on their heads. "We need to get everyone off the island," he said. "He's coming."

Now Harry was confused. Who could this guy be, and why was Zeref scared of him? "Who is coming?" he asked.

"Acnologia, Acnologia is on his way to the island. He is a powerful dragon of destruction from four hundred years ago. If this island is his target, then everyone is not safe," Zeref explained.

"We have Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy though. They are dragon slayers; I'm sure they can take that," said Harry.

Zeref shook his head. "No, that won't work. They are not ready to take him on yet. Acnologia was once a dragon slayer like them, but went mad and started killing all the dragons and fellow dragon slayers. He won't stop until the last one is dead."

{Couldn't you kill him?} Fawkes asked.

"Again, no. All dragons are immune to death magic, like Harry," said Zeref.

"So Acnologia is a powerful dragon slayer/dragon that is bent on killing the remaining dragon slayers and will destroy everything in his way in doing so, and none of our slayers are powerful enough to come close to defeating him and he can't be killed with death magic. Did I get all that?" asked Harry.

Zeref nodded, "In a nutshell? Yes, you got all that."

{Then we should start looking for the master. He can warn everyone to get off this island in time before this dragon of destruction gets here,} said Fawkes.

"That's if we find him before that thing gets here," said Harry. "Can you track Makarov?"

Fawkes shook his head. {His magic is low. We'll have to look for him the old fashioned way.}

"Then let's start looking," suggested Zeref.

Harry nodded in agreement. "Right." The two magic users, phoenix, and one floating woman leave the area not noticing that they have been watched by someone hiding in the bushes since Voldemort had found them.

Mest was hiding in the bushes since Harry, Fawkes, Zeref, and Voldemort were all in the same place. When he saw both Zeref and Voldemort, Mest had frozen in place due to fear. Every member of the Magic Council knew of Voldemort. His legend was gruesome, and there had only been one person that was said to have the power to defeat him, and that was Harry Potter.

When Mest first heard of Harry Potter becoming a member of Fairy Tail, he was just like the other members of the council. He didn't think it was the same Harry from the legend; after all, the boy in the story was alive five hundred years ago. It couldn't have been him.

Now, however, Mest knew for certain. The Harry Potter that joined Fairy Tail is the same one from the legend. The proof was in front of him not long ago. Voldemort was there and he was going to kill Harry, but failed in doing so yet again; just like in the story.

The question now is why was Harry Potter with Zeref, and why was Zeref protecting Harry? Mest would have thought that Fairy Tail really did know about Zeref being on the island, but then Juvia showed up and attacked Zeref, thinking that Harry was under some kind of spell, but Mest could tell the boy wasn't. If Harry really was under some kind of spell, then Zeref would have had Harry kill the blue-haired woman instead of knocking her out.

Just as Mest thought things couldn't get worse, Zeref just had to say that Acnologia was on his way to the island. What surprised Mest here was that Zeref told Harry that they needed to get everyone off the island before the dragon got there. Didn't the dark mage summon him? Apparently not.

Just before Harry, Fawkes, and Zeref left, Harry used his magic to levitate Juvia, who was still knocked out. As they were leaving, Mest's body relaxed, but only just the barest. He needed to get Harry, at the very least, off the island. Hopefully, he can get Wendy too, but with Voldemort wandering around Mest knew that they are going to need Harry's help in getting rid of him. Unfortunately, though, Mest's body didn't unfreeze itself until after the group left.

He tried to catch up to them, but with the hurry they were in, and Mest not reacting fast enough, they were gone. Mest had lost them and now prayed that he could find them before Acnologia got there and blew up Harry – AKA their only hope of getting rid of Voldemort.

TBC

Acnologia is on the way, but before that can happen, I need Harry to warn Makarov of that fact. Also, I'm not going to have Harry fight Hades along with the others, because he needs to convince Makarov of Zeref about being a good guy, and he needs Zeref to be there for that. He won't get another chance if he goes and fights Hades. There wouldn't be any time.

Natsu: Well, that doesn't sound good. :(

Zeref: No, it doesn't. Not only does he need to tell Makarov this, but he also needs to warn him of Acnologia. There was a high chance of him not listening to me.

Voldy: Awe, so I won't see Harry on the airship? I was hoping to have a rematch with you.

Enj/Dark: Sorry, Voldemort. I can't have you fighting Harry again quite yet. I need Harry in a pretty good condition for when Acnologia shows up.

Natsu: Why?

Enj/Dark: You'll see in the next 2 chapters.

Natsu: Awe man… :(

Enj/Dark: Harry, it's your turn.

Harry: Please review! :)